An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.While front-line health care…
This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected. The results run contrary…
The war between the sexes has been fought on many fronts throughout time—from humans to birds to insects, the animal kingdom is replete with species involved…
In a report published in the American Chemical Society's Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe development of a new test that can measure…
A paper about the work appeared November 8 in the early online edition of Nature Nanotechnology.”This project is one of those great 'Where else but at…
Malaysia has the second highest rate of lighting and thunder occurences (about 280 days a year) after Florida at over 300 days a year. The imapct results in…
The mucosal immune forms the largest part of the entire immune system and protects the body from pathogens and foreign particles by secreting the antibody…
In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than…
The Council’s vote came after it received a report from a committee of eminent scientists who reviewed the existing statement in response to a petition…
In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts &…
Created as a senior design project by biomedical engineering undergraduates David Sotto, Nisha Bhatia, Stephanie Drewicz and Scott Seaman, the prototype has…
However the study suggests that if a man’s PSA level is rising quickly, a prostate biopsy is reasonable to determine if he has prostate cancer. These findings…
Regulations and guidelines for tolerable concentrations of these potentially plant-toxic elements in soils are based on the assumption that the toxic effects…
With funding from National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, and with support from Western Illinois' College of Arts and Sciences…
Fangzhen Teng, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas, and Wei Yang and Hong-Fu Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report their…
It is still too early to say if any health risks are involved, but medical researcher Fredrik Söderqvist recommends caution in the use of these phones, above…