Uncertainty issues are paramount in assessing risks posed by natural hazards and in developing strategies…
Month: April 2013
Electron-beam pasteurization of raw oysters may reduce viral food poisoning
Researchers have studied how electron-beam pasteurization of raw oysters may reduce the possibility of food…
Mast cells give clues in diagnosis, treatment of dengue
A protein produced by mast cells in the immune system may predict which people infected…
Colossal hot cloud envelopes colliding galaxies
Scientists have completed a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two…
New research helps to show how turbulence can occur without inertia
For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales…
In the Northeast, forests with entirely native flora are not the norm
Two-thirds of all forest inventory plots in the Northeast and Midwestern United States contain at…
How some cancers ‘poison the soil’ to block metastasis
Cancer spread or metastasis can strike unprecedented fear in the minds of cancer patients. The…
A text message a day keeps the asthma attack away
Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and…
Good days, bad days: When should you make sacrifices in a relationship?
A new study suggests that while making sacrifices in a romantic relationship is generally a…
‘Catastrophic’ malpractice payouts add little to health care’s rising costs
Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on…