Children in classrooms with inadequate material resources and children whose teachers feel they are not respected by colleagues exhibit more mental health…
Steel walls are no match for Tristan Lawry. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed and demonstrated an innovative new system…
Scientists have blocked harmful immune cells from entering the brain in mice with a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS).According to researchers from…
While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of…
The findings, reported in two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggest that upregulation of the HER3 receptor limits the…
If you can't stop the beta-amyloid protein plaques from forming in Alzheimer's disease patients, then maybe you can help the body rid itself of them instead. At least that's what scientists from New York were hoping for when they found a drug candidate to do just that. Their work appears in a research report online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), and shows that a new compound, called “SMER28” stimulated autophagy in rat and mice cells….
Researchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory…
“Rainwater harvesting is becoming fairly widespread, at least in Central Texas. There’s interest born out of necessity because people are simply running out of…
The most common type of fainting is vasovagal syncope (VVS) that is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure resulting in reduced blood flow to the brain. VVS…
The most common practice in the Carolinas is storing animal waste in anaerobic lagoons. They are primarily used to concentrate and passively treat urine and…
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that when robots move in a more human-like fashion, with one movement leading into the next, that…
“I do worry about upsetting the people I worked with, but they're always trying to improve their product,” said Aaron Naeger, 25, a doctoral student in…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have now identified the mechanism by which a single amino acid change can disrupt the normal…
All our daily activities, from driving to work to solving a crossword puzzle, depend on signals carried along the body's vast network of neurons. Propagation…
Atrial fibrillation affects more than two million Americans, and it is more common as people age. About 15 percent of strokes occur in people with atrial…
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its new Applied AKT-20K PX PECVD system for manufacturing high performance active matrix OLED* and TFT-LCD displays…
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