Solitons Observed In A Solid
An international team of researchers say they have observed evidence of solitary vibrations (solitons) in a solid. The scientists, from…
World’s Fish Stocks Face New Danger
Much of the debate about the world’s fish stocks has focused on over-fishing, but a more insidious threat has largely…
Rats Showing Some Backbone After Stem Cell Treatment
Building on the University of California’s spinal repair stem cell research from last year, a group of researchers from the…
Plants’ Capacity To Soak Up Carbon Limited
Plants do much less than previously thought to soak up carbon dioxide, say Bruce Hungate of Northern Arizona University and…
Primordial Soup-In-A-Cup
The beginning of life on Earth is a hotly contested area of science (not to mention religion); with current theories…
Not So Fast Einstein!
A quantum theory of gravity could be within reach, as scientists funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) report measuring…
All Hands To The Pumps! Here Comes The Sea
Just when you thought the news about climate change couldn’t get any worse, new projections suggest that the warming climate…
Increasing Soil Erosion Threatens World’s Food Supply
An ecologist from Cornell University reports that soil from the world’s croplands is being swept and washed away 10 –…
Chimps Command To Conquer An Itch
A paper entitled “Referential Gestural Communication in Wild Chimpanzees,” recently published in Current Biology, shows that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can…
When A Spotty Face Indicates A Healthy Partner
What ornithologists previously considered to be a male bird’s decorative plumage, has instead been found to have a far deeper…
Big Problems From Small Avian Flu Mutations
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Super Strong Artificial Muscles Could Power Next Generation Of Robots
Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) have made chemically powered artificial muscles that are up to…
DNA Shaped Nebula Observed At Center Of Milky Way
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed an astonishing double helix shaped nebula near the center of our Milky…
The Strange Matter Of Superfluidity
In his most recent experiments into superconductivity and superfluidity, physicist Randall Hulet of Rice University looks to have recreated the…
Standing Room Only In Classroom Of The Future
What’s the best way to reduce obesity rates among children? Take their chairs away and make them stand, according to…
The Search For Rock
Sure to be on every geek’s Christmas wish-list is a tricorder-like device similar to that used by Spock in the…
Geologists Hope To Disprove Asteroid Mass Extinction Scenario
Earth’s history has been punctuated by a number of mass extinctions wiping out nearly all life forms on the planet.…
NASA Confirms Recent Ice Sheet Losses
The current issue of the Journal of Glaciologycarries findings from NASA scientist Jay Zwally on the changing ice cover of…
Risky Business Explained
Researchers working in a relatively new area of neuroscience have made progress in understanding why some people are more prone…
Intra-Molecular Movement Of Protons Observed
Using time-slices of just 100 attoseconds (one attosecond equals one billion-billionth of a second), scientists from Imperial College London say…
New Sorting Algorithm Aims To Sift Through All Possible Molecules
One of the problems in molecular synthesis is that there simply “aren’t enough atoms in the universe to make all…
New And Improved Insta-Nanotube!
Nanotubes are touted as useful for a range of applications – such as nanoelectronics and optics – but in order…