Relationship Between Insomnia And Depression Revealed
Not being able to get a good night’s sleep is torment enough without being told that insomnia can both cause…
Eggs And Sperm Made From Stem Cells
Scientists in the UK now claim it is entirely possible that eggs and sperm can be created from human embryonic…
Open The Pod Bay Doors… Please
Computers usually execute whatever task they are programmed to do without “thinking” about the consequences. A new software language, however,…
SMS – Smoggy Message Service
Street specific air pollution warnings will soon be available via text-messages in a pioneering project being tested in Central London…
Evolution Appears To Be A Start-Stop Affair
Some regions of the human genome have been hotspots for acquiring duplicated DNA sequences, but only at specific time-points during…
Earth’s Cousin Only 15 Light Years Away
Astronomers from the Ames Research Center and the University of California have discovered the most Earth-like planet yet, located only…
New Slant On Volcanic Climate Change
Scientists have known for some time that airborne volcanic particles (aerosols) can reflect the Sun’s rays back out into space…
Personality Encoded In Junk DNA
Researchers have traced social behavior traits, such as monogamy, to differences in the length of seemingly non-functional DNA, sometimes referred…
Robot “Skin” Vital For Automated Space Exploration
NASA technologist Vladimir Lumelsky from the Goddard Space Flight Center believes the future of robotics lies with the development of…
Arctic Lakes Shrinking
Arctic warming could be behind a decrease in the number and size of Arctic lakes, say researchers from the University…
Inherited Disease Findings Stir Evolutionary Debate
A disease you are suffering from could be the result of your great-grandmother being exposed to a toxin. Washington State…
Love – Just A Basic Mammalian Response
A team led by a neuroscientist, an anthropologist and a social psychologist has found that early, intense romantic love may…
For Some Females, Size Does Matter
How much do females really care about their mate’spenis size? A new study has shown that for some fish species,…
Strange Spot On Titan Baffles Boffins
Scientists are mystified by images from the spacecraft Cassini that show an unusual bright spot (lower right of pic) on…
Glaciers May Be Shrinking But Antarctic Ice Sheet Gains Mass
While some climate change research suggests that global sea levels are rising due to global warming and the shrinkage of…
The Anatomy Of Sarcasm
New research appearing in Neuropsychology details the anatomy of sarcasm and explains how the mind puts sharp-tongued words into context.…
Halting Evolution To Fight Illness
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin, writing in the journalPloS Biology, describe how E. coli…
Medical Journals Too Influenced By Pharmaceutical Marketing
Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, has launched a stinging attack on medical journals in an…
Atmosphere, Heal Thyself
University of California and Purdue University researchers believe that naturally-occurring atmospheric chemicals reacting with sunlight are breaking down smog and…
No Sex Please, We’re Robots
One of science fiction’s scariest ideas – the out-of-control von Neumann machine – has been realized, albeit on a simple…
Climate Change And Vegetation A Complex Feedback
Climatologist Noah S. Diffenbaugh from Purdue University says he has found that events such as storms and heat waves can…
Warning On Avian Flu Complacency
A UK doctor writing in the British Medical Journal has warned that governments around the world must stop burying their…
Global Brightening Creates Warming Worries
Earth’s surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate…
Terrestrial Gamma Ray Mystery Deepens
Scientists from Duke University have been studying the link between certain lightning events and the mysterious gamma ray emissions that…
First Photo Of Planet Outside Our Solar System
A team of astronomers has confirmed the discovery of a giant extra-solar planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter,…
Microbial Fuel Cell Produces Hydrogen & Cleans Wastewater
Using a new electrically-assisted microbial fuel cell (MFC) that does not require oxygen, researchers have developed the a process that…
Environmental Factors Damaging Men’s Reproductive Health
Two new studies appearing in the journal Human Reproduction seem to provide further evidence that environmental factors are adversely affecting…
Microorganisms Behind Schizophrenia And Alzheimer’s?
Conditions like heart disease, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia could be caused by microorganisms, according to a report from the American Academy…
Antarctic Glaciers In Widespread Retreat
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducting a study of Antarctic glaciers have…