Researchers will work from NASA's DC-8, an airborne laboratory equipped with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments. Data…
Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of…
The Philippines can't seem to get rid of what is now a deadly and annoying Tropical Depression Parma, but forecasters are now providing hope.Parma may have…
The event is the highlight of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. The LCROSS spacecraft flies behind its empty upper stage,…
They examined the implementation of current treatment guidelines and found that few countries are equipped to quickly adapt policies, and many struggle to…
More than a decade later, researchers are finding that with the advent of the latest sequencing technologies the terms “draft” and “finished” are no longer…
Because of their lightweight construction, fibre-reinforced composites offer particular advantages in the aviation sector. However, their more complex damage…
At 11 a.m. EDT on October 8, Henri's maximum sustained winds were down to 35 mph and waning. The National Hurricane Center used NASA's QuikScat satellite wind…
“The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were sustained at those levels — global temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees…
Although CD can be diagnosed at any age, it commonly occurs during early childhood (between 9 and 24 months). Reduced bone mineral density is often found in…
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have identified two genes believed to play a role in the development of endometrial cancer. These results…
The study was published in the journal Midwifery and was carried out in primary care in the Västra Götaland region of Sweden. “We have seen a major increase in…
The thesis portrays pictures in perfume advertisements as actors rather than as passive tools, and dissects the dynamics of imagery. Kjellmer, who has a…
Insects' colours and their iridescence (the ability to change colours depending on the angle) or their ability to appear metallic are determined by tiny…
This species was not a savanna species like Darwin proposed,” said University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose, a co-author of two of 11…
Pharmaceutical commercials can cause the unsettling feeling that if the disease doesn't kill, the cure will, what with a drug's long list of side effects and…