Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a leader in environmental and energy sciences, is focusing its scientific and technological resources on the emerging problems of agriculture and food production.
Jupiter's moon Io, whose strange surface is defined by active volcanoes, lakes of molten sulfur and vast fields of sulfur dioxide snow, has revealed another oddity to scientists: caps of glowing hydrogen gas at the moon's poles.
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The younger the age of drinking onset, the greater the chance that an individual at some point in life will develop a clinically defined alcohol disorder, according to a new report to be released January 14 by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Researchers have discovered two chemical messengers in the brain that may lead to new insights into weight control.
Cornell University veterinarians have some unsolicited advice for the Clintons: Avoid overfeeding and overexercising Buddy, and give the First Cat a "dog-free zone."
Jean-Pierre Habicht, M.D., of Cornell University has published study in Lancet that finds that when refugees sell food, it's not because they have too much but are desperate for other staples and supplies such as salt and soap.
Communists generally view religion as the opium of the masses but can this "opium" save Marxism-Leninism? Yes, says Andres I. Perez y Mena, associate professor of educational anthropology at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. "The Catholic Church traditionally has been anti-capitalist and the revolutionary leadership now wants to claim Christianity as a substitute model for socialism," he says.
Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: 1) Hepatitis G May be Sexually Transmitted, 2) Gene Gun Delivers DNA Vaccine to Reproductive Tract, 3) Borna Virus Requires Low pH to Infect Cells
A new proprietary enabling technology for high-throughput screening, applicable to the discovery of a wide area of medical and agricultural products,represents a breakthrough in the mechanism-based testing of lead molecules.
A project to halt erosion and restore vegetation at a two-acre site in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, home to a herd of 625 buffalo, is being conducted by University of Tulsa professors and students. The site was contaminated with salt after an accidental release of salt water associated with oil production.
A new study soon-to-be published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that most major corporations that have formal "ethics" programs are only "going through the motions."
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health a $874,195 grant to determine whether exposure to an ingredient found in Agent Orange during the Vietnam War can be associated with neural tube defects in the veterans' children.
A few universities have started teaching space exploration as history. At Purdue University, often called the "mother of astronauts," a professor of Russian history has developed a course to compare the Soviet and U.S. space programs.
Purdue University researchers have begun construction on a Mach 6 wind tunnel, which when completed will be the fastest and quietest research wind tunnel at any academic institution in the world. Research will focus on how air flows over and around objects that travel faster than the speed of sound.
A Purdue University study sheds new light on the old practice of marrying for money. A Purdue University study of preretirement persons showed that people who never married had only 14 percent of the financial assets that married persons had accumulated. Divorced people who did not remary had only 15 percent.
A Purdue University marketing professor says the corporate emphasis on short-term profits is changing consumer purchasing behavior and cutting into long-term profits.
In the first successful attempt to make engineered tissue without synthetic scaffolding, a team of researchers created a blood vessel made entirely from human cells.
A research paper that suggests there is no relationship between a stock's risk, as typically measured, and its expected rate of return earned the prestigious Smith-Breeden Prize for 1997.
University of New Hampshire astronomers say they may have found evidence of never-before-seen gamma-ray flare activity on a white dwarf star. Until now, scientists have only detected similar flaring activity on our own Sun, but this source appears to be a white dwarf, the end-stage in the life of a star.
Cornell scientists, Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust and Harvard University have developed a Vegetarian Diet Pyramid to update the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid which is outdated.
Researchers studying the causes of cancer at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine received grants from the American Cancer Society (ACS): Robert E. Oswald, pharmacology, $166,000 for a two-year study, "Structure and Regulation of Cdc42Hs;" James W. Casey, microbiology and immunology, $90,000 for a two-year continuation of "Development and Regression of a Retroviral Induced Sarcoma."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, it's time to stop praising the slain civil rights leader only for his accomplishments in the United States and to start viewing him as an international leader, says Vanderbilt University professor Lewis V. Baldwin.
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A study by the National Research Council released January 6 recommends limiting mandatory reporting of abuse. Two economists have research, however, showing that simply the threat by an abused woman to use a shelter often can improve her situation.
The U.S. chemical trade surplus will drop over the next 25 years, if not disappear, as manufacturing abroad replaces exports from the U.S.; Plants will become the main source of oil and plastics; And green chemistry and other pollution prevention technologies will eliminate pollution from the chemical industry.
WASHINGTON -- "Bionic" implants to monitor human health, the ultimate in miniaturization of electronic devices, and an energy-efficient car to wipe the haze from the world's cities are among the advances that chemists predict their discipline will achieve before 2023.
In a time of overwhelming corporate restructuring emphasizing team-based management and group problem solving, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration is being recognized for a unique program that integrates teamwork and critical leadership skills into its top-ranked academic curriculum. General Electric--through its Learning Excellence Fund, which supports programs that have a direct, measurable impact on learning--is awarding Simon a three-year, $219,645 grant for the School's Coach-Mentor Program and further study of team learning.
A Louisiana State University researcher is using a unique technique to study the genes that cause Down Syndrome.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Cerebral malaria should be considered as seriously as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or Agent Orange exposure as an underlying cause of long-term medical and psychological problems faced by some Vietnam War veterans, according to a study by a University of Iowa and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) psychologist.
For hundreds of years, the Coliseum in Rome has stood as a marker of an era gone by. Yet concrete driveways poured only a few years ago are already developing cracks. Ron Berliner, a scientist at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, is determined to find out why.
Jupiter, like Earth, has auroras at its poles. Thanks to new instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and a specially designed filter, University of Michigan astrophysicists have produced the best images yet of this planetary phenomenon---pictures which should give researchers a much better understanding of Jupiter and its moons.
Sleep disorders associated with heavy snoring pose the greater stroke risk, researchers reported today in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study by U.S. and German researchers is the first to indicate a possible mechanism for stroke risk that could explain why some sleep disorders are more dangerous than others.
People who are Hispanic are more likely than whites and Native Americans to develop hemorrhagic strokes, caused by rupture of a brain artery, rather than ischemic strokes, caused by blockage of a brain artery, according to a new study appearing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
About 30 percent of stroke survivors have dementia, a disorder that robs a person of memory and other intellectual abilities, according to a new study in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Space observations of some of the tiniest stars in the cosmos--reported Jan. 7, 1998 by University of Delaware researchers and their Danish collaborators at the American Astronomical Society meeting--have finally confirmed a Nobel Prize-winning theory on the structure of stars. The information is central to understanding pulsars, black holes and white dwarf stars.
Peer-reviewed study published in the journal "Nutrition and Clinical Care" finds Cheerios(R) breakfast cereal significantly reduces total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and apoB levels in adults
A $2-million gift will help Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management expand its emphasis on information technology.
Using a potent combination of observation and theory, astronomers are peeling away layers of cosmic dust to see the birth pains of sun-like stars.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) honored 359 outstanding individuals nationwide in fiscal 1997 with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants. NSF invested $40 million in these new grants in 1997. The awardees were selected from 1,935 applicants.
Washington University computer scientists have patented two major inventions that should make Internet applications like e-mail, the World Wide Web and electronic commerce 10 times faster than they are now.
Scott McRobert, professor of biology at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, collects, studies and breeds dozens of threatened and endangered species from around the world-- including the much-celebrated Epibpedobates tricolor or "poison dart" frog from South America.
News Tips from Sinai Health System: 1. Remote pediataric anesthesia puts patients and families at ease 2. Cataract Surgery Can Now Be Performed Without Needles 3. Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Older Adults Require Special Care 4. Weight Loss without Medication is Safer 5. Back Surgery Can Now Be Performed on an Outpatient Basis
Natural estrogens may offer some protection to premenopausal women threatened with severe brain damage during stroke, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health.
Astronomers have observed a swoosh of hot, ionized gas streaming toward the extremely dense object at the center of the Milky Way, bending sharply around it and slingshoting out the other side.
Johns Hopkins astronomers have found evidence that a huge galaxy 50 million light years from Earth is powerful enough to strip clusters of stars from neighboring galaxies.
Los Alamos researchers have modeled the effects of tsunamis generated by meteors splashing down in the oceans as they push up against continental coastlines to show the extent of damage that can be expected.
If liars really had pants on fire then there would be plenty of bonfires inside the beltway .If you ever examine topics relating to lying and corruption, here are some sources who can prove useful.
Nitrites, chemicals used to process hot dogs, smoked hams, and sausages, have been under fire in recent years from epidemiologists who had found a link between cured meats and certain childhood cancers. However, an interdisciplinary task force of scientists concluded in a recently issued report that there is virtually no scientific rationale for this conclusion.
The predecessor of the Avon lady was a man, notes a University of Delaware historian currently completing a doctoral dissertation entitled, "Avon Ladies and Fuller Brush Men: The Gendered Construction of Door-to-Door Selling, 1886-1970.
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