Posts Tagged ‘Princeton University’
Years after Katrina, minds slow to recover
PRINCETON (US) — Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. Continue…
Friday, January 27, 2012 13:38 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Dec 13, 2011 12:37 - 0 Comments
Night lights pinpoint disease outbreaks
PRINCETON (US) — Researchers are using satellite images of nighttime lights to keep tabs on disease hotspots in developing nations. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 30, 2011 11:39 - 0 Comments
Fast reactions for more ‘eureka!’ moments
PRINCETON (US) — An effort to achieve “accelerated serendipity” uses robotics to perform more than 1,000 chemical reactions a day with molecules never before combined. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 17, 2011 21:46 - 3 Comments
Day-to-day weather more erratic, extreme
PRINCETON (US) — The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions finds increasing extremes, with fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 2, 2011 10:20 - 0 Comments
Battle of the biomes: Savannas vs. forests
PRINCETON (US) —Large stretches of South American and African forest and savanna could begin to encroach on each other due to factors such as climate change and land use—much to the detriment of the people and animals that rely on them. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 22, 2011 13:57 - 2 Comments
Black hole crashes into star: Dark matter?
PRINCETON / NYU (US) — Scientists looking for evidence of dark matter are studying the results of simulated collisions between stars and black holes. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 20, 2011 10:33 - 0 Comments
Gene activity may predict trauma outcome
PRINCETON (US) — Gene activity may help predict which patients recovering from trauma will suffer inflammation and infection, complications that can often be as deadly as the trauma itself. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 24, 2011 14:15 - 0 Comments
How embryos escape the chaos monster
PRINCETON (US) — Newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos, a new study shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 22, 2011 12:15 - 0 Comments
The ‘new’ rules all parasites follow
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — By studying parasites within an ecosystem, scientists have uncovered simple ecological rules that apply to all animals and predict how common they are. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 18, 2011 10:07 - 0 Comments
Stress weighs down life at the top
PRINCETON (US) — The top of the social ladder may not be all it’s cracked up to be. In baboon society, alpha males have higher stress levels than those ranked below them—even in periods of stability. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 12, 2011 12:27 - 4 Comments
‘Worms from hell’ 2 miles underground
PRINCETON (US) — On what he likes to call “underground safaris,” a geoscientist made a startling discovery: tiny worms living nearly two-and-a-half miles beneath the Earth’s surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 29, 2011 11:03 - 1 Comment
Filling space: No cubes required
PRINCETON (US) — Chemists have solved a conundrum that has baffled mathematical minds since ancient times—how to fill three-dimensional space with multi-sided objects other than cubes with no gaps. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 26, 2011 12:58 - 0 Comments
Hypertension in 1 in 5 young adults
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — Almost 20 percent of young adults in the United States may have high blood pressure, and many are likely unaware they have the condition. (more…)
Top Stories - May 18, 2011 11:14 - 11 Comments
Wanted: Gender-free job ads
DUKE (US) — The use of “gendered words” in job ads may perpetuate gender inequality in the workplace, a new study finds. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 17, 2011 12:43 - 1 Comment
Public housing kids get out more
RICE (US) — Young children living in urban public housing spend more time playing outdoors and have fewer problems with obesity than other urban children. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 10, 2011 12:04 - 4 Comments
Microbe lives on lab-grown proteins
PRINCETON (US) — Synthetic proteins designed in the lab—using genetic sequences never before seen in nature—work much like the real thing to sustain life. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 8, 2010 20:37 - 1 Comment
Lovely weather for ducks and primates
DUKE (US) — Primates have special traits, such as their social nature and flexible diets, that give them an edge over other animals more susceptible to changing weather. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 12, 2010 14:38 - 2 Comments
See what the Webb telescope will see
U. ILLINOIS (US) — Scientists have turned to supercomputers to get a glimpse at the sights NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—the largest space-based observatory ever constructed—will reveal. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 10, 2010 14:59 - 0 Comments
No explosion of skeletal animals
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — New research challenges the idea that a profusion of skeletal animals appeared on earth in a short burst beginning around 542 million years ago, during a time known as the “Cambrian Explosion.” (more…)
