“Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States,” says NCAR scientist Gerald Meehl, the lead author. “The ways these…
Pharmacy scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have identified antidepressant and anti-anxiety behaviors in tests of mice lacking the gene.
How do strokes occur? What tends to happen is that a clot blocks the blood vessels supplying the brain. The brain then becomes starved of blood and oxygen, as…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, have now deciphered the mechanism that illustrates how…
A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative water management framework that would take advantage of these forecasts to plan…
This has necessitated building redundancy into chip designs to allow for the imperfect environments of production and use that vary from the ideal of the…
This conclusion emerges from research conducted at the University of Granada, which warns of the need to assess children's health risk according to fish…
The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of…
Selenium is a trace essential mineral with anti-oxidant properties. The body naturally absorbs selenium from foods such as vegetables, meat and seafood….
Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor,…
Spore-forming bacteria, present almost everywhere in our environment, can also cause serious infectious diseases, such as tetanus, anthrax, and botulism.Now…
A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists.Though the studies have not been conducted to determine…
Elisabeth Barbier and Jia Bei Wang, from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, USA, carried out the experiments to investigate the role of the…
This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by acceleration of Greenland's fast-flowing outlet glaciers, and increased…
In the study, which will be published in the January 2010 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers from the division of geriatrics at the…
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres – however there is a bit…
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