Sunlight Helps Put Lung Cancer in the Shade
The more rays people caught, the less prone they were to get the disease, study found MONDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Something as common and available as sunlight may help prevent some lung cancers, researchers say. A new study finds that lower levels of the sun's ultraviolet B...A Little Wine, Sunlight Help Boost Women's Health
Two small studies suggest life-enhancing, life-extending benefits THURSDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Two of life's simple pleasures -- a glass of wine, a little time in the sun -- may have benefits for women's health. Wine first: In a report from Spain, researchers at the Univers...Exposure to sunlight may decrease risk of advanced breast cancer by half
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight which increases levels of vitamin D in the body -- may decrease the risk of advanc...As Sunlight Fades, Look Out for SAD
Seasonal affective disorder sets in in the fall, experts say SATURDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- If your mood, energy level, and motivation decline in November but bounce back to normal in April, you may have seasonal affective disorder (SAD), one expert says. "SAD is thought to be...Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk
A study of eating patterns across different countries justifies an association between breast cancer and diets heavy in animal fats--and proposes that sunlight exposure may be protective against the disease by elevating the body's vitamin D supply. However, the specific foods that might raise or lo...Ovarian cancer prevented by exposure to sunlight
Recent studies have dug out evidence that link cancer to lack of exposure to enough sunlight. // According to the studies conducted by scientists from University of California, San Diego, those who live closer to the equator have lesser chances of contracting ovarian cancer. Their study, published ...Australian Children Not Being Exposed To Enough Sunlight
Professor Peter Ebeling the head of endocrinology of the Western Hospital in Australia warned that many Victorian children were not receiving enough sunlight// , there by lacking vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium for healthy bones. He explained that children who were not exposed t...First Jatropha Genome Completed by Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology
...biofuels with superior properties compared to ethanol and biodiesel; harnessing photosynthetic organisms to produce value added products directly from sunlight and carbon dioxide; developing new biological solutions to increase production and/or recovery rates of subsurface hydrocarbons and developing high-yi...Battelle Scientists Named on Patent for Making Oxygen From Light and Water
...- solar or other -- to chemically duplicate what plants do when they absorb sunlight energy and convert it into useful chemicals. Known by the United States P... and be able to recycle their exhaled CO2 using a PDEC system and the ample sunlight available during long journeys. When miners are trapped or a submarine runs...As Summer Heats Up, New Survey Reveals Need for Effective Sweat Treatments
...skin -- sweating is yet another consequence of sun-damaged or burned skin, because it is not as effective at dissipating body heat. Stay out of direct sunlight whenever possible, wearing sunscreen, and consider wearing a wide-brimmed or long billed hat such as the ones found at http://www.Coolibar.com . For ...Dimericine(R) Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Treatment Of Photosensitivity in XP Patients
...e and causes severe sunburn, blistering, irregular dark spots and a 1000-fold increased risk of skin cancer. People with severe XP often need to avoid sunlight completely. Half of these patients develop skin cancers by the age of 8 and their life expectancy is shortened by 30 years. Fast Track programs are d...The sunlight solution for better health
Sunlight is a vital component of good health. Like plants that thrive in the sun, we humans too depend on sunlight, in our case for the production of vitamin D. In the past few decades, however, cultural trends have steered us away from sun exposure. From fear of the potential dangers of UV radiat...Turning sunlight into liquid fuels
Berkeley, CA - For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial version of photosynthesis that can be used to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide ...Molecular cubes in the sunlight
This press release is also available in German . Hydrogen will be one of the most important fuels of the future. It would be ideal to obtain hydrogen by splitting water instead of from petroleum. However, the electrolysis of water is a very energy intensive process, making it both expensive...Project focuses on production of hydrogen from bacteria and sunlight
TEMPE, Ariz. -- If we wanted to create the ideal environmentally friendly energy source, it would be a fuel that is easy and economical to produce, and one that does not pollute our air when burned. That is exactly what researchers at Arizona State University intend to develop in a new program tha...DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...iscover billions of dollars in oil and gas. Nanocrystal Solar Cells This technology perform the same function as conventional solar cellsturning sunlight into electricitybut at one-fifth the cost or less. Because of this dramatic cost savings, the technology has the potential to be the first photovoltai...Spring cold snap helps with stream ecosystem research
...ees on the banks flourish, shading the stream from sunlight and causing an overall decrease in productivity in...the stream exposed to higher than normal levels of sunlight over the next several months. This early April... Tennessee stream and reiterated the importance of sunlight on the growth of algae, bacteria, snails and other...Stunting plants' skyward reach could lead to improved yields
...t's fight for survival, it's the tallest trees that prevail by reaching for sunlight and shading competition. Corn and other plants, too, divert precious energy...ctly what causes a specific effect in a plant. Plants are adept at using sunlight to determine the time of year and even time of day, she said, using phytoch...Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous
...e conditions. But scientists have disagreed about the climate at this time, with some arguing for low Arctic late Cretaceous winter temperatures (when sunlight is absent during the Polar night) as against more recent suggestions of a somewhat milder 15°C mean annual temperature. Writing in Nature , Dr...Army study improves ability to predict drinking water needs
...ter variables such as height and weight, how hard and long they would be active and what the environmental conditions would be (temperature, humidity, sunlight and wind). The device would then calculate their sweat loss. One variable the equation does not take into account is fitness levels, which do influ...DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers
... University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) $16 million for five years to use novel, self-assembled polymer materials in systems for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) $19.5 million for five years to study complex material structures on the nanoscale to id...Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
... efficient in converting light to electricity. The goal is to develop cells made from low-cost plastics that will transform at least 10 percent of the sunlight that they absorb into usable electricity and can be easily manufactured. A research team headed by David Ginger, a University of Washington associ...Five Questions About Protopic (tacrolimus) Ointment
...use of Protopic are sensation of skin burning or itching, flu-like symptoms and headaches. Patients using Protopic should avoid natural or artificial sunlight (sun lamps or tanning beds). Patients should not use Protopic if they have a skin infection on the area of skin to be treated. The skin being treate...NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power
...ned their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices. Organic photovoltaics, which rely on organic molecules to capture sunlight and convert it into electricity, are a hot research area because in principle they have significant advantages over traditional rigid silicon cells. O...First step to converting solar energy using 'artificial leaf'
...the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to converting sunlight into energy using an artificial leaf. The researchers will be publishing an...ys where gaps in the surface are filled with pigment molecules that collect sunlight and convert it into fuel and other forms of clean energy. But before this...SRNL to study applicability of solar cell coatings
...g it for use is not always as simple as it seems," Dr. Kane says. "With most types of solar cells, you lose about one-third of the energy because the sunlight is simply reflected away." There are, however, new engineered coatings that, by mimicking the way a moth's eye absorbs light, reduce unwanted reflect...MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
...e switches." If we think of marine bacteria and their proteins as tiny factories performing essential biogeochemical activities such as harvesting sunlight to create oxygen and synthesize sugar from carbon dioxide then the sRNAs are the internal switches that turn on and off the factories' production lin...New nanotube coating enables novel laser power meter
...e used to measure the light emitted by 10-kilowatt (kW) laser systems. Light focused from a 10 kW laser is more than a million times more intense than sunlight reaching the Earth. Until now, NIST-built power meters, just like the lasers they were intended to measure, were barely portable and operated slowly. ...Ancient diatoms lead to new technology for solar energy
...f these natural biological systems, using simple and inexpensive materials. "Conventional thin-film, photo-synthesizing dyes also take photons from sunlight and transfer it to titanium dioxide, creating electricity," Rorrer said. "But in this system the photons bounce around more inside the pores of the di...