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El Paso County serves as a model for obesity prevention

Researchers at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living at The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus found the obesity prevention efforts in the El Paso region were the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Elusive long-fingered frog found after 62 years

Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Bur ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research finds that after Chicago, Pittsburgh is the most decentralized metropolitan region in the nation

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2007, Pittsburgh, after Chicago, was the most decentralized metropolitan region in the United States, according to the Metropolitan Power Diffusion Index (MPDI) released by the Center for Metropolitan ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows electron-beam irradiation reduces virus-related health risk in lettuce, spinach

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists studying the effects of electron-beam irradiation on iceberg lettuce and spinach has had its research published in the February issue of the leading microbiology journal, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some earthquakes expected along Rio Grande Rift in Colorado and New Mexico, new study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rio Grande Rift, a thinning and stretching of Earth’s surface that extends from Colorado’s central Rocky Mountains to Mexico, is not dead but geologically alive and active, according ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Use of technology-rich learning environment reveals improved retention rates

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a technology-rich learning environment in several undergraduate engineering-technology courses has improved learning and decreased withdrawals from, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could lemmings be involved in regulating our climate?

The mention of lemmings usually evokes images of small rodents throwing themselves off the top of cliffs in acts of mass suicide; however, their reputations might no longer be determined by hearsay as a new ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Cybertools, database will help analyze languages

A new generation of cybertools developed at Cornell will help researchers share and analyze rare Sri Lankan language recordings important for studying language acquisition in children.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A billion-year-old piece of North America traced back to Antarctica

An international team of researchers has found the strongest evidence yet that parts of North America and Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AgriLife Research 'genetically fingerprinting' E. coli from watersheds

The Lampasas and Leon Rivers watersheds have been listed as impaired by the state due to high counts of E. coli and other bacteria taken in the late 1990s, but from whom, what and where the contamination originates is unclear, s ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Safety of nanoparticles in food crops is still unclear

With the curtain about to rise on a much-anticipated new era of "nanoagriculture" — using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses —scientists are reporting a huge gap in ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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