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Studies and Analyses

How Age Influences Motivation to Quit Smoking

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…

Health & Medicine

Educated Individuals With Dementia Experience Faster Memory Loss

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…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Reef Futures: Urgent Call for Emission Reductions

We call on all societies and governments to immediately and substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Without targeted reductions, the ongoing damage to…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Identifies Two Genes Linked to Arthritis Disability

An international team of researchers led by a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked to a disabling form of…

Materials Sciences

MIT’s Color-Changing Gel Reacts to Temperature and Pressure

MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt…

Physics & Astronomy

CRISM’s Role in Choosing Mars Rover Landing Sites

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Biggest 'small' black hole discovered

“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,…

Environmental Conservation

Genetic Changes in Mice: Insights from UIC Research Findings

Oliver Pergams, visiting research assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Robert Lacy, population geneticist…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Genetic Sex-Determination Evolution

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…

Earth Sciences

Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered in Australia

The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was…

Environmental Conservation

MELIA Project: Innovations in Mediterranean Water Management

'Water management, especially in the Mediterranean, has been the subject of hundreds of projects,' said the project's coordinator, Professor Rafael Rodriguez…

Studies and Analyses

Social Stress and Darkness Heighten Human Anxiety Levels

Grillon and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health sought to examine whether stress increases unconditioned fear in humans. To do this, they…

Event News

AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics

Merging technological innovations and new knowledge about basic cancer biology, cancer researchers now target specific molecules involved in critical chemical…

Earth Sciences

Global Experts Unveil Roadmap for Calibration and Validation

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Ariane 5 Engine Re-Ignition Experiment Sets New Standards

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…

Social Sciences

How TV and Group Work Impact Eighth-Grade Science Scores

In his doctoral thesis, Finnish PISA Researcher Pasi Reinikainen studied the country-specific factors connected to the science achievement of eighth-grade…

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