Body odor reveals age
Reporting their findings in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers from the Monell Center say that humans can estimate the age…
Birds are baby dinosaurs, say Harvard scientists
Birds and dinosaurs are more closely related than previously thought, say scientists who claim that modern birds are, essentially, living…
Families forged from female food fanciers
A new mathematical simulation shows that the most commonly proposed theories for the emergence of human pair-bonding are not biologically…
Science literacy of dubious value in climate change assessment
Is there disagreement over climate change because some people lack science literacy and numeracy? If the public knew more basic…
PVC flooring chemicals taken up by skin contact
Higher levels of the plastics chemicals known as phthalates have been found in children from homes containing PVC flooring materials,…
Quantum effect in photosynthesis leaves researchers mystified
Using ultrafast spectroscopy, scientists have observed what happens at the subatomic level during the very first stage of photosynthesis and…
Nomad planets seeding life throughout the universe?
According to new calculations, planets adrift in space without a “home” solar system are abundant in the universe and scientists…
Synthetic excrement touted as solution to gastric woes
Typically acquired after a course of antibiotics,Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections are skyrocketing, and medicos from Queen’s University in Canada…
Virus linked to macular degeneration
US scientists have found that a type of herpes-virus infection of the eye is associated with age-related macular degeneration, a…
First inexact computer chip aimed at developing world
Moving from theory to reality, US researchers have unveiled the world’s first inexact computer chip (pictured). Error checking on the…
Bird poo and manta rays: nature’s intricate connectivity revealed
One of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented sheds light on how human disturbance of the natural world may…
Earliest cave art was erotica, say anthropologists
A block of limestone in southwestern France is adorned with what anthropologists believe are engravings of female genitalia dating back…
US diet engenders stupidity
A new UCLA study with rodents is the first to show how a diet high in fructose sabotages memory and…
Thought-controlled robotic arm demonstrated
A paralyzed woman has been able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own by using her…
Ovulation goggles make Mr Wrong look like Mr Right
Nice guys finish last when women are wearing ovulation goggles, say University of Texas researchers who have been investigating exactlywhy…
Carbon emission levels from deforestation challenged
When trees are felled to create solid wood products – such as lumber for housing – the wood retains most…
Entropy the major player in chirality conundrum
Why many of the important molecules in our bodies almost always occur in just one chiral form (either right or…
Dino farts warmed early climate
Mesozoic methane emissions from dinosaurs could, according to new calculations, have produced more of the notorious greenhouse gas than all…
Robot probe maps brain neuron activity faster, more accurately
Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a robotic probe to automate the process of finding…
“Seeing” auras is really synesthesia, say Euro scientists
Spanish researchers say that healers who claim to be able to see the auras surrounding people are actually suffering synesthesia,…
Venus transit to help identify possible neo-Earths
Hoping to eventually identify Earth-like planets in other solar systems, astronomers plan to point the Hubble telescope at the Moon’s…
Single gene mutation responsible for modern humans
Scientists believe that the appearance of a partial, duplicate copy of a gene, occurring around the time that the Australopithecus…
Controversial bird flu research finally published
After an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to block publication, a study that shows how the avian H5N1…
Hundreds of rogue stars found outside galaxy
Vanderbilt University astronomers say they have identified more than 600 stars that have been violently flung out of the Milky…
Inch-long fleas tormented dinosaurs
Ten times bigger than their modern cousins, prehistoric flea fossils unearthed by Chinese scientists reveal a proboscis like a hypodermic…