NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, captured…
They are familiar scenes: politicians bemoaning the death of family values only for extramarital affairs to be unveiled or politicians preaching financial…
The glass spheres contain a radioactive element, yttrium-90, more commonly known as Y-90, which emits radiation for a very limited distance so that healthy…
Simple changes to how ventilators are used could almost double the number of lungs available for transplants, according to new international research involving…
The island is part of the Hanford Reservation, which is managed by the Department of Energy. So the DOE has turned to a team of researchers headed by David…
It took 12 years and a creation of a highly sophisticated transgenic mouse, but researchers at Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have finally proven a long…
One of the challenges is identifying a discrete cellular target to stop cancer growth without inactivating the immune system. Scientists at UNC Lineberger…
Drawing on around 40,000 responses from patients selected from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, the thesis looks at how hip replacement patients perceive…
Since the 1990s there has a been a range of Swedish policy reforms calling for Swedish higher education to be more open, flexible and accessible.New governanceIn particular, notable importance was placed on distance and IT-based education. While the issue of access to higher education has long been viewed as an important factor in educational policy, a partly new approach to governance took shape during the 1990s and beyond….
A research study published in the journal Applied Ergonomics reveals that rationalisation measures often have a major negative impact on both the physical and…
“Even though engineered cells can’t do the same job as a real computer, our study paves the way for building complex constructions from these cells,” says…
More and more Swedes are describing themselves as happy and content. When the SOM Institute asked: “On balance, how content are you with the life you live?”…
Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that Sweden is no different from other countries when it comes to the number of adverts that children…
Christina Ravelo, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present the new findings in a talk on December 13 at the fall…
Utilizing a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, applied scientists at Harvard University have demonstrated, for the first time,…
Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a set of numerical models, solved by computers, to study how changing water pressure and speed around…