A recent study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) suggests that seniors with low incomes or no prescription coverage were less likely to use…
But their environment is not only cramped: it also has a profound effect on the fishes' appearance, raising questions about how rare species can be protected…
University of Central Florida Astronomy professor Joseph Harrington and University of California at Los Angeles professor Brad M. Hansen and their team have…
Whereas conventional electronic devices depend on the movement of electrons and their charge, spintronics works with changes in magnetic orientation caused by…
The analysis, by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that these landscape-level…
Borrowing a page from nature's playbook, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel platform for the…
The 1-centimeter square coating, just 3 micrometers thick, is the first standard for the chemical composition of thin-film semiconductor alloys issued by the…
The findings help address a major question facing public health officials: How to protect against a possible pandemic caused by a virus whose precise viral…
Modern multi-nutrient fertilizers produced for home and agricultural use are formulated from multiple sources to provide significant amount of nitrogen,…
Nobody knew what had caused these mysterious illnesses until the Columbia team, led by Ian Lipkin, M.D., reanalyzed the samples and detected, in approximately…
A finding by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers about how immune cells “decide” to become active or inactive may have applications in…
Their findings, which will be published in the October 13 online edition of PLoS Genetics, show that RB blocks cells from dividing before they reach a minimum…
Unlike the traditional method for living polymerization, which has been around for more than 50 years, this method takes place at room temperature, uses less…
European studies have documented declines of certain pollinator species, raising concerns that crop yields could drop or that ecosystems could be disrupted as…
A binary asteroid is a system where two asteroids orbit around one another, like a mini Earth-moon system, said Daniel Scheeres, University of Michigan…
David Davies has found and is in the process of synthesizing a compound that will cause biofilm colonies to disperse, thus leaving individual bacteria up to…