Spring visitors to Great Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway will see ridges and…
Month: May 2015
How video gamers will be able to play in the cloud without guzzling gigabytes
Gamers might one day be able to enjoy the same graphics-intensive fast-action video games they…
Resolving a lymphatic riddle: Researchers to grow, for the first time, lymphatic cells in the lab
For over one hundred years, scientists have debated the question of the origins of the…
Supernova ignition surprises scientists
Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found…
Supernova collides with its companion star
Type Ia supernovae, one of the most dazzling phenomena in the universe, are produced when…
World’s oldest stone tools challenge ideas about first toolmakers
Scientists working in the desert of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3…
Fundamental magnetism discovery: New class of swelling magnets
A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field…
People with metabolic syndrome face higher cardiovascular death risk
People who have metabolic syndrome are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than people…
Mothers of sons more likely to develop diabetes during pregnancy
Gestational diabetes occurs when a pregnant woman has higher levels of glucose, or blood sugar,…
Researchers focus on potential tool for predicting survival, staging in prostate cancer
A molecule that promotes metastasis of advanced prostate cancer to the bone, an incurable condition…