Dino Detectives Decode Death Dance
The peculiar pose – wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail – of many fossilized dinosaurs has led two…
Wireless Power Transfer Revisited
In 1904, renowned electrical impresario Nikola Tesla proposed a method whereby electrical energy could be transmitted without wires by using…
Greenhouse Gases Taking The Heat For Dirty Snow
The global warming debate has until now focused almost entirely on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, but scientists…
Newly Identified “Starvation Hormone” Behind Low-Carb Diet Effectiveness
The effectiveness of low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets may depend on increased levels of a newly identified “starvation hormone” produced by the…
DIY Terra Preta Soils Double As Carbon Sink
Australian agricultural researchers are excited about what they believe could be a win-win method to enrich Australia’s depleted soils and…
Humans Took First Steps In Tree Tops
Scientists at the University of Liverpool, UK, say that our ability to walk upright developed from foraging for food in…
Tantalizing Hint Of Room-Temperature Superconductor
Tiny, isolated patches of superconductivity exist within certain ceramics at higher temperatures than previously thought possible, according to a report…
Cooking Up Memories
Tel-Aviv University researchers have shown that it’s possible to store multiple rudimentary memories in an artificial culture of live neurons.…
Extreme Specialization In Ants Plugs Potholes
South American army ants (Eciton burchellii) adopt some unusual tactics to conduct their predatory raids more efficiently over rough terrain.…
The Cow That Laid The Golden Lactose
A biotech company investigating milk composition across the entire herd of 4 million New Zealand cattle has identified some cows…
Train Drivers On Express Track To Leukemia
A Swiss study has linked extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields to certain cancers, a finding that may reignite the debate…
Three (No Longer) Blind Mice
Gene therapy has been successfully used to restore sight in mice with a form of hereditary blindness; possibly leading to…
Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AEC) have found evidence that certain fungi possess another talent beyond their…
Oxygen Resuscitation In ER Damages Brain Function
Slapping an oxygen mask onto a patient’s face is de rigeur for television medicos, but new research suggests that inhaling…
Getting A Handle On Spintronics
An experiment, conducted by electrical engineers from the University of Delaware (UD) and Cambridge NanoTech, has shown for the first…
Chinese Seafood Tainted With Organochlorines
China, the largest producer and exporter of fish and fish products in the world, is likely to come under pressure…
Proteins Play The Piano
Hoping to more easily identify patterns in protein sequences, UCLA molecular biologists have turned the sequences into original compositions of…
Galactic Cluster Collision Sheds Light On Dark Matter
The invisible substance known as dark matter is thought to provide the additional gravitational force that stops galaxies from flying…
Pesticide Contamination Ubiquitous In Pregnant Women
A study from the University of Granada in Spain that analyzed the presence of organochlorine pesticides in pregnant women found…
Bee Boffins Abuzz With Theories About Honeybee Decline
The US government is getting serious about the continuing honeybee die-off with plans for millions of dollars of grants for…
HPV Now Implicated In Throat Cancers
As well as cervical cancer, HPV has now been linked to throat cancer; with researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel…
Star Shows Its Age
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have accurately dated a star that formed at the…
More Evidence For Brain Regeneration From Electro-Shock Treatment
Columbia University researchers, writing in the latest issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, say that experiments with monkeys have confirmed…
Gene Mutation Responsible For Human Intelligence Tracked Down?
Human and chimpanzee genomes are 99 percent the same, but clearly, that 1 percent difference is hugely significant. Exactly why…
Urban Areas Turn Migratory Birds Into Couch Potatoes
The latest issue of the journal Ecology carries a study showing that migratory birds in urban areas are choosing to…
IBM Demos Self-Assembling Chip Turbocharger
In their ongoing tussle with Moore’s Law, IBM researchers this week unveiled their latest weapon to boost computing speeds –…
Diabetes Damages Sperm DNA
Diabetic men have greater levels of DNA damage to their sperm, which may affect their fertility and their offspring’s future…
Gloomy Prognosis For Amphibians
A study published in the journal BioSciencesuggests that many amphibious species are at risk of extinction because they are failing…
Synthetic Snot Enhances Artificial Nose
UK researchers have used artificial nasal mucus to significantly enhance the performance of an electronic “nose”. The bionic bogies were…
Plant-Methane Brouhaha Put To Bed
The suggestion that plants may be a prodigious source of the greenhouse gas methane has finally been put to the…