Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside working on fruit flies in the lab have discovered a novel class of compounds that could pave the way…
Got high cholesterol? You might want to consider a bone density test.A new UCLA study sheds light on the link between high cholesterol and osteoporosis and…
The paper, “Multiple origins of linear dunes on Earth and Titan,” examines a possible new mechanism for the development of very large linear dunes formed on…
From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually…
The brain goes through a course of maturation during adolescence and does not reach its adult form until the mid-twenties. A long-standing theory of adolescent…
The research, which has important implications for climate change, is described in a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the…
It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during powerful earthquakes. Knowing precisely what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design…
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a common gene variant carried by as many as a third of the general population that…
Writing in the new issue of the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, they say around 22,000 flying foxes are legally hunted (in addition to…
Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of…
Understanding consumer innovation across countries, demographics and product categories was the impetus for the large-scale study “Global Consumer…
The research, conducted by the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, also demonstrated that the use of an RFID-enabled system could improve…
Compared with our everyday experience, the quantum world – the world of the very small, of atoms and elementary particles – is incredibly bizarre. For example,…
According to the Department of Energy, the annual cost of power outages is approximately $80 billion. Now add to conventional challenges those risks posed by…
The project, called the Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB), could yield important fundamental insights into the nature of heat and mass transfer operations that…
The team has probed the atomic-level workings of a metal-organic framework (MOF), a lattice-like structure made of copper oxide and benzene, that soaks up…
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