Researchers at the City College of New York have reported the successful transformation of vegetable oils to a semisolid form using low-calorie sugars as a structuring agent. The findings portend the development of alternatives to structured oil products produced using saturated/trans fatty acids, which have been linked to...

Walk the beach or peer into a tidepool anywhere along the northeastern US coast, and you'll find shells stacked on top of one another. They're most likely common Atlantic slipper shells, a species of marine snail. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/nsf...

Infertility is one of the most distressing long-term side effects of cancer treatment for adolescents and young adults. Yet the leading National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers -- which should be leaders in fertility preservation -- aren't doing an adequate job of helping patients protect their...

Some might consider drilling a hole in someone's head a form of torture, but in the province of Ahdahuaylas in Peru, ca. AD 100-1250, it was state-of-the-art medical care. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/uoc...

Boston College chemists have developed a method to convert chemicals known as alpha-olefins into new organic compounds. Combining a pair of catalytic reactions in sequence converted inexpensive chemicals into new organic compounds that are highly sought after by researchers in medicine and the life sciences. Fuente :...

Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a micro-sized robotic torsional muscle/motor made from vanadium dioxide that for its size is a thousand times more powerful than a human muscle, able to catapult objects 50 times heavier than itself over a distance five times its length faster than the blink of an eye. Fuente :...

As Mayor Michael Bloomberg's term comes to a close, the latest research indicates that he leaves a legacy of ambitious public health policies that have improved the health and increased the life expectancy of New Yorkers. The paper takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Bloomberg Administration to evaluate the evidence and build...

La posible firma del Acuerdo Bilateral de Seguridad con Estados Unidos divide profundamente a los 30 millones de habitantes de Afganistán, pues permitiría que 15.000 soldados estadounidenses permanezcan en este país aun después de que las fuerzas de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) se retiren en 2014. Para...

Los problemas más graves que deberá enfrentar en 2014 la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) son las guerras civiles de Siria y República Centroafricana, pero también los conflictos de Malí, la región sudanesa de Darfur, Libia y Palestina. En su tradicional conferencia de prensa de fin de...

Completely banning tobacco use inside the home – or more broadly in the whole city – measurably boosts the odds of smokers either cutting back or quitting entirely. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/z...

Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a stroke, and that it may even be possible to generate human tissues and organs in space. He just needs a chance to demonstrate the possibility. Fuente :...

En personas genéticamente susceptibles, la narcolepsia puede desencadenarse por la similitud entre una región de la proteína hipocretina, que nos mantiene despiertos, y una porción de una proteína del virus pandémico H1N1. Un estudio de la Universidad de Stanford explica en parte por qué la gripe y otras infecciones...

Astronomers have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/G...

New research resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/n...

Tobacco growers are the big winners, while the environment and people who have lost land to tobacco estates are the major losers in Malawi's expanding tobacco industry. The author of this study believes that concerted and coordinated efforts are needed to solve the related dilemmas faced by this African country. Fuente :...

A vaccine study in monkeys designed to identify measurable signs that the animals were protected from infection by SIV, the monkey version of HIV, as well as the mechanism of such protection has yielded numerous insights that may advance HIV vaccine research. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/g...

Scientists have sequenced and analyzed the sugar beet genome. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/_...

The Earth’s continental topography reflects the balance between tectonics, climate, and their interaction through erosion. However, understanding the impact of individual factors on Earth’s topography remains elusive. Scientists have now investigated the effect of global cooling and glaciation on topogrpahy over the last two to...

Population geneticists have produced the first high-quality genome of a Neanderthal, allowing comparison with the genomes of modern humans and Denisovans. The analysis shows a long history of interbreeding among these early humans and a fourth, previously unknown group. The Neanderthal, from Denisova cave, also shows evidence...

Researchers have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly broaden its bandwidth of operation. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/5...

Europe's billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is due to be launched into space on Thursday 19 December 2013, where it will embark on its mission to create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/m...

Europe’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is due to be launched into space on Thursday 19 December 2013, where it will embark on its mission to create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy. The University of Leicester contribution to this international project is led by Professor Martin Barstow....

La misión Gaia, de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), que observará más de mil millones de estrellas durante cinco años para generar el mapa tridimensional de la galaxia más preciso jamás elaborado, se lanza mañana 19 de diciembre de 2013 a las 09:12:19 GMT (10:12:19 hora de Madrid). ......

Forget socks and shaving foam, the big kids of tomorrow want an invisible cloak for Christmas. Mums and Dads beware, next year’s Christmas wish list could be more out of reach (or sight…) than ever before. Invisibility, a long sought-after speculation in science fiction, has been turned into...

New measurements on the properties and spread of airborne pollen to improve the forecasting of this natural allergen, which affects human health as well as the Earth’s temperature, have been published in a new international study led by Dr Detlef Mueller in the research journal Atmospheric Environment. Fuente :...

Este jueves 19 de diciembre, a las 10:12h (hora peninsular española) está previsto el lanzamiento de la misión Gaia de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA). El lanzamiento se podrá seguir en directo desde la web de SINC. Fuente : http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Retransmision-d...

People with disabilities represent a talented and creative section of the workforce in most areas of employment. A study to be published in the International Journal of Green Economics, suggests that as the so-called "green economy" grows, so education and training opportunities should be tailored to people with disabilities as...

Astrónomos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) han encontrado patrones complejos de resonancias en los discos de las galaxias espirales no descritos por la teoría. Los investigadores han medido con el instrumento GHaFaS la velocidad de las ondas que recorren los discos en un centenar de galaxias. Fuente :...

Mediante el análisis genómico de seis tipos de cáncer, un grupo de investigadores ha establecido que los tumores de mama del subtipo basal-like no son solo un tipo de cáncer único, sino que se parecen más al cáncer de pulmón de células escamosas que al resto de tumores de mama. Fuente :...