2/22/12
Battling Obesity With Better Mathematical Models
Researchers are beginning to understand the complex metabolic system that makes people overweight -- and developing math tools to help address the global problem.
2/21/12
World's Oceans Get an Acid Bath
Increasing acidity in the world’s oceans could pose a greater threat to marine life than warming waters.
2/17/12
University Study: Fracking's Effects on Groundwater May Be Overblown
Most groundwater contamination problems are not unique to hydraulic fracturing.
2/16/12
To Stop Epidemics, Acting Locally More Important than Globally
Blocking infectious disease depends to a surprising degree on taking local steps, mathematicians find.
2/14/12
Space Diamonds Reveal Supernova Origins
Collisions in space may be behind mysterious diamonds found in meteorites.
2/13/12
Donated Hearts May Beat Much Longer
Researchers are testing a 'heart in a box' for keeping donated cardiac organs viable for over eight hours before transplantation.
2/10/12
Thomas Edison Inspires the Oscar Awards You Don't See
Science and technical awards give credit to innovators behind spectacular visual effects and animation techniques.
2/9/12
Seeing Colors in Music, Tasting Flavors in Shapes May Happen in Life's Early Months
New research shows the cross-wiring of senses, called synesthesia, may be experienced by infants.
2/1/12
Northern Forests May Be Losing their Ability to Trap Carbon
Research in Canada shows forests in the west are drying out.
1/27/12
Discovery of 'Bioelectric' Arteries Opens Path to Heart Disease Treatment
A peculiar electrical property in arteries could lead to non-invasive heart disease treatments.
1/25/12
"Touch" TV Series Uses Numbers to Connect People
Mathematician explains how series can make use of actual patterns that exist in nature.
1/25/12
Brains of Dyslexic Children Show Abnormalities Before Symptoms Appear
MRI studies indicate dysfunction from birth and not a result of the brain trying to compensate.
1/19/12
Designing Wildlife Corridors in the Digital Age
Maintaining wildlife habitat connections under pressures of human development requires increasingly mathematical problem solving techniques.
1/17/12
Surfboard-Sized Drones Crossing Pacific to Monitor Sea Surface
Wave Gliders study the ocean surface en route to Asia, Australia, and the Guinness Book of World Records.
1/12/12
Earthly Machine Recreates Star's Sizzling-Hot Surface
Scientists have used a burst of X-rays to recreate conditions in aging stars called white dwarfs.
1/11/12
Medical Physicists Say Fear of Diagnostic Radiation Is Overblown
Patients should not decline X-ray imaging for medically advised procedures, group says.
1/9/12
Carnivorous Plant Traps Worms With Sticky Leaves
A plant in Brazil's sandy interior gets its protein through a new strategy.
1/5/12
Take Two Robots and Call Me in the Morning
Magnetically guided devices could swim inside the body, helping to treat patients.
1/3/12
Trapping Butterfly Wings' Qualities
Biologically inspired surfaces could end up in electronic devices, infrared imaging detectors and chemical sensors.
12/29/11
From Pen to Paper
Researchers deconstruct the physics of a revered centuries-old process: writing with a fountain pen.
