Plastic Bottles And Hot Liquids A Bad Combo
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have discovered that polycarbonate plastic bottles, when exposed to hot liquids, release potentially hazardous…
Pimped Bacterium Churns Out Hydrogen
Thomas Wood, a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department, has “tweaked” a strain of E. coli so that…
Demographers Mull Effects Of Aging Population
In the latest issue of the Public Policy & Aging Report , Duquesne University researcher Mark L. Haas argues that…
Something Fishy About Rocketing Oceanic Nitrogen Levels
A Canadian-U.S. study, published in Nature Geoscience, has found that commercial fisheries play an unexpected role in the decline of…
Liver Recipient Takes On Donor’s Immune System
An Australian teenager who received a liver transplant has astonished medical experts by taking on her donor’s immune system. Writing…
Cell Phone Radiation Triggers Insomnia
A joint study involving Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and researchers in Sweden has found that cell…
Tweaking Diatoms For Nanofabrication Duties
Diatoms, tiny phytoplankton that encase themselves in intricately patterned shells, could represent the next big breakthrough in computer chip fabrication,…
New Delivery Method For Gene Therapy
Gene therapy theoretically makes it possible to introduce genes into cells to cure disease or address deficiencies in biological processes.…
Flexible Electronics Melded With Contact Lens Creates Bionic Eye
Engineers at the University of Washington (UW) have for the first time used microscopic manufacturing techniques to combine a flexible,…
Parasite Turns Ants Fruity
A newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red…
Glacial Acceleration Linked To “Plumbing” Issues
A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska’s Kennicott Glacier, causing it…
Aggression As Rewarding As Sex
Vanderbilt University researchers have shown for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward – much like…
High Levels Of Antibiotic Resistance In Arctic Birds
The journal Emerging Infectious Diseases reports the worrying discovery that birds captured in the Arctic tundra are carrying antibiotic-resistant bacteria.…
Glacier Woes Overstated?
New research from the University of California – San Diego challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could…
Chimp Culture Human-Like
Socially-learned cultural behavior thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, say scientists at the University…
An Inconvenient Galaxy
The discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding…
Polarization Technique Used To “See” Exoplanet
For the first time, astronomers have been able to detect and monitor the reflected visible light that is scattered in…