Newly detected cosmic noise hints at mysterious events in universe’s past
A team of NASA-funded scientists have discovered cosmic radio “noise” that is louder than the combined radio emissions of all…
Physicists measure repulsive Casimir force
Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health have detected and measured, for the first time, a repulsive…
Surprising finding from calorie-weight study
An international study has failed to find supporting evidence for the common belief that the number of calories burned in…
Central tenet of theory of relativity looks shaky
Physicists at Indiana University (IU) have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in Lorentz invariance, a…
Does religion provide an evolutionary advantage?
Religious people have more self-control than their less religious counterparts, leading to lower rates of substance abuse, better school achievement,…
Ancient diaspora was a manly affair
According to current theory, modern humans left Africa around 60,000 years ago in a migration that spread the human population…
Slavery to blame for racial disparities in health?
The latest American Journal of Human Biology contains details of two studies that contend that poor nutrition and stress –…
Did human-induced climate change begin thousands of years ago?
Climate change dogma posits that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked…
Saltwater irrigation trial a success
Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water and plant a salt-tolerant grass along with…
Study reveals profound effects of anesthetics on infants
Appearing in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, a study on the brains of newborn mice has provided more evidence that numbing…
Brainier men have better sperm
Reporting their findings in the journalIntelligence, researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry in the UK say that men with higher…
CO2 detected on distant extrasolar planet
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star, a possible…
Credit card maxed out? Blame your sex drive
Foreclosures, credit card debt, bank bailouts – all symptoms of compulsive overspending, which a University of Michigan (UM) researcher believes…
The happiness equation
Happiness is not just an individual experience, but is dependent on the happiness of others to whom individuals are connected…
Striking differences between brains of rich and poor
A new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has shown for…
The “perfect” body not always perfect
The hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute…
Psychiatric disorders common among young adults
In a study of 18-24 year-olds conducted over a 12 month period, an astonishing 47 percent of the individuals assessed…
New epigenetic transmission mechanism identified
In epigenetic inheritance, hereditary information flows from parents to offspring not via DNA, but through the millions of proteins and…
Researchers mull possible autism triggers
The journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has this month published a new study by Cornell University researchers that…
Organic molecule hints at alien life
Scientists have detected glycolaldehyde (an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life) 26,000 light years…
Ocean acidification speeding up
University of Chicago scientists have established that as well as ocean acidification increasing much more rapidly than previously thought, there…
Genital birth defect blamed on hairspray
Pregnant women that are exposed to hairspray in the workplace have more than double the risk of having a son…
Dating Tip 102: Cut yourself shaving
According to new research from the University of Liverpool, facial scars indicate high levels of testosterone and that means that…
Pesticides at “safe” levels combine to form deadly cocktail
Concentrations of the ten most widely used pesticides that fall within EPA safe-exposure levels, when combined, form an extremely toxic…
Mystery microbe forces rethink of ocean ecology
A newly discovered microorganism that lives in the open ocean is able to “fix” nitrogen but does not rely on…
Exoplanets galore! Four distant planets imaged
A team of astronomers using the Keck and Gemini North telescopes in Hawaii have managed to image three planets in…
Ovulation triggers female risk-taking behavior
It has long been recognized that women’s preferences for masculine men change throughout their menstrual cycle, but a new study…
Adaptive proteins “control” their own evolution
A previously hidden mechanism that guides the way biological organisms respond to the forces of natural selection has been observed…
MP3 headphones a potential heart stopper
Researchers have found that while MP3 players are safe to use around pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), the headphones…