From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:38 AM

Weight-loss surgery may help obese women become pregnant.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:38 AM

Special group helps women returning from Iraq get back on their feet.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:38 AM

Warm weather means cooking on the grill; but here are a few tips before starting the fire.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:38 AM

5 million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Researchers across the globe are pulling together to help them out and map all the genes that may cause this memory-robbing disease. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:37 AM

The hydrodynamic and acoustic response of the water-filled Tibetan bowl 3 being rubbed with a mallet. credit: Institute of Physics

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:37 AM

NCAR scientist Andrew Heymsfield led a study in 2010 establishing that the gaps, which sometimes look as though a giant hole punch was applied to a cloud, are caused when aircraft fly through midlevel clouds that contain supercooled droplets.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:37 AM

This shows MRI images of a tarantula’s heart beating in real time.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Jul 02 2011 1:37 AM

Children who suffer minor head trauma should be able to go home to heal if tests come back normal.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:32 PM

Blood pressure changes as we age.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:32 PM

FDA says breast implants are not life-long devices.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:32 PM

While other countries have experienced significant gains in life expectancy — a new report finds a majority of counties in the U.S. are lagging behind.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:32 PM

This sequence starts with a wide-field view of the prominent constellation of Leo (The Lion). As we zoom in many fainter stars become visible as well as a few of the many galaxies in this part of the sky. We gradually close in on the most distant quasar found so far. The final view, combining im...

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet’s rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in our solar system except Jupiter. In this animation, the viewer takes the perspective of an object circ...

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

Responding to the challenge of climate change requires understanding more about climate variability and the changes expected. Jim Kinter, director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), explains how scientists there are using supercomputers to learn more about the interactions a...

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

This movie of GOES-13 satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Arlene in 15 minute intervals from June 28 at 1415 (10:15 a.m. EDT) to the same time on June 30, shows the storm making landfall in northeastern Mexico near Cabo Rojo.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

It’s a pain millions will feel. How a new surgery is scrapping away arthritic knees and helping to get people moving again. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

Scientists report today that they have taken a big step in determining what the first birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, when their relatives, the dinosaurs, still ruled the Earth. At the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, they discovered chemical traces...

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

It’s a crippling disease that robs people of their ability to use their hands. Now, doctors are snapping hands back into shape…not with surgery, but with a little shot. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

Having stores with unhealthy foods near schools doesn’t effect teens' weight.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Jun 30 2011 11:31 PM

University of Western Ontario researchers Jody Culham and Jason Gallivan describe how they can use a fMRI to determine the action a person was planning, mere moments before that action is actually executed.