“The global warming influence provides a new background level that increases the risk of future enhancements in hurricane activity,” Trenberth says. The study…
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Researchers at Université de Montréal and the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) have successfully identified a defective immune cell…
Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a…
In recent years the equipment contained two components, a weather station to record meteorological data and a telemetric component to broadcast data to a base…
Ole Peters, a 27-year-old physicist with expertise in “critical phenomena” and “self organized criticality” — which he acknowledges is “a bit of a rogue…
What's the secret to living longer? The answer to this age-old question might be found through research looking at neuroendocrine changes throughout the…
Might we be able to turn our immune system against another kind of foe besides infections and viruses? How about fat? Researchers from the Centre National de…
Nearly 400 adults from 65 to 84 years old were enrolled in the study, and were divided into groups receiving a placebo or one of four different levels of an…
Middle-age and older people who feel healthy, but who have early signs of atherosclerosis, are more likely to exhibit subtle changes in heart function,…
A new prognostic test can help determine whether a prostate cancer patient will go on to have a recurrence of the disease, even if surrounding lymph nodes…
Author Jim Lee finds that family firms tend to experience higher employment and revenue growth over time and are overall more profitable than nonfamily…
The 1970s-style vacant ranch house was taking a beating, but not from a hurricane. Instead, engineers were simulating the effects of hurricane-force winds and…
Naphthalene in mothballs and para-dichlorobenzene, or PDCB, found in some air fresheners, were shown to block enzymes that initiate programmed cell death, or…
In up to 9 percent of patients, doctors have difficulty interpreting scans because of the presence of brown adipose tissue, also known as brown fat, which may…
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