Ready for refit: Navy-owned research vessel getting suped-up for service
Credit: Photo by Scripps Institution of Oceanography ARLINGTON, Va.--Like a classic car being restored, the research vessel (R/V) Roger Revelle ...
Month: April 2019
NASA’s Aqua satellite tracks Tropical Cyclone Lorna
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL As Tropical Storm Lorna continued moving in a southerly direction in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, NASA's Aqua ...
NASA sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Kenneth over northern Mozambique
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of ...
A spoonful of peppermint helps the meal go down
A pilot study at the Medical University of South has found that peppermint oil improved symptoms, including difficulty swallowing and ...
Biological machinery of cell’s ‘executioner’ yields secrets of its control
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital structural biologists have discovered how the ...
Carnegie Mellon chemists manipulate the quantum states of gold nanoclusters
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have found a way to control the lifetime ...
Children’s NICU slashes unintended extubation rates by 60% over 10 years
Accidentally dislodged breathing tube is fourth-most common adverse event in the nation's NICUsCredit: Children's National WASHINGTON-(April 26, 2019)-A quality-improvement project ...
How does chronic edema impact health-related quality of life?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 26, 2019--Final results of the large, international LIMPRINT study have ...
A four-way collaboration combatting fire ants
It was the summer of 2017 when fire ants made their landfall in mainland Japan. Two years later, reported detections ...
UA College partners with Space Tango to test diagnostic tool in space
PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix are partnering with Space Tango, a private ...
Mount Sinai researchers find significant delays in West Nile virus reporting
Delays impact accurate infectious disease forecasting (New York, NY - April 26, 2019) --Mount Sinai researchers found significant delays in ...
Association between high blood PCB levels and premature death
High levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the blood are associated with premature death. This is shown by a cross-disciplinary ...
National Institutes of Health awards $2.7 million to Leadership Alliance
The funds will support expanded mentorship of biomedical science students and junior researchers from historically underrepresented groups through the Brown-based ...
Latitudinal gradient of plant phylogenetic diversity explained
Credit: Jhonny Capichoni Massante Why are there so many species in the tropics? For centuries, scientists have been seeking for ...
Common oral infections in childhood may increase the risk of atherosclerosis in adulthood
The association between childhood oral infections and adulthood carotid atherosclerosis was observed in The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, ...
Lionfish genes studied for clues to invasive prowess
Credit: Photo by Michael Gäbler published under a Creative Commons license. What makes the red lionfish (Pterois volitans) such a ...
City trees can offset neighborhood heat islands, Concordia researcher says
A new study shows that enough canopy cover can dramatically reduce urban temperaturesCredit: Courtesy Carly Ziter The idea of the ...
Lost graves identified by new archaeology methods
Archaeologists are using subsurface imaging technology to help community groups map unmarked gravesCredit: Flinders University Flinders University archaeologists are using ...
How to combine ‘leg day’ with running
James Cook University scientists in Australia say they have the solution for a problem gym-goers have when they combine endurance ...
Bactericidal action of violacein revealed
Violet pigment is produced by microorganisms found in the environment, such as Chromobacterium violaceum and its various biological activities include ...
