New discoveries from the labs of several Nobel laureates will be presented here this week during the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Research from the laureates' teams will be among almost 7,000 presentations during the...

Too much salt in the diet -- and specifically sodium -- is widely acknowledged as a major risk factor for high blood pressure however, scientists have found that salt's other oft-overlooked constituent chloride might also play an important role. Fuente :...

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is on its way to the moon after launching Friday from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Team members are analyzing a situation with LADEE's reaction wheels, but say the spacecraft is communicating and working as designed, with plenty...

El primer ejemplar de un cohete llamado Minotaur-V despegó el 7 de septiembre para enviar al espacio una sonda lunar para la NASA, denominada LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer). Como su nombre indica, el vehículo intentará estudiar la tenue atmósfera de nuestro vecino,... Fuente...

Un estudio liderado por investigadores del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) en el lago Arreo, en Álava, España, ha permitido reconstruir el clima y la actividad humana en la región de los últimos 2.500 años. El análisis de los sedimentos......

The physician projects a 3-D hologram of the heart, liver, intestine, pancreas or any body part that the patient wishes to be diagnosed Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Barcelona, Spain: Living close to a busy road is associated with a higher risk of death in people with bronchiectasis. A new study, presented at the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Barcelona today (8 September 2013), has added to the growing body of evidence demonstrating the...

First trial to compare e-cigarettes with nicotine patches shows comparable success in helping smokers to quit. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/elf...

Researchers have come up with a design that may significantly increase the communication range of small satellites, enabling them to travel much farther in the solar system. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/s...

This new flexible patch treatment can quicken drug delivery time while cutting waste, and can likely minimize side-effects in some cases, notable in vaccinations and in cancer therapy. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/g...

This new flexible patch treatment can quicken drug delivery time while cutting waste, and can likely minimize side-effects in some cases, notable in vaccinations and in cancer therapy. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, just a single atom thick. It could be a better semiconductor than silicon -- if we could fashion it into ribbons 20 to 50 atoms wide. Could DNA help? Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/f...

Researchers report a breakthrough in technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store, edit and replay information in a dimension that goes beyond what we can see or hear: touch. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/I...

Medical researchers have launched a Phase I clinical trial of a therapeutic melanoma vaccine designed to reprogram a patient's immune system to destroy tumors. The vaccine consists of a small disk-like, biodegradable sponge that's infused with signaling molecules and components of the patient's...

Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother. Researchers observed that orphaned chimpanzees frequently engaged in social play, but their play bouts were much shorter and resulted in aggression more often. Apparently, chimpanzee mothers endow...

Running at 4:30 am and successfully navigating caloric client dinners are new habits for the business manager who lost one-third of his body weight in six months, thanks to bariatric surgery. Philip Barnett, 26, is running the Chicago Half Marathon – his first – but he feels he has already won the...

A team of researchers has designed a microplasma source capable of exciting matter in a controlled, efficient way. This miniature device may find use in a wide range of applications in harsh environments, but can also help revolutionize archaeology. Fuente :...

Scientists have demonstrated that frozen water in the form of snow or frost can melt to form debris flows on sunward-facing slopes of sand dunes in the Alaskan arctic at air temperatures significantly below the melting point of water. The debris flows consist of sand mixed with liquid water that...

Young chimpanzees learn valuable lessons for successful group-living from their mothers. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Weatherwise magazine has announced the winners of the 2013 annual Photo Contest. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Physicists are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant and industrial processing performance as much as 10 percent, by capturing waste heat and converting it to electrical power. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/8...

Materials science engineers changed the electronic properties of new class of materials -- just by exposing it to light. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/4...

Good asthma management during pregnancy is vital during pregnancy, as poor asthma control can have adverse effects on maternal and fetal outcomes, says a new review. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/H...

A team of researchers has discovered the cranium of a fossil ape from Shuitangba, a Miocene site in Yunnan Province, China. The juvenile cranium of the fossil ape Lufengpithecus is significant, according to researchers. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/r...

Researchers have come up with a new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells, which should improve the overall efficiency of solar energy devices and reduce the cost of solar energy production. The new connections can allow these cells to operate at solar concentrations...

26/09/2013 — 28/09/2013, Der international anerkannte Kunstkritiker Philippe Daverio wird beim Innovation Festival Bolzano-Bozen einen Vortrag zum Thema „Für alle gedacht, für alle gemacht“ halten. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

26/09/2013 — 28/09/2013, Il critico d’arte parlerà di design inclusivo per anziani, bambini e disabili Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Living Planet es la mayor conferencia de la ESA sobre el medioambiente y el clima de nuestro planeta, tendrá lugar del 9 al 13 de septiembre en el Centro Internacional de Conferencias de Edimburgo, Reino Unido, reunirá a más de 1.500 usuarios y científicos de todo e... Fuente :...

PR 30-2013.  Europa ha finalizado la construcción del Espectrógrafo para el Infrarrojo Cercano, uno de los dos instrumentos con los que participa en el Telescopio Espacial internacional James Webb, que se pondrá en órbita a bordo de un l... Fuente :...