Gene Silencing Offers New Strategy For Treating Disease
In two papers published in the online edition of the journalNature Chemical Biology, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center say…
New Type Of Molecular Motor Suggested
Compared to the specialized chemistry that powers the muscles and cellular motors of the human body, the micro-machines built by…
Neutrinos Open Window Into Earth’s Interior
Located in a mine cavern beneath the mountains of Japan’s main island of Honshu, the Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector…
Crop Diagnosis With Polarized Light
Researchers have uncovered a picture of plant health that is invisible to the naked eye by using rapid pulses of…
Nanoparticles Used To Deliver Gene Therapy
According to a paper published this week inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say they have superseded previous…
Methane’s Effect On Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates
Establishing a suitable model of how the Earth’s climate systems work is a necessary step in determining how much man…
Big Bang Produced A “Perfect Fluid”
An unexpected discovery may see physicists heading back to the drawing board in order to update models representing the Universe…
Single-Atom-Thick Materials Almost Ready For Prime Time
British and Russian scientists led by Professor Andre Geim at the University of Manchester believe they have uncovered a whole…
Prevalence Of Antibiotic Resistance Surprises
It’s widely accepted in the medical community that a high level of antibiotic use is related to antibiotic resistance, but…
Bird Poo Spreading Toxic Pollutants
Mother Nature herself may be implicated in a worrying rise in levels of DDT and mercury in otherwise pristine Canadian…
New Component Of Bone Identified
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have made an intriguing discovery to do with the properties of…
Shark Skin Sloop
The growth of marine organisms such as barnacles on ship hulls is a major drag for the naval industry, since…
First Steps Taken To Build A Brain
The journal Neurosurgery has reported on work conducted by scientists in Sweden, Norway and the U.S. which has successfully produced…
Supercomputer To Simulate Galactic Evolution
David Merritt, a professor of physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), has just finished putting together one of…
Parkinson’s Drug Sparks Gambling Fever
Patients with no previous gambling history have racked up betting losses of up to $200,000 after being treated with drugs…
Humans Behind Early Oz Ecosystem Collapse?
Massive extinctions of animals 45,000 to 55,000 years ago and the arrival of the first humans in ancient Australia may…
African Parrot “Understands” Zero
The walnut sized brain of the African grey parrot may actually be capable of comprehending abstract mathematical concepts. The bird…
Retina Adapts By Suppressing The Commonplace
The retina actively seeks novel features in the visual environment, dynamically adjusting its processing in order to seek the unusual…
Teeth On The Move
The dreaded trip to the orthodontist could soon become far less painful for those who need to have teeth moved…
Study Slams Economics Of Ethanol And Biodiesel
A new joint study from Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley says that fuels produced from biomass are uneconomical as…
Something Fishy About Sound
Cornell University researchers studying the auditory system of the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) say they have found a direct…
Bull’s-Eye! Deep Impact Scores A Direct Hit
Mission accomplished! Deep Impact’s intercept with comet Tempel 1 has proceeded without a hitch, with NASA’s ground control personnel seen…
Milky Way Clock Upgrade
Aspects of the universe that have puzzled scientists for decades may soon assume greater clarity now that a University of…
Alarm Over Rising Acidity Of Oceans
The Royal Society in the U.K. has issued a worrying report about rising acidity in the world’s oceans. “If CO2…
Mountains Formed In The Blink Of An Eye
Geologists writing in the journal Nature say they have discovered that the time it takes for mountain ranges to form…
Vitamin C Overrated For Colds
For those basking in a northern hemisphere summer, catching a cold is probably not a significant concern, but for those…
Hubble Captures Tempel’s Premature Ejaculation
Astronomers got a preview of what Deep Impact’s fourth of July rendezvous with the comet Tempel 1 may look like…
New Infrared Cosmos Scan Underway
An ambitious new astronomical program is about to start searching the skies looking for some of the most remote and…
Microbes Act As Tiny Electric Generators
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts have discovered a tiny biological structure that is electrically conductive, which could help clean…
A Computer In A Single Neuron
Conventional wisdom holds that a single brain cell, or neuron, acts like an on-off switch, working in concert with other…