Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence…
But after four decades of relative stagnation, Africa has been growing rapidly. Since the 1990s, many African countries have seen economic and political…
Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather on the shores of Lake Ontario in Rochester, N.Y. next week to discuss some of the latest…
The European Commission FP7 funded Cloud4SOA initiative (Cloud Interoperability Framework and Platform for User-Centric, Semantically-Enhanced Service-Oriented…
In article appearing in October in the journal The Bryologist, a team of researchers from Austria, Norway, Spain and the United States report the highest…
Stored levels of this important antioxidant were reduced more in a few weeks than might normally be possible in years.An analysis of eight children with…
When most people envision coral, they typically think of shallow-water reef-building corals found along beaches and tropical nearshore habitats. These…
A University of Washington Medical Center patient on Thursday, Oct. 21, will be the world's first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling…
A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual…
The study was performed at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in Fort Defiance, AZ, and Tuba City Regional Health Care Center in Tuba City, AZ, both of which are…
The scientific discovery could one day serve as the foundation for creating a wide range of consumer products from biorenewable carbon feedstocks, as opposed…
Guodong Li and colleagues at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing carried out an experiment using self-assembled quantum dots and a…
While organic electronics are immediately attractive for their potential for extremely low cost and flexible substrates, many design aspects that are now taken…
While logging practices have improved dramatically since then, the damaged landscape — the removal of low vegetation that helps to protect hillsides during…
The findings suggest technologies and techniques can be developed to quickly and noninvasively test for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, progressive…
The process is called “capillary forming,” and it takes advantage of capillary action, the phenomenon at work when liquids seem to defy gravity and travel up a…