Researchers have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the research team has moved academia and industry closer [...]
Children living in counties with higher levels of annual precipitation appear more likely to have higher prevalence rates of autism, according to a new report. The results raise the possibility that an environmental trigger for autism may be associated with precipitation and may affect genetically vulnerable children.
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Why did the elephant cross the road? It didn’t according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs.
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The incidence of malaria has fallen significantly in Gambia in the last 5 years, according to a study carried out by experts there with support from scientists based in London.
The transportation of antibodies from a mother to her newborn child is vital for the development of that child’s nascent immune system. Antibodies help shape a baby’s response to foreign pathogens and may influence the later occurrence of autoimmune diseases. Images from Caltech biologists reveal for the first time the complicated process by which antibodies [...]
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Of all the problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there’s one possibility that voters can do something about — avoid election machine-related errors, says a researcher who led a comprehensive study of voter problems using touch screen and paper-based machines. “Under the best of circumstances, simple voter mistakes can make the difference [...]
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Zoologists are working on a national project in Australia to help save the endangered Tasmanian devil from extinction.
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A new study indicates that seasonal affective disorder may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes a SAD patient less sensitive to light.
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Wild migratory birds may be more important carriers of avian influenza viruses from continent to continent than previously thought, according to new scientific research that has important implications for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in North America.
A new study validates a non-invasive screening method with future potential for detection of human papillomavirus-positive head and neck cancers.