A management professor studies how communities can more easily and inexpensively transport voting machines on Election Day, while reducing the possibility of voter fraud.

Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited genetic disorder caused by the multiple repetition of a DNA sequence (the nucleotides CAG) in the gene encoding a protein called "Huntingtin". People who do not suffer from the disease have this sequence repeated 10 to 29 times. But in an affected person, the triplet is present more than 35 times. New research provides positive results reducing the...

Liberal arts colleges continue redefining their historical missions or flat-out disappearing -- a trend that threatens to diminish America's renowned higher education system, scholars argue in a new study.

By using an ordinary green laser pointer, the kind commonly found in lecture halls, an Israeli research team has developed a new and highly portable Raman spectrometer that can detect extremely minute traces of hazardous chemicals in real time. The new sensor's compact design makes it an excellent candidate for rapid field deployment to disaster zones and areas with security...

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that may alter principle understandings of molecular interactions within a cell's nucleus. Scientists describe the details of how particular proteins use a "molecular sled" to slide along DNA -- much like a train running along its tracks -- to find and interact with other proteins. The findings suggest this mechanism may be...

New research finds that parental involvement is a more significant factor in a child's academic performance than the qualities of the school itself.

In two papers, an American entomologist has described 14 new species of predatory beetle, seven each from two isolated mountains in Moorea and Tahiti, Society Islands. Each of the species is restricted to a single mountain, demonstrating the importance of focusing conservation efforts on individual mountains for the preservation of tropical island...

A thin film made of graphene and a charge-inducing polymer shows promise as a replacement for transparent electrical conductors in displays.

Researchers have shown that age 45 is no longer a useful predictor of negative outcomes in the staging of papillary thyroid cancer patients.

Thirty years ago, about 300 miles off the coast of New England, a barrage of towering, 25-foot waves battered a catamaran sailboat, causing it to begin sinking. A satellite, orbiting in space, detected the signal from an emergency beacon onboard the boat. A short while later, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter pulled the three passengers to...

Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams used the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to install the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to its docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 9:03 a.m. EDT Wednesday.

Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. The rover team's assessment is that the bright object is something from the rover, not Martian material. It appears to be a shred of plastic material, likely benign, but it has not been definitively...

More efficient use of the food production chain and a decrease in the amount of food losses will dramatically help maintaining the planet's natural resources and improve people's lives. Researchers in Finland have proved a valid estimation, for the first time, for how many people could be fed with reducing food losses. An additional one billion people can be fed, if the food losses could be...

Newly described species points to richer marine biodiversity in Guam waters than previously understood.

Visual examination of the pupils of the eyes is a standard test for alertness but to use pupil response in assessing sleepiness or exhaustion in people with physical disabilities requires a more sophisticated system, according to new research.

Several ancient Roman texts describe the assassination of Julius Caesar in Rome, at the Curia of Pompey in 44 BC, which was the result of a plot among a group of senators to eliminate the General. This fact led to the formation of the second triumvirate and to the final outbreak of civil wars. Now, 2,056 years later, a team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council has found the...

A new study reinforces the finding that a region of the genome involved in immune system function, called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), is involved in the genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia.

Restoring diminished levels of a protein shown to prevent and reverse heart failure damage could also have therapeutic applications for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), suggests a new preclinical study.

Industrial-scale chemistry could benefit from a robust new catalyst that selectively generates amino acid precursors from cyanide at room temperature.

The experience of being bullied is particularly detrimental to the psychological health of school girls who don't have social support from either adults or peers, according to a new study. In contrast, social support from adults or peers (or both) appears to lessen the negative consequences of bullying in this group, namely anxiety and...

One of the body's satiation hormones, neurotensin, could raise women's risk of suffering one of three common and serious conditions: diabetes, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. There is also a connection between the hormone and premature death in women, especially from cardiovascular...

Applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light.

Understanding the phenomenon of blackbody radiation -- electromagnetic emissions that play a role in a broad range of physical systems -- is an important part of physics instruction at both the high school and college levels. Thanks to a new iPad app created by a group of researchers, explaining this to students just became a little...

Researchers in Ireland have recently reported new insights into cognitive changes in multiple sclerosis, using newly developed signal processing methods.