DNA Precursors In Meteorite Confirmed As Extraterrestrial
Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth may have evolved from simple bacteria that arrived via meteorite is still a…
Physicists Create Quantum-Entangled Images
Using twin light beams and a technique known as four-wave mixing, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the…
Fifteen-Thousand-Foot Fossil Find Flummoxes Fossickers
At 15,000 feet above sea level on the desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team has found thick layers of…
Omega-6 Intake Can Determine Offspring Gender
Researchers at the University of Missouri have established that maternal diet can influence the gender of offspring and that sheep…
ADHD A Benefit In The Wild?
A fascinating new study in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology suggests that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might be beneficial…
The Food Crisis Wildcard: Ozone
We’ve all heard how biofuel crops and changing weather patterns are affecting food supplies, but a scientist from the University…
Moon Dust Could Be Key Ingredient For Giant Lunar Telescope
The idea of an optical telescope on the moon gets astronomers understandably excited. With no atmosphere to blur incoming light,…
Line-Of-Sight SETI Revamp Proposed
Earth-based astronomers can detect extrasolar planets as they transit across the face of distant stars, so alien astronomers should be…
Spread Of Human Virus In Chimps Confirmed
Building on earlier work that found evidence of human viruses in deceased chimpanzees, a new study by Virginia Tech researchers…
Anchovies A Tasty Entrée Into The Marine World For Toxoplasma Gondii
Not content with befuddling the brains of land mammals; the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii is now making significant inroads into…
When Happiness Is A Disadvantage
Psychologists at the University of Virginia and the University of Plymouth in the UK have conducted experimental research that contrasts…
“Massive” Horizontal Gene Transfer In Animal Kingdom Revealed
If you’re an animal, you inherit your genes from your parents at the moment of conception, right? Not quite, according…
Monkey Mind Over Matter
A monkey has successfully fed itself using a robotic arm controlled by signals from its brain. The researchers behind the…
Viking DNA Retrieved
As well as raping and pillaging, Vikings are usually remembered for their horned helmets, but in a new study published…
Drink-Up For Superior Sperm
Men who drink alcohol regularly are more likely to have better semen quality while men in certain occupations are more…
Scientists Mull Earthquake Love Waves
A new study in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that large earthquakes routinely trigger smaller jolts worldwide, sometimes as far…
Turbulent Times On Jupiter
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, say that the increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than…
Jumping Robot Designed With Rough Terrain In Mind
Designed to explore rough, inaccessible terrain or to aid in search and rescue operations, researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent…
Incense Found To Be Psychoactive
Biologists from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have discovered that burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia…
The Photonic Bug
Creating an ideal “photonic crystal” to manipulate visible light in optical computers may now be possible, thanks to a beetle…
Grandpa’s Soap Alive And Kicking
Environmental and human health concerns about the endocrine disrupting antimicrobials triclosan (TCS) and triclocarban (TCC) may get some traction thanks…
The Great Escape
A mechanism for how information might escape from a black hole has been proposed by a team of physicists at…
Hunger’s Longevity Effect Due To Altered Hormonal Levels
The hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain how a low calorie diet can extend…
New Physiological Evidence For Social Anxiety Disorder
Using single-photon emission computed tomography; Dutch researchers were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized…
Cell Phones More Expensive Than Hubble Space Comms
A British space scientist has worked out that sending texts (SMS) via cell phone works out to be far more…
Folding Proteins For Fun And Profit
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have turned protein folding into a competitive computer game and are hoping to…
Fungi Enlisted To Clean-Up Depleted Uranium
In a discovery that could have important implications for the clean-up of war ravaged countries, researchers have found evidence that…
Biodiversity: It’s In The Water
Hydrology may be more important for predicting biodiversity than biology, say an international group of scientists whose study in the…
Epigenetic Changes Discovered In Abuse Victims’ Brains
A team of McGill University scientists have discovered important differences between the brains of suicide victims who suffered abuse as…