Global Warming Causes Genetic Changes
For the first time ever, a University of Alberta researcher has discovered that an animal species has changed its genetic…
Fixing DNA Damage
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a novel biochemical process that plays a critical role in helping…
Nature vs Nurture Debate Goes Public
\ Advocates of genetic determinism square off against two prominent Stanford University scientists in a lively and surprisingly acerbic debate…
Re-Discovered Records Confirm Rising Sea Level
The discovery of 160 year old records in the archives of the Royal Society, London, has given scientists further evidence…
Ants The Oldest Farmers
Fungus-growing ants practice agriculture and have been doing so for the past 50 million years according to research published in…
Re-Evolving Wings
A Brigham Young University researcher has demonstrated that members of a certain group of insects lost the ability to fly…
Radiation Resistant Organism Reveals Its Secrets
Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans the most radiation-resistant organism in the world: The microbe’s…
Polar Bear Headed For Extinction
Unless the pace of global warming slows or stops, polar bears could disappear within a century, says a University of…
More Global Warming Effects Identified
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered another fingerprint of human effects on global climate. Recent research has…
Flowers In Orbit
That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare knew a few things about…
Mice Create Human Kidneys
Instead of searching for a kidney donor, a new study suggests, one might be able to grow a new kidney.…
Ebola Virus Transformed From Killer To Healer
By redesigning the shell of Ebola, Purdue University researchers have transformed the feared virus into a benevolent workhorse for gene…
Songs On The Brain
Researchers at Dartmouth are getting closer to understanding how some melodies have a tendency to stick in your head or…
Atmospheric “Waves” Reduced Ozone Hole
A greater number of large “planetary sized waves” in the atmosphere that move from the lower atmosphere into the upper…
Fossil Fuels A Viable Option For World’s Poor
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the use of fossil fuels for household cooking and heating may make more environmental sense for…
Chilling Out To Cool Sounds
Beneath the warm sun on the Mexican Rivera, the idea of shouting at your ice cream to keep it cool…
Planets Formed In Hundreds – Not Millions – Of Years
An accepted assumption in astrophysics holds that it takes more than 1 million years for gas giant planets such as…
Infants Build Knowledge Using Statistics
Baby’s first look at the world is likely a dizzying array of shapes and motion that are meaningless to a…
Worrying Good For Health
From “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” to “Hakuna Matata,” popular culture warns that worrying interferes with happiness and health. But results…
Ultra Efficient Solar Cells On The Way
Researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with crystal-growing teams at Cornell University and…
New HIV Vaccine Trial Begins
Clinical tests began today of a novel vaccine directed at the three most globally important HIV subtypes, or clades. Developed…
Puzzle Over ‘Little’ Big Bang
Scientists have recreated a temperature not seen since the first microsecond of the birth of the universe and found that…
Penguins Struggling With Icebergs
The movements of two gigantic Antarctic icebergs appear to have dramatically reduced the number of Emperor penguins living and breeding…
Microwave Beam To Boost Satellite Into Orbit
UC Irvine physicist Gregory Benford will announce plans for the first known attempt to push a spacecraft into the Earth’s…
Overfishing Threatens Genetic Diversity
Populations of marine fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing stops while there are still several million individuals –…
Scientists Hope To Reveal “Extra Dimensions,” Exotic Forces
Physicists have devised a new experiment that will be used in the quest for exotic forces in nature and “additional…
Global Warming May Trigger Ice Sheet Growth
About 150,000 years ago, an anomalous ice age was triggered by an increasingly salty Mediterranean Sea, a development that’s occurring…
Fainting May Render Brain Cells Vulnerable to Immune Attack
Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that a seemingly mild “insult” to the brain could sensitize neurons to attack…
Tiny Atomic Battery Developed
While electronic circuits and nanomachines grow ever smaller, batteries to power them remain huge by comparison, as well as short-lived.…
Black Hole Surfing
An international team of astronomers, lead by researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has directly observed an…