New Method For Introducing Transgenic Material
Biologists from Kyoto University have succeeded in producing the first animal offspring with transgenic material carried directly from sperm stem…
Photos Of Planets Outside Our Solar System Soon
An astronomer from the University of Arizona is using a novel camera to hunt for extrasolar planets. The camera has…
World’s Forests Need Disasters
Forests around the world are not the stable and unchanging ecosystems they have been assumed to be. Without the occurrence…
Massive “Blazar” Black Hole Sheds Light On Big Bang
In an article appearing on the Astrophysical Journal Letters website, astrophysicists at Stanford report spotting a black hole that’s more…
Darwinian Principles Used To Breed Winning Race Cars
University College London scientists have developed a technique that ‘breeds’ winning Formula One cars. By applying Darwinian principles to the…
Mammalian Cell Self-Organization Replicated In Lab
How do cells know to put the right spacing between ribs, fingers and toes? How do cells communicate with each…
Rising Seas & Climate Change Threaten 2 Billion
The number of people worldwide vulnerable to a devastating flood is expected to grow to 2 billion by 2050 due…
Proof For Riemann Hypothesis?
A mathematician from Purdue University claims to have proven the Riemann hypothesis, often dubbed the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics.…
Ancient Meteorite Turned Earth Inside Out
A meteorite collision nearly two billion years ago caused part of the Earth’s crust to flip inside out and left…
Tongue-Vision Allows The Blind To Lap-Up The Sights
A device that sits in a blind person’s mouth and allows them to see with their tongue has been developed…
Oral Bacteria Can Block HIV Infection
Strains of bacteria that occur naturally in the human mouth can snare the HIV virus and even cells it has…
Switching Genes On And Off To Cure Disease
Researchers from the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center are exploring a new approach to the treatment of…
New Findings On Ribosome Function A Surprise
Johns Hopkins researchers, writing in Cell, report that four critical components of cells’ protein-building machine don’t do what scientists had…
More Evidence For Nano-Bacteria Say Researchers
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic found they could isolate and culture nanoparticles from filtered homogenates of diseased calcified human cardiovascular…
Thousands In UK May Be Infected With Mad Cow Disease
A group of scientists in the United Kingdom has found that 3 out of 12,674 stored appendix and tonsil samples…
Global Warming Could Mean Less Sunshine
For forty years scientists have observed a 1.3% per decade decline in the amount of sun reaching the Earth’s surface.…
Magnetic Fields May Be “Visible” To Birds
Migratory birds, as well as many other animals, are able to sense the magnetic field of the earth, but how…
Genetically Engineered Viruses Set To Fight Cancers
Cancer Research is carrying a report on a genetically engineered virus that can selectively kill cancerous cells in the lung…
Scene Of Planetary Reboot Located
Evidence is mounting that 251 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, a meteor the size of Mount…
Wings Get Help From Whales
Wind tunnel tests of scale model humpback whale flippers have shown that the scalloped, bumpy flipper is a more efficient…
Asthma Could Be Several Distinct Diseases
People who develop asthma as children may suffer from a different disease than those who develop it as adults. A…
DVD And CD Longevity Examined
Remember the introduction of the Compact Disc? We were told they would never wear out and couldn’t be damaged in…
Quantum Cryptography Gets Up To Speed
The fastest known cryptographic system based on the transmission of single photons has been demonstrated by a team at the…
Contrails May Be The Culprit In Warming Trend
Cirrus clouds, formed by contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to account for…
Solar-Powered Robot Bird Set For Exploration Duties
Thanks to a grant from NASA, University of Missouri-Rolla researchers are developing the world’s first flapping-wing, solar-powered unmanned aircraft. Using…
New Clues To Origin Of Life
The discovery of microbial activity in 3.5 billion year old volcanic rocks is shedding new light on the antiquity of…
Breakthrough In Restoring Compromised Immune Systems
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have found a way to revive immunity in mice that have abnormal or deficient immune…
Fertilization Of Phytoplankton Not A Solution For CO2 Removal
The idea of fertilizing the ocean with iron to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere gained momentum in the 1980s.…
Cleanliness Next To Sickliness
A group of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found a connection between poor T cell survival in the…
Cinnamon Helps Combat Diabetes
Cinnamon may have a medical application in preventing and combating diabetes. It appears to help by playing the role of…