Growing consumer demand for convenience is the driving force behind changes to the grocery retailing sector over the past decade, according to a new report by…
Reseeding efforts are routine in the Great Basin. While they are necessary to combat the losses of flora in the region, the have failed to address the demand…
Georgia Tech researchers – Nathan Mlot, mechanical engineering graduate student; Craig Tovey, professor of industrial and systems engineering; and David Hu,…
Reporting in the April 28 issue of the journal Nature, the eight-member team reports that uplift occurred as bottom portions of the lithosphere — the upper…
An international team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has used DNA to determine that groups of…
Group visits have shown benefits for people with other chronic conditions, but have not been evaluated for people with Parkinson’s disease. Group visits can…
Researchers have demonstrated a quick, simple method to identify infectious bacteria by smell using a low-cost array of printed pigments as a chemical sensor….
A five-minute checklist that parents can fill out in pediatrician waiting rooms may someday help in the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD),…
A new study reports that the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for U.S. adults with arthritis is much worse than for those without this condition. Both…
“Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies,” according to the study's lead researcher, Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., of the School of Nursing at…
A new study led by Dr Kathryn Arnold, of the Environment Department at the University of York has added important experimental evidence showing that animal…
Radiation causes oxidative stress, damages biological molecules and may have “important” negative effects on organisms in relatively high doses, like those…
The fast ignition concept has been conceived as an alternative to other approaches for nuclear fusion energy. In the fast ignitor scenario a high-energy…
“The steady increase in melanoma incidence suggests that additional preventive approaches are needed to complement these existing strategies,” said Gavin…
Among U.S. women, an estimated 21,880 new cases and 13,850 deaths occurred in 2010 from epithelial ovarian cancer, one of the most common forms of ovarian…
The podcast and accompanying website focus on a new way to make acrylic acid, a key industrial material that's usually produced from pricey and increasingly…