New research led by a University of Washington seismologist shows, however, that such swarms can occur anywhere that is seismically active, not just near…
Cynthia Rosenzweig and Vivien Gornitz are scientists on a team at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Columbia University, New York City,…
Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics — the creation of controlled fusion energy — is still decades away. But thanks to research…
The results of their research, to be published in the October 26 issue of the prestigious journal Nature, describe how the operational mode of several…
More than 1 million Americans have Crohn's or colitis, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). “Crohn's and colitis are chronic conditions that…
The Strategic Award will further bolster the reputation of a laboratory already renowned for its research into the neural basis of human cognition, work which…
For the first time, scientists have proved that over half the dust transported to the Amazon comes from one location in the Sahara, the Bodélé depression, even…
The drug group, known as Nitroimidazoles, was once widely used in veterinary medicine to treat animal disease such as anaerobic bacterial and parasitic…
The epigenome is the interface of genetics and environment, where plasticity of epigenetic changes modifies the hard wiring of our genetic code. Increasingly…
The herbal medicine extracted from seeds of the Milk Thistle, Silybum marianum (silymarin) is known to have antioxidant properties and research published this…
The Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Project (HBGSP), a large scale communal project led by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Human…
Plasma physicists at the Universities of Texas and Michigan have photographed speedy plasma waves, known as Langmuir waves, for the first time using a…
More than 8.3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were discovered among the genomes of the 15 mouse strains and the data are now publicly available….
There are a million neurons in the brain of a honey bee (Apis mellifera), a brain not much larger than the size of the period at the end of this sentence. The…
The weathering of the mountains pulled carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, causing the opposite of a greenhouse effect — an “icehouse” effect.Scientists…
They found that three areas within the hippocampus of Alzheimer's patients show more atrophy compared with those in patients having amnestic mild cognitive…
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