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An article, "Long-term trends in the incidence of and survival with heart failure," shows the first improvement in heart-failure survival in a long-term community study.

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Combining old-fashioned metal-working techniques with modern nanotechnology, engineers have produced a form of pure copper six times stronger than normal, with no significant loss of ductility.

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A major research project which found that methamphetamine greatly speeds a virus' ability to infect neural cells will continue at Ohio State University. Researchers hope the ongoing work will identify the factors responsible for enhancing the viruses' infection of the nervous system.

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A cheap fortified orange-flavored drink and dietary supplement can dramatically improve nutrition, growth, and the health of children and pregnant and lactating mothers in developing countries, says Michael C. Latham, Cornell University professor of international nutrition.

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Trick or Treat, which is it? Since the National Academies' Institute of Medicine published its new Dietary Reference Intake Report on Sept. 5 saying people can consume up to 25 percent of their diets in added sugars, there may be a run on extra-large tote-bags this Halloween. Not so fast.

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Carnegie Mellon University has initiated a project to produce and support an updated version of the Capability Maturity Model for Software, a guide for improving software development and management processes, currently used in more than 50 countries worldwide.

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Physicists have devised a new experiment that will be used in the question for exotic forces in nature and "additional spatial dimensions." Findings also could have implications for the design of microscopic machines.

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A Massachusetts consortium receives one of the Department of Education's largest-ever grants for a project to boost community college student math skills.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral student Nancy Bowers has been awarded the 2002 Chrysalis Scholarship from the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG).

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Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can really hurt - hurt the economy, that is - especially if those words are coming from the president of the United States, says Texas A&M University political scientist B. Dan Wood, who studies the presidency, public policy and economic policymaking.

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Preoperative radiation therapy for rectal cancer is a cost-effective treatment strategy.

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A comprehensive Web site devoted to animal law, the Animal Legal and History Web Center, has been launched by David Favre, professor of law at Michigan State University.

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The University of Illinois at Chicago's Health Research and Policy Centers have received a five year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund adult health literacy study.

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The health of indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere was on a downward trajectory long before Columbus set foot in the Americas, new research suggests.

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Congress and the Administration must stop playing "hot potato" with the Medicare physician payment update. The current reimbursement system is flawed, and Congress must take action during the lame duck session to provide stability for Medicare beneficiaries and physicians.

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An international team of astronomers has identified an ancient star, one that may be the oldest ever found and which provides clues to what the universe was made of shortly after the Big Bang.

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New research at the University of North Carolina sheds light on the process that silences a group of genes in the developing embryo. Down regulation of gene expression or "gene silencing" is considered crucial for normal development, including limb formation.

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A drought that lasted three times as long as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s wreaked ecological havoc over much of the western United States and Mexico, and occurred at about the same time as the fall of Teotihuacan and classic Mayan civilization 13 centuries ago, says a University of Arkansas researcher.

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The most comprehensive national study to date of smoking before, during and after pregnancy shows that women with less education are more likely to smoke before delivery, less likely to quit during pregnancy and more likely to relapse after delivery.

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It seems like the stuff of science fiction, but NSF-sponsored researchers working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have probed the properties of whole atoms of antimatter, the "mirror image" of matter, for the first time.