Today’s global road emissions have a strong and long-lasting effect on climate. After 100 years these emissions will lead to a temperature increase that is six…
Most people have used a library but very few will have visited historical archives. Unlike libraries, archives are primarily concerned with conserving records…
Although a World Wide Grid running on top of the internet is still probably years away from being a reality, the grid, like the web before it, is starting to…
Moshe Ran, Coordinator of the EU-funded project, UROOF (Photonic components for Ultra-wideband Radio Over Optical Fiber), has a vision. He wants to see streams…
Rosa Pereira led a team of researchers from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo, Brazil who investigated the effects of the aquarobics class on a…
Programs that help low-income and minority individuals and families purchase a home may be doing more harm than good, according to a Kansas State University…
Lohr and colleagues Katherine M. Newbold and Richard Gist evaluated a discredited but well publicized approach that was used for a time by the FBI to debrief…
Biobanks, and studies based on them, have swiftly proliferated in recent years. These repositories of information and/or biological samples from many patients…
“We're applying our expertise in weather forecasting to assist health care officials on the front lines of this disease,” says Rajul Pandya, director of UCAR's…
The new upgrade to the Roche GS-FLX™ sequencing system permits more than 1 million individual sequencing reads to be generated for each sequencing run with an…
Kansas State University surveyed 2,000 people by mail in Wichita, Kan., and Los Angeles – 1,000 in each city – to find out their reactions to various food…
No food processor wants pathogens contaminating the product in the plant for at least one obvious reason; the product on sale at retail might carry the risk of…
Organic food is all the rage, but despite popular opinion it’s not automatically safer than conventionally grown foods. A team from several institutions led by…
Planning on gobbling a few extra treats this holiday season? Soon, your cell phone may be able to help you maintain your exercise routine and keep the pounds…
One of the biggest threats to today’s farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices.The…
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on…
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