“Massive” Horizontal Gene Transfer In Animal Kingdom Revealed
If you’re an animal, you inherit your genes from your parents at the moment of conception, right? Not quite, according…
Monkey Mind Over Matter
A monkey has successfully fed itself using a robotic arm controlled by signals from its brain. The researchers behind the…
Viking DNA Retrieved
As well as raping and pillaging, Vikings are usually remembered for their horned helmets, but in a new study published…
Drink-Up For Superior Sperm
Men who drink alcohol regularly are more likely to have better semen quality while men in certain occupations are more…
Scientists Mull Earthquake Love Waves
A new study in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that large earthquakes routinely trigger smaller jolts worldwide, sometimes as far…
Turbulent Times On Jupiter
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, say that the increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than…
Jumping Robot Designed With Rough Terrain In Mind
Designed to explore rough, inaccessible terrain or to aid in search and rescue operations, researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent…
Incense Found To Be Psychoactive
Biologists from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have discovered that burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia…
The Photonic Bug
Creating an ideal “photonic crystal” to manipulate visible light in optical computers may now be possible, thanks to a beetle…
Grandpa’s Soap Alive And Kicking
Environmental and human health concerns about the endocrine disrupting antimicrobials triclosan (TCS) and triclocarban (TCC) may get some traction thanks…
The Great Escape
A mechanism for how information might escape from a black hole has been proposed by a team of physicists at…
Hunger’s Longevity Effect Due To Altered Hormonal Levels
The hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain how a low calorie diet can extend…
New Physiological Evidence For Social Anxiety Disorder
Using single-photon emission computed tomography; Dutch researchers were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized…
Cell Phones More Expensive Than Hubble Space Comms
A British space scientist has worked out that sending texts (SMS) via cell phone works out to be far more…
Folding Proteins For Fun And Profit
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have turned protein folding into a competitive computer game and are hoping to…
Fungi Enlisted To Clean-Up Depleted Uranium
In a discovery that could have important implications for the clean-up of war ravaged countries, researchers have found evidence that…
Biodiversity: It’s In The Water
Hydrology may be more important for predicting biodiversity than biology, say an international group of scientists whose study in the…
Epigenetic Changes Discovered In Abuse Victims’ Brains
A team of McGill University scientists have discovered important differences between the brains of suicide victims who suffered abuse as…
Solar System’s “Bouncing” Linked To Mass Extinction Events
A new computer model of our solar system’s movement relative to the Milky Way indicates that it “bounces” up and…
Lack Of A McShrinky Makes Therapy Unappealing
Television’s portrayal of psychological counselors as either buffoons or unethical clods makes people less willing to seek professional mental health…
Electromagnetic Fields Disrupt Newborns’ Heart Rates
The electromagnetic fields produced by hospital incubators can interfere with newborn babies’ heart rates, potentially creating problems for infants born…