Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, conducted a two-year experiment in collaboration with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea.
The study tested 67 obese and 57 normal-weight children, and was led by researchers at the University of California-San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital.
At noon ET Friday, a drill was launched by natural disaster experts at San Diego State University to test how social media would be used to respond to a crisis.
By studying these components, scientists have obtained a detailed archive of many aspects of climate, including air temperatures, snowfall, and concentrations of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere.
The secret codes typed in by banking customers can be recorded using the residual heat left behind on the keypad, says a group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego.
I wonder if the San Diego crew has talked to their colleagues over at U.C. Berkeley about the fluorescent microscope cell phone attachment they've developed.
Fowler, an associate professor at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, created an international uproar in 2007 when they published a study on obesity.
They will also collaborate with researchers at the University of California in San Diego to study other pathogens that require a human host, such as malaria.
But researchers at U.C. San Diego have developed a fluorescent warning system that lights up in the presence of toxins that could lead to food poisoning for a consumer.
At a news conference in San Diego where the findings were announced, the researchers said the brands of water tested are commonly sold in Quebec and Ontario.
Kao said she cautions against forming any generalizations based on any one of the studies, noting that more background characteristics of the students need to be studied and explained.
To get to the bottom of the slow-quake mystery, study author Hitoshi Hirose and colleagues studied seismic readings of slow earthquakes in an area around the Bungo Suido, a channel in southwest Japan.