Discrimination, PTSD may lead to high preterm-birth rates among African-American women
African-American women are nearly twice as likely to give birth prematurely as white women. Such births often coincide with low ...
Month: March 2019
UMD-Led researchers’ wood-based technology creates electricity from heat
UMD developed wood-based membrane someday may turn body heat into electricity COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A University of Maryland-led team ...
The most aggressive spider societies are not always the ones that flourish
Credit: Noa Pinter-Wollman Evolutionary biologists at McMaster University who study the social lives and behaviour of colony spiders--some of which ...
Restoring this enzyme’s function protects against heart disease in lupus and beyond
The enzyme that produces nitric oxide shows promise as a new therapeutic target for heart disease in lupus, report Medical ...
New angle of attack drives cellular HIV-reservoirs to self-destruction
While current therapies for HIV can successfully manage active infection, the virus can survive in tissue reservoirs, including macrophage cells, ...
Satellite tracks Tropical Cyclone Veronica along Australia coast
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) On March 25, Tropical Cyclone Veronica continued to move ...
NJIT to host nuclear weapons conference: ‘Steps to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World’
On April 14, NJIT will host "Steps to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World" -- an all-day conference featuring nine of the ...
ARRS 2019 Annual Meeting open to media
With educational activities representing the entire spectrum of radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will host leading radiologists from ...
Replacing sitting time with physical activity associated with lower risk of death
For those who get the least amount of physical activity, replacing a half hour of sitting time with physical activity ...
Matter waves and quantum splinters
Physicists shatter Bose-Einstein condensate, get different pieces every time Physicists in the United States, Austria and Brazil have shown that ...
A fascinating phase transition: From one liquid state to another
Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A team at The University ...
Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function
Technique could improve machine-learning tasks in protein design, drug testing, and other applications A machine-learning model from MIT researchers computationally ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall around Tropical Cyclone Joaninha’s center
Credit: JAXA/NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA calculated the rainfall rates occurring in Tropical Cyclone ...
WVU researcher awarded NSF CAREER grant to develop new techniques to secure cyberspace
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been ...
The stroke care paradox: Close-knit social networks increase delays in hospital arrival
Study finds that tighter networks of family members restricted information flow, delayed arrival time for those in need of life-saving ...
OU study finds climate warming accelerates tallgrass prairie bioiversity
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study on climate warming in an Oklahoma tallgrass prairie has implications for ...
Plant seed research provides basis for sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilizers
Credit: Alessandro Bergna, Tomislav Cernava, Manuela Rändler, Rita Grosch, Christin Zachow, and Gabriele Berg St. Paul, MN (March 2019)--Recent advances ...
New paper on the phylogeny of the Brassicaceae
Credit: Nikolov et al The mustard family Brassicaceae (also known as Crucifers, from the cross-like form of their flowers) comprises ...
House hunting for hellbenders
Pick right-sized rock or be eaten by cannibal neighborsCredit: Phil Colclough/Zoo Knoxville GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For young hellbenders, choosing the ...
Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms
Astrophysicists observe physics phenomena in gas streamsCredit: Hinode JAXA/NASA Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a ...
