Image Caption: Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team led by University of New Mexico professor, Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae and graduate student, Dr. Denis Seletskiy created the first-ever cryo (temperatures that can only be obtained by liquefying gases) cool…
The research, led by Professor Panicos Demetriades of the University of Leicester, suggests that privatising government owned banks without having an effective system of regulation in place can result in a collapse of depositors’ confidence in banking.
We’ve all heard that people favor their own kind and discriminate against out-groups–but that’s a simplistic view of prejudice, says Amy Cuddy, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies how we judge others. In recent years she …
The paper, by Professor João Zilhão and colleagues, builds on his earlier research which proposed that, south of the Cantabro-Pyrenean mountain chain, Neanderthals survived for several millennia after being replaced or assimilated by anatomically mod…
Universite de Montreal urbanism professor specializes in rebuilding after natural catastrophesDestruction in Haiti, the result of a January 12 earthquake, is staggering. The majority of the capital city of Port-au-Prince will have to be rebuilt from sc…
Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey.
Image 1: Entomology professor Rufas Isaacs. Photo by Kurt StepnitzImage 2: Entomology professor Doug Landis. Photo by Kurt Stepnitz
Professor Iain Stewart describes what it was like to get a rare glimpse inside Mexico’s Cave of Crystals, which contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found.
An Earth Sciences Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax says the Caribbean could be susceptible to additional earthquakes because of accumulated energy under the Earth’s crust which could cause another "big one" to hit the region.
The cutting edge science of how vision works and how we may be able to prevent, repair or restore lost sight in future will be explored at an international scientific meeting in Sydney next week.The Australian Neuroscience Society Satellite Meeting 201…