As warm weather arrives and the great outdoors beckons, more and more men and women will be taking to the trails, the beaches, or their yards and gardens,…
Even underground nuclear tests leave their mark on the part of the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere, the researchers discovered, when they examined GPS…
Sustainability is a key focus of the company’s recent R&D projects, which save energy, reduce waste and increase process efficiency. Siemens will provide an…
Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by…
The international study, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), could have implications for the air quality of fast-growing coastal cities…
A new drug to treat prostate cancer shows early promise, particularly against tumors that have spread to the bone, a multi-site study shows.The drug…
Dieticians will tell you it isn't healthy to eat late at night: it's a recipe for weight gain. In fruit flies, at least, there's another consequence: reduced…
Tropical Depression 1E formed when the low pressure area called System 91E strengthened overnight. Today, June 7, Tropical Depression 1E (TD1E) was located…
A universal influenza vaccine targeting a protein common to all strains of influenza A has safely produced an immune response in humans. If proven effective,…
Since scientists know how these kinds of waves — initiated by a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability if you're being technical — disperse energy in the water, they…
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed the flare's peak at 1:41a.m. ET (0641 UT). SDO recorded these images (above) in extreme ultraviolet light that…
“In the past decade, the gap between minority and white youth's daily media use has doubled for blacks and quadrupled for Hispanics,” says Northwestern…
A blood protein known as surfactant protein-D (SP-D), which is mainly synthesised in the lungs, has been described as “a good predictor” of cardiovascular…
“Three out of four people want a mixture of open and untouched forest for rambling. At the same time, we can see that birds do well and continue to nest in…
“The beam projections have different frequencies and can be sent in different directions. The advantage is probably that the dolphin can locate the object more…
The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark…
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