New results from research led by a University of Alabama astronomer suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the sun.
Those seeking to understand and predict climate change can now use an additional tool to calculate carbon dioxide exchanges on land, according to a scientific journal article co-authored by a University of Alabama researcher and publishing this week.
The University of Alabama’s contract and grant activity totaled $76 million in fiscal year 2009, an 18 percent increase from the previous year.
A University of Alabama researcher is embarking on a $5.6 million phase-three, randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative treatment that uses a noise-generating device, along with counseling, to alleviate the debilitating effects of tinnitus – that ringing in the ears that drives some people to distraction.
University of Alabama-developed software enhances highway safety for law enforcement officers and other motorists while increasing administrative efficiency.
A University of Alabama educator has spent more than a decade researching the use of humor in the classroom.
Alabama home sales for October ’09 are up 2.63 percent from September and up 12.40 percent from October ’08, according to a report from a University of Alabama center.
The vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will address “The Fed and the Post-Crisis Economy” at the Economic Outlook Conference 2010, presented by a University of Alabama center, Thursday, Jan. 14 at the Renaissance Montgomery hotel.
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy.
Dr. Susan Gaskins and Dr. Pam Foster of The University of Alabama will investigate the impact of disclosing an AIDS diagnosis on rural African-American men under a $100,000 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.