Crop Yields Set To Plunge
Past research indicated that rising levels of greenhouse gases could benefit crop yields, but that theory now looks to be…
Building Muscle From Fatty Stem Cells
Coming hot on the heels of the news that scientists have turned stem cells into sperm, theProceedings of the National…
Hacking The Speed Of Light
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have literally found a back-door to an otherwise rock-solid physical tenet.…
Astronomers Cop An Eyeful Of Star Explosion
Astronomers from the UK and Germany have detected a spectacular nuclear explosion that created a blast wave traveling at a…
Satellites Catch Earth Reconfiguring Its Magnetic Field
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have managed to perfectly position their 4 Cluster spacecraft so as to measure…
MIT Created Fiber Web Sees Everything
Throw away those cumbersome camera lenses, as MIT has just developed a new and amazing lightweight web fiber that can…
High Hopes For High Altitude Broadband
Broadband communications may be about to get a whole lot faster and cheaper, thanks to high-altitude platforms (HAPs) that can…
Protein Complex Fixes Knotty DNA Problem
Our bodies are continually replenishing cells by way of cell division, but occasionally things can go awry during this process,…
Global Warming Behind Early Primate Diaspora?
Exactly what prompted early primates to travel between continents 55 million years ago has perplexed scientists for years. And there…
Next Mars Lander Takes Shape
NASA’s next lander mission is set to gather samples from Mars’ surface and the frozen layer that lies beneath, and…
Turbulence Gets Web-Slingers Flying
Researchers are using a new model to explain how spiders “fly” or “parachute” on their webs, a trick that lets…
Alpine Glaciers: Going, Going, Gone!
European Alpine glacial cover will decrease by 80 percent if summer temperatures increase by 5 degrees Fahrenheit, say scientists from…
Quantifying A Mystical Experience: Hallucinogenic Research Gets To Grips With Spirituality
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an active agent contained in “sacred mushrooms” can induce strikingly similar mystical experiences…
Face Blindness Caused By Single Gene
Imagine how debilitating and awkward it would be if you could not differentiate faces in a crowd. It sounds like…
Saturn’s Rings Giving Up Some Of Their Secrets
As Cassini beams back a sequence of new images, NASA imaging team members are receiving yet more clues about the…
Giant Parasol To Help Image Distant Planets
Astronomers could soon be using a gigantic space-parasol to block out starlight that interferes with the view of planets in…
Sleeping Less And Self-Deluding More
New findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology not only reveal that we don’t get enough sleep, but that…
Matrix Turns Stem Cells Into Neural Components
Embryonic stem cells have astonished scientists with their facility to develop into any kind of cell in the human body,…
Jellyfish Squish Greenhouse Dogma
Vast swarms of small jellyfish-like creatures, known as salps, may have a greater impact on carbon cycling than previously thought,…
Strange Quarks’ Role In Proton Revealed
Shedding light on a somewhat controversial subject, physicists from the G-Zero collaboration have found that strange quarks do indeed contribute…
Second Agricultural Revolution In The Offing
Scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich and Washington State University, have managed to trigger nodulation in legumes, a key…
Engineers Come Up With Undetectable Radar System
Engineers from Ohio State University have put together a radar system that is virtually undetectable, thanks to its signal resembling…
Cell Phone Emissions Beneficial?
Previous studies into the physiological effects of cell phone emissions haven’t found anything that looks to be overtly dangerous. But…
Scientists Fuse Spider Silk And Silica To Create Novel New Material
Bioengineers at Tufts University, who have been delving into silk’s secrets for more than a decade, have created a new…
Up, Up And Away For Athletes Taking Viagra
Researchers writing in the Journal of Applied Physiology have reported on some intriguing trials conducted at simulated high altitude with…
Switchable Stickiness
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an “optically switchable” material that changes from sticky to slippery when exposed to…
Addicted To Knowledge
Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept:…
Ray Guns In The Cinema: Camera Neutralizing Device Unveiled
Compulsive tinkerers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a prototype device that they say can stop digital cameras…
Rodent Comparison Supports Hygiene Hypothesis
A study appearing in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology lends support to the idea that too much cleanliness can be…
HIV’s Virulence An Evolutionary Accident
The high virulence of HIV-1 might be due to an accident of evolution, say researchers writing in the journal Cell.…