The Colorado School of Mines ranks as number 3 of the 10 "elite " energy schools, among the 187 U.S. universities surveyed by the American Energy Society (AES) this year.
The National Academy of Medicine and American Public Health Association recently hosted a Covid-19 Conversation webinar in which panelists put forward the opinion that disease surveillance, testing, and contact tracing are some of the best public health tools available for managing the pandemic.
Lymphocytes, white blood cells crucial to the body's immune system, can swim, according to new research by a team of researchers from various French universities.
Our brains respond differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows.
Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from a large trial that was co-led by UCLA’s Dr. David Talan.
James “Doc” McFadden, who passed away on Sept. 28, spent most of his life with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for longest career as a hurricane hunter, flying his first mission to Hurricane Inez in 1966, and his final flight to Hurricane Jerry in 2019 when he was 85 years old.
Putting ideas out there so everyone knows them is very different, in practice, from actually getting people to do what you want, and The National Academies recently looked at some of the ways social science can get people to follow the recommendations of the rest of the sciences.
Charles Rice, a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science, has received a Nobel Prize for the role that he played in discovering Hepatitis C.
Based on studies in the United States and Afghanistan, scientists recently published a paper showing that belief in a higher power is directly influenced by the keenness of a person’s implicit ability to perceive patterns.
The human sperm’s tail whips in a single direction as it swims, but with the head spinning at the same time the sperm avoids moving in circles, researchers from the University of Bristol and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico have discovered.
New research has found that the male-specific Y (chrY) chromosome can affect other cells in the body in addition to those related to reproduction.
High-resolution images of structures in the inner ear, produced by X-ray crystallography, were used by Ohio State University researchers to simulate for the first time in detail the actions of tip link filaments.
German researchers announced the mechanism in August for what might be the world's oldest cellular "respiration."
OHSU has created nonhuman primate model for virus that has infected 2 billion worldwide
Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a drug that activates the body’s natural defenses by behaving like a virus may also make certain stealthy melanoma tumors visible to the immune system, allowing them to be better targeted by immunotherapy.
Over the summer, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering launched a study to determine how events such as climate disasters, oil spills, and long-term environmental changes are affecting environmental restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
As of September, the United States has hit $16 billion in disasters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Charles Darwin’s famed theory on atoll evolution is flawed, a pair of scientists argue in a new paper.