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'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

November 6, 2009

Pasadena, CA -- Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its cha

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

November 6, 2009

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 yea

SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US

November 6, 2009

Reston, Va. -- SNM applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

November 6, 2009

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items.

Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with ?chemical precision?

November 6, 2009

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces.

DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology

November 6, 2009

Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology.

Carnegie Mellon researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe

November 6, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- The current health care debate in the United States is complicated.

Psychiatric impact of torture could be amplified by head injury

November 6, 2009

Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program in

Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect

November 6, 2009

Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medici



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