Girth, Not Length, Makes For Healthy Streams
How much excess nitrogen – from fertilizers, animal waste, sewer lines, and highways – reaches waterways appears to be heavily…
New Class Of Galactic Nuclei Identified
Reporting in Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and the Japanese Suzaku X-ray observatory say they has discovered…
Biologists Create Gene “Dimmer Switch”
Writing in the journal Cell, three Boston University biomedical engineers report they have created a genetic dimmer switch that can…
When A Bad Fit Improves Accuracy
Molecular “computations” are essential for the survival of all organisms. To work, the molecules must pinpoint and then bind to…
Solar Cell Efficiency Approaching 50%
University of Delaware (UD) researchers have managed to crank up the efficiency of silicon solar cells to a record-breaking 42.8…
Writer’s Cramp A Sign Of Brain Abnormalities
Compared to healthy individuals, people with serious cases of writer’s cramp have less brain tissue in areas of the brain…
ADHD Drug Affects Developing Brain
Ritalin – used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder – may cause long-term changes in children’s brains, suggests a new study…
Report Pooh-Poohs Corn Biofuels
Corn is not a viable biofuel source, says a new report released today by Food & Water Watch, the Network…
Medicos Mull Advantageous Drug-Food Interactions
Exploiting interactions between food and drugs could dramatically lower the rising costs associated with anticancer drugs and other medications, say…
Mirror Neurons Show Their Xenophobic Side
The infamous middle finger salute is recognized by nearly everyone in our society, but to someone from a foreign country,…
Tourette’s Sufferers Enjoy Superior Grammar Skills
Children with Tourette’s syndrome are much quicker at certain mental grammar skills than are children without the disorder, suggests a…
Antibiotics Absorbed By Vegetables
Evaluating the impact of livestock antibiotics on the environment, University of Minnesota researchers have found that many vegetables uptake the…
Chernobyl Radiation Affecting The Brightest Of The Bunch
Birds with brightly colored plumage are among the species most adversely affected by the high levels of radiation around the…
Chill Out… And Fight!
Chinese researchers have found a startling correlation between peaks of warfare in China and cold phases. David Zhang, from the…
Physicists Surf New Type Of Electron Wave
Physicists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) have proven the existence of a new type of electron wave on…
Sperm Used To Clone Male Genome
A man’s low sperm count often means that fertility treatment involves locating a single viable sperm and injecting it into…
Pesticide Suspected In Case Of AWOL Honeybees
The sudden disappearance of honeybees (colony collapse disorder) in many parts of the country might be related to pesticide exposure,…
Before The Big Bang
Using Loop Quantum Gravity theory, physicists have proposed a new mathematical model of what the universe looked like before the…