Imagine having an operation and recuperating without the usual discomfort or even being pain-free after surgery. Sound impossible? Maybe not, according to a University of Iowa researcher.
In two separate studies, vision researchers at the Yerkes Primate Research Center have discovered that the visual experience of one eye influences the growth and subsequent quality of vision in the fellow eye. These studies, reported in the January issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science and the upcoming May issue of Vision Research add to the growing evidence that from infancy, visual development is influenced by a control system integrating the two eyes which is dependent on environmental, not merely genetic factors.
A recently patented technology may provide a safer and more versatile vaccine against the virus that causes millions of chickenpox and shingles cases each year in the United States.
As the NASDAQ hit another record high today, the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies released its latest survey on engineering degrees, which reveals that the number of students receiving bachelor's of science degrees in engineering in the United States has fallen to a 17-year low.
U.S. government scientists have come up with a way to keep apples from turning brown for up to five weeks after they've been sliced or peeled. The new technique, which uses natural products and doesn't require special packaging, could eventually have a major impact on the marketability of fresh-cut fruit.
El Nino may have been less of a factor in Northern Hemisphere climate around 4000 B.C. than it is now, and global warming may be working to accentuate El Nino's current and future impacts. National Center for Atmospheric Research scientists are uncovering implications for world climate.
According to a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center scientist, controlling antibiotic usage in an outpatient setting to prevent further increases in the rate of antibiotic resistance is now a national priority.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and in India report they have sequenced the complete genome of a form of HIV, the AIDS virus, from that country for the first time. The work has revealed unexpected variation in genes for one key part of the virus, prompting the researchers to suggest that currently favored approaches to vaccine development may not work.
A long-term study by Colorado State University ecologists suggests that warmer nights are producing a lengthened growing season and changes in prairie vegetation on the shortgrass steppe of eastern Colorado and surrounding states. Longer seasons favor cool-season grasses and weeds over native warm season plants like blue grama grass.
Some 240 million miles from Earth, a spacecraft hurtled through the black void of space, off its intended course. But thanks to the creation of a last-minute fix by Cornell University mission engineers during a tense 24 hours just before Christmas, the $150 million mission now has hundreds of new images of a distant asteroid.
Research Highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
An LSU chemist and his colleague from the University of Minnesota have made some important discoveries about a common human protein that could eventually lead to treatments for both Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Since they were discovered more than 35 years ago, science has largely accepted the idea that quasars--since they are thought to be great distances from us--could be used as cosmological tools to study the properties of the universe. Many astronomers have thought of quasars as windows to the history of our expanding universe.
Children's perceptions of God's distance depend on their parents' involvement in their lives, if the children desire a nurturing figure and if God is seen as their own gender. That's according to a new study by researchers at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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