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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2024 El Nino, a significant warm-water event in the tropical Pacific that influences global weather patterns, has a history that stretches back at least [...]

Durham NC (SPX) May 24, 2023 A team of researchers at Duke University and their collaborators have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive [...]

Durham NC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Materials scientists at Duke University have revealed paddlewheel-like molecular dynamics that help push sodium ions through a quickly evolving class of solid-state batteries. The [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Durham NC (SPX) Oct 25, 2019, 2019 The ongoing transition from coal to natural gas and renewables in the U.S. electricity sector is dramatically reducing the industry's [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Durham NC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019, 2019 A Duke University researcher has a new explanation for why those endless days of childhood seemed to last so much [...]

In North Carolina, researchers are gaining insight into the behavior of some of the world's most unusual primates When you go to the trouble of importing Coquerel's sifakas from tropical [...]

Byline: C.P. Kaiser While tobacco addiction exhibits a similar biological mechanism among all smokers, Duke University researchers using FDG-PET have found for the first time that those mechanisms can vary [...]

Byline: Hobday, Erin HEALTH BULLETIN Research Alert NAIL A DIAGNOSIS Faster bone scans could be at our fingertips. British researchers have developed a new device that detects bone loss by [...]

Duke University researchers have determined that children undergoing cardiac CT angiography receive twice the dose of radiation incurred by adults. They recommend that radiologists should not routinely perform the technique [...]

Byline: Harrar, Sari N. One in five women is deficient in iron, the crucial mineral that ferries oxygen to every cell in the body. The signs include: Constant tiredness Pale [...]

Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., May 9 (SPX) -- In an experiment originally planned for the International Space Station, physicists at Duke University have devised a controlled, measurable method to [...]

Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., May 3 (SPX) -- Duke University engineers have led the most detailed analyses of links between some lightning events and mysterious gamma ray emissions that [...]

Byline: Thornton, Jim How to kick your habit-- and then start using again There are two ways to wipe your caffeine slate clean: Wean yourself or go cold turkey. The [...]

Duke University researchers have discovered that by adjusting an MR scanner's radio-frequency, they can 'tag' protons in the water of blood cells and view them as they pass through the [...]

Byline: McGinnis, Marianne Hostility is fattening, say Duke University scientists who found that people who stayed angry throughout young adulthood and middle age-or who became more angry over the years-were [...]

Byline: Dailey, Kate New York City was right: Bars and cigarettes don't mix. Even a little alcohol can increase the pleasurable effects of nicotine, say Duke University researchers. Forty-eight smokers [...]

Sarin and other toxic nerve gases developed as chemical warfare agents have become a threat because of their possible use on civilian populations by terrorists. Homme Hellinga and coworkers at [...]

Duke University researchers introduced a new MR approach at the SCMR meeting that produces cine angiograms analogous to cardiac catheterization without radiation or a contrast agent. The technique developed by [...]

Byline: Dailey, Kate Scientists at Duke University have combined the polio and common cold viruses to form a new weapon against brain cancer. In a laboratory study, the combination killed [...]

Byline: John Morrissey Two scientific studies published last week cast doubt on the validity of basing quality standards on a hospital's annual volume of cases, undercutting efforts by the Leapfrog [...]

2001 OCT 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, are addressing important unanswered questions about the effectiveness of proposed topical microbicides that when applied [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGEL PARK -- In a blockbuster, marriage in which the Triangle's three research universities are putting aside their turf battles, more than $700 million has been earmarked in a [...]

Researchers at Duke University have devised a way to convert fat cells into a new form of cartilage, which may someday be used to repair joint [...]

Scientists have harnessed the killing power of a debilitating virus to slay even more deadly foes--malignant brain tumors. In research on mice, Mattias M. Gromeier and his colleagues altered a [...]

Durham, North Carolina Barbie has had more than 75 careers in her 40 years, but her latest role, as a contributor to medical science, may be her most useful. Jane […]

The quickest route to dinner is not a straight line-at least for some predators. Peregrine falcons and some other raptors diving on distant prey follow a curved path known as [...]

Fixing an injured joint could become a matter of commandeering fat. Researchers at Duke University and the tissue engineering company Artecel Sciences, both in Durham, N.C., have found a way [...]

Lipton RB, Stewart WF, Stone AM, et al, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, and other centers. Stratified care vs step care strategies for migraine. The Disability in Strategies [...]

One out of three patients worldwide who suffer a second heart attack shortly after being hospitalized for a first one are not receiving the best care available, according to Duke [...]

A new study, presented at the annual congress of the American College of Surgeons, finds a potential marker in bone marrow that may help doctors detect lung cancer with a [...]

The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has recruited a Duke University researcher to head its its neuro-oncology program. Dr. Clifford Schold will coordinate the institute's new and continuing efforts aimed [...]