Taking The Heat Off Inefficient Engines
An incredible 60 percent of the energy that goes into an automotive combustion cycle is lost, primarily to waste heat…
Environmental Persistence Of Tamiflu Causes Concern
Swedish researchers have discovered that the influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is not nullified or degraded during sewage treatment. They believe…
New Algorithm Speeds Lattice QCD Equations
Writing in the physics journal Nuclear Physics B, two Baylor University researchers explain the development of a new mathematical algorithm…
Arctic Heatwave Sends Climatologists Back To Drawing Board
Unprecedented warm temperatures in the arctic this summer were so extreme that researchers have begun revising their climate forecasts. “Everything…
Huntington’s Disease Sufferers Get Reproductive Boost
People with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because they are healthier during their peak reproductive years,…
Super Bacteria Created In Zero-Gravity
Space flight doesn’t just affect human physiology; it can also make microbes much more infectious, researchers from the Biodesign Institute…
New Insights Into Early Star Formation
A new computer model suggests that the formation of the first stars depended crucially on the nature of dark matter.…
Newly Identified Protein Offers Clue To Immune Infertility
The autoimmune disorder known as immune infertility affects both men and women, causing their immune systems to “wage war” on…
The Parking Lot As Environmental Vandal
The American desire for easy parking is having a disastrous effect on the environment, say Purdue University researchers. From suburban…
Motion Important For Viable Stem Cells
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University suggests that embryonic stem cells may develop much better…
Ozone And Skin Oils Make For Unhealthy Airplanes
Poor cabin air quality on airplanes could in large part be caused by skin oils interacting with ozone. A study…
Boffins Investigate Schizophrenia Genes
A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B tries to uncover why several genes with strong associations…
Fat And Vitamin C – A Cancerous Combo
In the presence of fat, vitamin C may actually increase, rather than reduce, certain cancer causing chemicals, says a new…
Monkeys Use “Baby Talk” With Infants
Just like human mothers, rhesus monkeys also use special “baby talk” vocalizations to engage and interact with their infants, a…
Dehydrated Females Quench Thirst With Ejaculate
University of Exeter biologists say that some female beetles often mate simply to quench their thirst and overcome dehydration. The…
Shifting Evolution Up A Gear
Research appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that “moving the goalposts” may be one method…
Uncovering Autism’s Disconnects
Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WF) have discovered that in autistic individuals, connections between brain cells may…
Health Officials Get Wee-lly Smart About Drug Usage
Attendees at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society were told that public health officials intend to get more…
Changing Climate Behind Polar Ice Clouds?
The wispy, luminescent clouds that have been shining against the deep blue of the northern sky may be a symptom…
Horizontal Gene Transfer Vastly Underestimated, Suggests New Study
The movement of genes between unrelated species (horizontal gene transfer, or HGT) may happen much more frequently than previously believed,…
Our Love Affair With Depression
A psychiatrist, writing in the British Medical Journal, has lashed out at what he claims is the medicalization of normal…
“Hot” Comets The Source Of Life?
A new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology contends that it is overwhelmingly likely that life came to Earth…
Physicists Mull Whether Inorganic Dust Formations Could Be Alive
Intriguing new evidence of life-like double-helix structures formed from inorganic substances in space has been reported in the New Journal…
Alpine Butterflies Getting Squeezed Out
The warming climate is expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and inexorably isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each…
Study Slams Mainstream Farming Techniques
Long-established plow-based agricultural methods combined with the economic imperative to improve crop yields are rapidly depleting the Earth’s soil supply,…
Bacterial Accumulation Doesn’t Appear To Impact Longevity
Investigating the aging process in flies, researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have established that while older flies…
Carbon Sink Sunk
Results from a decade-long experiment into how much carbon dioxide (CO2) pine trees can soak up show that the trees…
Global Food Trade A Target For Terrorists, Conference Told
A food industry conference has been told that the global food system is an inviting target for terrorists. “You can’t…
Asian Brown Clouds Accelerating Warming
A new study of pollution-filled “brown clouds” over south Asia has found that they enhance solar heating of the lower…
Girth, Not Length, Makes For Healthy Streams
How much excess nitrogen – from fertilizers, animal waste, sewer lines, and highways – reaches waterways appears to be heavily…