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John Glenn's upcoming space flight at age 77 not only will yield valuable information about aging but may inspire some older adults to begin a fitness program, says am exercise physiologist at the University of Kansas.
For more than a century, scientists have thought that the blue feathers of a bluebird look blue for the same reason that the sky does. Now, a University of Kansas scientist and his colleagues say that's not so. They have found that bluebird feathers look blue for the same reason that oil slicks do.
G. Denise Lance has spent her 30 years showing everyone around her what is possible -- including typing term papers with her toes, managing Web sites and earning a Ph.D. in special education at the University of Kansas. Denise has cerebral palsy.
Many urban Kansans arrange their vacations around the wheat harvest so that they can help on a family's or friend's farm. A handful of University of Kansas faculty and staff members with roots entrenched in farming return to homesteads each summer to help in the fields.
A solvent used in the food-processing trade is expected to help the pharmaceutical industry replace environmentally unfriendly and expensive solvents in the manufacture of drugs. By using supercritical carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the pharmaceutical process, researchers at the University of Kansas have successfully replaced some chemical solvents.
LAWRENCE -- Another match has been set in a long-running academic debate about whether birds descended from dinosaurs. At issue, said Larry Dean Martin, curator of paleontology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, is whether these dinosaurs had feathers.
The universe, like the Earth, may have its own axis, according to observational data collected by researchers at the University of Kansas and University of Rochester in New York. The research brings into question Albert Einstein's "Theory of Relativity," which is based on assumptions of a centerless, directionless universe, as well as upon the constancy of the speed of light.
Tens of millions of monarch butterflies will stampede through Kansas in September, and a researcher at the University of Kansas is ready for the show.
Men who donate blood may reduce their risk of heart disease by up to 30 percent, according to a study led by David Meyers, M.D., professor of internal medicine and preventive medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The study is published in the August issue of the journal Heart.
An antioxidant found in green tea is at least 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E at protecting cells and their genetic material, DNA, from damage believed to be linked to cancer, heart disease and other potentially life-threatening illnesses, University of Kansas research shows.The antioxidant, known as epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, carries twice the antioxidant punch of resveratrol, found in red wine, according to the study.
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