A new study shows that obstacles to smoking cessation and motives for quitting smoking vary with age. The study presented at CHEST 2007, the 73rd annual…
The study included 117 people who developed dementia out of an original cohort of 488 people. Researchers followed the participants for an average of six years…
We call on all societies and governments to immediately and substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Without targeted reductions, the ongoing damage to…
An international team of researchers led by a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked to a disabling form of…
MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt…
When NASA Mars Program officials and members of the Mars science community gather in California next week to pare down the list of candidate landing sites for…
“The theory we operated with for the last decade was that single-star black holes are formed from the remnants of massive stars — the more massive the star,…
Oliver Pergams, visiting research assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Robert Lacy, population geneticist…
A research team formed by Sander van Doorn (Santa Fe Institute, USA) and Mark Kirkpatrick (University of Texas at Austin, USA) suggests an answer to the puzzle…
The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was…
'Water management, especially in the Mediterranean, has been the subject of hundreds of projects,' said the project's coordinator, Professor Rafael Rodriguez…
Grillon and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health sought to examine whether stress increases unconditioned fear in humans. To do this, they…
Merging technological innovations and new knowledge about basic cancer biology, cancer researchers now target specific molecules involved in critical chemical…
More than 50 experts from space agencies and organisations around the world met earlier this month at the GEO/CEOS Workshop on Calibration and Validation…
The launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which carries supplies to the International Space Station, will require multiple firings of the Ariane 5…
In his doctoral thesis, Finnish PISA Researcher Pasi Reinikainen studied the country-specific factors connected to the science achievement of eighth-grade…