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Addressing obesity via the 'energy gap'

CHICAGO -- The November issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association features a commentary by James O.

Not just bleach: Hydrogen peroxide may tell time for living cells

If a circadian rhythm is like an orchestra -- the united expression of the rhythms of millions of cells -- a common chemical may serve as the conductor, or at least as the baton.

Laser etching safe alternative for labeling grapefruit

LAKE ALFRED, FL -- Laser labeling of fruit and vegetables is a new, patented technology in which a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam is used to label, or "etch" information on produce, thereby e

VERITAS telescopes help solve 100-year-old mystery: The origin of cosmic rays

Nearly 100 years ago, scientists detected the first signs of cosmic rays - subatomic particles (mostly protons) that zip through space at nearly the speed of light.

Iowa State researchers contribute to discovery of gamma rays from starburst galaxy

AMES, Iowa - Iowa State University astrophysicists contributed to the recent discovery that a galaxy quickly creating new stars is also a source of high energy gamma rays.

Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy gamma

NASA's Fermi telescope detects gamma-ray from 'star factories' in other galaxies

Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

UM scientists create fruit fly model to help unravel genetics of human diabetes

College Park, Md -- As rates of obesity, diabetes, and related disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the US in recent years, scientists are working from many angles to pinpoint the causes

Study reveals a 'missing link' in immune response to disease

BOSTON--The immune system's T cells have the unique responsibilities of being both jury and executioner.

High-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of the universe

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, joint

Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble

Particle accelerators are among the largest and most expensive scientific instruments.

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and re



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