Science News
Here's a list of all the news articles that have appeared on Science a GoGo this year.
5 February 2010
Samoan study reveals possible evolutionary role for homosexuality
Male homosexuality doesn’t make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view but a new study suggests that it may convey an indirect benefit by enhancing the survival prospects of close relatives. The study hypothesizes that homosexual men enhance their own genetic prospects by acting altruistically toward their nieces and nephews, thereby perpetuating some of their genes indirectly through the family line...
4 February 2010
Viagra found to enhance fetal growth
Not content with erections, Pfizer have been funding left-of-field studies for other potential applications for their stiffy dysfunction treatment. The latest finding to come from Pfizer's, er, benevolence? That the drug can enhance fetal growth – at least in pregnant sheep...
3 February 2010
Facebook use associated with depression
An alarming new study provides compelling evidence that chat rooms, online gaming and social networking sites can have a serious impact on mental health, leading to moderate to severe depression in users...
2 February 2010
White paint touted as climate remedy
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities, say researchers who have calculated that New York City would cool by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit in summer...
29 January 2010
Ozone hole closure not so cool
Using a new global aerosol model, climatologists have discovered a feedback effect related to the hole's closure that could actually increase warming in the southern hemisphere...
28 January 2010
Sub-fertility linked to flame retardant exposure
The first study to investigate the impact of flame retardants - commonly found in household consumer products - on human fertility has linked exposure to the chemicals with reduced fertility in women...
27 January 2010
Antioxidants found to impair muscle function
Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but new studies show they can also seriously impair muscle function by limiting oxygen in the bloodstream...
26 January 2010
Traveling into the future... with sugar
Researchers looking into how blood glucose levels impact our thought processes have found that when we have more energy available (higher levels of blood glucose), we tend to be more future-oriented in our decision-making...
25 January 2010
Stillbirth linked directly to mother's oral bacteria
Confirming long-held suspicions, a Case Western Reserve University researcher has for the first time established a direct link between a mother's gum disease and the death of her fetus...
18 January 2010
Tying light in knots
A team of physicists has used knot theory - a branch of abstract mathematics - to create holograms where light can flow in whirls and eddies, forming lines in space called optical vortices...
15 January 2010
Antiviral drugs could create "super viruses"
Medications that kill viruses by forcing their nucleic acid to mutate rapidly might actually, in some instances, cause them to emerge from the process stronger, perhaps even more virulent than before drug treatment...
14 January 2010
Male testosterone levels surge with ovulation
Instead of using perfume to attract a mate, women may be better off going au naturel, say researchers who observed surges in testosterone when men were exposed to ovulatory odors...
13 January 2010
Poker paradox: the more hands you win, the more money you lose
Analyzing more than 27 million hands, a researcher has found that the more hands players win, the less money they're likely to collect – especially when it comes to novice players...
12 January 2010
Evolution to blame for modern-day health problems?
The ongoing pressures of human evolution could explain the rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases and reproductive disorders, say scientists who believe that evolutionary perspectives should be part of medical school curricula...
11 January 2010
Gardeners half-correct about midday watering
Gardeners have always maintained that watering plants in sunlight can damage the foliage, but new research shows that it isn't quite that simple...
8 January 2010
Physicists discover golden ratio in the quantum realm
An international team of researchers have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter that shows the same attributes as the well known golden ratio from art and architecture...
7 January 2010
Cell phones reverse Alzheimer's in mice
A startling new study in mice provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to the electromagnetic emissions from cell phone use may actually protect against - and even reverse - Alzheimer's disease...
6 January 2010
Hubble captures images of earliest ever galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of ultra-blue galaxies whose light is reaching us now after 13 billion years - just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang...
5 January 2010
Mind and body clash over sexual arousal
In women exposed to sexual stimuli, the responses of the mind and genitals are frequently not as closely matched as men’s, suggesting a split between women’s bodies and minds...
4 January 2010
Prions capable of evolutionary change
Scientists have discovered that prions, the tiny infectious proteins - without DNA or RNA - that can cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as mad cow disease, are capable of Darwinian evolution...
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