By studying how goats and spiders get around, a biomedical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania has designed and patented an all-terrain wheelchair that can climb up to 12-inch steps and amble over obstacles.
If you're in the media, you know how important it is to find the precise science expert for a deadline story or feature. That effort has been made a lot easier with the creation of the University of California Science Experts directory, now available on the World Wide Web.
Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 24, 1998 -- Amerge(TM) (naratriptan hydrochloride) Tablets, a therapy for the acute treatment of migraine, is now available to consumers in the United States by prescription.
Citing the "inspirational and dignified" primate studies of Jane Goodall and the "renowned and standard-setting" Public Broadcasting Service's NOVA television series, the National Science Board (NSB) today announced the winners of its first annual Public Service Award for contributions to public understanding of science and engineering.
The bottom line is this - life is negotiation." However, research shows that less 50% of people don't negotiate their salary. In a new soon-to-be- published book by Dr. Robin Pinkley of Southern Methodist University and her partner, Gregory Norhtcraft of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the authors help professionals redefine the negotiation playing field. Entitled "Turning Lead to Gold: The Experts Guide to Negotiating Salary & Compensation," this innovative book shows how the professional who fails to successfully negotiate his/her salary shorts themself by literally millions over the life of a career.
STANFORD -- Infants' immune systems are not fully developed at birth, so infections contracted before or during birth are extremely dangerous. But these infections are also hard to diagnose.
Despite living in a society that is increasingly weight and appearance conscious, many American children may be headed toward sedentary, overweight adulthood. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found that as the hours of television watched by American children increases, so does their weight.
Tips from American Psychiatric Association: 1) Do Hyperactive Boys Become Hyperactive Men?, 2) Residential Care: an Alternative to High-Cost Hospitalization, 3) Faith Heals, 4) Fetal Alcohol Exposure Increases Risk of Mental Illness
When patients with type 2 diabetes took two new medications together, rather than separately, they experienced further improvement in controlling their blood glucose levels, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale.
Modern performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion--an acknowledged masterpiece of Western music--are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music, and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
With new drugs, ongoing research and prevention programs, an AIDS diagnosis is no longer considered a swift death sentence. This was not the case 17 years ago, when Yale School of Medicine's Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H., found himself in the midst of the AIDS epidemic at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York
Sarcon Microsystems sees a bright future in infrared imaging, a technology developed in part at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that could ultimately save lives on roads, in buildings and in the sky.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new Cornell University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. More than half of the 4 percent of Americans who report they don't have enough food live in households in which at least one person has a job, says Katherine Alaimo, a doctoral candidate in nutritional sciences at Cornell.
A study from Northwestern University Medical School and the HIV Outpatient Study shows that aggressive combination antiretroviral therapy--specifically including protease inhibitors--dramatically reduces death rates and opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients.
People with lower intelligence before a traumatic experience are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, according to the first study to identify a cognitive risk factor for PTSD. Conversely, higher intelligence may protect against the development of PTSD.
The vast majority of past studies on peer victimization have focused on boys and physical aggression. But new research illustrates that girls also experience peer victimization, usually relational aggression, in which a person is harmed through hurtful manipulation of their peer relationships or friendships.
A new landmark study suggests that pregnant women should ask their physicians for a prenatal supplement that contains "natural" vitamin E for optimal health insurance.
Baltimore, MD ó A study published today in the March issue of the journal Neurology provides more evidence that the medication Copaxone", the only non-interferon treatment for multiple sclerosis, reduces the number of relapses and slows the progression of disability.
A new paper issued by Resources for the Future looks at a variety of factors that may influence the rate at which state legislators and regulators move toward establishing retail competition among electricity suppliers. Researchers find that legislators are more likely to have considered adopting retail wheeling if consumers have much to gain from lower prices, or prices differ substantially from those in neighboring states.
Worried about food safety? A new Web site launched at North Carolina State University makes it easy for you to quickly get answers to your questions, in language you can understand. The site is located at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo.
Cornell University alumnus and author Paul Cody's So Far Gone, a novel published by Picador USA, a literary imprint of St. Martin's Press, was released in February ($22; 240 pages, ISBN 0-312-18180-9).
An easily detectable protein may hold the key to more reliably warning women about early cell abnormalities in the cervix before they get life-threatening cancer, a University of California, Irvine researcher reported today.
DALLAS, March 24 -- By lowering blood cholesterol levels by just 10 percent in a population, the result could be a 20 percent reduction in heart attack deaths suggest authors of a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 24 -- Major changeable risk factors for heart attack include smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and physical inactivity. According to a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, high blood levels of the fat triglyceride may need to be added to the list.
Cornell University researchers have isolated a single oxygen molecule adsobed on a platinum and caused it to rotate on command by applying pulses of current from a scanning tunneling microscope. The principle could some day be applied for data storage in ultra-small devices.
1) Weight Gain in Ex-Smokers Impairs Lung Function, 2) Standard Therapy Could Benefit Those with Mild to Moderate Sleep Disorders, 3) Indoor Allergens More Likely to Cause Asthma Than Outdoor Allergens
Shoppers buy more if they see a supermarket display that advertises a specific purchase quantity number, such as ì3 for $3.00,î or ìLimit 12 cans per person.î By varying the displays in 89 supermarkets in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Iowa, it was discovered that numerical displays increased the sales of some products by over 100%.
Your employer unjustly accuses you of stealing $50 from the office coffee fund. You are able to prove your innocence, but your employer fires you anyway. Can your boss legally do this? If, like most non-union employees, you do not have a specific ìjust-causeî employment contract, the answer is: Yes. A survey conducted by a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis uncovered that an overwhelming majority of employees erroneously believe they are legally protected against being unjustly or arbitrarily discharged.
In the first major twin study to compare genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the risk of alcoholism in both sexes, researchers have found that genetics plays an important role in determining alcohol dependence in women as well as in men. The study contradicts the long-held assumption that a womanÃs environment is more likely to influence whether she becomes dependent on alcohol.
Vascular surgeons at Johns Hopkins are participating in a nationwide test of a procedure that uses 3-D images and a metal-supported cloth tube to repair stretched and weakened abdominal arteries before they burst and kill.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are offering the first plausible molecular explanation of why the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease.
When newborns are exposed to the odor of their own amniotic fluid during the separation period following birth, infant distress can be lessened, according to Vanderbilt University researcher Richard Porter, whose previous studies found that babies locate their mother's nipple by its scent.
The Clinton Administration is missing a key tool in its efforts to chart a strong energy future, namely a strategy to maintain a viable nuclear energy program.
The new Mount Holyoke Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy has invited four prominent experts with opposing points of view to examine the potential success or failure of current directions in welfare policy and to debate both the likely outcome of current reforms.
The national and global environmental challenges we face are acute. Federal support for environmental research is a critical investment in this country's future and in the health of our children.
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified genetic mutations that appear to cause or contribute to more than half of all non-inherited or sporadic cases of the deadly muscle disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
New studies on water supplies in Europe are finding evidence of cholesterol-lowering drugs, antibiotics, analgesics, antiseptics, beta-blocker heart drugs, and other pharmaceuticals in drinking water, lakes, rivers, and streams, according to an article published in today's issue of Science News.The European scientists have ascertained that the drugs are coming from human wastes.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 3-18-98
Events begun 150 million years ago -- resulting in the formation of the Diamond Crystal salt dome under Lake Peigneur, Louisiana-- still affect us today. When an oil drill punctured the dome in 1980, it ruptured, flooding the mining tunnels, dissolving the salt and forcing a hasty evacuation of the miners working there. Within seven hours the entire lake was empty. The dome has been partially opened again, but not for the mining of salt--it is now used to store 60-million-year-old oil.
A new book, edited by a University of Georgia professor, brings together for the first time some of the most important American speeches of the 20th century.
A University of Georgia historian has discovered that it is possible for African-Americans to begin identifying particular ethnic cultural and social influences once thought unrecoverable.
A team of anthropologists from the University of Georgia has joined the Foxfire Fund, Inc., to help preserve materials collected during the 30 years of the project that studies the southern Appalachians.
National Science Foundation Tips: 1) Study of Microbes May Hone Predictions of Mining Impacts, 2) Studies Find Successful Nsf Engineering Programs, 3) Lichen Growth Reveals Unknown Earthquakes
East Lansing, Mich. - Forget to watch "NYPD Blue" this week? If so, you probably missed seeing 25 percent of all Latinos portrayed on prime time TV. A Michigan State University study reveals that although Latinos are the second largest minority in the nation, they are distinctly underrepresented on prime time broadcast television. In fact, Latinos constitute only 3.2 percent of the prime time TV population but are 11 percent of the nation's population.
The leather weightlifting belts worn by many people while working out at health clubs may hinder development of back and abdominal muscles and are not needed by most weightlifters, according to a study by Sohail Ahmad, M.D., chief resident physician in orthopedic surgery at Albany Medical Center.
Physicians reporting at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting this week will describe how the Digital Holography System from Voxel (NASDAQ:VOXL) improves the display of trauma and anomalies of the cervical spine.
A liquid-manure applicator under development at Purdue University can be incorporated into a precision farming setup that uses computer-directed equipment and satellite-oriented GPS (geopositioning) technology. The hi-tech manure applicator is the first of its kind in the nation. This isn't a load of you-know-what.
Business call center budgets are growing by 12 percent per year, salaries are on the rise, and employee turnover is down, according to a Purdue University study.
Doug Christiansen, director of Purdue's Office of Admissions, says taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) does not have to be a nerve-racking experience. He offers advice for taking standardized tests.
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