All News

Health & Medicine

Long-Term Safety of Enhanced Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplants

Analysis of long-term safety testing in nonhuman primates, published online by the journal Cell Stem Cell, revealed that, after one year following transplant,…

Physics & Astronomy

Zoom-up star photos poke holes in century-old astronomical theory

The von Zeipel law, named for its creator, Swedish astronomer Edvard Hugo von Zeipel, has been used for the better part of a century to predict the difference…

Life & Chemistry

For testing skin cream, synthetic skin may be as good as the real thing

Researchers compared the response of synthetic skins to rat skin when they were both exposed to a generic skin cream treatment, and the results indicated they…

Life & Chemistry

Mutated Gene Found in Dog Disease the Same in Humans

University of Missouri researchers believe both man and animal will benefit from their discovery that the same gene mutation found in Tibetan Terrier dogs can…

Physics & Astronomy

New kid on the plasmonic block

With its promise of superfast computers and ultrapowerful optical microscopes among the many possibilities, plasmonics has become one of the hottest fields in…

Earth Sciences

Report cites 'liquefaction' as key to much of Japanese earthquake damage

The findings also raise questions about whether existing building codes and engineering technologies are adequately accounting for this phenomenon in other…

Earth Sciences

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth

Hydrocarbon molecules are the main building blocks of crude oil and natural gas, and determining their thermochemical properties is important to understand…

Physics & Astronomy

Pitt-Led Researchers Create Super-Small Transistor, Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons

A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that provides a building block for new, more powerful computer memories, advanced…

Process Engineering

High Quality and Process Stability for Welding Copper

Using a short laser pre-pulse, the contacts are treated to provide 100 per cent good welds for the subsequent infrared welding.A newly developed “laser…

Information Technology

Ben-Gurion University students develop thought-controlled, hands-free computer for the disabled

While there have been previous attempts to develop devices to read brainwaves and operate specific programs, they were cumbersome and not feasible outside of a…

Studies and Analyses

New Baylor Research Shows Using Leaves' Characteristics Improves Accuracy Measuring Past Climates

A study led by Baylor University and Wesleyan University geologists shows that a new method that uses different size and shape traits of leaves to reconstruct…

Studies and Analyses

Why We Never See Faces Upside Down: New Research Insights

When you think you see a face in the clouds or in the moon, you may wonder why it never seems to be upside down.It turns out the answer to this seemingly minor…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Run a Biorefinery in a Virtual Control Room at Iowa State

Then, with a few more clicks of his computer mouse, he turned on the pumps that send grain all the way through an ethanol plant, from storage to hammer mill to…

Health & Medicine

Virus and Low Sunlight Linked to Increased MS Risk

“MS is more common at higher latitudes, farther away from the equator,” said George C. Ebers, MD, with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and a…

Studies and Analyses

Crude oil price’s crude effect on rice production

Researchers have mapped crude oil, rice and soybean oil prices between 1970 and 2008 and demonstrate the implications of world crude oil prices on the…

Health & Medicine

New Herbal Mouthwash Could Prevent Oral Cancer

In laboratory tests on human cell cultures ‘SA-Cleanse’ was found not only to have anti-bacterial properties, killing common oral microbes, but also to…

Feedback