Stephanie Macht, a researcher in small business strategy, has surveyed 71 angels about their post-investment involvement and found that activities such as…
The Labour government’s National Childcare Strategy, aimed at encouraging mothers to return to work, has simplified childcare, benefiting the younger…
Dr Lawrence Palinkas, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and Dr Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, did a review of…
Findings published in the open access journal, Genome Biology, show how the fats that clog arteries work together with air pollution particles, triggering the…
Although prescriptions of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections declined during the 1990s, GPs still continue to prescribe antibiotics for a high…
Using Chandra, scientists surveyed a sample of clusters and counted the fraction of galaxies with rapidly growing supermassive black holes, known as active…
Aircraft engines are more efficient at higher temperatures, but this requires thermal treatment of engine components at very specific high temperatures in…
The AC Josephson effect refers to work that Brian Josephson published in 1962 regarding the flow of an electrical current between superconductors. In this…
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin have developed software that is able to recognize…
According to a new survey of people in high-risk hurricane areas conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological…
The research sheds light on the biochemical mechanisms involved in the disease and suggests new avenues of study for preventing brain-cell death in at-risk…
“Scientific American is considered by many to be the Rolling Stone magazine of science,” says Dr. Macknik. “It is a honor in our career to be featured in such…
According to a new study published online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer patients treated by highly experienced…
A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics.Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bought clear adhesive tape. Graphite, the common material used in most pencils, is made up of countless layers of graphene. Researchers simply used the gentle stickiness of tape to break apart these layers….
Next-generation laser-based defense systems are now being designed for this need, including the use of infrared countermeasures to protect aircraft from…
Sometimes though, killing even a few individuals can have dramatic consequences, causing populations to fluctuate wildly. “The important question is: who gets…
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