June 7th, 2010 
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The hunting strategy of a slender fish from the Amazon is giving researchers more insight into how to balance the metabolic cost of information with the metabolic cost of moving around to get that information. A new study from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science answers the question: In behaviors in which [...]
January 17th, 2010 admin Refineries could trim millions of dollars in energy costs annually by using a new method developed at Purdue University to rearrange the distillation sequence needed to separate crude petroleum into products. The researchers have demonstrated their method on petroleum plants that separate crude, showing that 70 of the new sequences they identified could enable oil [...]
January 13th, 2010 admin Preliminary research suggests that variation of a gene for a plasma protein is associated with slower age-related memory decline and a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD), according to a study in the January 13 issue of JAMA. “As the population ages, the public health and economic burdens of age-associated cognitive decline and [...]
December 14th, 2009 admin An investigation by the University of Kansas’ Adrian Melott and colleagues reveals a promising new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth and gauging their frequency LAWRENCE, Kan. — It’s the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth’s atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock [...]
August 29th, 2009 admin Blood flow dictates the form and function of the heart and blood vessels. Despite this, assessment of the cardiovascular system is predominantly based on anatomical descriptions rather than flow. Turbulent blood flow dominates the flow dynamics near clinically relevant regions such as valvular and vascular stenoses and prosthetic heart valves, but has been nearly overlooked [...]
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