Taxing agricultural inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer is often mentioned as a way to control the amount that farmers use. But agricultural economists at Purdue University have found little correlation when they investigated how much taxation was needed to actually change farmers' habits.
Using weather satellites to spot the early signs of an El Nino, scientists may be able to help save East Africans and their livestock from Rift Valley Fever, a mosquito-borne disease that can be fatal.
This weekend, more than 1,000 survivors of prostate cancer from across the United States will convene at the University of Michigan for the 2nd International Prostate Cancer Symposium for the Patient sponsored by AstraZeneca.
Physicists from the University of Pennsylvania have found a new class of materials that self-assemble into flat, two-dimensional "crystallites" made from tiny plastic beads the size of bacteria. The beads seem to defy the basic physical principle that oppositely charged objects attract.
Automobile tires, truck tires, heavy equipment tires, all sizes and shapes of tires interst an agricultural and biosystems engineer at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Vice President of APA calls on Congress to pass effective patient confidentiality legislation to protect America's most vulnerable population.
Boston University School of Medicine researchers have identified the second locus for a recessive gene which causes achromatopsia - a rare genetic disorder which results in not only an inability to see any color at all, but causes the individual to be regarded as legally blind. This research report appears in the July issue of the journal Clinical Genetics.
Casting about for ways to soothe Alzheimer's patients, Purdue University researchers have found that displaying tanks of brightly colored fish may curtail disruptive behaviors and improve eating habits of people with the disease.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have devised a safer, more effective strategy for bone marrow transplantation that does not require the use of drugs that globally suppress the immune system. A report on the new technique, demonstrated in mice, appears in the July 16 issue of Science.
A study has found that people usually are more honest, and distort bad news less, when delivering bad news via e-mail than through other methods, such as by telephone or in person.
Dr. Paul Bertsch was appointed the new director for the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory(SREL).
The mere presence of a fertile female in the nest next door can be enough to cause a male black-throated blue warbler to stray, according to a paper published this month by University at Buffalo biologists in the Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists' Union.
The possibility of the Earth being struck by comets or asteroids is being taken more and more seriously by researchers, according to one expert at the seventh International Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Conference at Cornell University July 26-July 30.
Martin Weisskopf, Project Scientist for NASA's newest Great Observatory - the Chandra X-Ray Observatory - talks about the upcoming July 20 launch, astronomy, cosmology, and our beautiful and surprising universe.
Harrison A. (Skip) Hartman, Jr., vice president and managing director for Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. and regional vice president of Loews Hotels, will receive the 1999 Hospitality Executive of the Year Award from Penn State.
Wake Forest will receive $300,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enrich science education in local schools.
Parents making preparations for possible problems surrounding year 2000 computer bugs had better take time to talk with their children about the issue, says a Purdue University Extension specialist.
Job satisfaction can change with the time of the day. That is one reason why typical measures of job satisfaction -- such as surveys and polls -- are not very useful, says a Purdue University expert on organizational psychology.
A new study of violence between intimate partners by two University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists reveals a problem of disturbing scope, with as many as one third of respondents reporting being either victims or perpetrators of physical abuse.
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