Four million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, are living in households where it is sometimes a struggle to put food on the table, according to researchers at the University ...

Fires in and around Snowy River National Park in Victoria, Australia were captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite on February 06, 2014. Actively burning areas, detected ...

Nearly 70 percent of patients with advanced breast cancer experience skeletal metastasis, in which cancer cells migrate from a primary ...

Fires dot the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite image collected on February 06, 2014. The MODIS instrument is aboard the Terra satellite and actively burning ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced an ancient RNA genome – of a barley virus once believed to be only 150 years old - pushing its origin back at least 2,000 years and revealing how intense ...

Vanderbilt University scientists have contributed to a major finding, reported today in the journal Nature, which could lead to the first effective ...

NASA's Terra satellite saw Tropical Cyclone Edilson pulling away from the island of Mauritius in the Southern Indian Ocean when it passed overhead on February 6, 2014. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...

A new study, "Effect of probiotics on biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: implications for heart-healthy diets," published in the January issue of Nutrition ...

LOS ANGELES – (Feb. 6, 2014) – With very few treatment options available ...

Bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have developed a simple, highly sensitive and efficient test for the diarrheal disease ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Molecular biologists from Indiana University are part of a team that has identified a protein that regulates the information present ...

Cars inch forward slowly in traffic jams, but molecules, when ...

New Rochelle, NY, February 6, 2014—The ability to reprogram adult cells so they return to an undifferentiated, pluripotent state—much like an embryonic stem cell—is ...

Fairfax, Va. – Feb. 6, 2014 – A first-of-its-kind study by researchers at George Mason University's Department of Global and Community Health and Indiana University's Center for ...

Seeking a solution to decoherence—the ...

Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Hillary Sanctuary hillary.sanctuary@epfl.ch 41-216-937-022 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand Dennis Aabo Sorensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information -- in real-­time -- with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm; Sorensen could grasp objects ...

In a Nature Commentary he proposes a community effort to collect economic data on the new website zeean.net. The aim is to better understand economic flows and to thereby ...

In collaboration with an international team, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an antibody, 3F7, which blocks a protein that is active in the coagulation system factor ...

(PHILADELPHIA) – Patients waiting for liver transplants ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Endometriosis, the invasive displacement of uterine tissue into surrounding organs, affects at least 10 percent of women. The disease, which is often misdiagnosed, can cause ...

Female mice prefer songs of mice that are different from their parents when selecting a mate, according to a study published February 5, 2014 in PLOS ONE by Akari Asaba from the Azabu University, ...

The sizes of organisms following mass extinction events may vary more than previously thought, which may be inconsistent with the predictions of the so-called ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered how tree roots in the mountains may play an important role in controlling long-term global temperatures. Researchers from Oxford ...

A new study, published today in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces, has found a new method for growing human embryonic stem cells, that doesn't rely on supporting human or animal cells. Traditionally, ...