Top 10 Developments For 2000
Science’s Top 10 research advances, chosen for their profound implications for society and the advancement of science, appear in the…
Ozone Recovery – Not Yet
Scientists expect that recovery of the Arctic ozone layer may be slower than previously expected because of unusually low stratospheric…
New Transistor Heralds Nano-Electronics
Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore’s Law, a general…
Rocks On Mars Suggest Ancient Lakes
Although Malin and Edgett favor water as the sedimentary suspect, they also offer an alternative model that involves changes in…
Stem Cells Develop Into Neurons In Living Animals
For years, researchers studying stem cells have been intrigued by the possibility that these cells might be used to treat…
Doors Of Perception Examined
For most of us, seeing the world around us is such an effortless process that we tend not to give…
How Animals Regulate Their Own Numbers
Zoologists from the University of Toronto have cracked the ecological puzzle of how animals – in this case the arctic…
How The ‘Mind’s Eye’ Works
In a first-ever demonstration, UCLA School of Medicine and Caltech researchers have shed new light on how the “mind’s eye”…
‘Immortal Skin’ Holds Medical Promise
From a routine study of the life span of human skin cells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research project gave rise…
Pre-Columbian Fish Farm
Since the late 1950s, scientists have known about the existence of grand-scale earthworks throughout Bolivia’s Amazonian region of Baures. Recent…
Instant Replay – Building Long-term Memory
Princeton scientists have discovered a key mechanism the brain uses to transfer short-term memories into permanent storage, a finding that…
Bipedal Reptile Fossil Predates Dinosaurs
The oldest known fossil of an upright, bipedal reptile, which predates the age of the dinosaurs by at least 60…
EMF Damages Mice Ovaries
Mice ovarian follicles exposed to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) fail to develop properly in many cases, according to…
Quantum Sized Transistors for Luxury and Exotic Cars
Engineers at the University of Rochester have created uniform silicon quantum dots-molecule-sized crystals of silicon that could someday offer computer…
Secret To Mass Extinction Events Uncovered
Some 34 million years ago, almost 90 percent of the tiny, shell-bearing sea creatures living along the U.S. Gulf Coast…
Light Shed On How The Brain ‘Thinks’
Bioengineers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, taking Plato’s concept of reality and illusion into the world of robots, have…
Spoilt In Space
American astronauts and mission control personnel who participated in missions to the Mir space station tended to be less happy…
Planets Lacking A Central Star Discovered
Scientists have discovered 18 planet-like objects, drifting free of any central star, in a region of the Orion constellation. If…
New Evidence That Garlic Protects Against Cancers
Garlic might not make breath smell like springtime in the Alps, but it can help protect against stomach and colorectal…
Earthquakes Still Threaten The Central United States
The threat of large earthquakes striking the New Madrid seismic zone remains all too real for people in St. Louis,…
Gene Therapy Reverses Effects Of Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, and Lausanne, Switzerland, have successfully used gene therapy to reverse the anatomical, cellular…
Immune System Can Control HIV
A research team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has shown that the majority of HIV-infected individuals who begin antiviral therapy…
Fetuses Hear At 30 Weeks
Listen up expectant dads: All those hours spent talking to your unborn child via your partner’s burgeoning belly don’t go…
Promising HIV Vaccine Strategy Identified In Monkey Studies
Vaccines designed to trigger an immune response to a small HIV protein called Tat could be a promising way to…
Himalayan Ice Reveals Climate Warming
Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed…
Lung Function May Predict Long Life Or Early Death
How well your lungs function may predict how long you live. This finding is the result of a nearly 30-year…
Warming Trend Seen In Late Freeze, Early Thaw
A 150-year record of freeze and ice breakup dates for lakes and rivers in such far-flung locales as Wisconsin and…
Primordial Meteorite In A Class By Itself
A chemical analysis of a rare, uncontaminated 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth earlier this year shows that its…
Intensive Exercise Is Bad For Your Lungs
“There is nothing like sport to improve your breathing!” people often say. Yet this is one piece of advice many…
Successful Use Of Drugs To Extend Lifespan
In a collaborative effort, scientists have for the first time successfully increased normal life span in the nematode worm C.…