Worm DNA preserved in tequila
Not swallowing the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn’t mean you’ll avoid worminess, say scientists at…
Samoan study reveals possible evolutionary role for homosexuality
Male homosexuality doesn’t make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view but a new study suggests that it may…
Viagra found to enhance fetal growth
Not content with erections, Pfizer have been funding left-of-field studies for other potential applications for their money-spinning erectile dysfunction treatment.…
Facebook use associated with depression
An alarming new study by University of Leeds psychologists provides compelling evidence that online chat rooms and social networking sites…
White paint touted as climate remedy
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities, say researchers from the National Center for…
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…
Tantalizing hint of dark matter’s existence
Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky first suggested that a distant cluster of galaxies would fall apart were it not for the…
Fertilizer run-off disrupting food chain in unexpected ways
Conventional wisdom has held that additional nutrients flowing into stream systems causes an increase in production all along the food…
Bacteria used to crank-up tiny machines
Scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University have created hybrid biomechanical systems driven by bacteria and controlled by…
Do antidepressant meds work through personality change?
New evidence suggests that popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant medications can substantially change patients’ personalities, and researchers speculate…
No end in sight for Alaskan coastal erosion
Thanks to a “triple whammy” of declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity, the northern coastline of Alaska…
Switch that turns male fertility on-and-off discovered
By manipulating testicular hormone levels, researchers from the Centre for Reproductive Biology at The Queen’s Medical Research Institute (Edinburgh, Scotland)…
Carbon impacts get major revision
The climate may be up to 50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously…
Scientists ponder global change in whale song
The pitch of the songs that blue whales sing across vast expanses of ocean to attract mates has been steadily…