Robots Get Social
Robots may be just about to get a life – a social life that is. To help emergency response personnel,…
Asteroid Catastrophy Calculator Automates Armageddon Advice
University of Arizona scientists are launching a web-based program that tells you how an asteroid collision will affect your spot…
Babies First Feeds May Establish Favorite Flavors
Food preferences may be influenced by tastes experienced at a very young age. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center…
Bark From Yohimbe Tree Has Potential To Treat Anxiety Disorders
Research from the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA demonstrates the potential of a substance found in yohimbe tree bark to assist…
Dogs Really Do Look Like Their Owners
After years of speculation, a new study says that dogs really do resemble their owners. At least this is the…
Early Exposure To Toxins Sets Stage For Adult Tumors
For gene-environment interactions, the timing of the environmental exposure may be critical, say scientists at the M. D. Anderson Cancer…
Artificial Proteins Could Help Repair Cells
Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a new class of artificial proteins that can assemble themselves into a gel and…
Artificial Proteins Could Help Repair Cells
Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a new class of artificial proteins that can assemble themselves into a gel and…
Reproductive Problems Linked To High Plasticiser Levels
Phthalates, widely used as plasticisers, have for some time been connected with rising infertility rates in men. These substances are…
K Meson Decay May Upset Standard Model Of Particle Physics
An international team of physicists examining an extremely rare form of subatomic particle decay – a veritable needle in a…
Scramjet Set For Weekend Test
NASA may come one step closer to faster, less expensive and more reliable access to space if the X-43A vehicle…
For Sheep, Homosexuality Is In The Genes
Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine have confirmed that a male sheep’s preference for…
New Internet Protocol Promises Speed Breakthrough
Researchers in North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet…
Poor Diet, Physical Inactivity Set to Overtake Tobacco In Death Stakes
About half of all deaths in the U.S. can be attributed to largely preventable behaviors and exposures, with tobacco use…
New Theory On How Nicotine Protects The Brain
While the risks associated with tobacco use are well known, several studies have shown that people with a history of…
Copper Used To “Starve” Cancer Growth
Starving a cancerous tumor of its blood supply may stop its growth while other treatments are used to kill it.…
Experiments May Yield Materials With Negative Refractive Index
British and American scientists have demonstrated an artificially made material that can provide a magnetic response to Terahertz frequency radiation,…
Nuclear Fusion From Bubbles Blasted With Sound
Physical Review E has announced the publication of an article by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),…
New Dinosaur Species Dug Up In Antarctica
Against incredible odds, researchers working in separate sites, thousands of miles apart in Antarctica have found what they believe are…
Why Love Makes Us Blind
A new study of young mothers by researchers at University College London (UCL) has shown that romantic and maternal love…
Forced Mutations Demonstrate Evolution In Action
An experiment which forced E. coli bacteria to adapt or perish showed that, in a pinch, they were capable of…
DNA Damage From Magnetic Fields Linked To Iron In Cells
Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such household devices as hair dryers, electric blankets and…
“Intelligent Design” Movement Wants To Satisfy Both Evolutionists And Creationists
Since the advent of Darwinism in the mid-19th century, a variety of movements have jousted for the intellectual high ground…
Comets May Spread Life From Earth Around Galaxy
If comets hitting the Earth could cause ecological disasters, including extinctions of species and climate change, they could also disperse…
Mass Extinctions In Peru Due To Climate Change
The new century may bring hundreds or even thousands of plant and animal extinctions to the Andes Mountains of Peru…
Dark Ages May Have Been, Err, Dark
Scientists at Cardiff University in the UK believe they have discovered the cause of crop failures and summer frosts some…
Melting Siberian Peat Bogs May Unleash Huge Quantities Of Methane
Massive Siberian peat bogs, widely known as the permanently frozen home of untold kilometers of moss and uncountable hordes of…
Harnessing Nature To Make Pharmaceuticals
Chemical engineers at Purdue University have shown how to make yeast cells double the activity and boost productivity of a…
Evidence For New Form Of Atomic Matter – The Pentaquark
An team of physicists has provided the best evidence to date of the existence of a new form of atomic…
Addiction Mechanism Regulates Bonding In Monogamous Animals
The reward mechanism involved in addiction appears to regulate lifelong social or pair bonds between monogamous mating animals, according to…