More recent studies have shown that melanin, which is produced by multitudes of the planet's life forms, also gives some species protection from ionizing…
According to a survey published in PLoS Medicine, those subsidies, along with government inaction on stricter ratings for movies that depict smoking, also…
79 million American adults have prediabetes and will likely develop diabetes later in life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the…
To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using…
This advance provides a better picture of how polymer molecules respond under fast-flow, high-stress processing conditions for plastics and other polymeric…
Thin film photovoltaic technology offers huge potential for producing PV modules at lower cost and with efficient utilization of resources. At PVSEC 2011…
Falcons are not birds of prey – at least phylogenetically – but are close relatives of parrots and passerine birds. The mutual ancestor of parrots and…
A joint study by UCLA and the University of Southern California has found that children whose mothers suffered from HG while carrying them were 3.6 times more…
It's been a busy season so far in terms of tropical storms with seven named storms already in the Atlantic basin; however, none of them have had a very large…
The same type of forces are at work bringing the building blocks of viruses together, and the inorganic supercluster structures in this research are in many…
Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way – via…
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists involved in the investigation, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, found that both moderate and…
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health…
The workshop will discuss the status of the SmartCoDe project, which is developing technology critical to accelerating the shift from traditional energy…
The phasing out of nuclear power and the growing contribution of renewable energies will accelerate the structural transformation of electricity supplies in…
Randy Nelson, geneticist and research leader with the USDA Agricultural Research Service Soybean/Maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research Unit in…
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