Cancer Eradicating Treatment Goes To Human Trials
Scientists from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether…
Novel Molecule Shows Intriguing Quantum Behavior
Reporting in Nature Physics, Purdue University researchers say they have created a hybrid molecule whose associated quantum state can be…
Brain Wired For Adventure
Scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous. The region, located in a…
Researchers Demo Neural Implant That “Learns”
Neural implants, or brain-machine interfaces, are touted as the key to helping paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with…
Neanderthals’ Last Hurrah Surprisingly Sophisticated
The archaeological excavation at the Beedings site in southern England is providing scientists with a poignant glimpse into the last…
Grief Linked To Brain Pleasure Centers
Everyone experiences grief at some point in their lives, but for a substantial number of people it’s impossible to ever…
Take Two Rads And Call Me In The Morning
Gamma rays may have turned mild-mannered Bruce Banner into the Hulk, but in the real-world radiation exposure tends to be…
Microbe Colonies Show Sophisticated Learning Behaviors
Microbes may be smarter than we think, at least that’s according to Princeton University researchers who have shown for the…
Male Homosexuality Placed In Darwinian Context
Writing about their findings in the journal PLoS ONE, Italian researchers say that male homosexuality in humans can be explained…
Climatologists Mull Side-Effects Of Ozone Hole Closure
Climatologists modeling possible weather patterns that may occur when the ozone hole closes – projected to be sometime in the…
DNA Precursors In Meteorite Confirmed As Extraterrestrial
Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth may have evolved from simple bacteria that arrived via meteorite is still a…
Physicists Create Quantum-Entangled Images
Using twin light beams and a technique known as four-wave mixing, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the…
Fifteen-Thousand-Foot Fossil Find Flummoxes Fossickers
At 15,000 feet above sea level on the desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team has found thick layers of…
Omega-6 Intake Can Determine Offspring Gender
Researchers at the University of Missouri have established that maternal diet can influence the gender of offspring and that sheep…
ADHD A Benefit In The Wild?
A fascinating new study in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology suggests that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might be beneficial…
The Food Crisis Wildcard: Ozone
We’ve all heard how biofuel crops and changing weather patterns are affecting food supplies, but a scientist from the University…
Moon Dust Could Be Key Ingredient For Giant Lunar Telescope
The idea of an optical telescope on the moon gets astronomers understandably excited. With no atmosphere to blur incoming light,…
Line-Of-Sight SETI Revamp Proposed
Earth-based astronomers can detect extrasolar planets as they transit across the face of distant stars, so alien astronomers should be…
Spread Of Human Virus In Chimps Confirmed
Building on earlier work that found evidence of human viruses in deceased chimpanzees, a new study by Virginia Tech researchers…
Anchovies A Tasty Entrée Into The Marine World For Toxoplasma Gondii
Not content with befuddling the brains of land mammals; the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii is now making significant inroads into…
When Happiness Is A Disadvantage
Psychologists at the University of Virginia and the University of Plymouth in the UK have conducted experimental research that contrasts…