So says a Duke University engineer, who believes that the next generation of these logic circuits at the heart of computers will be produced inexpensively in…
The study, which appears in the May/June 2010 issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, also reports on the initial assessment of that…
“With less than five years to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4—to reduce child deaths by two-thirds from 1990 levels—it is vital for…
Genetics professor Andrew DeWoody and postdoctoral associate Matthew C. Hale found the parasite and pathogen genes while analyzing DNA from the gonads of lake…
Researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, innovative developments in laser science, and commercial…
Cancer uses devious means to evade treatment and survive. One prime example is the way tumors express anti-cell death (anti-apoptotic) proteins to resist…
Seven out of every ten pregnant women in the United States are not getting enough Vitamin D according to a study published in the May issue of the American…
But transmission poles can still fail under the stress of extreme ice and wind. They could also be vulnerable to an infrastructure attack. And when one of them…
Sickle cell disease may affect brain function in adults who have few or mild complications of the inherited blood disease, according to results of the first…
To most people in the southwestern U.S., the April 4 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake felt like a rocking of the ground. But on a group of inch-long fish that exist…
Most high-school students participating in a new study on academic honesty say they have cheated on tests and homework – and, in some alarming cases, say they…
The international team of astronomers headed by University of Florida scientist Peter Barnes used an Australian radio telescope to find the cloud of gas and…
In laboratories around the world, researchers are working diligently to gain the upper hand in the ongoing struggle against the influenza virus. In 2009, with…
According to this model, proposed in a new paper by Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the higher levels of phosphorus would have caused…
Tuberculosis (TB) has been present in humans since ancient times. The origins of the disease date back to the first domestication of cattle, and skeletal…
How do children reason about the natural world? How do they understand the relation between human and non-human animals?For decades, the consensus was that as…
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