Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute…
Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at the University of Warwick, and co-author of the study, described the results as concerning, he said: “Antidepressants…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their…
Women with urinary incontinence after giving birth are almost twice as likely to develop postpartum depression as those without incontinence, according to a…
The most effective elements of a tobacco control program include taxes on tobacco, well-funded adult-focused tobacco control programs, well-funded anti-smoking…
A national sample of 2,392 parents was surveyed by independent research firms — Harris Polls and Research Now — in the study “Parents' Evaluation of Media…
The 2011 BIO convention will gather professionals from more than 60 countries and approximately 2,100 companies and global biotech leaders.It will include a…
LMU chemists led by Professor Dirk Trauner have developed a concise and efficient method for the synthesis of the alkaloid loline and related compounds.Loline…
University of Miami professor at the College of Engineering, Jizhou Song, has helped design an light-emitting diode (LED) light that uses an array of LEDs 100…
While negotiations continue between state attorneys general and banks over a settlement that looks at foreclosure practices, some of the settlement proposals…
The prototype is still in the testing stage, but initial results are promising. The student inventors have obtained a provisional patent covering the…
The formal descriptions of the seven species, all of which are members of the genus Apomys, were published on 20 May in Fieldiana, the peer-reviewed journal of…
As the weather gets warmer, many parents will turn to pools to keep their family cool. Due to their low cost and ease of use, portable pools – which include…
According to the study, children who go to a formal preschool program or a licensed daycare center have essentially the same standardized test scores as those…
A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new…
In the July feature “Endangered Snow: How climate change threatens West Coast water supplies,” EARTH Magazine looks at how climate change could disrupt the…