Month: April 2018

Whether through carbon dioxide emissions or nutrient pollution from fertilizers used in agriculture, human activities have a profound impact on ...

Scientists at Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have identified a ...

Credit: NSF The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could significantly affect global sea levels. As part of ...

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) Atmospheric researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) International Pacific Research Center ...

Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Flamboyan in the Southern Indian ...

WASHINGTON, DC (April 30, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $10 million to ...

WASHINGTON, DC (April 30, 2018) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $74 million to ...

Lifetime risk is a useful method to quantify risk of atrial fibrillation over a person's lifetime. However, data are scarce ...

Credit: Photo by Jason Weckstein. If you're a parasite and want to spread out a little in Amazonia, then you ...

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Plants are among the most effective energy convertors on Earth. They capture solar energy and ...

To satisfy the protein demands of an anticipated nearly 10 billion people by 2050, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture ...

Credit: Ryan Cassotto, University of Colorado Boulder. The laws for how granular materials flow apply even at the giant, geophysical ...

Credit: UTA UTA biology doctoral student Marquerite Herzog has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to ...

After decades of progress in cleaning up air quality, U.S. improvements for two key air pollutants have slowed significantly in ...

Credit: Tim Gordon, University of Exeter Degraded coral reefs are far quieter than five years ago, and no longer sound ...

Credit: Lauren Culler Air temperature increases from climate change will make New Hampshire's streams warmer, according to Dartmouth-led research published ...

When people are out and about, they leave plumes of chemicals behind them--from both car tailpipes and the products they ...

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Concern over the potential imminent eruptions of Earth's supervolcanoes, like Taupo in New ...

The 'deep learning' computers in Anant Madabhushi's diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University routinely defeat their human counterparts ...

Credit: Georgios Vidalakis, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important ...