North Carolina scientists have found that "thinnest" is not necessarily "best" in rating structure and function of carbon nanotubes, the molecule-sized cylinders that show promise for futuristic technology scaled at a billionths of a meter.
Mar 21, 2005
GMI Young Investigator is a new career level at the Campus Vienna Biocenter. The introduction of this position by the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular…
Mar 17, 2005
Having a health clinic in the apartment next door may not be everyone’s idea of a good neighbor.
Mar 16, 2005
College seems to pay off well into retirement. A new study from the University of Toronto sheds light on why higher education seems to buffer people from cognitive declines as they age.
Mar 14, 2005
A team of geologists from Duke University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has discovered a grinding, coordinated ballet of crustal "microplates" unfolding below the equatorial east Pacific Ocean within a construction zone for new seafloor.
Mar 3, 2005
When female German cockroaches are ready to mate, they raise their wings, lower their abdomen, stilt their legs and send chemical signals -- sex pheromones -- advertising their availability to adult males.
Feb 22, 2005
Biomedical engineers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have demonstrated for the first time that stimulating a specific nerve in the pelvis…
Jan 28, 2005
In a finding that deepens our understanding of animal social cognition, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have demonstrated for the first time that monkeys, like humans, value information according to its social content.
Jan 27, 2005
Monday morning 24 January: feel like turning over and ignoring the alarm? An expert from Cardiff University has devised a formula to explain your Monday blues.
Jan 26, 2005
Researchers found that a low carbohydrate diet that reduced total caloric intake by 30% prevented the development of a fundamental feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a strain of mice genetically engineered to develop the disease.
Jan 12, 2005
If the approximately 1.5 billion power adapters that connect our cell phones, digital cameras, answering machines, camcorders and countless other gadgets to…
Jan 10, 2005
The location of the recent earthquake that triggered a deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean came as no surprise to geologists, says Anne Meltzer, a world-renowned seismologist at Lehigh University.
Jan 6, 2005
Overlooked for at least a century because there was no pottery or gold, a sand-swept region of archaeological sites in north-central Peru is now believed to be…
Jan 5, 2005
In April 2003, scientists completed the massive Human Genome Project, recording for the first time in history the location and sequence of every gene in the human body.
Jan 4, 2005
