Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may soon help scientists find out.The new sensors,…
Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employable sample preparation method that combines the advantages…
In a study that included 5,888 people over 65, women suffered up to two and a half times more disabilities than men of the same age.Higher rates of obesity and…
An Iowa State University researcher has figured out a mechanism involved in marking where these instructions are located in a cell's DNA.In the current edition…
Wildlife imports into the United States are fragmented and insufficiently coordinated, failing to accurately list more than four in five species entering the…
The vast majority of the world's glaciers are retreating as the planet gets warmer. But a few, including glaciers south of the equator in South America and New…
Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming…
Their report appears in the current issue of The Pan-Pacific Entomologist and focuses on Agrilus coxalis, a wood-boring beetle so rare it does not even have an…
According to reports from consumers of coffee and other caffeinated products, caffeine withdrawal is often characterized by a headache, fatigue, feeling less…
The research by engineers at Purdue University and Sandia National Laboratories is part of an effort to develop a smarter wind turbine structure.”The ultimate…
The study, “Mutations in Smooth Muscle Alpha-Actin (ACTA2) Cause Early Onset Coronary Artery Disease, Stroke and Moyamoya Disease, Along with Thoracic Aortic…
It all depends on the type of vegetation in the area.A new study on the cover of the May issue of Ecological Monographs shows that, in some cases, the types of…
Clinical and radiological evidence showed that 96 percent of the 124 cementless metal components assessed remained securely fixed in place 20 years post…
In a study published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers from the University of Washington compared the…
Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate…