Stars Gone Wild
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some pictures of the dusty core of two merging galaxies and uncovered a region…
Trauma The Major Cause of Schizophrenia?
Two psychiatric conferences in Europe have been told that child abuse can cause schizophrenia. The man behind the contentious theory,…
Researchers Investigate Giant Sperm Paradox
Adam Bjork and Scott Pitnick of Syracuse University have been getting down and dirty with sexual selection again. Following on…
UCLA Announces Breakthrough In Protein Engineering
A significant step toward a new approach to protein engineering has been reported by University of California – Los Angeles…
Altered Seasons Driving Genetic Changes
The effects of climate change over the past few decades have led to heritable, genetic changes in animals as diverse…
New Theory On Green Tea’s Medicinal Properties
Scientists have for some time been puzzled about the lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in Asian countries where…
The Strange Case Of The Missing Dimension
Scientists at Los Alamos have uncovered an intriguing quantum mechanical phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate (a…
Smoking Gun For Permian-Triassic Extinction Found
Scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact in Antarctica that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s…
Testosterone A Mixed Blessing For Songbirds
High testosterone levels are something of a mixed blessing for dark-eyed junco songbirds, say researchers from North Dakota State University,…
What’s In A Name? Stock Performance!
Two Princeton University psychologists say their new study of initial public offerings (IPOs) on two major American stock exchanges shows…
Hunt On For Fourth Spatial Dimension
A new mathematical framework will enable astronomers to test a five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein’s General Theory…
Giant Cassava Plants Could Feed Africa
Ohio State University molecular biologist Richard Sayre says that the genetically modified cassava plants he has developed could help solve…
Candy-Munching Bacteria Prodigious Hydrogen Producers
Bioscientists at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom have demonstrated a reactor that uses hydrogen-producing bacteria and sugar…
Feedback Loop Puts The Heat On Climate Predictions
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California believe they can quantify the effects of climate…
Drug Discoverers Opt For The Life Aquatic
Harbor Branch and University of Miami scientists this week left to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs between Florida and the…
Artificial Personalities To Populate Virtual World
A fascinating experiment into personality and social interaction in which millions of software agents will potentially evolve their own culture…
Early Humans And Chimps Much More Than Just Good Friends
Scientists at MIT and Harvard say the evolutionary split between humans and chimpanzees is much more recent – and more…
Equatorial Glaciers Set To Disappear In 20 Years
The equatorial icecaps in the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa, will disappear within twenty years because of global warming, a University…
Redirect River To Save Louisiana, Says Engineer
Vince Neary, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tennessee Tech University, says that a mega-project to change…
Faster Than Light Effect Baffles Boffins
The textbooks say that information can’t travel faster than light, but researchers at Rochester University have uncovered tantalizing evidence that…
Key HIV/SARS Mechanism Revealed
Scientists in the UK say they have cracked one of the key biological processes used by viruses such as HIV…
You Can Lead A Martian Theory to Water, But…
According to researchers at Rutgers University, a geological structure, dubbed “Razorback“, filmed by the Mars rover Opportunity, is unlikely to…
Jellyfish Quickest On The Draw?
Using a super-fast camera, researchers from the University of Heidelberg have captured the explosive discharge of tiny jellyfish stingers (nematocytes),…
New Red Spot Emerges On Jupiter
The Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a detailed view of the birth of a second red spot on Jupiter.…
Human Activity Driving Changes In Atmospheric Circulation
While there is widespread agreement that human activities are warming the climate, there has been little consensus on the effect…
Race On To Grow Sperm In Lab
Men tend to be especially sensitive about their testes, so they might understandably wince at new research from Europe that…
Cannibalism The New Weapon In Cancer Fight
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported this week in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute…
Neutron Source Fires Up
After years of eagerly anticipating its completion, scientists have finally witnessed the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Spallation Neutron…
Volcano Study Suggests Bronze Age History Needs Rewrite
History profs may need to thoroughly revise their lecture notes after a Cornell University radiocarbon study, published in the latest…