Planets Like Earth May Be Common
Astrobiologists disagree about whether advanced life is common or rare in our universe. But new research suggests that one thing…
All Living Things Descended From Two Bacteria
All living plants and animals are likely derived from two primitive species of bacteria, a mathematics professor at the University…
Salmon From Fish Farms A Tad Toxic
A study of more than two metric tons of North American, South American and European salmon has shown that PCBs…
Soot And Snow A Hot Combination
New research from NASA scientists suggests emissions of black soot alter the way sunlight reflects off snow. According to a…
Busy Month Ahead For Space Buffs
University of Chicago scientists will start the new year at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, with a heavy…
Memory Linked To Mad Cow Mechanism
Scientists have discovered a new process for how memories might be stored, a finding that could help explain one of…
Massive Salinity Changes In Oceans
Tropical ocean waters have become dramatically saltier over the past 40 years, while oceans closer to Earth’s poles have become…
Human – Chimp Differences A Matter Of Lifestyle
Nearly 99 percent alike in genetic makeup, chimpanzees and humans might be even more similar were it not for what…
Bacterium That Eats Radioactive Garbage And Generates Electricity Has Scientists Excited
Department of Energy funded researchers have decoded and analyzed the genome of a bacterium with the potential to bioremediate radioactive…
Biologically Inspired Robot Design Planned With New Vision System
A new computer vision system for automated analysis of animal movement – honey bee activities, in particular – is expected…
Musical Instrument Quality Linked To Climate
There has been considerable debate surrounding the reasons why instruments crafted in the late 17th and early 18th centuries are…
Molecular Memory Durability Demonstrated
In the ongoing quest to create computing devices that are both incredibly small and incredibly powerful, scientists – envisioning a…
White Christmas’ Less Likely
It’s feeling less like Christmas in many parts of the country as higher temperatures and fewer snowfalls are becoming the…
Over-Screening For Cancer A Waste Of Funds
Elderly women are receiving a large number of mammograms and Pap smears with limited scientific evidence of advantage, researchers from…
DNA Creates Self-Assembling Nano-Transistor
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed the power of DNA to create a self-assembling nanoscale transistor, the…
Bush’s CO2 Dumping Plan Could Devastate Sea Life
A Bush Administration proposal to mitigate the effects of global warming by capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and…
Evolutionary Changes Not Always Small
For more than a century, scientists have concluded that a species evolves or adapts by going through an infinite number…
Nicotine Improves Memory And Helps Brain Repair Itself
The remarkable protective effects of nicotine – the addictive chemical in tobacco – on the brain are continuing to surprise…
New Method To Map Dark Matter
The “dark matter” that comprises a still-undetected one-quarter of the universe is not a uniform cosmic fog, says a University…
Enigma Of Extraterrestrial Amino Acids
Amino acids have been found in interstellar clouds and in meteorites – but with some enigmatic omissions and tantalizing similarities…
Sun’s Iron Core May Be Cause Of Solar Flares
\ The spate of solar storms that have hit Earth in recent days may be caused by the sun’s iron-rich…
Psychosis A Smelly Issue
A University of Melbourne team examined a group of people deemed to be at ultra high risk of developing psychosis…
Clay May Have Been Catalyst For Life
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered that clays may have been the catalysts that spurred the spontaneous assembly…
Electrokinetic Generation May Challenge Solar, Wind Power
A team of researchers in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta (U of A) has discovered a…
Elizabethans The Four-Letter-Word Champs
Broadcasters are often accused of promoting obscenity through the increased use of bad language on TV. However, new research from…
New State Of Matter Mooted
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle places severe constraints on the subatomic world. To illustrate, for particles called bosons, the principle dictates…
Major Climate Changes Predicted For US
Over the next 100 years, the eastern United States will see more winter precipitation because atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are…
SARS Not Beaten Yet Say Researchers
The SARS virus is capable of changing rapidly and unpredictably, which could present serious challenges for managing the disease and…
Solar Contribution To Global Warming Set To Decrease
New research on the sun’s contribution to global warming is reported in this month’s Astronomy & Geophysics. By looking at…
Low IQ Could Lead To Early Death
Scottish Researchers have found that people with high IQs who reside in poor neighborhoods lived longer than people in similar…