Red makes men behave “like animals”
A new study by two University of Rochester psychologists adds color – literally and figuratively – to the age-old question…
Quake detection gets cheap and cheerful
In the same vein as the SETI@home project, the Quake Catcher Network (QCN) aims to operate a massive seismic event…
Immune system overdrive responsible for cold symptoms
The human rhinovirus (HRV) cops most of the blame for the sneezing and runny nose that we associate with the…
Speed freaks aim to tame Bloodhound car’s ground-based sonic boom
Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), an aerodynamics team at Swansea University in the UK is playing a vital role in…
Selective memory erasure achieved
Working with rodents, scientists have been able to selectively and safely remove both new and old memories by using a…
Suicide rate leaps for white, middle-aged women
Teen suicide gets plenty of airtime, but a new American study finds that middle-aged whites, particularly women, are an emerging…
“Lost” experiment hints at a richer primordial stew
A classic 50s experiment (known as the Miller-Urey Synthesis) that showed how amino acids could be created from inorganic molecules…
Social skills predict future earnings better than test scores
Ten years after graduation, high-school students who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more…
Plentiful poo traces confirm Brits’ aversion to handwashing
A new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has found that the further north…
Bonobos show their dark side
Unlike their chimpanzee relatives, bonobos enjoy a make-love-not-war image. But a new study in Current Biology offers the first direct…
Molecular biologists get to grips with stem cell differentiation
In important new work, Florida State University (FSU) molecular biologists have begun to unscramble the enormously complex process by which…
Second virgin birth by shark confirmed
Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a “virgin birth” in a shark, raising the possibility that a relatively large…
DNA surname profiling mooted in UK
Scientists at the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester (UL) are exploring the potential link between surname and…
Visible light data network under development
The next generation of wireless communications technology will use visible light instead of radio waves, with data piggybacking on interior…
Researchers get amped over artificial electric eel cells
Researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) believe that by applying modern engineering design…
Next-gen adaptive optics produce sharpest ever planetary images
A two-hour exposure of Jupiter using a prototype Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) instrument mounted on the ESO’s Very Large Telescope…
Researchers probe brain’s communication infrastructure
Washington University School of Medicine researchers are taking the first direct look at one of the human brain’s most fundamental…