Plant-Methane Brouhaha Put To Bed
The suggestion that plants may be a prodigious source of the greenhouse gas methane has finally been put to the…
Race On To Increase Biofuel Yields
With controversy surrounding the economics of biofuel production and nagging doubts about its large-scale sustainability, researchers have now turned their…
Chromosomal Changes Show Effects Of Climate Change
Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have produced the first chromosomal map showing the regions of mosquito chromosomes that…
An Exoplanet With Liquid Water?
European astronomers say they have detected a distant Earth-like planet with conditions that might allow liquid water to exist. The…
Laughing Gas Levels From Biodiesel Crops Not Funny
The wide uptake of biodiesel will not make any difference to global warming and could result in greater emissions of…
Monkeys Demonstrate Metacognitive Skills
The ability to reflect on one’s knowledge was thought of as an exclusively human ability, but it seems that other…
Green Tea Suppresses Inflammatory Autoimmune Response
A compound found in green tea appears to reduce the inflammatory responses associated with autoimmune diseases, say researchers from the…
Mites Re-Evolve Sexual Reproduction
Researchers from the University of Darmstadt in Germany and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry reported this week…
Ethanol Vehicles A Health Hazard
Ethanol advocates say that it’s a clean-burning fuel that is friendly to the environment. But a study by Stanford scientists…
Cell Phones To Blame For Deserted Bee Colonies?
A small study from Landau University in Germany suggests that the navigational capabilities of honeybees may be adversely affected by…
Quantum Shenanigans Of Photosynthesis Mapped
Photosynthesis’ amazingly efficient conversion of solar energy into chemical energy relies on sunlight being converted almost instantaneously, but how this…
Exoplanet Imager Takes Shape
NASA researchers have customized a space telescope with special masks and mirrors which they believe could allow it to take…
“Construction” Protein Found
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered a protein that causes two neighboring cells to fuse and become one super-cell. Such…
The Disappearing Male
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh has found that during the past thirty years, the number of male…
Astrophysicists Ponder Giant Cosmic Hiccup
The Westerlund 1 magnetar in the Ara constellation, about 15,000 light-years away, has been observed spewing out X-rays in a…
Battlefield Byproduct Damages Lungs
The high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide gas produced following fires, explosions of military munitions or detonations of terrorist devices can…
Modified Rabies Virus Could Tackle HIV
Scientists from Jefferson Medical College say they have produced viral immunity to an AIDS-like disease by using a weakened rabies…
Dung Critter Lifts Mood
Scientists from the University of Bristol and University College London have found that treating mice with soil bacteria altered their…
Fungicide Causing Unusual Epigenetic Changes In Rats
Epigenetic changes (inherited changes in gene regulation that occur without a change in DNA sequence) caused by a common fruit…