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Environmental Conservation

'Dead Zone' causing wave of death off Oregon coast

Scientists, who this week had been looking for signs of the end of this “dead zone,” have instead found even more extreme drops in oxygen along the seafloor….

Earth Sciences

Arctic Coring Expedition Uncovers Key Climate Change Insights

Researchers have long recognized that a massive release of greenhouse gases, probably carbon dioxide or methane, occurred during the PETM. Surface temperatures…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidants: A Potential Shield Against Tick-Borne Illness

Researchers are investigating the role that antioxidants — alpha-lipoic acid and potentially others like green tea and vitamins C and E, for example – might…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Snooze Button Controls Spring Flower Timing

Addressing scientists here today (Aug. 9) at a meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Richard Amasino…

Studies and Analyses

High Blood Sugar Linked to Cognitive Impairment Risk

The study was the first to investigate the association over time between glycosylated hemoglobin – a long-term measure of blood sugar – and the risk of…

Life & Chemistry

Primates’ Defense Peptide May Prevent Some HIV Transmissions

As primates evolved 7 million years ago, the more advanced species stopped making a protein that University of Central Florida researchers believe can…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon Unveils Ballbot: A New Mobile Balancing Robot

“Ballbot” is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. It weighs 95 pounds…

Studies and Analyses

Fair vs. Unfair Price Hikes: Consumer Insights Unveiled

A new study from the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research shows that consumers align material goods and services separately when considering…

Studies and Analyses

How Angry Customers Spark Civic Protests and Drive Change

Consumer Web sites use rhetorical tactics to address injustice, identity, and agency – turning personal betrayal into a “cause” worthy of public attention and…

Social Sciences

Checklist improves assessment of aggressive boys' needs

Prolonged aggressive and disruptive behaviour in childhood is a strong risk marker for criminality and mental health problems in adulthood. Early…

Environmental Conservation

Arctic nations' wealth key to management of climate change

Chapin, professor of ecology at the Institute of Arctic Biology, and co-authors offer local-to-global policy recommendations to manage Arctic conditions…

Environmental Conservation

Invasive Species Change Habitats: Research Insights Unveiled

But simply observing such changes doesn't prove that the invaders are responsible. University of Michigan researchers Emily Farrer and Deborah Goldberg,…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Arctic Thaw: New Insights from Ocean-Floor Sediments

A new analysis of ocean-floor sediments collected near the North Pole finds that the Arctic was extremely warm, unusually wet and ice-free the last time…

Studies and Analyses

Gene-Expression Predictors Align in Breast Cancer Treatment

Currently, doctors treating patients with breast cancer make treatment decisions and predictions based largely on the location and size of the tumor and if the…

Health & Medicine

Cut Cholesterol to Lower Stroke Risk by 16%

According to data from the National Stroke Association, up to 40 percent of patients who have had a stroke will experience a second stroke within five years of…

Health & Medicine

Transcendental Meditation reduces the brain's reaction to pain

Twelve healthy long-term meditators who had been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 30 years showed a 40-50% lower brain response to pain compared to 12…

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