Southern Ocean Could Put Brakes On Warming Trend
Climatologists believe the Southern Ocean may slow the rate of global warming by absorbing significantly more heat and carbon dioxide…
Oxytocin Touted As Autism Treatment
The annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology has been told that oxytocin may have significant positive effects on…
Of Pendulums And Predation
If one pendulum is connected to another with a spring, in time, the motions of the two pendulums will become…
New Discovery Doubles Age Of First Human Rituals
An archaeological discovery made in Africa looks set to change our understanding of when humans began conducting rituals. Previous digs…
Big Gender Differences In Language Learning
Neuroscientists from Georgetown University Medical Center say that boys and girls use different parts of their brains to process some…
Déjà Vu Research Is Outta Sight
The first case study of a blind man suffering déjà vuhas overturned traditional theories about how the effect occurs. It…
Scottish Doctors Say “Nay” To Modern Medicine
A new study, appearing in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, found that 60 percent of Scottish doctors prescribe homeopathic…
Permian Extinction Triggered Rise Of Complex Marine Organisms
While the Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out an estimated 95 percent of marine species, it also laid the foundation for…
Wild Wheat Gene Puts A Rocket Under Protein Levels
Reporting in the journal Science, researchers from the US and Israel say they have cloned a gene from a variety…
Scientists Explore Manipulation Of Cancer Evolution
The dynamics of evolution are as evident in cancerous tumors as in any other ecosystem and oncologists hope that with…
Bizarre Deep-Sea Communities Give Up Secrets
A team of scientists have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around cold methane seeps off…
Success With Limb Regeneration
While salamanders can regrow a leg, most animals don’t have the ability to replace missing limbs. But experimental results from…
Lizards Pushed Into Evolutionary Fast Lane
Evolutionary change is generally considered to be a pedestrian affair, with changes occurring over millennia. But evolutionary biologists from Harvard…
Nanotech Challenges Identified
Humanity could squander the potential benefits of nanotechnology due to a lack of clear information about its risks, say a…
Early Biosphere Productivity Boosted By Cosmic Rays
A frenetic period of star-making in the Milky Way about two-and-a-half billion years ago had extraordinary effects on life on…
Did Poo Problems Plague Dead Sea Scroll Sect?
New evidence concerning hygiene habits has come to light at Qumran, linking an ancient Jewish sect known as the Essenes…
Chaotic Neurons Enhance Brain’s Processing
Scientists may have finally discovered why the neurons in the human brain seem to fire in utterly random ways. In…
Cassini Spots Pseudo-Hurricane On Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet – a hurricane-like storm with a well-developed eye…
Tattoo Inks A Toxic Brew
As if the possibility of contracting AIDS or hepatitis from a dirty needle wasn’t bad enough, two chemists have just…
Plankton Generating Oceanic Cloud Cover
Atmospheric scientists from Georgia Tech have reported that emissions from phytoplankton can dramatically alter cloud formation over oceans, adding a…
Pimp My Retrovirus
A new gene therapy based on a disabled AIDS virus carrying genetic material that inhibits HIV replication has produced positive…
That’s Cool: A Flotilla Of Parasols In Space
Climate change and global warming tend to be thought of as relatively slow processes when measured on the human time-scale.…
Creature With No Brain Makes New Phylum A No-Brainer
A worm-like creature from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the establishment of a new phylum, a…
Clays Exhibit Novel Antibacterial Properties
Beauty treatments that use clay aren’t new, but clay-based medicinal treatments are. And if Arizona State University’s (ASU) Lynda Williams…
Doctors Identify Potential Cause Of SIDS
Researchers from the Children’s Hospital Boston say they have the strongest evidence yet that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is…
Elephants Join Cognitive Elite
New experiments have revealed that elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, an important indicator of self-recognition that places them…
Pharmacologists Confirm Chemo’s Brain Damaging Effects
The latest issue of Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior confirms what many chemotherapy patients have long suspected; chemotherapy addles the brain.…
Threat From Plummeting Biodiversity Qualified
A new meta-study in Nature has analyzed more than 100 previous species diversity studies and come to the conclusion that…
Back To The Drawing Board For Human Migration Patterns
Human polyomavirus (also known as JCV), a benign virus used as a marker in tracing human migration, may be unreliable,…