Healthy, obese men were given two different diets during their stay in the Rowett’s specialised Human Nutrition Unit. Both diets had a high protein content…
The DIMETER system makes it easier for doctors and other health professionals to objectively evaluate the tremors exhibited in the hands and fingers of…
This research was carried out in the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment University of Granada by Doctor Raquel Vilar López. The…
The £80 million shortfall in STFC’s budget has resulted in a delivery plan that will lead to job losses at universities and three leading research…
In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire human genome, an international team supported in part by the National Institutes of…
Scientists believe that dark matter is the invisible web that houses galaxies. And as the universe evolves, the gravitational pull of this unseen matter causes…
Now researchers are reporting that in Africa, this plant-insect teamwork depends on the very antagonist it is intended to ward off: Africa’s big browsing…
Scientists have found a variation in a gene that may raise the risk of developing autism, especially when the variant is inherited from mothers rather than…
Ask Iver Anderson at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory about consumer interest in and desire for “ultragreen” electric-drive vehicles, and he’ll…
Conventionally, these lacquers and coatings are dried or cured by means of hot air. Increasingly, the market requires faster production speeds, which, in many…
“This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves…
The researchers studied three separate locations in Lake Baiyangdian, all at varying distances from major sources of pollution, such as coal emissions,…
Since 1727, scientists and engineers have used Young’s modulus as a measure of the stiffness of a given material. Defined as the ratio of stress (such as the…
Nanosized particles are the subject of a great deal of biological research, in part because of concerns that in addition to having unique physical properties…
Surface roughness is a key issue for auto manufacturers and other industries that use sheet metal, one that goes far beyond simple cosmetics. Faint striations…
Synthesizing a wide range of observations and constructing a new theoretical model, researchers Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Mark…