Physicist Robert Scherrer has come up with a model that could cut the mystery of dark matter and dark energy in half by explaining them as two aspects of a single force.
The Vanderbilt School of Engineering will lead a new $2.4 million multi-institutional nanotechnology program funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop radically improved electronics, sensors, energy-conversion devices and other critical defense systems.
Seeing is believing, even when what we see is ambiguous or misleading. New research has found that the brain continues to accept ambiguous visual information about an object in motion even when it conflicts with more reliable tactile information.
Mathematician Glenn Webb is available to discuss what is so magical about the number 17 for Brood X cicadas, emerging by the billions this month across the Eastern and Southeastern United States.
Researchers, using a new combination of techniques, have discovered that dopamine levels in our brains vary the most in situations where we are unsure if we are going to be rewarded, such as when we are gambling or playing the lottery.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will be the guest speaker at the university's inaugural Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 13, at 10 a.m.
A new study reports that groups of brain cells can improve their ability to discriminate between different orientations of simple visual patterns by synchronizing their electrical activity, providing new evidence that neuronal synchrony plays an important role in brain functioning.
The amount of information we can remember from a visual scene is extremely limited, and the source of that limit may lie in the posterior parietal cortex, a region of the brain involved in visual short-term memory.
A professor who researched the past 40 years of the French environmental movement has found that France, as well as the United States and other countries, are becoming "light-green" societies. Although many nations' actions can be described as "light green," that does not mean there have been only small changes in consumer habits.
As world reserves of oil and natural gas dwindle over the coming decades, the rate at which the people in most societies around the world have babies is likely to drop precipitously as well predicts an anthropologist.
We are bombarded with visual stimuli while driving, shopping and watching television. New research reports that although we may not be aware of all that we see, our brains are registering this information.
An international team of chemists has developed a new family of antioxidants that are up to 100 times more effective than Vitamin E.
Today, we know a little bit more about one of mankind's deadliest enemies, the mosquito. Scientists have taken an important step toward understanding the mosquito's sense of smell, an avenue of research that may lead to better ways to repel the deadly insect.
Professors, including a former astronaut, can add context to your stories on President Bush's proposal to return to the moon and send astronauts to Mars.
The ability to analyze and defend against novel biological agents has been strengthened by the development of a new device that can monitor the metabolism of living cells in near real time.
Two Vanderbilt Kennedy Center investigators have been awarded mentor-based fellowships by the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) to advance the study of autism through early identification tools and genetic analysis.
Researchers believe students and professionals alike can better understand statistics and biology by studying the two disciplines simultaneously. They have received a $1.6 million grant from the NSF to explore this theory with teachers at Nashville's Rose Park Math and Science Magnet Middle School.
Research shows centralized "reverse supply chain" may not be effective for electronics, fashion
An investigator is available to speak to media about alternatives to antidepressants for depressed youth, following the announcement of findings last week that most antidepressants currently on the market should not be prescribed to adolescents and children.
Various tribunals available in Saddam Hussein trial analyzed
Why are more people shopping on the Internet? Because the malls are driving them away with their outdated retail model. What the mall stores are doing wrong contrasts with what they Internet sites are doing right.
Vanderbilt University researchers believe a slow electrochemical wave, known as a damped wave, may be one of the reasons that low-voltage defibrillation shocks fail to halt fibrillation in cardiac patients.
A new wave of journalists are reviving the muckraking tradition of the early 1900s. "Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America 1900/2000" compares authors like Eric Schlosser with seminal muckraking works including "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
1) Internet shopping for the holidays predicted to be bigger than ever-and why; and 2) Stakes are higher when customer service blunders occur during holidays
John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will speak about "Many Happy Returns? The Stock Market in the Coming Years" at 1 p.m. on Nov. 11 as part of the Owen Distinguished Speaker Series at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University psychology department researchers have identified responses in the brain to a touch illusion that shed new light on how the brain processes sensory information and call into question long-held theories about the nature of the "map" of the body in the brain.
Vivendi's recently announced decision to sell Universal Studios and its other media assets to NBC should improve the quality of television programming, according to Christopher Yoo, a media law expert at Vanderbilt University.
The future of the national "do not call" list is likely to turn into a debate over which federal agency should be responsible for enforcing it, according to Christopher Yoo, associate professor of law at Vanderbilt University.
Despite the attention called to the industry for its complicity in the accounting scandals of the past two years, audit firms under pressure from major clients bending the rules are still prone to produce inaccurate audit opinions"”if they think they won't be caught.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision accomplished what the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and numerous Supreme Court cases before it could not: It legally banished the notion of separate, unequal treatment for whites and blacks in America.
The "CEO" in your brain appears to be concerned more about the consequences of your actions than how hard they are to produce.
A new supernovae survey confirms that the universe is not only expanding, but expanding at an ever increasing rate and provides new clues to the nature of dark energy, the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.
The world's most comprehensive collection of television network news programs, which can be searched over the Internet, marks its 35th anniversary Aug. 5 by going digital.
Bigger and brighter isn't better, at least not when trying to view moving objects. That is the counter-intuitive result of a study performed by Vanderbilt psychologists which sheds new light on one of the most sophisticated processes performed by the brain: identifying and tracking moving objects.
According to a Vanderbilt student, who just won a national business simulation competition, it's the thrill of playing a game that he found challenging"”if not a little addictive"”and the feeling he gets knowing that he outperformed more than 400 other teams of undergraduate and MBA students in a competition designed to test how well a person would run a real company.
West Nile virus is an emerging health threat but beware "” a more dangerous mosquito-transmitted disease is heading our way, according to a Vanderbilt researcher.
A Vanderbilt professor's argument that challenged the presumption underlying so called "minority influence districts" was supported last week in the Supreme Court's ruling in Georgia v. Ashcroft.
As President Bush attempts to mend fences with European leaders in the aftermath of war with Iraq, he would do well to consider the actions of a previous president from Texas, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University presidential historian.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a grant establishing the Vanderbilt University Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the Owen Graduate School of Management.
A field study finds that a transgene that protects commercial sunflowers against white mold disease is unlikely to spread through wild sunflower populations.
Directors of publicly traded companies will gather at Vanderbilt University Law School in June to address the issues directors now face as a result of recent regulatory changes in a climate of investor uncertainty.
Carol M. Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, says it's time for political and religious leaders in America to wake up to the notion that white nationalism is "seeking to go mainstream" and to take the threats the movement poses seriously.
Despite the popular notion that the period between the two world wars was one of marital and family stability, a study of the art and marriages of two of the 20th century's most popular artists indicates it was instead a difficult and unsettling time for many middle-class Americans.
Vanderbilt University experts ready to comment on War in Iraq.
Top businesswomen including the head of Time Inc. will share their strategies for succeeding in the workplace with Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management and the local business community at the Committee of 200 Spring Outreach Seminar.
Aficionados may not only treat their automobiles as if they are people, but it now appears that they recognize their cars with the special part of the brain that is also used to identify faces.
As Iraqis and the people of other Muslim nations find themselves in the international spotlight, a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt and a scholar on Middle Eastern thought, says Muslims throughout the world have a choice to make about what Islam will mean for them and their communities.
Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the fourth annual Vanderbilt MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University professors and officials comment on war and terrorism.
Vanderbilt University professors offer comments on the space shuttle disaster.
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