Meteorites Spiced Up Primordial Soup
The primordial organic soup that spawned life on Earth may have gotten some special ingredients from outer space, according to…
Epigenetic Changes Found In Schizophrenics
For the first time, scientists from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have discovered epigenetic changes (chemical changes…
Real And Virtual Systems Merged In Mixed Reality State
Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois (UI) have created the first mixed…
Brits Invite ET Over For Corn Chips
Snack food company Doritos is sponsoring a competition in the UK to beam a user-created advertisement (using a 2-billion watt…
First Light For Binocular Telescope
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham, in Arizona, has captured images using its twin primary mirrors together for…
Rethink On Cause Of Type 2 Diabetes
Growing evidence shows that surgery on the small bowel may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes – an approach that may…
Expensive Placebo Works Better Than Cheap One
A 10-cent pill doesn’t kill pain as well as a $2.50 pill, even when they are identical placebos, according to…
Bacterial Rainmakers Ubiquitous
Scientists from Montana State University and Louisiana State University have found evidence that globally distributed airborne bacteria play a pivotal…
“Safer” Cigarettes Back On The Agenda
Everyone knows that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells…
This Is Your Brain On Jazz
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), two scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas…
Radical Nano-Vaccines Show Promise
University of Michigan researchers say that a new technique for vaccinating against a variety of infectious diseases – using an…
HIV Stigmatization Still Widespread
Stereotypes and misinformation about HIV that are commonplace among the general public are also evident in a surprising number of…
New Institute Plans Exascale Computing
The new Institute for Advanced Architectures, launched jointly at Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories, is planning to build exascale…
Fat Cats, Diabetic Dogs Vex Veterinarians
Obesity isn’t only a problem for humans. The serious implications obesity has for heart disease, diabetes and other maladies are…
“Language” Gene Pooh-Poohed
The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to…
Plenty Of Earth-Like Planets Out There, Say Astronomers
Terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in the disk of our galaxy,…
New Cell-Phone Cancer Link
An Tel Aviv University study has found that heavy cell phone users are subject to a higher risk of benign…
New World Record For Solar Conversion Efficiency
Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a…
Primatologists Snap Rare Gorilla Nookie Pic
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have released the first known photographs of…
Insects The Likely Winners From Warming Climate
Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global carbon dioxide levels that raised temperatures across the…
Subliminal Experiments Uncover Deep-Seated Racism
New research by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate…
Ink Delivers DNA
The journal Genetic Vaccines and Therapy reports that German researchers have found tattooing to be an extremely effective method for…
More Of The Same From The Net
While Internet search results do bring up a variety of useful materials, researchers from the University of New South Wales…
Climate “Tipping Points” Identified
The latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes work by an international team of researchers…
California’s Water Supply Dwindling
Writing in Science Express, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography predict a bleak…
Plastic Bottles And Hot Liquids A Bad Combo
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have discovered that polycarbonate plastic bottles, when exposed to hot liquids, release potentially hazardous…
Pimped Bacterium Churns Out Hydrogen
Thomas Wood, a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department, has “tweaked” a strain of E. coli so that…
Demographers Mull Effects Of Aging Population
In the latest issue of the Public Policy & Aging Report , Duquesne University researcher Mark L. Haas argues that…
Something Fishy About Rocketing Oceanic Nitrogen Levels
A Canadian-U.S. study, published in Nature Geoscience, has found that commercial fisheries play an unexpected role in the decline of…