...published in 2010 in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society.The Society, dating to the 1660s, is the national academy of science in the United Kingdom and has 1,400 fellows worldwide.After a 1900 hurricane devastated Galveston, Texas...

...water supplies.Any exposure to radioactivity, no matter how slight, boosts cancer risk, according to the National Academy of Sciences. Federal regulators set a limit for how much tritium is allowed in drinking water, where this contaminant...

...collected came from a study the Cancer Coalition commissioned from the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Science.The man who led that study, Dr. Joseph Simone, isn't sure the Rome experiment will succeed."I hope...

...based in Arlington, Va. "All these electronics we're bringing into cars seem to exacerbate that."A National Academy of Sciences panel, including Lund, elevated the concerns in a report Jan. 18 reviewing U.S. regulators' work in...

...others and could open a whole new field of study, a GHSU researcher said.Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. R. Daniel Rudic and others in his lab at GHSU built on previous findings at the university about disruptions...

...previous estimate of 1.7 million years ago, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Early human Homo erectus is known to have occupied the site at Dmanisi later. Discovering stone tools and...

...they had a higher level of hearing loss.In the first study, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Health Canada exposed male mice to passive cigarette...

...Joye, a UGA faculty member since 1997, will recommend in hearings before Congress today that a blue-ribbon National Academy of Sciences panel investigate the consequences of the spill.An estimated 50 million gallons or more has spewed into the...

...graduate students, 13 postdoctoral fellows, and over 100 volunteers, and has been invited to serve on four National Academy of Science committees. Her research spans four decades.She will receive the national award later this year during a...

Studies of sudden car acceleration comingLOS ANGELES --- The National Academy of Sciences will lead a broad investigation into unintended acceleration and electronic vehicle controls under a 15-month study made public...