Polar bears were added to the threatened species list nearly three years ago when their icy habitat showed steady, precipitous decline because of a warming…
New York, NY, December 15, 2010 – There is burgeoning public interest in possible wide-ranging health benefits from vitamin D, including cardiovascular health….
The manufacturing of nanomaterials has been steadily on the rise in the medical, industrial, and scientific fields. Nanomaterials are materials that are…
Thunderstorms can bring intense rain, hail, lightning and even tornadoes, but “predicting them a few hours out is one of the great problems of meteorology,”…
Oxysterols are somewhat controversial in science; while some laboratory experiments suggest these steroid molecules may be biologically important, they are…
“When Americans think about biofuel crops, they think of corn, miscanthus, and switchgrass. ln small island or peninsular nations, though, the natural, obvious…
“This is a surprising result,” said Logan, director of Brown's Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences and director of US2010. “At worst, it…
Caffeine consumption in children is often blamed for sleep problems and bedwetting. Information on childhood caffeine consumption is limited, and many parents…
Glycoproteins (GPs) are of prime interest in the medical sciences. However, production of GPs by standard methods is still complex and expensive.
Plants have…
Artificial fluidic nanochannels that mimic the capabilities of transmembrane proteins are highly prized for a number of advanced technologies. However, it has…
Moving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the…
The new work, reported by Geoffrey M. Wahl, Ph.D., and Benjamin Spike, Ph.D., at Salk Institute and Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., and Hideaki Mizuno, Ph.D., at IAS,…
The finding could help scientists predict when Hawaiian volcanoes are going to erupt. It also suggests that Hawaii holds great potential for thermal energy.Julie Ditkof, an honors undergraduate student in earth sciences at Ohio State, described the study at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 14….
Fog formation appears to be controlled by a high-pressure system normally present off the West Coast throughout the summer, said James Johnstone, a…
New technology is letting University of Washington researchers get a much better picture of how these episodic tremor events relate to potentially catastrophic…
Matthew L. Lipscomb, Ph.D. Senior Scientist at OPXBIOWhat three words would your colleagues use to describe you?I suppose that my colleagues would describe me…
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