The Skinny On Bad Fat
The role that inflammation plays in diabetes, heart disease and other disorders is a hot topic in medical research these…
Chemists Take Step Toward Artificial Photosynthesis
Plants are extremely efficient at taking carbon dioxide from the air and converting it into biomass using light as an…
Ancient Man Built For Fighting
David Carrier, a biologist from the University of Utah, believes our ancestors maintained short legs for 2 million years because…
Bonobos Put One Over Chimps
Chimpanzees and bonobos are both close cousins to humans, but it’s usually been thought that chimps outdo bonobos in the…
Is Your Carpet Making You Fat?
Flame retardants, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), are found in consumer products like carpeting, upholstered furniture, computers and household…
Tundra In Retreat
Trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes at a much faster…
Birds Serve Seduction Apprenticeship
Demonstrations of altruism and selfless behavior in the animal kingdom have long puzzled evolutionary biologists. Why do some individuals sacrifice…
3-D Fabrication Goes Open Source
Hod Lipson and Evan Malone of Cornell University have cooked-up a cheap DIY 3-D printer – the Fab@Home – that…
Researchers Map Neuron Connections
Many neuroscientists and AI researchers believe that truly understanding how the brain works will be impossible until we can fathom…
Pluto Probe Cranks Up Pace
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully completed a fly-by of Jupiter, using the massive planet’s gravity to pick up speed…
Insects Keep Coming Back For Nicotine-Laden Pollen
It isn’t just humans that have problems with nicotine. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have found…
Bacterial Swimming Style Goes Against The Flow
The fact that some pathogenic bacteria swim “to the left” could explain the high incidence of infections associated with catheters…
African Trial Shows Circumcision “Can Save A Lot Of Lives”
A circumcision trial conducted in Kenya, led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor of epidemiology Robert Bailey, has provided…
Bacteria Used To Reinforce Buildings
Natural soil bacteria could be used to stabilize buildings against earthquakes, turning loose sand around the building’s foundations into sandstone,…
Rogue Stem Cell Study Yields Anti-Cancer Protein
Evidence is mounting that rogue stem cells brandishing epigenetic marks (changes in gene regulation that occur without a change in…
Can Biodiverse Farming Feed The World?
Agriculture is rapidly approaching a time of massive change, says an article in Agronomy Journal. Impacted by the end of…
Vomiting Virgos Provide A Cautionary Tale For Clinicians
Researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto have just completed an analysis of hospital visits in Ontario,…
Organic Molecules Coaxed Into Thermoelectric Generation
A tiny contraption made by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles has successfully generated electricity from heat; an achievement that…
Honeybees Hit The Road
A mysterious ailment called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is causing agricultural honeybees around the country to abandon their hives and…
St Valentine’s Day Sperm Massacre
Valentine’s Day isn’t about flowers and chocolates for researchers from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU), instead, they’ve been doing some…
Glacier Behavior Confounds Climate Pundits
The behavior of two of Greenland’s largest glaciers underlines the problem in assuming that glacial melting and sea level rise…
Prof Questions Darwinian Dogma
In a new paper that challenges the Darwinian model of evolution, University of Pittsburgh professor, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, contends that…
Strep Implicated In Psychiatric Problems
Researchers have found an intriguing association between streptococcal infection in children and behaviors that are more usually associated with neurological…
Casimir Force Gets Hot And Sticky
Physicists at JILA (a joint initiative of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado…
Greenhouse Thermostat Kept Young Earth Balmy
Scientists have for years theorized that high concentrations of greenhouse gases could have helped Earth avoid global freezing in its…
Skin Samples Rife With Unknown Bacteria
Scientists from the NYU School of Medicine say that the skin, the largest organ in our body, is a kind…
Physicists Hope For Glimpse Of Extra Dimensions
Looking backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a…
UV Damage To DNA Clocked
Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues in Germany have used a special technique to watch strands of DNA sustain…
Composite Material Dogma Gets Stiffed
Composite materials with virtually limitless performance capabilities could be in the offing thanks to a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist who…
Scientists Mull Why Size Matters
Researchers from all over the world have banded together to try and answer one of biology’s most intriguing questions. Why…