Vege-based drugs inhibit melanoma
Tests on mice suggest that compounds extracted from green vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could be used as potent…
CO2 behind prehistoric global cooling
Ice in Antarctica appeared suddenly (in geologic terms) about 35 million years ago, after more than 100 million years of…
Simplicity of brain’s odor encoding revealed
In the real world, smells don’t happen one odor at a time. Animal movements distort plumes of odor molecules that…
Biodiverse regions are hotspots for war
A new study in the journal Conservation Biology shows that more than 80 percent of the world’s major armed conflicts…
Scientists cast doubt on role of free radicals in aging
For nearly half a century, the prevailing dogma as to why we get old has been tied to what is…
Penguin populations plummeting
Changing weather patterns, over-fishing, pollution and other factors have conspired to drive penguin populations into a precipitous decline, according to…
Dire new warning on climate from IPCC scientist
Previously unconsidered positive feedbacks in the climate system (such as the release of arctic permafrost) have led a Nobel Prize-winning…
More evidence for herpes conferring beneficial anti-bacterial effect
A new study by scientists at the Trudeau Institute has confirmed intriguing findings from earlier research that showed that mice…
Chromosome study challenges infidelity dogma
Our surnames and genetic information are often strongly connected, according to the authors of a new study in the journal…
Birth defects linked to obesity during pregnancy
Women who are obese during pregnancy are putting their child at risk of birth defects such as spina bifida, heart…
Goodbye Mr Nice Guy
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers have turned up some new answers to the age-old question of what we…
Likely sea level rise underestimated
If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses, as many experts believe it will because of global warming, the resulting sea…
Primitive whales gave birth on land
A pair of ancient whale fossils – a pregnant female and a male of the same species – reveals how…
“Holographic noise” may herald new era in physics
A British-German team of physicists searching the depths of space for gravitational waves may have stumbled on one of the…
New evidence linking marijuana use to brain abnormalities in adolescents
Young people who are heavy users of marijuana are more likely than non-users to have disrupted development in the areas…
Newly discovered non-coding genes control critical disease processes
Researchers from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have discovered a vast new…
New evidence for environmental chemicals impacting female fertility
UCLA researchers have found the first evidence that chemicals used in everyday items such as food packaging, pesticides, clothing, upholstery,…
Honeybee shows surprising numeric skills
Honeybees can discriminate between patterns containing two and three dots – without having to count the dots, a research team…
Biologists mull rapid, non-adaptive gene mutations
Scientists attempting to discover why some human genes evolved very rapidly believe that biased gene conversion (a non-adaptive evolutionary process)…
Female companions boost male fertility
Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent,…
Therapy and drugs prove to be effective against body dysmorphia
A new meta-study has found that drug therapy and psychotherapy can effectively treat the condition known as body dysmorphic disorder,…
Pollutants causing Nile fishery to grow dramatically
While many of the world’s fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded…
Game theory shows why you can’t hurry love
English boffins have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted. The…
Asymmetrical brain gives up its secrets
Two newly identified proteins are responsible for the tug-of-war between the two sides of the developing human brain that causes…
Meta-review slams herbal remedies for menopausal women
Reviewing a variety of herbal treatments taken by women for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats, researchers…
Humans reshaping other species at lightning speed
Human activities such as fishing and hunting are having astonishingly broad and swift impacts on the body size and reproductive…
Knocking on the door of life: Self-replicating RNA synthesized
Scientists have long known that DNA carries the genetic sequence for advanced organisms and that RNA is dependent on DNA…