NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea and used infrared light to obtain temperature information about Karen’s cloud tops. 

On a sunny afternoon, John Lipscomb steered the 22-foot vessel Ian Fletcher past the rip-rapped, industrialized shoreline of South Brooklyn and into the vastness of New York Harbor, where the Hudson River meets the sea. 

People with gum disease (periodontitis) have a greater likelihood of high blood pressure (hypertension), according to a study published today in Cardiovascular Research, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

The VITamin D and OmegA-3 Trial (VITAL) is the largest and most recent to test whether vitamin D or fish oil can effectively prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease. Results to date have been mixed but show promise for some outcomes, now confirmed by updated pooled (meta) analyses. 

They’ve been called the “special forces” of the immune system: invariant natural killer T cells. Although there are relatively few of them in the body, they are more powerful than many other immune cells.

QUT researchers have come up with a new, safe way to clean up oil spills using compounds equally useful as common household cleaning products.

As scientists observe the force of nature through a satellite weather tracker, they only see the day’s events.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Kiko had a tight circulation center.

NASA calculated the rainfall rates in the Atlantic Ocean’s newest tropical cyclone, Lorenzo.

How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science.