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The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Federal climate policymakers should have a grounding in basic chemistry. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Uncooked fish can host detectable concentrations of potentially toxic chemicals †pollutants that cooking can make disappear, The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Scientists show that cheap chemical dyes may lead to efficient conversion of the sun's energy The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Yet another news story baits us with the promise of reading about noxious toxins †and doesn't deliver. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Often-ignored brain cells regulate blood flow and make fMRI possible The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
While the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing has elicited a rallying cry for human rights among high-profile activists and organizations outside China, ordinary Chinese citizens are mobilizing to fight for ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Recent studies have shown that HIV causes a vigorous and prolonged immune response that eventually leads to the exhaustion of key immune system cells -- CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells -- ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The size of the financial burden on families with disabled children largely depends on which state they live in, according to a new study conducted by the schools of social ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Older adults who have hip or knee replacement surgery for severe osteoarthritis may take several weeks to recover but appear to have excellent long-term outcomes, according to a report in ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, is a step ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Optimism is good for heart health, at least among men, a new study shows. University of Rochester Medical Center researcher Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., found that men who believed they ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Certain communication skills can help physicians increase the efficiency of their time with patients during office visits. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Hispanic patients with diabetes appear to have less frequent eye examinations than the national average for Hispanic individuals, and many are not aware of the potential ocular complications of diabetes, ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on children's cognitive development and health according to a study released by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
People with coronary heart disease report a worse "quality of life" than people free of heart disease. Heart patients who were younger than 50, female, black or Hispanic were all ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Asian-American immigrants who came to the United States before they were 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The forests of the future may need to be managed as much for a sustainable supply of clean water as any other goal, researchers say in a new federal report ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Golfers who heed the advice of instructors to keep their heads perfectly still while putting may be hampering their game, according to a study that examined coordination patterns. ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Escalating global demand for fuel, food and wood fibrer will destroy the world's forests, if efforts to address climate change and poverty fail to empower the billion-plus forest-dependent poor, according ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The damage to brain tissue seen in Huntington's disease may be caused by an overactive immune response in the bloodstream and the brain, according to new findings from two teams ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The common practice of administering heparin soon after cardioembolic stroke is associated with an increased risk for serious bleeding, according to an article posted online today that will appear in ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
EPA has released the final "Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen -- Health Criteria." This is EPA's latest evaluation of the scientific literature on the potential adverse human ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
More than one-third of Medicare beneficiaries appear to be accompanied by family members or companions during medical encounters, according to a report in the July 14 issue of Archives of ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new mathematical model by researchers at the University of Michigan suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a profitable strategy more often than previously thought. The rest of the article ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
HIV tires out the cells that produce virus-fighting proteins known as antibodies, according to a human study that will be published online July 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new report from the National Research Council, "St. Lawrence Seaway: Issues and options," reviews ways to prevent ships from transporting invasive species into the Great Lakes, and makes recommendations ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The American Chemical Society's News Service Weekly PressPac contains reports from 36 major peer-reviewed journals on chemistry, health, medicine, energy, environment, food, nanotechnology and other hot topics. The rest of the ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Use of biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge) on crops is a common practice because biosolids are a rich source of plant nutrients and organic matter. However, these biosolids can contain ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a Canadian study in the July issue of Obesity Reviews. Professor ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Although farm chores are likely to keep young boys in shape and out of trouble, University of Cincinnati environmental health experts caution that it could be harmful to overall bone ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A less invasive test commonly used to diagnose coronary disease also may be used to detect one of the leading causes of heart failure, say researchers at the Medical College ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The outlook for air quality in Beijing during the Olympics is borderline, and there's little that the Chinese government can do to improve it. That's the conclusion drawn ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal PNAS is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Whether on vacation or out for recreation, many adults and children are hopping on ATVs for some warm weather fun. But ATVs are not toys. The rest of the article ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Professor Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In one of the first studies to link molecular genetic variants to adolescent delinquency, sociological research published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review identifies three genetic predictors ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Cymbals don't clash of their own accord -- in our world, anyway. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A different cutoff point on an existing mental function assessment may more effectively assess the risk of dementia in highly educated older adults, according to a report in the July ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Water-wasting and uncaring about gels, shampoos and soap going down the plughole: that's how the British emerge from a survey on showering habits of western Europeans. The Royal Society of ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Visual impairment may be associated with an increased risk of suicide through its indirect negative effect on health, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
It's conventional wisdom that practice makes perfect. But if practicing only consists of watching, rather than doing, does that advance proficiency? Yes, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers. The rest ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Using data from clinical encounters and drug prescriptions over three years, researchers have devised a model to predict emergency hospital admissions in the following year in individuals age 40 and ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
This July 1, 2008 issue includes eight articles on CNTRICS. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists in England report that signs of Huntington's disease appear in the blood almost 15 years before the patients develop symptoms of brain damage. This study will be published online ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS researchers have demonstrated that the increase of cholesterol concentration in the mitochondrial membrane makes the action of chemotherapy difficult in cellular hepatocarcinoma. According to these results, drugs such as ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new vision screening device, already shown to give an early warning of eye disease, could give doctors and patients a head start on treating diabetes and its vision complications, ... Read more..Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
For the first time, researchers have taken a detailed look at what lies beneath all of Iceland's volcanoes -- and found a world far more complex than they ever imagined. ... Read more..