Warming Britain Attracting New Bird Species
Birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in…
9 Out Of 10 Americans Obese Or Overweight By 2030
Most adults in the United States will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care costs hitting nearly…
Dementia In Developing World “Substantially Underestimated”
Health experts had previously estimated the prevalence of dementia in the developing world at between a quarter and a fifth…
Meditation Shown To Slow Progression Of HIV
Researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) report that the practice of mindfulness meditation can halt the…
The Visual Cortex Goes Digital
Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi, from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is developing pictorial representations of digital circuits which he says can…
Two Bees? Aw, Not Two Bees…
The cause of the widespread decline in pollinating bee populations has still not been explained, but new research published in…
Monsoon Formation Theory Gets Overhaul
Geoscientists from the California Institute of Technology have proposed a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, overhauling a traditional…
Loud Music Boosts Booze Consumption
Published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, a French study has found that loud music in a bar…
Scientists Probe Ancient “RNA World”
Proteins carry out almost all of life’s cellular functions today, but bacteria sometimes depend instead upon ancient forms of RNA,…
African Ancestry Increases HIV Risk
A genetic variation which evolved to protect people of African descent against malaria has now been shown to increase their…
Novel Antibody Tackles HIV’s Achilles Heel
HIV researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (UT Medical) believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel…
Watermelon: The Fruit Of Love
Scientists from Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center say that watermelon has ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the…
Magnolia Compound Targets Cancer Switch
Emory University School of Medicine researchers say that a natural compound from magnolia blocks a pathway for cancer growth that…
Obesity Linked To Abnormal Sperm
Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children, British researchers say, after finding that men with…
The Dark Side Of Dopamine
While there is a large amount of evidence to support the idea that the brain chemical dopamine mediates positive effects,…
Web Crawler Identifies Infectious Disease Outbreaks
\ Web-based electronic information sources such as discussion forums, listervs and news outlets can play an important role in early…
Farmlands Too Toxic For Amphibians
University of Florida (UF) zoologists have found that toads in busy suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive…
Species Extinction Threat Vastly Underestimated
Extinction risks for populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical…
Political Participation Flagged In Genes
The decision to vote is partly genetic, say researchers James H. Fowler and Christopher T. Dawes, of the University of…
Lab-Created Giant Atom Goes Classical
Physicists at Rice University have succeeded in getting an electron to behave in a classical manner rather than occupy the…
Cancer Eradicating Treatment Goes To Human Trials
Scientists from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether…
Novel Molecule Shows Intriguing Quantum Behavior
Reporting in Nature Physics, Purdue University researchers say they have created a hybrid molecule whose associated quantum state can be…
Brain Wired For Adventure
Scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous. The region, located in a…
Researchers Demo Neural Implant That “Learns”
Neural implants, or brain-machine interfaces, are touted as the key to helping paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with…
Neanderthals’ Last Hurrah Surprisingly Sophisticated
The archaeological excavation at the Beedings site in southern England is providing scientists with a poignant glimpse into the last…
Grief Linked To Brain Pleasure Centers
Everyone experiences grief at some point in their lives, but for a substantial number of people it’s impossible to ever…
Take Two Rads And Call Me In The Morning
Gamma rays may have turned mild-mannered Bruce Banner into the Hulk, but in the real-world radiation exposure tends to be…
Microbe Colonies Show Sophisticated Learning Behaviors
Microbes may be smarter than we think, at least that’s according to Princeton University researchers who have shown for the…
Male Homosexuality Placed In Darwinian Context
Writing about their findings in the journal PLoS ONE, Italian researchers say that male homosexuality in humans can be explained…
Climatologists Mull Side-Effects Of Ozone Hole Closure
Climatologists modeling possible weather patterns that may occur when the ozone hole closes – projected to be sometime in the…