Stuart Humphries, from the University of Sheffield, and collaborators from the University of Western Australia have critically evaluated the evidence linking…
Galaxy Zoo, which uses volunteers from the general public to classify galaxies and the Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES) projects have…
The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.This is the problem when people with type 1 diabetes…
Researchers from Penn State and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science are studying the Chesapeake Bay to see how changes in sea level may…
The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials.Detailed…
With the Somatom Definition Flash, Siemens Healthcare is introducing a CT scanner that will set new standards regarding speed and dose reduction. The system…
“We have known for more than 50 years that low-oxygen, or hypoxic, cells cause resistance to radiation therapy,” said senior co-author Mark Dewhirst, DVM,…
A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scale–by allowing, for the first time, the real-time,…
Because water is one of the primary requirements for life as we know it, finding large new reservoirs of frozen water on Mars is an encouraging sign for…
Matz and his colleagues recently discovered the grape-sized protists and their complex tracks on the ocean floor near the Bahamas. This is the first time a…
The surgeons describe their innovative technique in the December 2008 issue of the journal Urology. They have now performed the operation, using the DaVinci…
Fort Pierce, Florida – November 19, 2008 – The Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) and its collaborators announced today the world's first use of…
And now, they've reached the ultimate goal — electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings…
So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida geneticist. The team's findings, reported in today's online edition of Nature, suggest that…
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have gained new insights into regulation of one of the body's enzyme workhorses called calpains. As the…
Brown University physicists have completed the most detailed study of the swimming patterns of a microbe, showing for the first time how its movement is…
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