Artificial Eye Borrows From Nature
Using dragonflies and houseflies as models, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a series of artificial compound…
Persistence Of Triclocarban Surprises
Johns Hopkins researchers have been measuring levels of the antibacterial hand soap ingredient, triclocarban, as it passed through water treatment…
Searching For A Long Lost Star
Scientists once considered the idea of our sun being part of a binary star system highly unlikely, but the recent…
Focus Of Genetic Research Narrowed
Today, details of an important new way of determining proof of natural selection at the single gene level were published…
Researchers Give Cholesterol Critics The Finger
Cholesterol has had nothing but bad press since scientists discovered that it was responsible for clogging arteries and causing all…
Gamma Ray Apocalypse A Long Shot
A supernova gamma ray burst that could extinguish all life on Earth is one apocalyptic scenario that doesn’t get much…
Neurons Mix Digital And Analog Functionality
The longstanding belief that each of the brain’s 100 billion neurons communicate strictly by a digital code looks to be…
First Light For SETI Optical Telescope
The hunt for extraterrestrial life has just advanced to a new level with a powerful new optical telescope seeing first…
Venus Express At Critical Juncture
After a November 9 launch from a Soyuz-Fregat rocket last year, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express has traveled…
Uranium’s Effect On DNA Established
The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research…
Pond Scum Could Restore Vision
The latest issue of the journal Neuron details how scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the…
Climate Musings Spark Religious Brouhaha
It must have been a slow day at the lab when researchers at Florida State University (FSU) decided to put…
Wonky Waves Allow Cancer Cells To Spread
Science may be closer to understanding how cancers metastasize (move, spread and grow away from their primary site) in the…
MINOS Project Detects Ghostly Particles Changing “Flavor”
In an experimental first, an international team of scientists has managed to observe the all but massless neutrino particle transform…
Solitons Observed In A Solid
An international team of researchers say they have observed evidence of solitary vibrations (solitons) in a solid. The scientists, from…
World’s Fish Stocks Face New Danger
Much of the debate about the world’s fish stocks has focused on over-fishing, but a more insidious threat has largely…
Rats Showing Some Backbone After Stem Cell Treatment
Building on the University of California’s spinal repair stem cell research from last year, a group of researchers from the…
Plants’ Capacity To Soak Up Carbon Limited
Plants do much less than previously thought to soak up carbon dioxide, say Bruce Hungate of Northern Arizona University and…
Primordial Soup-In-A-Cup
The beginning of life on Earth is a hotly contested area of science (not to mention religion); with current theories…
Not So Fast Einstein!
A quantum theory of gravity could be within reach, as scientists funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) report measuring…
All Hands To The Pumps! Here Comes The Sea
Just when you thought the news about climate change couldn’t get any worse, new projections suggest that the warming climate…
Increasing Soil Erosion Threatens World’s Food Supply
An ecologist from Cornell University reports that soil from the world’s croplands is being swept and washed away 10 –…
Chimps Command To Conquer An Itch
A paper entitled “Referential Gestural Communication in Wild Chimpanzees,” recently published in Current Biology, shows that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can…
When A Spotty Face Indicates A Healthy Partner
What ornithologists previously considered to be a male bird’s decorative plumage, has instead been found to have a far deeper…
Big Problems From Small Avian Flu Mutations
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Super Strong Artificial Muscles Could Power Next Generation Of Robots
Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) have made chemically powered artificial muscles that are up to…
DNA Shaped Nebula Observed At Center Of Milky Way
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed an astonishing double helix shaped nebula near the center of our Milky…
The Strange Matter Of Superfluidity
In his most recent experiments into superconductivity and superfluidity, physicist Randall Hulet of Rice University looks to have recreated the…
Standing Room Only In Classroom Of The Future
What’s the best way to reduce obesity rates among children? Take their chairs away and make them stand, according to…
The Search For Rock
Sure to be on every geek’s Christmas wish-list is a tricorder-like device similar to that used by Spock in the…