New advances that will make possible detection of trace gases in airplane cabins, spacecraft and high-rise office buildings with sealed windows are being developed by researchers led by Rice engineer Frank Tittel.
A tiny pump with no moving parts wear out and a switch that emits no spark when turned off are two creations of LSU's mechanical engineering professor Wanjung Wang.
Johns Hopkins chemists have developed new compounds that show promise for treating malaria by making the disease-causing parasite self-destruct.
Researchers at Rice have created an ultra-porous ceramic filter with pores about 10-50 nanometers in size that may prove useful to industries ranging from hazardous waste treatment to milk sterilization.
Scientist Peter Fox and colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are using observations, theoretical physics, and computer modeling to get the best representation so far of the total radiative output of the sun. The research will lead to a better understanding of the sun's influence on earth's climate.
The sun's 11-year solar cycle may be the driving force behind periodic changes in temperatures and pressure heights of earth's lower stratosphere from pole to pole, according to new research by Harry van Loon of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Karin Labitzke of the Free University of Berlin.
Figure skating judges are biased, but the current scoring system balances out bias, according to a University of North Texas researcher. The research looked at competition scores from 1982 to 1994 to check for bias and found any bias is cancelled out after final calculations are made to determine ranking.
The Federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) today announced a joint research project with Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California that could help all managed care organizations target and provide appropriate health services for enrollees and family members suffering from depression or other mental health symptoms.
Boston College's Carroll School of Management has been awarded a $477,000 grant from the GE Fund "Learning Excellence" program to develop an innovative curriculum plan promoting interdisciplinary approaches to the solution of corporate business problems.
Scientists at Boston University have announced the development of a new blue laser that may lead to a new generation of more vivid color video screens and computer displays as well as optical storage disks that can hold four times the amount of information that can be squeezed onto today's new digital video disks.
Surveys show that farmers haven't grabbed hold of the Internet to the extent that the general population has, but many in agriculture expect that to change as the benefits of linking rural farms and businesses electronically becomes more apparent.
The hefty tax on cigarettes being debated in Congress is supported by research at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Embargoed release: University of Maryland scientists transform sodium channels into calcium channels. Their findings have important implications for development of new drugs for cardiovascular, neurological and muscular diseases.
The Milky Way is being invaded by another galaxy, but don't worry: we're bigger. On the other hand, new research shows, the intruder is surprisingly sturdy. A large quantity of dark matter is apparently protecting it from being torn apart by the Milky Way's gravity.
A student at Virginia Tech has used a prestigious veterinary summer fellowship grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to develop a genetically engineered bacterium to serve as an oral contraceptive which may one day help solve a major animal overpopulation problem.
A Columbia University researcher is "stirring" up conventional views on the function of rapid eye movement(REM) sleep. According to David Maurice, Ph.D., professor of ocular physiology in the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, REM sleep may have more to do with vision than with dreams.
To combat heart disease and problems that arise after angioplasty, the balloon procedure used to open clogged arteries, Rice bioengineer Jennifer West is developing alternatives like bioengineered arteries--including assisted healing that will stop clotting and allow healthy cells to grow.
Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other colleagues will aim new detectors at the sun's corona during the February 26 solar eclipse, searching for structures they've never observed before. The total eclipse over the Caribbean promises to be one of the most heavily studied in recent history.
1) ConBio Clearinghouse: An online educational site based at Rice called the Center for Conservation Biology Network (CCBN) offers information ranging from Native Americans' water rights to new species of orchids to university degree programs, 2) Rice researchers are creating an Engineering Design Tutor, a World Wide Web-based automated learning system
A manufacturable transistor operating under quantum mechanical laws is faster than any commecial transistor in use today. Developed at Sandia National Laboratories, the quantum transistor-jokingly called the Quantristador - has many possible uses.
Bone Cement Permits Surgeons To Restore Normal Facial Contours
Two or three unprovoked seizures may greatly increase the risk for more seizures and should be necessary criteria for diagnosing epilepsy, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The study, published in the Feb 12 New England Journal of Medicine, establishes the first mathematically sound definition of epilepsy. The data could lead to a better understanding of seizure occurance and more appropriate treatment intervention.
A University of Iowa researcher may have made a key advance in finding more effective and safer drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders.
Survey results revealed that even in the age of modern technology, an overwhelming majority of Americans (94 percent) would prefer to receive a handwritten love letter to one sent by e-mail. As for those most likely to send love letters . . .
Deep inside the earth, two thousand miles beneath its surface, pockets of molten rock can be found in a region where many scientists did not expect to find anything but solid rock. Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation report the finding in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
Rancho Mirage, CA ó Physicians reporting at the annual spine-section meeting of the combined American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) societies this week will describe how the Digital Holographyô System from VoxelÆ (NASDAQ:VOXL) helps them diagnose and treat disorders of the spine.
A Carnegie Mellon University astrophysics professor is weighing in on the ultimate fate of the universe, with a new analysis that shows the universe may eventually stop expanding.
Neuroscientists at Brandeis University have found new evidence of how memory is selectively retained by the brain. In a paper published in the Feb. 15 Journal of Neuroscience, John Lisman, Ph.D., and Nonna Otmakhova, Ph.D., show how the chemical dopamine operates in the hippocampus of the brain to retain memories. Dopamine appears "to modify the rules of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity," the authors say.
A new technique for reducing waste from chemical processes involved in everything from petroleum refining to pharmaceutical manufacturing also may hold the key to cleaning up radioactive remains at eastern Washington's Hanford nuclear site, according to University of Washington researchers studying the new process.
Overdevelopment and the rise in human population are fast becoming the downfall of coastal regions. The greatest threat to sea life today -- other than overfishing -- arises from human activity on land. In fact, humans affect coastal areas, even if they live hundreds of miles inland. This is a critical, global topic, and the New England Aquarium is one organization tackling it.
A Johns Hopkins anthropologist regarded as one of the leading experts on Islamic movements in the Middle East and Europe is available as a source on the Arab view of the Middle East peace process and the confrontation with Iraq.
While covering a story on battered women for The New York Times, journalist Andi Rieden became intrigued by the stories officials told her. Given extraordinary access, she spent three-and-a-half-years with inmates and correction officers researching the material for her recent book, "The Farm, Life Inside a Women's Prison."
Schools interested in attracting involvement from parents and communities can now join a national network focused on the same goal. The National Network of Partnership Schools has been developed by the Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University.
Advisory on Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven David, an expert on military strategy and defense issues available as a source on the Iraq crisis.
Professional tax preparers have been warned, and consumers would do well to heed the advice: income tax information you find on the World Wide Web is likely to be old, out-of-date, and just plain wrong, according to Alan Sumutka, professor of accounting at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.
Women still face special roadblocks that discourage many from pursuing careers in engineering and science. A national project, announced Feb. 3, will use the information superhighway to lessen the detours encountered by female college students majoring in engineering and other sciences.
A study led by University of Minnesota molecular biologist David Zarkower has found that a nematode maleness gene is very similar to maleness genes in fruit flies and maybe humans. These are the first examples of sex-determining genes whose structure has been conserved through eons of evolution, in this case the approximately 500 million years since ancestors of the three animal species split from each other.
Tulane University and University of Rochester medical researchers find that a vaccine therapy for ovarian cancer using genetically altered tumor cells could improve the effectiveness of certain chemotherapy treatments. The research will be presented at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
A new book by a University of Illinois at Chicago art historian tells how the atomic bomb came to occupy its spot at the center of postwar American culture and psychology. Peter Bacon Hales's "Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project" draws on de-classified government files, plus medical records, letters, and photos. Creating the bomb, concludes Hales, "created a new form of American cultural landscape."
Robert Vecchio, the Franklin D. Schurz Professor of Management at the University of Notre Dame, has edited a new book on leadership in the workplace. Published by the University of Notre Dame Press, "Leadership: Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations" is an anthology of key writings by leading scholars in the field.
What do the 1923 Teapot Dome Scandal and the current White House crisis have in common? Plenty, according to Gary Fine, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University who is writing a book on reputation politics.
A Sandia National Laboratories physicist and his Texas-based colleague have done calculations that may offer additional insight into a decade-old controversy about whether up to 30,000 house-sized snowballs, or icy comets, are striking Earth each day.
The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) recommends that people considering lipoplasty, popularly known as liposuction, be fully informed about the procedure before surgery. In a position statement issued today, the organization states that lipoplasty is believed to be generally safe, provided that patients are carefully selected, the operating facility is properly equipped, and the physician has proper surgical education with special training in body contouring.
Baltimore Orioles third baseman, Cal Ripken, Jr., and Sinai Health System have formed a partnership to establish Cal Ripken, Jr., Sports Acceleration centers, advanced, sports-specific training programs for athletes. Sports Acceleration will develop several centers in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area.
If musicals are back, as newspaper headlines are proclaiming, Northwestern theatre graduates are out there winning the roles that make these shows sing. "It's been another incredible year for Northwestern," says Dominic Missimi, the director of the music theatre program and an associate professor in Northwestern's legendary theatre department.
1) "Seismic quiescence" sometimes precede the world's strongest and most damaging earthquakes, 2) Scientists have detected an ongoing seafloor volcanic eruption 300 miles off the Oregon coast, 3) Certain habitat conservation plans that promote timber-cutting accords often are based on few hard scientific results
Creighton researchers spent three months fishing in Antarctica. A three-year NSF grant funds the study of Antarctic teleost fish's ability to survive in the Antarctic Ocean. Research will focus on the fish's salt regulation, and function and size of their chloride cells.
As prologue to a soon-to-be-published study that confirms the efficacy of valacyclovir--a new, more potent, cost-effective and convenient anti-herpes medication--the study's lead author warns that stopping the spread of genital herpes will take more than popping a pill or avoiding sex during outbreaks.
A molecular biologist at the University of Georgia has proposed that transposable elements may play a crucial and central role in evolution and could be the "missing link" in our understanding of how multicellular organisms work.
Women facing surgery for endometrial cancer may want to think twice before embarking on a lengthy course of radiation treatments after the operation, a national study chaired by a Stanford researcher suggests.
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