La Unión Europea se prepara para el impulso tecnológico de Galileo, un sistema de navegación propio que será más avanzado que el GPS estadounidense y que puede llevar a la industria europea a un liderazgo mundial, indicó hoy a Efe el director del programa, el ingeniero español Javier Benedicto. La...

El equipo español SARBOT, clasificado en el Virtual Robotics Challenge organizado por el Departamento de Defensa estadounidense. Este concurso busca crear robots civiles de rescate para evitar las tareas de máximo riesgo a los equipos humanos. Fuente :...

Astrofísicos de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid han confirmado que Crantor, un gran asteroide de 70 km de diámetro, se mueve por una órbita similar a la de Urano y tarda lo mismo que este planeta en girar alrededor del Sol. Los investigadores han demostrado por primera vez que este y otros dos...

Israel enfrenta a diario unos 100.000 ciberataques, lo que ha obligado a este país a tener el ejército más desarrollado de Oriente Medio y acoger la Tercera conferencia Internacional de Ciberseguridad en la Universidad de Tel Aviv para compartir sus avances en esta materia. La entrada Israel se...

Investigadores franceses diseñan un veloz robot inspirado en un gato para usarlo en misiones de rescate o de exploración ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

When it comes to confronting childhood obesity, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conclude that community-based approaches are important. A systematic review of childhood obesity prevention programs found that community-based intervention programs that incorporate...

A team from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute and the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center of Columbia University has generated patient-specific beta cells, or insulin-producing cells, that accurately reflect the features of maturity-onset diabetes of the young. Fuente :...

An international team led by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has identified a highly promising new anti-tuberculosis compound that attacks the tuberculosis bacterium in two different...

The quality of wakefulness affects how quickly a mammal falls asleep, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in a study that identifies two proteins never before linked to alertness and sleep-wake balance. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/usm...

How kids eat their food may turn out to be just as important as what they eat, according to a new study out of St. Michael's Hospital. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/smh...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have identified in the most aggressive forms of cancer a gene known to regulate embryonic stem cell self-renewal, beginning a creative search for a drug that can block its activity. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/hu-...

Researchers have found that antibodies against the human papillomavirus may help identify individuals who are at greatly increased risk of HPV-related cancer of the oropharynx, which is a portion of the throat that contains the tonsils. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/nci...

System 91W appears ripe to become Tropical Depression 4 in the next couple of days as it continues moving north and parallels the east coast of the Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the developing low pressure area as it passed overhead in space on June 17. Fuente :...

On June 12, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Silver fire burning east of Silver City, N.M. In addition to producing gray smoke plumes, the fire spawned a pyrocumulus cloud -- a tall, cauliflower-shaped cloud that billowed up...

Tropical Depression 2 formed in the western Caribbean Sea during the early afternoon hours on June 17. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the storm as it consolidated enough to become a tropical depression while approaching the coast of Belize. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite sits in a fixed...

New research shows that every third person who is diagnosed for the first time with a mood disorder has been admitted to hospital with an infection prior to the diagnosis. The study is the largest of its kind to date to show a clear correlation between infection levels and the risk of developing mood disorders. Fuente :...

Mount Sinai researchers will demonstrate new data on diabetes self-management, as well as the role of prostastic acid phosphatase in Prostate Cancer bone metastases; identify new molecules that can stimulate the thyroid gland; reveal the prevalence of primary aldosteronism; and show how thyroid autoimmunity may be triggered by...

Fights between siblings -- from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom -- are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up. Yet a new study from researchers at the University of New Hampshire finds that sibling aggression is associated with significantly worse mental health in...

A study from investigators at MassGeneral Hospital for Children found that African-American or Hispanic children diagnosed with autism were significantly less likely than white children to have received subspecialty care or procedures related to conditions that often accompany autism spectrum disorders. Fuente :...

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's four-legged "cheetah-cub robot" has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and biomechanics. Fuente :...

A new research paper by Washington State University marketing experts Jeff Joireman, Yany Grégoire, Berna Devezer and Thomas Tripp offers insight into what firms can do following failed service recoveries to earn a "second chance" by increasing customer desire for reconciliation and reducing desire for revenge. Fuente :...

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have discovered a protein that regulates synaptic ion channels that have been tied to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/vt-...

A new study by accounting professor Yaniv Konchitchki finds greater transparency in firms' earnings has a positive effect on the bottom line. "Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency," (published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, April-May 2013) establishes that the transparency of a firm's accounting earnings is a...

Mammals vary enormously in size, from weighing less than a penny to measuring more than three school buses in length. Some groups of mammals have become very large, such as elephants and whales, while others have always been small, like primates. A new theory provides an explanation for why and how certain groups of organisms...

National Paracycling Champion Tom Staniford has an extremely rare condition which, until now, has puzzled his doctors. He is unable to store fat under his skin -- yet has type 2 diabetes -- and suffered hearing loss as a child. Now, thanks to advances in genome sequencing, an international research team has identified Tom's...

Male mice who were fed a high-fat diet and became obese were more likely to father offspring who also had higher levels of body fat, a new study finds. The effect was observed primarily in male offspring, despite their consumption of a low-fat diet, scientists reported. Fuente :...

The six noble gases do not normally dissolve into minerals, leaving earth scientists to wonder how they are recycled back into the Earth. Now, researchers have discovered that the lattice structure of minerals such as amphibole is actually quite capable of dissolving noble gases. Understanding how noble gases cycle from deep...

Chemists have created a symmetrical, five-sided macrocycle that is easy to synthesize and has characteristics that may help expand the molecular tool box available to researchers in biology, chemistry and materials sciences. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/Q...

An international study confirms the link between global cooling and a crash in the marine ecosystem similar to that witnessed as a result of global warming. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/G...