Location: Cambridge, United States
Carbon nanotubes - tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite - promise to add speed
to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in
airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, is that the metals used to
grow...
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Looking at the site today, it’s easy to forget that a dam and pond stood for
43 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Franbrook Farm Research
Station in southwestern Wisconsin. All traces of the structure are gone, and...
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Location: 445 N. Fifth Street,Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States
Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today
announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only
stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells.
In a potentially major...
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Location: NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., 202-358-0918, United States
A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa. ...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat,
two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your
computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras
placed...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
By 2100, warmer oceans with more carbon
dioxide may no longer sustain 1 of the world's most productive fisheries,
says
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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: 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: RAND Corporation, United States
A RAND Corporation study issued today
gives rail security planners and policymakers a framework to develop
cost-effective plans to secure their rail systems from terrorist attacks.
More than 12...
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Location: Ohio State University, United States
As sea levels rise, coastal communities could lose up to 50 percent more of their fresh water supplies than previously thought, according to a new study from
Ohio State University.
Hydrologists...
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Location: Michigan State University, United States
A mouse created by Michigan State University scientists studying a disease thought to be a neurological disorder that weakens men has exposed two surprises: Testosterone appears to be the culprit and it’s...
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Location: Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, United States
A newborn’s chance for surviving a low-risk version of a condition called gastroschisis
varies greatly by hospital, according to a study by Johns Hopkins surgeons.
Babies...
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Location: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The emergence of drug resistant forms of HIV often underlies the failure of current antiretroviral therapies for HIV infection. Specific mutations in the HIV genome confer resistance to individual drugs. sexual reproduction, a process similar...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
Severely restricting calories leads to a longer life, scientists have proved.
New research now has shown for the first time that such a diet also can
maintain physical fitness into advanced age, slowing the seemingly inevitable...
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Location: NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Inhaled depleted
uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard
and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for illness in both...
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Location: Duke University Medical Center, United States
A common human virus may prove useful in attacking the deadliest form of brain
tumors, according to study conducted by researchers at
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Location: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
An international team of researchers led by a Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked
to a disabling form of
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Location: Boston, United States
A discovery in mice of immune cells that promote the formation of new blood
vessels could lead to new treatments for endometriosis, a painful condition
associated with...
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