"Mapping the Cosmos: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope," brings together over 20 Hubble images as part of the Walters Art Museum exhibit "Maps: Finding Our Place in the World."
New study reveals that high school cliques are racially divided by the 12th grade and that gossiping and spreading rumors boosts students' perceived popularity.
Georgia Tech researchers have designed a sensor necklace that records the date and time a specially designed pill is swallowed, which they hope will increase drug compliance and decrease unnecessary healthcare costs. The device could be used to ensure that the elderly and subjects in clinical drug trials take their medications as directed by a physician.
The theory that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance is often presented in the media as fact even though there is little scientific evidence to support it, according to a new study co-authored by a Florida State University visiting lecturer.
While spring break trips can be fun for families, they can also be stressful "” especially when there are unexpected health issues. To help, a U-M pediatrician encourages parents to prepare for health situations before they take off on their next family getaway, and offers tips for what to pack should your child get sick while traveling.
Video games like Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution can play an important role in getting kids off the couch and involved in physical activity. But U-M fitness experts say they are not a replacement for traditional exercise, and burn few calories.
The University of Maryland is going green like never before, as it races against time and 400+ other colleges and universities to see who can recycle the most.
With a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, Yanchang Wang, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, hopes to learn how a particular enzyme could possibly help put the brakes on the runaway cell division process that occurs in many forms of cancer.
Although it's too soon to sound the death knell for the "senior moment," it appears that memory loss and thinking problems are becoming less common among older Americans. A new nationally representative study shows a downward trend in the rate of cognitive impairment among people aged 70 and older.
Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a "power shirt" able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy.
Nearly 70 million Americans use discount generic prescription drug programs offered at major retail stores across the country. But the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds it's not just the millions of uninsured U.S. adults and children who are taking advantage of lower-price prescription generic drugs.
A new study from U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital finds that using risk factors "“ including a woman's sexual history - to target specific populations for HPV vaccination is not effective, and would exclude as many as 80 percent of women who could benefit the most from the vaccine.
Researchers have found that a particular gene is central to the brain cancer glioblastoma and will either fight the tumor or, conversely, help the tumor advance, depending on the tumor's genetic makeup.
A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology finds certain neurology patients are at a high risk of accidental falls and should be regularly screened to help prevent the high number of fall-related injuries and deaths in the United States each year. The guideline is published in the February 5, 2008, issue of Neurology.
Millions of kids today may face heart disease in the future, especially if heart disease runs in the family. But University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center experts say parents can act now to change their children's diet and exercise regime to put them on a better path to a healthy heart.
What you eat can have huge impact on your heart health. That's why it's important to read labels before putting food in your grocery cart. To help, a University of Michigan nutrition expert offer tips on what to look for on food packages to ensure you're buying heart-healthy items.
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it . . . ."
If politics were like high school, Republicans would be the football stars and Democrats would be chess club captains. Those stereotypes are the easiest way to summarize part of the conclusions made by a marketing professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
A multi-center research project to investigate severe asthma has found a key physiological difference between severe and non-severe forms of the disease, a finding that could help explain why those with severe asthma do not respond well to treatment.
The University of Maryland is home to a unique collection of materials from Post World War II Japan. Famed author and beloved Professor Gordon W. Prange saved the four year collection of books, magazine, newspapers, children's works and more from sure destruction. After many years, the Collection now has a new, modern home in Maryland's Hornbake Library.
A new report by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds parents with adolescents want doctors to do more than just check blood pressure during routine check-ups. Parents also want health care providers to talk with their kids about sex, diet, drug abuse and tobacco use.
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, have found one possible way to solve the problem of "blinking" quantum dots. The advance could make quantum dots more sensitive in biomedical tests and steadier sources of single photons for "unbreakable" quantum encryption.
A report released today by the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds flu vaccination rates among young children and high-risk adults are much lower than expected across the country, leaving millions of Americans unprotected should a major flu outbreak occur.
Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have uncovered what they believe is the long-sought-after pathway that an HIV peptide takes to enter healthy cells. The theorists analyzed two years of biocomputation and simulation to uncover a surprisingly simple mechanism describing how this protein fragment penetrates the cell membrane.
About 5,000 people around the world die from tuberculosis every day, but no effective new drugs have been developed to combat it in 40 years. Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University hope to change that through research made possible by a $2-million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Project invites student researchers, scholars and the public to take part in the creation of a one-of-a-kind encyclopedia, thought to be the first state encyclopedia project of its kind in the nation.
Florida State University's College of Business today announced a $2-million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to establish the Gene Taylor/Bank of America Center for Banking and Financial Studies. Housed in the college's Department of Finance, the center will be used to encourage excellence in education, and fund research and service activities related to banking and finance.
Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have developed a device that may allow patients to take a brief, inexpensive test that could be administered as part of a routine yearly checkup at a doctor's office to detect mild cognitive impairment "” often the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.
World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor, a professor at Florida State University, has co-edited the first complete collection of plays, poems and manuscripts by Thomas Middleton, a provocative, once-popular 17th-century playwright whose work was later banned or burned and overshadowed for centuries by the more famous English bard.
At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. "Touch the Invisible Sky" is a 60-page book with color images of nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes that captured the original pictures. Braille and large-print descriptions accompany each of the book's 28 photographs, making the book's design accessible to readers of all visual abilities.
Ancient Romans knew all about love - and weren't afraid to talk about it. University of Maryland Classics Professor Judith Hallett offers her research on ancient Roman "love talk" and a Latin translation of something more modern that even seasoned journalists can use to woo their loved ones.
Research shows that being in love or in a happy relationship is associated with a much lower risk of coronary disease, and married people who do suffer from heart disease, such as heart failure, have better outcomes.
A landmark trial is underway to test whether an implant can stimulate the brain to lower blood pressure when medicine has failed. Early indications are very encouraging.
World leaders from Africa and the Middle East will gather at Florida State University for a first-of-its-kind intercultural dialogue designed to support a United Nations initiative, the Alliance of Civilizations.
Tinnitus can result when touch-sensing neurons on the head and neck fill a void in the brain after hearing damage, a study in animals shows. The results suggest acupuncture and trigger point therapy may be effective treatments.
A number of industrial workers who exhibited symptoms of parkinsonism, a group of nervous disorders with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, had experienced long-term exposure to TCE, a degreasing agent widely used in industry.
Hubble Space Telescope's powerful vision has resolved strange objects nicknamed "blue blobs" and found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago. Such "blue blobs"--weighing tens of thousands of solar masses--have never been seen in detail before in such sparse locations.
Transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells from human donors or cadavers, an investigational approach to long-term diabetes treatment, is fraught with difficulties. San Diego-based MicroIslet, Inc. believes that transplantation of encapsulated islets from pigs may be the answer.
As 2008 begins, millions of Americans are facing higher insurance co-pays for drugs and doctor appointments. But a new study finds that instead of going up, co-pays should go down "“ at least for some people taking some drugs. For people with chronic diseases, a few dollars can make all the difference when deciding to buy key preventive medicines.
Don't have the time or money to sign up for a gym membership? That shouldn't keep you from making a New Year's resolution to get fit. U-M Health System fitness experts say you don't have to join a gym to develop a sustainable fitness regimen. With the right equipment and motivation, you can start an exercise program at home that will last.
Joining a gym is easy. What's hard is sticking with an exercise routine for more than a few weeks into the new year. To start and stick with a new workout plan through 2008, a University of Michigan Health System fitness expert offers advice for setting reasonable fitness goals, and staying motivated at the gym.
Right now, one in four hospitalized Americans has a urinary catheter. But despite the fact that catheter-related urinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection, and can lead to dangerous complications, a new study shows hospitals aren't using proven tactics to prevent such problems.
Only a third of patients with breast cancer discussed breast reconstruction options with their surgeon before their initial surgery, according to a new study. What's more, women who did discuss reconstruction up front were four times more likely to have a mastectomy compared to those women who did not discuss reconstruction.
The VCU Life Sciences Survey is the first poll to reflect the discovery reported internationally in November that human skin cells can be used to create stem cells or their near equivalents.
A University of Kentucky anatomy professor and a UK police officer have developed a workshop designed to demonstrate why self-defense moves are effective in discouraging attackers.
Developing fetuses are extremely sensitive to radiation, which poses an impossible dilemma for expecting mothers in need of screening or treatment for cancer. Now researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new set of modeling tools that could enable safer, more accurate, and more effective radiation therapy and nuclear medicine imaging procedures for pregnant women.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles "“ 88 million kilometers "“ away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Mars will be closest to Earth on December 18, at 11:45 p.m. Universal Time (6:45 p.m. EST).
A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new results from NASA. This galactic violence, never seen before, could have a profound effect on any planets in the path of the jet and trigger a burst of star formation in the wake of its destruction.
Santa Claus is well adapted to living in the subzero temperatures of the North Pole. But how will Santa cope with the heat when he travels to hot climates with his sleigh full of toys? Physiologist Lisa Leon, a physiologist who studies the body's physiological responses to heat, can tell us how Santa can keep himself safe and comfortable "“ and how we can help.
One night each year, nine magic reindeer pull Santa and his toy-filled sleigh around the world. But what about the reindeer who are not part of the "˜deer dream team'? Dr. Perry Barboza is a physiologist who studies reindeer at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska who says that some of the characteristics of the non-mythical reindeer get overlooked in the Christmas crush.
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