For Some Females, Size Does Matter
How much do females really care about their mate’spenis size? A new study has shown that for some fish species,…
Strange Spot On Titan Baffles Boffins
Scientists are mystified by images from the spacecraft Cassini that show an unusual bright spot (lower right of pic) on…
Glaciers May Be Shrinking But Antarctic Ice Sheet Gains Mass
While some climate change research suggests that global sea levels are rising due to global warming and the shrinkage of…
The Anatomy Of Sarcasm
New research appearing in Neuropsychology details the anatomy of sarcasm and explains how the mind puts sharp-tongued words into context.…
Halting Evolution To Fight Illness
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin, writing in the journalPloS Biology, describe how E. coli…
Medical Journals Too Influenced By Pharmaceutical Marketing
Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, has launched a stinging attack on medical journals in an…
Atmosphere, Heal Thyself
University of California and Purdue University researchers believe that naturally-occurring atmospheric chemicals reacting with sunlight are breaking down smog and…
No Sex Please, We’re Robots
One of science fiction’s scariest ideas – the out-of-control von Neumann machine – has been realized, albeit on a simple…
Climate Change And Vegetation A Complex Feedback
Climatologist Noah S. Diffenbaugh from Purdue University says he has found that events such as storms and heat waves can…
Warning On Avian Flu Complacency
A UK doctor writing in the British Medical Journal has warned that governments around the world must stop burying their…
Global Brightening Creates Warming Worries
Earth’s surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate…
Terrestrial Gamma Ray Mystery Deepens
Scientists from Duke University have been studying the link between certain lightning events and the mysterious gamma ray emissions that…
First Photo Of Planet Outside Our Solar System
A team of astronomers has confirmed the discovery of a giant extra-solar planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter,…