New evidence for environmental chemicals impacting female fertility
UCLA researchers have found the first evidence that chemicals used in everyday items such as food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery,…
Honeybee shows surprising numeric skills
Honeybees can discriminate between patterns containing two and three dots – without having to count the dots, a research team…
Biologists mull rapid, non-adaptive gene mutations
Scientists attempting to discover why some human genes evolved very rapidly believe that biased gene conversion (a non-adaptive evolutionary process)…
Female companions boost male fertility
Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent,…
Therapy and drugs prove to be effective against body dysmorphia
A new meta-study has found that drug therapy and psychotherapy can effectively treat the condition known as body dysmorphic disorder,…
Pollutants causing Nile fishery to grow dramatically
While many of the world’s fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded…
Game theory shows why you can’t hurry love
English boffins have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted. The…
Asymmetrical brain gives up its secrets
Two newly identified proteins are responsible for the tug-of-war between the two sides of the developing human brain that causes…
Meta-review slams herbal remedies for menopausal women
Reviewing a variety of herbal treatments taken by women for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats, researchers…
Humans reshaping other species at lightning speed
Human activities such as fishing and hunting are having astonishingly broad and swift impacts on the body size and reproductive…
Knocking on the door of life: Self-replicating RNA synthesized
Scientists have long known that DNA carries the genetic sequence for advanced organisms and that RNA is dependent on DNA…
Newly detected cosmic noise hints at mysterious events in universe’s past
A team of NASA-funded scientists have discovered cosmic radio “noise” that is louder than the combined radio emissions of all…
Physicists measure repulsive Casimir force
Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health have detected and measured, for the first time, a repulsive…
Surprising finding from calorie-weight study
An international study has failed to find supporting evidence for the common belief that the number of calories burned in…
Central tenet of theory of relativity looks shaky
Physicists at Indiana University (IU) have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in Lorentz invariance, a…
Does religion provide an evolutionary advantage?
Religious people have more self-control than their less religious counterparts, leading to lower rates of substance abuse, better school achievement,…