Science

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. Read More

Vanderbilt University plans to calculate the university's carbon footprint this spring through a greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The inventory will determine the amount of the six greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere that comprise the "carbon footprint" from Vanderbilt in an average year, based on 2005-2007 data. Read More

Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. The findings are a significant step forward in understanding how we perceive, process and remember visual information. Read More

Academically talented 5th and 6th graders taking part in the Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young, or SAVY, will have a chance to tour a trailer decked out with cutting-edge, computer-aided gizmos and interactive technology Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Lot 111 on the corner of 19th and Edgehill avenues. Read More

Brandt F. Eichman, assistant professor of biological sciences and biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, has received Sigma Xi's Young Investigator Award. Read More

Thomas J. Weiler, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University, has received a 2009 Humboldt Research Award. The award is granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany for the purpose of encouraging research collaborations between German scientists and colleagues in other countries. Read More

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these individuals—labeled as novelty seekers by psychologists—face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year's resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. Read More

Four Vanderbilt faculty members – Daniel Liebler, Charles Sanders, Gary Sulikowski and Michael Waterman – have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon them by their peers. Read More

A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites have revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind. Read More

In a pioneering, interdisciplinary study combining law and neuroscience, researchers at Vanderbilt University peered inside people's minds to watch how the brain thinks about crime and punishment. Read More

Watch video of a Dec. 3 Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box presentation. Read More

Vanderbilt University is ranked in the Top 10 best places to work in academia in the United States in the November issue of The Scientist magazine. Read More

When biologist Ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practiced in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle, one of his first thoughts was an observation made by Charles Darwin. Read More

Vanderbilt University has attained the rank of 20th in the nation in the total value of federal science and engineering research grants awarded to campus researchers, according to an annual report compiled by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read More

What does a mixture of two different kinds of cells have in common with a mixture of oil and water? The same basic force causes both mixtures to separate into two distinct regions. Read More

An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. Read More

Curious about the impact the digital revolution is having on the battlefield? Maybe you would like to meet Betty, the computer character that middle school students are asked to teach about various science subjects, a process that teaches them how to learn? Or perhaps you would be interested in discovering how the latest software can improve the way that hospitals manage infectious diseases? Read More

Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances. Read More

"Global Warming – What do we know and what we should do?" is the title of a free public lecture that will be given Thursday afternoon, Sept. 4, on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Students at the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory's space exploration camp will conduct a simulated space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday, July 11. The mission will use a large mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope and computer software derived from NASA training simulators. The mission plan was created based on the upcoming scheduled shuttle Atlantis repair mission to the Hubble in October 2008. Read More