Living Bacteria From Space
Evidence of living bacterial cells entering the Earth’s upper atmosphere from space has come from a joint project involving Indian…
Are cancers newly evolved species?
UC Berkeley molecular biologists propose that carcinogenesis – the generation of cancer – is just another form of speciation, the…
Acoustic diode allows one-way sound transmission
Based on a simple assembly of granular crystals that transmit sound vibrations, Caltech researchers have created the first tunable acoustic…
Scientists quantify critical-mass required for spread of ideas
If just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority,…
Predator-prey dynamics used to model cloud systems
Mathematical formulae that describe the population dynamics of prey animals such as gazelles and their predators have been used to…
Unmanned Helicopter Breakthrough
Piloting a helicopter can be like busting a bucking bronco. Pilots must battle the helicopter’s innate tendency to accelerate in…
Largest water mass in universe discovered
A reservoir of water that is 100,000 times the mass of the sun has been detected by an international team…
Stuttering A Physical Problem Rather Than Emotional
Stuttering has been long thought to be caused by emotional factors, but researchers who studied adults with persistent stuttering found…
Mushy memory brings biocompatible electronics a step closer
A new generation of biocompatible electronic devices may be in the offing with the development of a memory device that…
Artificial neural network created from DNA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researchers have made an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting…
Inactive cells modified to generate and transmit electrical current
By genetically modifying normally “unexcitable” cells, Duke University bioengineers have turned them into cells capable of generating and passing electrical…
Galactic spin theory neatly explains Charge Parity violation
Experimental observations of sub-atomic particles known as Kaons and B Mesons have revealed significant differences in how their matter and…
Form Of Matter Shows Ability To Collapse & Explode
A group of Colorado physicists who made worldwide news in 1995 by creating a new form of matter called Bose-Einstein…
Climate change studies vexed by Vesta
Paleoclimate studies, where scientists look into the past to try and understand changes in Earth’s climate, may be a waste…
Testing Einstein’s Warped Space
In the most precise astrophysics experiment ever made, Australian and U.S. astronomers have used CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope to measure…
This is your brain on androids
Ever watched a kids’ movie where the animated human characters are realistic but just not quite right and maybe a…
Experimental wind-farm produces tenfold power increase
Caltech researchers say the power output of wind-farms can be increased by an order of magnitude – at least tenfold…
Mystery Of The Shower Curtain Solved
There’s no way to get rid of the daily annoyance of the shower curtain billowing in and sticking to an…
Drugs of addiction hijack our love of salt
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Melbourne have found that addictive drugs appear to hijack the…
Is Mills and Boon derailing women’s health?
Writing in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, pop-psychologist and agony aunt Susan Quilliam argues that idealized…
Normal Visual Experience Neccesary For Proper Brain Development
Duke University Medical Center researchers have developed evidence in animal experiments indicating that – while the brain’s structures are prewired…
Harvested TV, radio signals power devices
Georgia Tech scientists using a novel printable ultra-wideband antenna have shown that the ambient electromagnetic waves from TV stations, radio…
Cheap-and-cheerful pinhead camera doesn’t need lens
A Cornell-developed camera that fits on the head of a pin, contains no lenses or moving parts and costs pennies…
Forget about it
The notion that we can intentionally forget unwanted memories has been controversial ever since Freud proposed it at the beginning…
One Electron Transistor For Molecular Computers
A single electron makes the difference between “on” and “off” for a new transistor made from a single carbon nanotube,…
Medicos want Champix banned
An international team of researchers have called for the smoking cessation drug varenicline (marketed as Champix in Europe and Chantix…
Nicotine receptors found to play key role in social behaviors
Scientists say that the nicotine receptors in the brain play an important role in social interactions and the ability to…
Cause & Effect?
Memory “illusions” may result from the basic human need to make sense out of events. A series of experiments has…
Space travel safer with shiraz
Intriguing new research in the FASEB Journalsuggests that the “healthy” ingredient in red wine, resveratrol, may prevent the negative effects…