Karen Schroeder's voice, recorded on a CD, reminded her son, Ryan, of his 4-H project when he was 10 and decided to raise pigs. “You bid on three beautiful…
Professor Alexander Balandin and a team of UC Riverside researchers, including Chun Ning Lau, an associate professor of physics, have taken another step toward…
Technology for capturing carbon dioxide and safely storing it underground rather than releasing it to the atmosphere holds significant promise in the U.S. and…
Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run…
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that high-quality beef and big per-head profits can be achieved by starting early-weaned cattle on…
The new approach, reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (published online on Apr. 21st, 2010) , could have wide applicability for designing…
“I spend a lot of time fretting over the status of the monarch population and I’m always searching for factors or data that will help me understand the past as…
It is now possible for the first time, thanks to a new algorithm developed at the UFZ, to use the incorporation of stable carbon isotopes into proteins to…
Previous experiments led by Graham Fleming, a physical chemist holding joint appointments with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, pointed to quantum mechanical…
Using several of the largest supercomputers in the nation, a team of physicists led by Ohio State University has been able to simulate the behavior of silica…
Scientists at Ohio State University and their colleagues have identified this mutation, and have shown that it alters the level of a protein in the liver…
Titled “Widespread genomic divergence during sympatric speciation,” the paper appears in today's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
While the benefits for women leading an active lifestyle, including running, are profound and well-known, there are serious exercise-associated health risks….
Dark spots in a beam known as optical vortices can produce new and intriguing effects when used along with polarization control in a microscope. To highlight…
University of Arizona researchers will report new findings about hurricanes and other tropical cyclones. The presentations highlighted here focus on improving…
In a quality improvement project implemented in a medical intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a multidisciplinary health care team focused on…