Artificial Eye Borrows From Nature
Using dragonflies and houseflies as models, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a series of artificial compound…
Persistence Of Triclocarban Surprises
Johns Hopkins researchers have been measuring levels of the antibacterial hand soap ingredient, triclocarban, as it passed through water treatment…
Searching For A Long Lost Star
Scientists once considered the idea of our sun being part of a binary star system highly unlikely, but the recent…
Focus Of Genetic Research Narrowed
Today, details of an important new way of determining proof of natural selection at the single gene level were published…
Researchers Give Cholesterol Critics The Finger
Cholesterol has had nothing but bad press since scientists discovered that it was responsible for clogging arteries and causing all…
Gamma Ray Apocalypse A Long Shot
A supernova gamma ray burst that could extinguish all life on Earth is one apocalyptic scenario that doesn’t get much…
Neurons Mix Digital And Analog Functionality
The longstanding belief that each of the brain’s 100 billion neurons communicate strictly by a digital code looks to be…
First Light For SETI Optical Telescope
The hunt for extraterrestrial life has just advanced to a new level with a powerful new optical telescope seeing first…
Venus Express At Critical Juncture
After a November 9 launch from a Soyuz-Fregat rocket last year, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express has traveled…
Uranium’s Effect On DNA Established
The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research…
Pond Scum Could Restore Vision
The latest issue of the journal Neuron details how scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the…
Climate Musings Spark Religious Brouhaha
It must have been a slow day at the lab when researchers at Florida State University (FSU) decided to put…
Wonky Waves Allow Cancer Cells To Spread
Science may be closer to understanding how cancers metastasize (move, spread and grow away from their primary site) in the…
MINOS Project Detects Ghostly Particles Changing “Flavor”
In an experimental first, an international team of scientists has managed to observe the all but massless neutrino particle transform…