Dr HongSheng Zhao, of the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, has shown that the puzzling dark matter and its counterpart dark energy may be more…
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)-the most common form of leukemia in adults-arises from a special type of white blood corpuscle, B lymphocytes, which…
All multicellular organisms are in an arms-race against the vast armies of rapidly mutating microbial pathogens that are seeking access to their rich stores of…
When these magmatic uprisings occur at a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate plunges under another, they give rise to volcanic massifs such as the Andes…
At present, the hormone EPO is administered to a large number of these patients to alleviate the anemia. But unfortunately, treatment with EPO is not always…
Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the magnetic fields produced by…
But anthropogenic change of Earth’s climate is altering the means and extremes of these factors so that this paradigm of stationarity no longer applies,…
Internationally successful solutions provider EPLAN has surprised the industry with an expansion of its European operations, acquiring Infographics AG, based…
The miniaturized intraoral ultrasound scanner enables the
precise measurement of the geometry of prepared teeth.
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A new study of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that affects more than nine million Americans, will pave the way for the biopharmaceutical…
“The last great outer rise earthquakes that occurred were in the 1930s and 1970s,” said Charles J. Ammon, associate professor of geoscience, Penn State. “We…
High-performance piezoelectric materials used today, such as those in probes for medical ultrasound, are specially grown crystals of mixed composition known as…
Using just one kind of nanoparticle (gold) the researchers built two common but very different crystalline structures by merely changing one thing — the…
In an achievement some see as the “holy grail” of nanoscience, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first…
Scott Belcher, PhD, and his team found when the same new and used polycarbonate drinking bottles were exposed to boiling hot water, BPA, an environmental…
“It’s like the discovery of a new large river being piped out of the corn belt,” said Pete Raymond, lead author of the study and associate professor of…