Location: Naval Research Laboratory, United States
A team of scientists from the Naval
Research Laboratory, the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL's) Research
Vehicles Directorate,
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
Wind isn't acting alone in the geological process behind erosion, sand dunes
and airborne dust particles called aerosols.
The other culprit is electricity. By...
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Location: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, United States
A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased
risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications,
GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, showed signs it was on
its way...
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Location: University of Oregon, United States
An international team of physicists, including University
of Oregon scientists, has concluded that last February's intense burst of
gamma rays possibly coming from the Andromeda Galaxy...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
MIT researchers have
uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and
humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian
flu strains and...
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Location: University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to
the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only
way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways
that...
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Location: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, United States
Biofuels
reduce greenhouse-gas
emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. In the...
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Location: University of Virginia, United States
Magnets have been touted for their healing properties since ancient Greece.
Magnetic therapy is still widely used today as an alternative method for
treating a number of conditions, from arthritis to depression, but there
hasn’t been...
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Location: Kansas State University, United States
"There are all sorts of rules about what crystals can do during phase
transitions," said Mark
D. Hollingsworth, associate professor of chemistry at
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
Four years ago, NASA's
Stardust spacecraft chased down a comet and collected grains of dust blowing off
its nucleus. When the spacecraft Comet Wild-2 returned, comet dust was shipped
to...
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Location: Harvard University, United States
Psychologists at Harvard
University have developed a new method to study extrasensory perception
that, they argue, can resolve the century-old debate over its existence.
According to the...
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Location: National Nanotechnology Initiative, United States
A new strategic plan for the work of the National
Nanotechnology Initiative has just been released by the interagency
Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the...
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Location: Purdue University, and University of Texas at Austin, United States
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a
time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the
simple to the complex.
By studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus...
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Location: American Institute of Biological Sciences, United States
The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled
“Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems.” The four articles in the
section highlight different aspects of attempts to incorporate modern concepts
from...
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Location: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, United States
Tonsillectomies to treat chronic and recurrent tonsillitis substantially
improve a patient’s quality of live in both children and adults, according to
two new studies published as a supplement to the January 2008 issue of
...
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Location: University of California , Los Angeles, United States
It's good news that we are living longer, but bad news that the longer we
live, the better our odds of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Many Alzheimer's researchers have long touted fish oil, by pill or diet, as
an...
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Location: University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
A brain chemical that makes us sleepy also appears to play a central role in
the success of deep brain stimulation to ease symptoms in patients with
Parkinson’s disease and other
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