A paper co-authored by CSIRO’s Professor Klaus Regenauer-Lieb and published in Nature reveals new information on the strength of continents and how they can split apart.
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The epidemic of obesity in young children has been far worse in the tallest, fastest growing young children, according to new research published today in the International Journal of Obesity (August 1, 2006).
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This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the aid of humans to observe the ocean. The mathematical system that allows the undersea robots to self-choreograph their movements in response to their environment might one day power other robotic teams that — without human supervision — could explore not just oceans, but deserts, rain forests and even other planets.
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have developed a mouse model of a severe disease of the immune system that helps explain why gene therapy used to treat children with this disease at an institution in Europe caused some of them to develop leukemia.
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According to the Queen’s University study, there is a pattern of violence against Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip that has serious and debilitating psychiatric and psychological effects.
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Humans like to think of themselves at the top of the evolutionary ladder, but new research from Titia de Lange’s lab at Rockefeller University shows that we may be loosing a few rungs to a smaller, fuzzier mammal. While studying the role of a protein called POT1 in telomeres, de Lange’s lab found that mice have evolved ahead, expanding the one gene found in humans into two, each with a distinct function. Their research has important implications for the future of telomere biology.
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated that a key event during apoptosis (cell suicide) occurs as a single, quick event, rather than as a step-by-step process.
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Even though they are trained in CPR, people hesitate to take action when an emergency unfolds in front of them
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In a new report, scientists call for a new systematic study of the Earth’s “critical zone” — the life-sustaining outermost surface of the planet, from the vegetation canopy to groundwater and everything in between. Understanding and predicting responses to global and regional change is necessary, they say, to mitigate the impacts of humans on complex ecosystems and ultimately sustain food production.
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A Europe-wide trial involving premature babies is investigating whether the risk of chronic lung disease can be halved if they are given nitric oxide gas to breathe shortly after birth.
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