New Research Center Aims To Plagiarize Nature
A new research facility called the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) has been created by an interdisciplinary group of…
Asexual Reproduction The First Step To Extinction
When species become asexual they could be taking the first step to extinction, say researchers from Imperial College London. They’ve…
The Eyes Don’t Have It
Color perception is most definitely not in the eye of the beholder, according to researchers at the University of Rochester.…
Redesigning Plants For Life On Mars
Getting a garden started on Mars might be a difficult task for even the most green-fingered astronauts. The stresses associated…
Brain Knows More Than It Lets On
While our behaviors may vary, the knowledge we hold in our brains is remarkably resilient, say scientists who have been…
Cost Breakthrough For Inorganic Solar Cells
While much of the research into solar power in recent times has been focused on organic solar cells, researchers from…
Interplay Of Glaciers And Ice Sheets Raises New Concerns
A study looking into the dynamics of glacier flow and ice sheet breakdown has found that the melting of major…
Take A Chance With DNA Vaccine For Bird Flu, Say Chemists
With the H5N1 bird flu virus now spreading into Western Europe, governments are at last seriously focusing on what can…
Nanomaterial Error-Correction Process Mimics Nature
Although a great deal of progress has been made in the self-assembly of nanomaterials, defects that occur during the assembly…
Mountains Creating Atmospheric Hotspots
Wind gusts that blow over mountains and hills can create hotspots high in the atmosphere and significantly affect regional air…
Doubts Over Effectiveness Of Tamiflu
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with researchers in Asia, have reported a worrying…
Race Is On For Efficient Organic Solar Cells
With the cost of fossil fuels rising, attention is once again turning to organic solar cells, which can produce electricity…
Climatologists Identify Areas To Be Most Affected By Warming
Climatologists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have been tinkering with their climate models and come up with…
Fighting Fit For Space Travel
The suppression of the human immune system in space was first observed forty years ago during the Apollo missions when…
Atom Wrangling Gets Serious
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute report that they were able to cool single rubidium atoms and “store” them for…
Endangered Species Get A Lift From Viagra
Much to the dismay of Western conservationists, traditional Chinese medicine has often relied on a bizarre mix of animal parts…
Secrets Of Gamma Ray Bursts Revealed
Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have baffled scientists for more than three decades since their discovery in 1973. They can last…
Reconstructed 1918 Flu Could Yield Avian Vaccine Clues
The 1918 Spanish flu killed an estimated 40 million people, and unlike other flu strains that usually impact the very…
Oxygen Increase Behind Rise Of Mammals
Researchers measuring levels of carbon 13 – a byproduct of photosynthesis – in deep-sea core samples going back 205 million…
Liar, Liar, Your Prefrontal Cortex Is On Fire
A study appearing in the British Journal of Psychiatry documents evidence of structural brain abnormalities in people who habitually lie,…
Rate of Climate Change Increasing
The finding last week from NASA that summertime Arctic sea ice was declining at such a rate that it may…