The bulk of the funding – $3.45 million, or $1.15 million per year – allows PNNL to lead a project that will examine the environmental impacts of marine and…
Since designing absolute, fault-free software is not possible, systems that accurately monitor the operation of concurrent computer systems and warn users of…
The results could be a deeper understanding of how to manage insects, with the potential to lead to advances in agricultural, commercial and residential pest…
Today, Wang, known as a pioneer in this field, and his colleagues have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to…
The team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University; Peking University in Beijing, China; the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai, China; and…
The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no…
The University of Colorado Denver study also found that exercise prevents the increase in the number of fat cells that occurs during weight regain, challenging…
Streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle that is unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models. The…
Living without a car in close proximity to fast food restaurants is associated with excess body mass index and weight gain, according to a University of…
“Measuring the curvature of space caused by gravity is one of the most sensitive ways to learn how Einstein's theory of General Relativity relates to quantum…
Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds great promise as an anti-obesity and…
New research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is being presented this week at the Military Health Research Forum (MHRF), a scientific conference hosted…
Assuming compact development is focused on new and replacement housing — as converting existing housing to higher densities could be prohibitively difficult…
A new report by Charles Snowdon, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and musician David Teie of the University of Maryland shows…
The independent research study, “Consumer survey on the new format of the European Energy Label for televisions” by Stefanie Heinzle and Rolf Wüstenhagen from…
The prevailing wisdom in the field of molecular evolution was that new genes could only evolve from duplicated or rearranged versions of preexisting genes. It…