Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a…
Month: June 2011
Making a spectacle of star formation in Orion
Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, a new nebula…
La NiƱa’s exit leaves climate forecasts in limbo
It’s what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, likes to…
Worse outcomes for older breast cancer patients with other health problems, study finds
Older breast cancer patients with certain other health problems have higher mortality rates than patients…
Key ingredient: Change in material boosts prospects of ultrafast single-photon detector
By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers have found a practical way to boost…
Plastic found in nine percent of ‘garbage patch’ fishes: Tens of thousands of tons of debris annually ingested
The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students…
Scientists hope to get glimpse of adolescent universe from revolutionary instrument-on-a-chip
Thanks to technological advances,scientists hope to provide a picture of how the cosmos developed into…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission gets a sunrise view of Tycho crater’s peak
On June 10, 2011, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft pointed the LRO Camera NACs to…
Research identifies key reasons racial disparities exist in emergent stroke treatment
African-Americans are less likely than whites to receive critical stroke treatment primarily because they do…
Women win out in gastrointestinal surgery
In the first study to consider the impact of gender on patient outcomes in major…