Results indicate that in 2008 the weekday crash rate for 16- to 18-year-olds was about 41 percent higher in Virginia Beach, Va., where high school classes…
Scientists have uncovered the mechanisms behind a drug used to treat African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease, infections caused by trypanosome parasites…
“The rate at which melanoma is increasing is dramatic, and there is a huge number of patients under surveillance,” said Harriet Kluger, M.D., associate…
These infections frequently recur, affecting 2 to 3 percent of all women. A depletion of vaginal lactobacilli, a type of bacteria, is associated with urinary…
Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores…
With a constantly growing flood of information, we are being inundated with increasing quantities of data, which we in turn want to process faster than ever….
The future development of mobility faces fundamental environmental, social and economic challenges. To support the transition towards a more sustainable…
Domestic violence, especially violence against pregnant women, is still a shameful subject. This is despite the fact that it is a severe public health issue…
Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., a Chinese steel producer, has engaged Siemens to supply drive, electrical and automation equipment for a…
The filaments are huge, stretching for tens of light years through space and Herschel has shown that newly-born stars are often found in the densest parts of…
Tiny crustaceans called copepods rule the world, at least when it comes to oceans and estuaries.The most numerous multi-cellular organisms in the seas,…
The role of family in ending youth homelessness is largely ignored in Canada, according to a report released today by York University, though there is evidence…
“As we’re currently seeing in Japan, one of the major health risks posed by nuclear accidents is radioactive iodide that dissolves into drinking water. Because…
While this experiment involved clouds of lithium atoms, cooled to near absolute zero, the findings could also help explain the behavior of similar systems such…
With the advent of cell phones, however, and even more so with Wi-Fi, the paradigm became a large number of scattered transmitters with limited range. When a…
Now, researchers have discovered that a new class of ceramic coatings could offer jet engines special protection against volcanic ash damage in the future.For…
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