Liver Recipient Takes On Donor’s Immune System
An Australian teenager who received a liver transplant has astonished medical experts by taking on her donor’s immune system. Writing…
Cell Phone Radiation Triggers Insomnia
A joint study involving Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and researchers in Sweden has found that cell…
Tweaking Diatoms For Nanofabrication Duties
Diatoms, tiny phytoplankton that encase themselves in intricately patterned shells, could represent the next big breakthrough in computer chip fabrication,…
New Delivery Method For Gene Therapy
Gene therapy theoretically makes it possible to introduce genes into cells to cure disease or address deficiencies in biological processes.…
Flexible Electronics Melded With Contact Lens Creates Bionic Eye
Engineers at the University of Washington (UW) have for the first time used microscopic manufacturing techniques to combine a flexible,…
Parasite Turns Ants Fruity
A newly discovered parasite so dramatically transforms its host, an ant, that the ant comes to resemble a juicy red…
Glacial Acceleration Linked To “Plumbing” Issues
A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska’s Kennicott Glacier, causing it…
Aggression As Rewarding As Sex
Vanderbilt University researchers have shown for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward – much like…
High Levels Of Antibiotic Resistance In Arctic Birds
The journal Emerging Infectious Diseases reports the worrying discovery that birds captured in the Arctic tundra are carrying antibiotic-resistant bacteria.…
Glacier Woes Overstated?
New research from the University of California – San Diego challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could…
Chimp Culture Human-Like
Socially-learned cultural behavior thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, say scientists at the University…
An Inconvenient Galaxy
The discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding…
Polarization Technique Used To “See” Exoplanet
For the first time, astronomers have been able to detect and monitor the reflected visible light that is scattered in…
Squirrels Use Snake Eau de Cologne
Animal behaviorists have observed California ground squirrels and rock squirrels chewing up rattlesnake skin and smearing it on their fur…
Mayo Clinic Zooms In On Nanobacteria
Mayo Clinic researchers have successfully isolated nanoparticles from human kidney stones in cell cultures and have isolated proteins, RNA and…
Tunguska Revisited
The huge forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a…
Comet Dust Yields Up Some Surprises
Scientists studying the first solid comet samples ever retrieved from space have just announced some preliminary findings concerning the make-up…
Menopause Exclusively Human
Wild chimpanzees do not routinely experience menopause, suggests a Harvard University study, rebutting previous studies of captive individuals which had…
Brain Can Rewire Itself On-The-Fly
Researchers from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) have for the first time described a mechanism called…
Immune System Sculpts The Brain
The synapse elimination that occurs during the normal development of a child’s brain seems to be directed by the immune…
Engineers Generate “Rogue Waves”
“Rogue waves” or “freak waves” can appear and disappear without warning in the open ocean and have been the stuff…
Missing Fallout Fuels Warming Fears
Ice cores drilled from the Himalayas lack the distinctive radioactive traces that atomic explosions produce, possibly indicating that no new…
Modern Man In Evolutionary Fast Lane
A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John Hawks describes the past 40,000 years as a time of…
Switching Gayness On And Off
While the nature-nurture argument about homosexuality continues to be debated, a team of neurobiologists from the University of Illinois at…
Direct Brain Control Of Robot Demonstrated
A metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out has turned a sci-fi cliché into reality, with the wearer being able to…
Neuroscientists Map Violent Media’s Effects On Brain
Although past studies have shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little…
Dwarf Star Activity Puzzles Astronomers
Astronomers have been observing an unusual M-dwarf star with an extremely active and complex magnetic field that is stronger than…
Between The Sheets
Life on Earth may have begun as an organic mash in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral…
Biological Cause For Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
A new imaging project from UCLA reveals that the brains of people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) look normal, but…
Academics Mull Flow-On Effects Of Climate Change
Climate change may ultimately lead to wars and population decline, says a new study in theProceedings of the National Academy…