Stormy Times For Uranus
Two billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United…
Rover Peers Into Victoria Crater
NASA’s enduring and plucky Mars rover, Opportunity, has arrived at the rim of Victoria Crater. Initial images from the rover…
Beauty Is NOT In The Brain Of The Beholder
The phrase “easy on the eye” may also mean that an image is easy on the mind, as it seems…
Stealth And Sacrifice Show Evolution At Work
Male crickets on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have undergone a sudden heritable change that has rendered most of them…
Honey, I Shrunk The Particle Accelerator
Is that a particle accelerator in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Scientists investigating the mysteries…
Hubble Locates Gaggle Of Baby Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a trove of 500 infant galaxies, formed around one billion years after the big…
HIV Prefers Smokers
An article in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infectionssuggests that smokers may be unwittingly modifying their immune systems, making them more…
Fat Gets A Makeover
Body fat doesn’t just, er, make you fat. It also acts as a repository for all sorts of potentially nasty…
Floating Wind Turbines Could Sink NIMBY Protests
As an environmentally friendly solution for generating electricity, wind power has attracted more than its fair share of adversaries. The…
Extreme Diet Nixes Alzheimer’s
Scheduled for publication in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, a study by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers extends and…
Unknown Writing System Uncovered On Ancient Olmec Tablet
Science magazine this week details the discovery of a stone block in Veracruz, Mexico, that contains a previously unknown system…
The Incredible Shrinking Arctic
NASA researchers have released worrying data concerning the rapidly diminishing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. According to their figures,…
Prozac In Wastewater Threatens Mussels
Wastewater carrying traces of the antidepressant Prozac is disrupting the reproductive cycle of mollusks, threatening them with extinction, according a…
Dad’s Smell Puts The Kibosh On Inbreeding
Researchers from Penn State’s Altoona Campus say that pheromone cues from human fathers may delay the onset of sexual maturity…
Homo Sapiens Brow-Beaten By Neanderthals
We modern-day humans think that we’re pretty damn good looking compared to our brow-ridged, potato nosed Neanderthal relatives, but new…
New Theory Predicts Plenty Of Earth-Like Planets
NASA scientists say that more than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth’s solar system may harbor…
Pleistocene Era Methane Adds To Greenhouse Misery
A Florida State University (FSU) scientist says that as the permafrost in Northern Siberia melts because of climate change, methane…
Gravity Equations Useful In Modeling Earthbound Phenomena
According to researchers from Penn State University and the University of Virginia, the spread of diseases by insects can be…
Big Bang Brouhaha Brewing
The disturbing lack of evidence of microwave “shadows” from nearby galactic clusters is raising new questions about the faint glow…
ESA Lunar Module A Real Smart-1
In the early hours of September 3, the European Space Agency’s SMART-1 spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface, the deliberate…
Veggie Juice Reduces Risk Of Vegetative State
The September issue of The American Journal of Medicine reports that a specific class of antioxidant found in fruit and…