Strange Quarks’ Role In Proton Revealed
Shedding light on a somewhat controversial subject, physicists from the G-Zero collaboration have found that strange quarks do indeed contribute…
Second Agricultural Revolution In The Offing
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich and Washington State University, have managed to trigger nodulation in legumes, a key…
Engineers Come Up With Undetectable Radar System
Engineers from Ohio State University have put together a radar system that is virtually undetectable, thanks to its signal resembling…
Cell Phone Emissions Beneficial?
Previous studies into the physiological effects of cell phone emissions haven’t found anything that looks to be overtly dangerous. But…
Scientists Fuse Spider Silk And Silica To Create Novel New Material
Bioengineers at Tufts University, who have been delving into silk’s secrets for more than a decade, have created a new…
Up, Up And Away For Athletes Taking Viagra
Researchers writing in the Journal of Applied Physiology have reported on some intriguing trials conducted at simulated high altitude with…
Switchable Stickiness
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an “optically switchable” material that changes from sticky to slippery when exposed to…
Addicted To Knowledge
Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept:…
Ray Guns In The Cinema: Camera Neutralizing Device Unveiled
Compulsive tinkerers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a prototype device that they say can stop digital cameras…
Rodent Comparison Supports Hygiene Hypothesis
A study appearing in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology lends support to the idea that too much cleanliness can be…
HIV’s Virulence An Evolutionary Accident
The high virulence of HIV-1 might be due to an accident of evolution, say researchers writing in the journal Cell.…
Stars Gone Wild
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some pictures of the dusty core of two merging galaxies and uncovered a region…
Trauma The Major Cause of Schizophrenia?
Two psychiatric conferences in Europe have been told that child abuse can cause schizophrenia. The man behind the contentious theory,…
Researchers Investigate Giant Sperm Paradox
Adam Bjork and Scott Pitnick of Syracuse University have been getting down and dirty with sexual selection again. Following on…
UCLA Announces Breakthrough In Protein Engineering
A significant step toward a new approach to protein engineering has been reported by University of California – Los Angeles…
Altered Seasons Driving Genetic Changes
The effects of climate change over the past few decades have led to heritable, genetic changes in animals as diverse…
New Theory On Green Tea’s Medicinal Properties
Scientists have for some time been puzzled about the lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in Asian countries where…
The Strange Case Of The Missing Dimension
Scientists at Los Alamos have uncovered an intriguing quantum mechanical phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate (a…
Smoking Gun For Permian-Triassic Extinction Found
Scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact in Antarctica that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s…
Testosterone A Mixed Blessing For Songbirds
High testosterone levels are something of a mixed blessing for dark-eyed junco songbirds, say researchers from North Dakota State University,…