Folk-medicine herbal alkaloid synthesized
The moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant containing a potent brew of alkaloids that have attracted scientific interest…
Vaccine developed for E. coli diarrheal diseases
A researcher from Michigan State University (MSU) has developed a working vaccine for enterotoxigenic E. Coli, which is responsible for…
Tweet this: Rapid-fire media confuses our moral compass
Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study by researchers at the…
Meat market for chimps
Newly documented observations of male and female chimps exchanging meat for mating access helps to explain how the females choose…
A genetic basis for love at first sight
A multinational team of researchers has discovered that at the genetic level, some males and females are more compatible than…
The neurobiology of wisdom
A new meta-study just completed by University of California neurologists sought to determine if specific brain circuits and pathways might…
Racetrack computer memory “within 10 years,” say researchers
A new kind of computer memory, called “racetrack” memory, looks set to replace the hard disk as the standard method…
Battery built from GM viruses
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have genetically engineered viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of…
Disinfectant by-products create toxic cocktail
The disinfection of water stands out as possibly the most significant public health achievement, but a recent study shows that…
Season of conception linked to birth defect risk
Birth defect rates in the United States are highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer – the time…
Magnets used to clean up bloodstream
Sepsis, a potentially lethal disease caused by a systemic microbial infection that spreads via the bloodstream, is responsible for more…
Estrogen contamination in bottled water “just the tip of the iceberg,” say scientists
The notion that bottled mineral water is clean and without contamination is being challenged by new research that has identified…
Compelling new evidence for benefits of circumcision
Reporting their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, American and Ugandan scientists working in Africa describe how adult…
Redefining DNA’s structure for fun and profit
In a bold rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists have designed a new type of DNA with 12 chemical…
Cold fusion a hot topic – again
Researchers from all over the globe are reporting intriguing new evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the…
Carbohydrate synthesizer opens door to new field of medicine
German scientists have reported a major advance toward opening the doors of a carbohydrate-based medicine chest for the 21st Century.…
Mothers’ exposure to insecticide linked to offspring obesity
Prenatal exposure to an insecticide commonly used up until the 1970s may play a role in the obesity epidemic in…
New clues in understanding face perception
Humans excel at recognizing faces but neuroscience can’t say how we accomplish it. Now, in an effort to explain our…
Extraterrestrial amino acids left-handed
NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites say that the extraterrestrial biological molecules brought to Earth by meteorite impacts could…
Guitarists’ brains synchronized
When guitarists play along together it isn’t just their instruments that are in time – their brain waves are too,…
New antibiotics solve resistance problem
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are developing a new generation of antibiotic compounds that…
“Spin battery” provides novel electrical storage
Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have developed what they call…
Salt: nature’s antidepressant
Most people consume far too much salt and a University of Iowa (UI) researcher thinks we might crave it because…
Physicists observe single top-quark
Physicists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The…
More evidence for obesity-infertility link
Obese women appear to undergo alterations in their ovaries which might be responsible for an egg’s inability to make an…
Testosterone patch to boost women’s sex drive gets thumbs-down
Intrinsa, a new testosterone patch designed to pep up a woman’s flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may…
Dead Sea dying?
The water levels in the Dead Sea are dropping at an alarming rate (14 km3 of water in the last…
Musicians’ brains optimized to identify emotion
In research that may lead to new therapies for children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, researchers from Northwestern University have…
Truth-in-spam-shock: penis enlargement possible
Contrary to established medical wisdom, a new European study has found that the mechanical devices known as penile extenders do…
“Ethanol subsidies a poor investment economically and environmentally,” study finds
To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today’s technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than…