Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and,…
Ear infections are one of the most common illnesses among children, with annual direct and indirect costs of $3 billion to $5 billion in the United States. “We…
Economists Eric Helland and Mark Showalter found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when the expected liability risk increases…
In the latest study out of Rochester, published recently in the journal Blood, researchers demonstrated that they are very close to understanding every step in…
Shukla, a 2004 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a 2008 recipient of the Freidrich Wilhelm Bessel Award…
Ultraviolet (UV) light damages skin by causing chemical bonds to form in the wrong places along the DNA molecules in our cells. Normally, other, even smaller…
Satellite data, like that from NASA and JAXA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), combined with ground weather station information, experience and…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural…
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite is managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA. At 11:35 UTC (6:35 a.m. ET) today,…
The eleventh tropical depression formed today in the Southern Indian Ocean south of Port Louis. It will continue on a southeasterly track and move into open…
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) developed the vaccine because there is no vaccine or treatment for chikungunya…
The research, the first computer modeling study to simulate the impacts of white roofs on urban areas worldwide, suggests there may be merit to an idea…
The new Max Planck Center will broaden the scale of cooperation with India in the field of computer sciences. “The goal is to create a center of excellence…
Scientists have identified a molecule that defines which cells are destined to become memory T cells just a few days after a viral infection begins. The…
Malaria causes more than two million deaths each year, but an expert multinational team battling the global spread of drug-resistant parasites has made a…
The findings, by a group led by Andrew M. Lowy, MD, professor of surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD…