The computer simulations show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have…
Researchers at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Columbia University wanted to determine if oxytocin,…
David W. J. Thompson, an atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University, is the lead author of the paper in the Sept. 23 Nature. Other authors are…
Engineers funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) are developing a system that will provide an accurate patient history, assist in…
The Velaro D, Germany's new high-speed train, is celebrating its world premiere at the InnoTrans 2010. Peter Löscher, Siemens CEO, presented today the latest…
The videos show waves of ground motion spreading out from an epicenter. In making them widely available, the team of computational seismologists and computer…
This finding may eventually lead to targets for antifungal strategies, the scientists said.Patricia Carlisle, a Ph.D. student at the Health Science Center, and…
Mary Panjari, PhD, of the Women's Health Program at Monash University, reported on the sexual well-being nearly two years after diagnosis and initial treatment…
Building on more than a decade of global scientific research, Aeras scientists have engineered a new investigational vaccine, called AERAS-422, which will…
An international consortium launched a project aiming to connect scientific evidence on sustainable production and consumption (SCP) with policy makers’ needs…
Search for novel natural products from the extracts of various parts of plants is still an important pillar of modern drug research. Plants of the families…
The country's environmental challenges have worldwide implications, so more developed nations, such as the United States, need to help China adopt integrated…
Figuring out how a rice crop was faring used to be a head-scratching exercise with predictably unpredictable results.But now a few punches on a keyboard can…
Titan, one of Saturn's moons, is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere — ten times denser than the atmosphere of Earth. Five years ago, the…
Caltech physicist Shin'ichiro Ando and Alexander Kusenko, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, report the discovery in a paper to be published in an…
One well-validated molecular target for anti-cancer drugs is the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR. Using a novel screening approach, investigators in…