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Health & Medicine

Effective High-Protein Diets for Weight Loss Uncovered

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…

Medical Engineering

New Tool for Diagnosing Motor System Impairments

The DIMETER system makes it easier for doctors and other health professionals to objectively evaluate the tremors exhibited in the hands and fingers of…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals Half of Head Injury Claims Are Fake

This research was carried out in the Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment University of Granada by Doctor Raquel Vilar López. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Urge Halt to STFC Delivery Plan Amid Budget Cuts

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…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights Into Human Height Discovered Through Genome Study

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…

Physics & Astronomy

First Detailed Dark Matter Map Unveiled by UBC Astronomer

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…

Environmental Conservation

Africa's biggest mammals key to ant-plant teamwork

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…

Studies and Analyses

Gene Variant Linked to Higher Autism Risk, Study Reveals

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…

Automotive Engineering

Ames Laboratory Enhances Magnets for Electric-Drive Cars

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…

Trade Fair News

Infrared Emitters Speed Up Paint Drying on Plastic

Conventionally, these lacquers and coatings are dried or cured by means of hot air. Increasingly, the market requires faster production speeds, which, in many…

Physics & Astronomy

Unusual Older Stars Foster Second Wave of Planet Formation

“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…

Studies and Analyses

Dartmouth Study Reveals Mercury and Arsenic in Chinese Lakes

The researchers studied three separate locations in Lake Baiyangdian, all at varying distances from major sources of pollution, such as coal emissions,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST Unveils New Test Method for Young’s Modulus Measurement

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…

Materials Sciences

NIST reference materials are 'gold standard' for bio-nanotech research

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…

Materials Sciences

Rough times: NIST's new approach to surface profiling

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…

Earth Sciences

Earth's Moving Crust May Occasionally Stop

Synthesizing a wide range of observations and constructing a new theoretical model, researchers Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Mark…

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