Elite cyclists have larger hearts than the typical person, so they’re able to push out more blood per beat. They’re able to extract more oxygen from their blood than an untrained individual would.
Bill Lacy, longtime political strategist and the director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, is available to speak with media about tonight's Republican debate.
Writers examine themes of race, religion, morality, gender and class as they explore the sociocultural impact of J.K. Rowling's books.
Eric Vernberg found that it is not only victims of bullying who make more visits to the school nurse — it is the aggressors as well.
People lose the ability to manage their lifelong collection of possessions and this becomes an obstacle to moving to a safer neighborhood, nearer to family members or into assisted living. Why is it so hard to get rid of stuff?
Island-dwelling white-eyes have long been dubbed "great speciators" for their apparent ability to rapidly form new species across geographies where other birds show little or no diversification.
While modern spiders make silk threads with appendages called spinnerets, the primitive spider wove broad sheets of silk from spigots on plates attached to the underside of their bodies. Unlike spiders, they had long tails too. Even more creepy.
"Our nation's emergency managers do not fully appreciate the potential of the Internet and emerging social media," the researcher says
Female candidates become more masculine and male candidates adopt feminine qualities when in debate with each other, university researcher says. Available for interviews about the Biden-Palin debate Oct. 2.
Premature babies with respiratory distress syndrome have difficulty learning to eat after lengthy tube feedings. But new research shows preterms who used the NTrainer, a new therapeutic device, learned more rapidly to suck far better and transitioned to oral feeding faster. The syndrome is a leading cause of death among infants under a year.
The world's largest study to date on language emergence has shown that 80 percent of children with language delays at age 2 will catch up by age 7. But this also means that for one in five late-talking toddlers, language delays persist.
Humans have overused antibiotics in areas such as agriculture, worsening the dilemma of highly resistant bacteria, a University of Kansas researcher says in a journal article. Drug corporations must develop antibiotics with the potential not only to kill microbes but also to inhibit their ability to mutate, he advises.
Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders "” the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly.
NASA astronaut to become ambassador for science education in his home state of Kansas, including encouraging more student to pursue careers teaching and reduce the shortage of science and math teachers.
Using tools from the branch of mathematics known as graph theory to human memory to understand how words are stored may explain why many patients recover language skills after brain trauma such as stroke. Research suggests that the brain organizes words by sound, by word meaning or by a combination of sound and meaning. The connections throughout the brain though are varied creating shortcuts.
Government monitoring for H5N1 focuses on migrating waterfowl in Alaska. According to A. Townsend Peterson, a more effective system to detect the appearance of H5N1 would track wild birds all along the Atlantic and Pacific "flyways" of North America.
Researchers from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), based at the University of Kansas, have discovered a hot spot in Greenland where high temperatures underneath a thin area of the Earth's crust are causing significant melting of ice. Timothy E. Leftwich, a CReSIS postdoctoral engineer, will present results on Thurs. December 13, 2007, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
In 1954 Betty Grimwood contacted the University of Kansas with an idea to invite international students to spend the holiday with families her hometown of Burns, a farm community about 60 miles northeast of Wichita. The tradition is still going strong in its 53rd year and more important than ever.
The first major national traveling exhibition celebrating the life, work and legacy of Aaron Douglas, an African-American recognized as the most important visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, opens in September in Kansas; will travel to Nashville, Washington D.C. and New York City in 2008.
A noted butterfly researcher and a world-famous crop artist are behind a nationwide campaign to publicize the peril faced by species that transfer pollen between flowers -- vital for much of our food supply. Crop art and a postage stamp will help raise awareness of the damage pesticides and pollution are doing to habitats of pollinators like bees, butterflies and bats.
Upcoming book to examine effect of blogs on 2006 election and what to expect in 2008 election.
North American beekeepers love to have pedigreed bees, but the research now shows mixed ancestry. The sequencing indicates bees originated in Africa and spread from there to Europe, the Mideast and Asia Minor.
The new Encyclopedia of Privacy takes a comprehensive look at the issue of privacy in the United States today and throughout history.
This year's population is probably the biggest Monarch watchers have seen in 10 years, but extreme temperatures in Texas and Oklahoma pose dangers.
The approach could allow cancer patients to tolerate higher and more effective doses of chemotherapy before normal cells are damaged to an extent that causes serious side effects and cessation of therapy.
Man-made ponds in the U.S. have dramatically changed drainage patterns, collecting up to quarter of all run-off sedimentation that would have otherwise been deposited in river valleys and deltas.
Researchers found that the state 529 college savings plans with the higher fees had attracted more accounts and assets. The plans were so complicated that brokers, when asked to recommend plans, were selling higher fee plans to parents. States are now lowering fees and the SEC is investigating.
The Toni Morrison Society will present Morrison with an inaugural "bench by the road," as part of a new community outreach initiative. Ten signature benches are projected, each commemorating sites important in African American history and in Morrison's novels, the first from Kansas.
Prison choir director says the experience of learning to sing, following the discipline of rehearsals and learning to perform in harmony teaches many inmates to work in a community, an experience they may not have had before prison.
Study shows great promise for a weight-loss program that conducts patient counseling by telephone, compared to face-to-face counseling.
Instructional coaches (ICs) partner with and guide the regular classroom teachers, helping them to identify and use the best teaching practices available based on research.
Researchers hope to identify chemical compounds that can be turned into safe, effective and reversible male contraceptives without using hormones.
Dated by carbon-14 methods at 12,200 years old, recently discovered bones could be the oldest evidence of human occupation in Kansas, and they may be the oldest evidence of humans on the Great Plains.
Researchers investigating 30 random communities across the nation found only 40 percent of emergency managers had specific guidelines in place to assist people with mobility impairments during emergencies.
Glaciers in western Antarctica seem to be thinning more rapidly than in the 1990s, and the resulting flow of ice into the Amundsen Sea is contributing to a faster rise in the world's sea level.
New research shows that a cholesterol-lowering herbal drug also produces an unwanted side effect: It accelerates the breakdown of prescription drugs that fight the effects of AIDS and cancer.
A new high-tech pacifier being developed to train premature babies to suck properly may allow them to leave intensive care units earlier. It also may reduce the incidence or severity of certain developmental disabilities that appear in early childhood and beyond as well as possibly boost IQ.
Reseachers have discovered the crucial role an unusual molecule plays in helping bacterial enzymes break down methane. The molecule also has antibiotic properties and even potential use as a water-cleaning agent for the semiconductor industry.
Sen. John Kerry frequently quotes poems by Langston Hughes, notably his highly critical 'Let America Be America,' sparking renewed interest in the visionary African-American poet.
National civil rights leaders, educators, lawyers, and journalists, along with descendants of the 1954 Brown v Topeka Board of case, will gather this month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the decision that declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
Bryant C. Freeman, director of one of only two Haitian study centers in the U.S. and an adviser for the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, has traveled and researched extensively in Haiti for more than 45 years.
A popular notion that people change their eating habits and change them for the better when they exercise is a myth, the results of a study show.
The authors of "Slaughterhouse Blues" say once all the social costs of the meatpacking industry are tallied, America's appetite for cheap meat is much more expensive than the nation can afford.
The University of Kansas will parlay its largest federal research grant ever - $17 million - into a new $30 million research center that will develop more environmental friendly manufacturing processes in the chemistry industry.
Former presidents Ford and Carter, Tom Brokaw, Rudy Giuliani and other dignitaries will help Sens. Bob and Elizabeth Dole dedicate the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics with a three-day "Greatest Generation's Greatest Celebration" event July 20-22.
Billed as the "Greatest Generation's Greatest Celebration," the Dole Institute of Politics' dedication this summer promises to be an extraordinary event that will serve as a tribute to World War II veterans as well as to one of their greatest heroes and advocates, former Sen. Bob Dole.
Researchers at the University of Kansas are developing software that can be used in computers such as handheld PDAs to help people kick the habit by placing them on a smoking schedule.
In About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson's drawl declares the scene to be the actual University of Kansas, located in Lawrence. But what moviegoers see in this Oscar-contender is not KU's picturesque hilltop campus.
Children can develop some symptoms of post-traumatic syndrom even though they were not directly involved in a disaster. The impact of TV viewing has been documented in Oklahoma City following graphic coverage that lasted for weeks.
In college campuses across the nation, only 12 percent of the chemistry department faculty members are women on average. But in Kansas, nearly a third of the faculty are female, the best ratio in the nation among top 50 universities.
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