UTA earns equipment grant to expand research into brain injuries
Quantifying brain traumaCredit: UT Arlington It is often easy to tell when a person has suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, but it is much...
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A step closer to identifying cause of a blinding disease
Researchers find clue to rare genetic disorder Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is an inherited form of vision loss that causes people to have trouble...
Climate change may make the arctic tundra a drier landscape
Lakes may shrink and some may disappearCredit: Figure prepared by Rebecca Finger Higgens. Imagery courtesy of Planet Labs, Inc. With climate change, the Arctic tundra...
On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
In the most detailed analysis of how sands move around on Mars, a team of planetary scientists led by the UA found that processes not...
Marching for climate change may sway people’s beliefs and actions
Americans have a long tradition of taking to the streets to protest or to advocate for things they believe in. New research suggests that when...
Piedmont Atlanta first in Georgia to offer new minimally invasive treatment for emphysema
Credit: Pulmonx Atlanta, Ga. (May 23, 2019) - Piedmont Atlanta Hospital is the first in the state of Georgia to offer a new minimally invasive...
Report finds California above national average for sexual harassment rates
Immigrant-born men; gay and lesbian Californians are also at increased risk In the state of California, reported incidences of sexual harassment are 5 percent higher...
Columbia to host the 2019 New York Scientific Data Summit
A two-and-a-half day symposium to explore data-driven discovery and innovation in science and industry Columbia University is co-organizing and hosting the 2019 New York Scientific...
The effect of sleep quality on peptic-ulcer relapse in older adults
Poor sleep quality and peptic ulcer disease (PUD, a condition when sores known as ulcers develop on the lining of your stomach or in the...
Of strawberry jelly and earthquakes: Space station investigation studies colloids
A new International Space Station investigation, Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-10, is using temperature changes to better understand how colloids -- or 'disordered solids' -- age or...
Daily self-weighing can prevent holiday weight gain
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have shown that a simple intervention - daily self-weighing - can help...
Removing carbon dioxide from an air stream
UD engineers develop a fuel cell system that helps environmentCredit: Photo by Evan Krape Someday, we all might drive zero-emission cars. To get there, engineers...
Carnegie Mellon researchers create soft, flexible materials with enhanced properties
Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer of a liquid metal droplet....
Chemical juggling with three particles
Bonn University and Columbia University chemists discover novel, sustainable reaction mechanismCredit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Chemists from the University of Bonn and their US...
Ecologists find bush dog, native of South America, in remote central Costa Rica
Trail cam documents unexpected, most northerly sighting of pack-hunting canidsCredit: Point Loma Nazarene University/Michael Mooring AMHERST, Mass. - Wildlife ecologists at the University of Massachusetts...
