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Materials Sciences

Metamaterials Breakthrough: Silver Mesh Enhances Visible Light

Ames Laboratory senior physicist Costas Soukoulis, working with colleagues in Karlsruhe, Germany, designed a silver-based, mesh-like material that marks the…

Studies and Analyses

Feeling Tired? Study Links Sleepiness to Injury Risk

In a study of more than 2,500 patients, Daniel Vinson, professor of community and family medicine, found that patients who reported feeling sleepy were,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Dried distiller's grains can help produce more beef

After a summer and fall feeding study done with both heifers and steers, Dr. Jim MacDonald, Experiment Station beef nutritionist, said he believes this…

Environmental Conservation

Fish Species Struggle in Warmer Waters Amid Climate Change

Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish…

Health & Medicine

Long-Term Prostate Cancer Cure: Radiation Therapy Combo

This study was conducted by the physicians at the Seattle Prostate Institute. Doctors wanted to look at the combination of seed implants and external beam…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Linked to Wilms Tumor Discovered by MGH Researchers

Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have discovered a novel gene mutation associated with Wilms tumor, the most common…

Physics & Astronomy

Gas Giants Forming Early: NASA’s Spitzer Findings Explained

Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that gas giants either form within the first 10 million years of a sun-like star's life, or not at all….

Life & Chemistry

Converting Nitrogen: Unlocking New Uses in Pharma and Chemicals

Nitrogen-containing organic compounds are important products as well as intermediates for many pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemicals used in…

Earth Sciences

New Observatory Launches to Study Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions

The international observatory, located on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente in the tropical east Atlantic Ocean, began its working life in October 2006 and…

Physics & Astronomy

Bright Blue Stars Illuminate Cosmic History with Hubble’s Lens

This new image taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright blue newly formed stars that are blowing a…

Life & Chemistry

UK PubMed Central launched

From today scientists will be able to access a vast collection of biomedical research and to submit their own published results for inclusion in a new online…

Life & Chemistry

Trust Your Instincts: Finding the Odd One Out in Symbols

Participants, who were asked to pick the odd one out on a screen covered in over 650 identical symbols, including one rotated version of the same symbol,…

Environmental Conservation

Vulture Chick Hatches: A Hopeful Sign for Species Survival

The Oriental white-backed vulture chick hatched last week at the breeding centre in northern India and belongs to one of three Asian vulture species facing a…

Information Technology

UGR Analyzes Communication Networks for Hacking Detection

The Department of Electronics of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada [http://www.ugr.es])has published in the international journal Computer…

Life & Chemistry

ScanBalt BioRegion: Biotech Growth in Baltic and Poland

In the Baltic countries and Poland biotech and life sciences are growing. As an example of this positive development the Latvian BioTech Association was…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover Body’s Defense Against Cancer Spread

Researchers discovered that a large protein, which forms a protective shield around cancer cells and prevents them from causing secondary tumours, is attacked…

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