Gamma Ray Burst Most Distant Yet
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have set a new astronomical record by observing the afterglow of the most distant…
Key Points In Brain Evolution Identified
A research team from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, led by Bruce T. Lahn, has uncovered some fascinating genetic pointers…
Brownian Motion Used To Power Molecular Motor
New research, cited in Nature Materials and announced at the BA Festival of Science, could have far reaching implications in…
Tempel’s Spectra Indicate Organic Compounds And Water
The detailed analysis of the spectral data from Deep Impact’s collision with the comet Tempel 1 is now starting to…
Road De-Icing Threatens U.S. Aquatic Habitats
It seems that even the most innocuous of human affairs can have a dramatic impact on the environment. Scientists from…
Junk RNA Begins To Yield Its Secrets
A paper in the journal Science details how a team of investigators from The Scripps Research Institute and the Genomics…
New Telescope Will Open Up Southern Skies
A new telescope on the edge of the Kalahari Desert has just released the first images it has captured of…
Forget Horsepower, Think Cow-Power
Findings presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society suggest that some of the micro-organisms found in cow…
Ozone Layer Decline Halts
A study from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences suggests that the ozone layer, while still severely depleted…
Physicists Propose Search For Dark Energy
Seven years ago, two research groups turned the field of cosmology on its head with their announcements that the expansion…
Shedding Light On The Hydrogen Economy
A technique that uses photochemical molecular devices to produce hydrogen gas from water could be an important step on the…
Placebo Effect Produces Real Painkillers
A study from the University of Michigan (U-M) has provided the first direct evidence that endorphins – the brain’s own…
Polymer Fuel Cell Breakthrough
The widespread use of fuel cells has, up until now, been hampered by the problem of operating temperature. While ceramic…
GM Bacteria Making Plastics
Scientists are starting trials to see if a genetically modified form of the bacteria E. coli could be used to…
Novel Water Switch Displays Intriguing Properties
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshas reported on a tiny, fast switch that uses water droplets to create…
Umbilical Cord Blood May Overcome Stem Cell Stumbling Block
A report appearing in the journal Cell Proliferationdetails how researchers, from the University of Texas and Kingston University in the…
Canadian Men An Endangered Species
The Aamjiwnaang First Nation community near Sarnia in Ontario, Canada has seen an enormous decline in male births over the…
Lions And Elephants For U.S. Great Plains?
Researchers from Cornell University, ecologists and conservationists have jointly authored a paper inNature suggesting that cheetahs, lions, elephants, camels and…
Milky Way Not Your Average Spiral Galaxy
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have been conducting a comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and found intriguing new…
Shocking Results From Urine Tests
For researchers pioneering new diagnostic methods, the race is on to design ever smaller biochips that can test for a…
Nanotube Transistor Created
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Clemson University, writing inNature Materials, said specially synthesized Y-shaped carbon…
Certain Images Cause Temporary Blindness
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have uncovered an intriguing aspect as to how our brains process certain images. The images that…
Hormone Used To Rebuild Immune System
Scientists from Monash University in Australia have rejuvenated the immune systems of mice and humans using a common hormone. Their…
DNA Error Tolerance Points To Life’s Warm Beginnings
The Journal of Molecular Evolution has published a new theory explaining why the language of our genes is more complex…
Meteor Craters The Cradle Of Life?
A presentation scheduled for a joint meeting of the Geological Society of America and the Geological Association of Canada will…
Human Bird Flu Outbreak “Containable”
Despite suspicions of human-to-human transmission, the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus seems, at least so far, to be…
Wastewater Reveals A Cocaine Surprise
Law officials and drug policymakers may have to reconsider the methods they use to estimate the number of illegal drug…
Roundup™ Super-Toxic For Frogs As Well As Tadpoles
The disappearance of frogs and other amphibians around the world continues unabated, but a new study may shed some light…
Disease Seeking Nanoprobes Get Glowing Report
Diagnostic techniques for serious diseases could improve dramatically now that researchers from Rice University’s Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology…