Ozone hole closure not so cool
Using a new global aerosol model and two decades of meteorological data, University of Leeds climatologists have discovered a feedback…
Sub-fertility linked to flame retardant exposure
The first study to investigate the impact of flame retardants – commonly found in household consumer products – on human…
Antioxidants found to impair muscle function
Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but new studies at Kansas State University show…
Traveling into the future… with sugar
Researchers looking into how blood glucose levels impact our thought processes have found that when we have more energy available…
Stillbirth linked directly to mother’s oral bacteria
Confirming long-held suspicions, a Case Western Reserve University researcher has for the first time established a direct link between a…
Tying light in knots
A team of physicists has used knot theory – a branch of abstract mathematics – to create holograms where light…
Antiviral drugs could create “super viruses”
Recent widespread flu scares have seen a clamor for antiviral medications, but researchers from the University of Texas at Austin…
Male testosterone levels surge with ovulation
Instead of using perfume to attract a mate, women may be better off going au naturel, say researchers from Florida…
Poker paradox: the more hands you win, the more money you lose
Analyzing more than 27 million hands of No-Limit Texas Hold’em, a Cornell researcher has found that the more hands players…
Evolution to blame for modern-day health problems?
The subtle but relentless pressures of human evolution could explain the rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases, and…
Gardeners half-correct about midday watering
Gardeners have always maintained that watering plants in sunlight can damage the foliage, but research published in New Phytologist shows…
Physicists discover golden ratio in the quantum realm
An international team of researchers have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter that…
Cell phones reverse Alzheimer’s in mice
A startling new study in mice provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to the electromagnetic emissions from cell phone…
Hubble captures images of earliest ever galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of ultra-blue galaxies whose…
Mind and body clash over sexual arousal
Women’s minds and genitals often disagree about sexual arousal, suggests a new meta-study that compared subjective ratings and physiological measures…
Prions capable of evolutionary change
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that proteinaceous infectious particles (prions) are capable of Darwinian evolution. The breakthrough…