By Alton Parrish. Most elite athletes consider doping substances “are effective” in improving performance, while recognizing that they constitute cheating, can endanger health and entail the obvious risk of sanction. At the [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Injectable nanogel can monitor blood-sugar levels and secrete insulin when needed.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to [...]

By NASA.   The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it. The meteorite crashed on March 17, slamming [...]

    By Alton Parrish. Origins Of Agriculture In China Began 23,000 Years Ago, 12,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Believed The discovery pushes back the roots of agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The global emergence of similar [...]

By Alton Parrish. Terahertz technology is an emerging field that promises to improve a host of useful applications, ranging from passenger scanning at airports to huge digital data transfers. Terahertz radiation sits between the frequency [...]

  By Alton Parrish. 20,000 years ago, massive ice sheets cover a quarter of the globe. Populations of big game hunters live in small, mobile communities like in this reenactment, and gigantic mammoths roam the landscape. Suddenly and without [...]

By Alton Parrish. A surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a team of University of Oregon researchers [...]

By Alton Parrish. As Earth’s orbit brought it close to the sun more than 20,000 years ago, intense summer rays melted Northern Hemisphere glaciers, like this one in Greenland. Computer climate models have confirmed theories that the meltwater [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a technique to isolate a single water molecule inside a buckyball, or C60, and to drive motion of the so-called “big” nonpolar ball through the encapsulated “small” [...]

By Alton Parrish. Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped [...]

By Alton Parrish.   First direct measurement of antimatter’s weight compared to that of normal matter. . Antimatter is strange stuff. It has the opposite electrical charge to normal matter and, when it meets its matter counterpart, [...]

By Alton Parrish. Studies on this disease recently completed by researchers from the Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (APEIR) developed a series of messages for policy makers that are highly relevant to the current [...]

By Alton Parrish. Two MIT physicists and an alumnus who’s a NASA astronaut spoke on campus earlier this month, described an experiment that’s been 18 years in the making and yielded its first significant results just last week. The experiment, [...]

By Alton Parrish. An interdisciplinary team of Stony Brook University researchers have been selected to receive a three year National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the development of a personalized asthma monitor that uses nanotechnology [...]

By Alton Parrish. Following a three-year competition, NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project at MIT for a planned launch in 2017. The space agency announced the mission — to be funded by a $200 million [...]

by Alton Parrish. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered starburst galaxies earlier in the Universe’s history than they were previously thought to have existed. These newly [...]

By Alton Parrish. Crucial assumptions underlying multi-toxin crops don’t always apply, a University of Arizona study shows. The results help explain why one major pest is evolving resistance faster than predicted and offer ideas for more [...]

By Alton Parrish.   Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells. That was the message of panelists at a session  (March 25) in Stanley Hall auditorium titled “Programming Life: the revolutionary [...]

By Alton Parrish. Scientists have traced a unique new map of the first light of the universe, and raised profound questions about the Big Bang.The image of the cosmic microwave background they have released was taken by ESA’s Planck [...]

By Alton Parrish. By examining the frequency of extreme storm surges in the past, previous research has shown that there was an increasing tendency for storm hurricane surges when the climate was warmer. But how much worse will it get as temperatures [...]