Month: December 2019

Credit: Jonathan Holt A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must ...

Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk

Credit: NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair ...

Teens must ‘get smart’ about social media

Warning of effects on young adolescentsCredit: Flinders University New research indicates that social media is leading young adolescent girls and ...

Purdue speech-language entrepreneur elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Credit: Jessica Huber/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Jessica Huber, a professor in Purdue University's Department of Speech, Language, and ...

NASA finds second tropical system develops in Arabian Sea

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm 07A has developed in the eastern Arabian Sea, one day after Tropical Storm 06A developed in ...

Lack of specialists doom rural sick patients

Saint Louis University research finds higher death tolls, more hospitalizations in small town USACredit: Saint Louis University Residents of rural ...

Researcher receives NSF grant to study fate of terrestrial carbon in freshwater ecosystems

Credit: PhenoCam Network Carbon serves as the building block of life -- it cycles through every organism, the environment, and ...

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail

This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 ...

Scientists use NSF grant to understand hydrologic controls on carbon processes in wetlands

Credit: Virginia Tech Wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle, aiding in the storage and distribution of this ...

How does protein fit in your holiday diet or New Year’s resolutions?

Study shows protein amounts larger than the recommended dietary allowance benefits only those who are cutting calories or strength trainingCredit: ...

Prostate cancer screening study boosted by Movember & Alberta Cancer Foundation campaigns

Clinical study of ClarityDX Prostate recruits 200 men from launchCredit: Perrin H Beatty Edmonton, Alberta - Nanostics Inc. announced today ...

For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics

Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Tiny microplastic particles are about as common in the ocean today as plastic is in ...

Is disability a risk factor for miscarriage?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 3, 2019--A new study compared the proportion of women with ...

GPS inventors honored by HRH the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace today

The 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is awarded to Dr. Brad Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, Dick Schwartz, and James Spilker, ...

UD engineering professor honored by National Academy of Inventors

Kristi Kiick recognized for internationally recognized researchCredit: Kathy F. Atkinson Kristi Kiick, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Materials Science ...

Study reveals dynamics of crucial immune system proteins

New findings show how a key part of the immune system functions and suggest potential applications in disease diagnostics and ...

Successful instrument guidance through deep and convoluted blood vessel networks

Latest breakthrough by Professor Sylvain Martel's team at Polytechnique Montréal opens up new horizons for endovascular surgeryCredit: Massouh bioMEDia for ...

Researchers use genomics to discover potential new treatment for parasite disease

Experimental drug found to disrupt genes activated by worm parasite that causes lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)Credit: University of Maryland School of ...

Detecting solar flares, more in real time

New machine learning tool can improve space weather forecasts, understanding of solar dataCredit: Dan Seaton and J. Marcus Hughes/CU Boulder, ...

NASA catches typhoon Kammuri post landfall