Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford have found a new way to boost the survival of pediatric patients whose hearts stop while they are hospitalized. The researchers ...
Tags: Cardiac Arrest, Pediatric Patients, New Way to Boost Survival
The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth and its partner universities have received an $8 million grant to expand their research into arsenic toxicity in children and pregnant women. The ...
Tags: Arsenic Toxicity, Arsenic Toxicity in Children, Pregnant Women
Graphene—the thinnest and strongest known material in the universe and a formidable conductor of electricity and heat – gets many of its amazing properties from the fact that it occupies only two dimensions: It has length and ...
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While many believe that the key to producing the next generation of chips lies in developing better manufacturing techniques for nanomaterials rather than just creating new nanomaterials, there are others who simply can't resist the ...
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A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ...
"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed ...
Tags: DOE, outdoor lighting, GATEWAY Report, pedestrian lighting
Scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Berkeley Lab grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time. They discovered it's a natural fit for making thin, flexible light-based ...
As ultramarathons become more popular, researchers have launched a long-term study of the runners who participate in these extremely long races. Keeping tabs on the runners' health and psychological makeup could help reduce their risk of ...
Tags: Ultramarathoners, long races, Health
"The United States stands on the cusp of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovation," writes Stanford researcher Vivek Wadhwa in a recent editorial in The Washington Post. The basic notion ...
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For years now, Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineering and materials science professor at Stanford University, has been coming up with new techniques to speed up the charge carrier mobility of organic transistors, which have labored under ...
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Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television ...
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Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins to receive $90 million in new funding Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will receive $90 million in new funding as part of a $540 million gift from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its ...
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Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now if not for life, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean. If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet ...
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Roughly 40 percent of all medications act on cells' G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). One of these receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site (B2AR), naturally transforms between two base configurations; knowing the precise location of ...
Tags: G protein-coupled receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site