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Location: Los Angeles, United States
New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in
the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the
quality of this insulation appears to be largely genetically determined,
providing...
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Location: Atlanta, United States
Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights
during the past few months may have noticed something different during their
descent to the runway. Instead of the typical sound of engine power rising and...
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Location: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California - Los Angeles, United States
Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying
the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that
control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts — belts consisting of
high-energy...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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Location: University of California, Merced, United States
Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore...
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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: Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, United States
Chemotherapy given at the same time as radiation therapy can help patients with a certain type of lung cancer live nearly 50 percent longer than they might have otherwise if the same treatment was given differently, according to an...
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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: California, United States
A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight – which increases levels of vitamin D in the body --...
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Location: 1310 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo, CA 90245, United States
SpaceX has successfully completed the
Critical Design
Review (CDR) for its first Falcon 9 / Dragon mission as part of the
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Location: Los Angeles,The University of Southern California, United States
Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on...
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Location: Suite 5K39, Washington, DC 20546-0001, United States
Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27
liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of
NASA's Dawn
mission. The Dawn spacecraft will venture into...
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Location: 695 Charles Young Drive South ,Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
It is already known that a
person's social environment can affect his or her health, with those who are
socially isolated — that is, lonely — suffering from higher mortality than
people who are not.
Now, in the first study of its kind,...
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Location: W. M. Keck Observatory , California Association for Research in Astronomy , 65-1120 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela, HI 96743, United States
Scientists may have solved a discrepancy between the number of
extremely small, faint galaxies predicted to exist near the Milky Way and the
number actually observed. In an attempt to resolve the "Missing Dwarf Galaxy"
problem, two...
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Location: Center for In Vivo Microscopy,Duke University Medical Center,Durham, NC 27710, United States
A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains -- unveiled layer by layer -- by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging
"These...
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Location: Health Sciences Campus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033. (323) 442-2000, United States
A study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Harvard Medical School has identified seven genetic risk factors – DNA sequences carried by some people but not others – that predict risk for
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Location: California Institute of Technology, ,M.C. 128-95, Pasadena, CA, 91125,, United States
Physicists seeking
to tame plasma have figured out yet another of its wily ways. Knowing how plasma
escapes the grip of magnetic fields may help researchers design better magnetic
bottles to contain it. Magnetic confinement could be a...
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Location: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, United States
A key component of the research has been testing at very large scale in the
Winter Laboratory. Large-scale experiments sponsored by NSF through MCEER and
the U.S.-Japan Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Program in conjunction with...
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Location: University of Illinois,Urbana, IL 61801, United States
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple, disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory instruments....
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Location: Mercury computer sys., Chelmsford, MA 01824-2820 & Genesis Digital Imaging, Inc,Los Angeles, CA 90066, United States
The Institute of Medical Physics (Erlangen, Germany)
Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, Mass.)
The Imaging Challenge
Advances in sensor technology in Computed Tomography (CT) have created an increasing number of images per...
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