To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in…
Dwarfing both of these events, however, has been the historical trend towards increasing deforestation, which over centuries has released vast amounts of…
The eyes of moths, which allow them to see well at night, are also covered with a water-repellent, antireflective coating that makes their eyes among the least…
Cancer scientists have designed the first molecular test to predict which bladder cancer patients may have cancer involvement in their lymph nodes at the time…
In a paper published today in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held assumption that…
“The majority of diabetics will over time develop severe or fatal complications, but 10–15 per cent never do. They are the ones we are interested in in the…
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which consist of tiny moving parts driven by electrical signals, have found ready applications in optical communication…
A team of biologists has discovered an entirely new group of algae living in a wide variety of marine and freshwater environments. This group of algae, which…
With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.A local Cambridge high school physics…
Understanding the relationship between language and health care quality has important public health implications for providing services in an increasingly…
Patients in the study were enrolled in the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survivor Study, a large, population-based review of female breast cancer survivors in China,…
Understanding the symptoms, particularly symptom distress – or the degree to which a symptom bothers a person, is crucial to improved patient care….
But in a development likely to delight math teachers, University of Florida researchers have devised a series of mathematical steps that accomplishes what the…
To understand the emerging science of epigenetics—a field that describes how genes may be regulated without altering the underlying DNA itself—scientists are…
Glory is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Feb. 23 at 5:09 a.m. EST. It will join a fleet called the Afternoon Constellation…
An international team of scientists using data from NASA's Swift satellite confirms the existence of a largely unseen population of black-hole-powered…
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