Billions of highly specialized cells run through our veins. They make up our blood, a fascinating fluid that plays the significant roles of transport as part of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and of pathogen detection and elimination in the immune and lymphatic systems.
More than ever, Americans are embarking on spiritual, meditative and religious retreats as a means of enhancing their mental and physical wellbeing.
Researchers at Rice University recently studied the effects of loneliness on the symptoms of the common cold. They found that patients who identified as lonely reported more acute cold symptoms while more sociable patients tended to report feeling less under the weather.
Lead is a common element found in many different everyday objects. Despite the widespread knowledge of its toxicity to the human body, or any biological system, lead continues to be mined and used in items ranging from handheld electronic devices to batteries in cars to x-ray protective shields at the dentist’s office.
Public Health Studies undergraduates pinned on their nametags, set up their poster boards and hosted the eighth annual Undergraduate Conference in Public Health on April 8. Flocking to the Charles Commons Salons, these students were ready to present their research in the field of public health.
In accordance with current trends of animal endangerment, the brown howler monkey community has lost thousands of members. The brown howler is a New World monkey native to southeastern Brazil that has recently experienced declines in population due to mortality from yellow fever exposure.
U.S. President Donald Trump recently signed a $19.5-billion bill to fund the programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including NASA’s long-term goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s.
A new study has found that certain species may be more intelligent because of their diet. The discovery has thrown into question the scientific consensus that a species’ sociality determines its intelligence.
Google and Howard University recently announced that they have partnered to create Howard West, a satellite campus in Mountain View, Calif. for black computer science majors.
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant. Since then, organ transplants have continued to save millions of lives.
Chinese and American researchers from various universities have collaborated and subsequently developed sea urchin spines into a new bone grafting material.
Jordan Green, professor in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) department and head of the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Laboratory, carries out research which focuses on aspects of controlled drug delivery, stem cells, gene therapy and immunoengineering.
Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital have come together to discover the state-of-the-art 3D genome assembly which can compile, from scratch, an entire genome of any organism at a faster and cheaper rate than ever before.
The universe is nearly 14 billion years old, approximately 23 million times as old as civilization. Astronomers have been assigned the daunting task of discovering exactly how this universe came to be what will happen to it in the future.
How can the complex compilation of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy be broken down into unintelligible bits of binary data, stored on complex electronic computer systems and then finally transmitted with the tap of a finger?
Over the past few decades, several systematic studies and meta-analyses have been conducted to evaluate the relationship between alcohol consumption and cardiovascular diseases. Most of the studies suggest that moderate drinking is associated with a lower risk of developing heart diseases compared to non-drinkers and heavy drinkers.
With 237 votes in favor of demotion and 157 against it, Pluto was officially voted out of its planet status during the International Astronomical Union (IAU) 2006 General Assembly in Prague.
Polar bears are the face of climate change. Their image raises awareness for wildlife habitat destruction on poster boards, TV commercials and science textbooks — and for appropriate reasons.
