A major study of three to 19 year-olds has provided vital data on the weight problems faced by the growing number of children and young people with type 1…

When you toss a coin, you either get heads or tails. By contrast, things are not so definite at the microcosmic level. An atomic ‘coin’ can display a…

You’re meeting a friend in a crowded cafeteria. Do your eyes scan the room like a roving spotlight, moving from face to face, or do you take in the whole…

At the IFA international consumer electronics exhibition in Berlin (September 4 to 9) Fraunhofer researchers are presenting a prototype of their open…

Many diseases are caused by genetic mutations. Researchers can use a technique called linkage analysis to identify rough intervals on the chromosome that might…

The researchers, led by Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said the two…

Ten Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered the most massive antinucleus discovered to date.They…

The identification of the new multisystem autoimmune disorder and the recessive gene that causes it have been published early online and are reported in the 12…

The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada. A second 60-kilogram chamber…

Tetsuro ToyodaDirectorRIKEN Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering Division (BASE)Databases are becoming increasingly important in the life sciences as a key…

Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence…

Web scientist and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Research Constellation Professor Deborah McGuinness has been developing a family of…

However, a new study of tree-ring data spanning the past 400 years indicates that droughts in those cities and their surrounding regions were typically longer…

The world’s foremost researchers in laser science, optoelectronics and quantum optics will present their findings at the Conference on Lasers and…

A Franklin University professor recently developed an evolutionary computation approach that offers researchers the flexibility to search for models that can…

Prospecting — the search for valuable reserves such as gold, diamond and natural gas — isn’t just a matter of luck. It’s about knowing where to look. Now…

Today’s announcement from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN points to promising signs for the existence of the Higgs boson. Weizmann Institute scientists…

Based on previous observations from ground-based telescopes, astronomers knew the supernova class, called a Type Ia, created a remnant named SNR 0509-67.5,…

The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey keeps a watchful eye on asteroids that might cross the Earth’s path. A byproduct of that effort is the largest…

Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times hotter than Earth and its days more than 200 times longer. The atmosphere on Venus is so thick…