Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water on the planet should been have frozen. But ancient rocks hold…
Six per cent of study participants had epilepsy and 12 percent had one or more seizures in their lifetimes. By comparison, less than one percent of the general…
ARS geneticist Craig Ledbetter, at the agency’s Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research Unit near Parlier, Calif., is developing this new line of…
The nation’s preterm birth rate dropped for the second consecutive year. New nationwide statistics show a 3 percent decline in the preterm birth rate,…
Vaccines likely would work better in protecting children from flu if they included both strains of influenza B instead of just one, Saint Louis University…
Such a scenario in which the universe is born from inside a wormhole (also called an Einstein-Rosen Bridge) is suggested in a paper from Indiana University…
Now, in a study appearing in the March Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Albert Einstein College of…
It is widely believed that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer. In 1990, the World Health Organization recommended eating five…
Today, the human nose is still the best gauge to determine which product is most pleasant. However, these tests with human panels are costly and time…
A collaboration of Russian and US physicists has finally created element 117 – a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40%…
After increasing during much of the 20th century, forest cover in the eastern United States in recent decades has resumed its previous decline, according to an…
The invention relates to functionalised diols of diamondoids in which one of the two hydroxy groups is masked by a protective group, and to methods for…
Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed new highly potent drugs (with an IC50 in the pico-Molar range) as well as a selective tumor therapy through…
Microbiologist Hong Li and veterinary medical officer Naomi Taus at the ARS Animal Diseases Research Unit in Pullman, Wash., collaborated on the research with…
The study, carried out by the Departments of Radiology at the University of California and the Technical University of Munich, is freely available on-line at…
Orthopedic surgeons are often hamstrung by less-than-ideal grafting material when performing surgeries for complex bone injuries resulting from trauma, aging…
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