Stress During Pregnancy Linked To Autism
Women who have had a major stressful event – death of a spouse, job loss, or a long-distance move –…
Nanoscale Computer Built Using Biological Molecules
A group of scientists headed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute of Science has used biological molecules to…
New Family of Naturally Occurring Antibiotics Found
Two North Carolina State University researchers, Drs. Edward Noga and Umaporn Silphaduang, have isolated a previously undiscovered family of naturally…
The Puzzle Of Gender-Bending Salmon
University of Idaho zoologist James Nagler is sampling more chinook salmon from Northwest rivers this fall in hope of solving…
Brain Operates Differently In Deception And Honesty
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that telling a lie and telling the truth require…
Single Ion Used As A Quantum Probe
Researchers at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching have succeeded in using an ion trap to precisely…
Get A Pet For Better Health
It might be the prescription of the future: Take two aspirin and get a pet immediately. Numerous studies have shown…
Electrical Circuits That Assemble Themselves
A study initiated by a North Carolina State University chemical engineer has discovered a new method of growing microscopic wires…
Soy Protein Prevents Skin Tumors
New research at the University of California, Berkeley, may add yet another boost to the healthy reputation of the humble…
Change To Ecosystem Courts Disaster
Subjected to decades of gradual change by humans, many of the world’s natural ecosystems – from coral reefs and tropical…
Bioengineers Fabricate Cartilage Which Mimics Natural Tissue
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) bioengineers have fabricated cartilage tissue which for the first time mimics the multi-layered structure…
Submicrometer-Scale Metallic Barcodes
Researchers at Penn State University and SurroMed, Inc., in the 5 October issue of the journal Science report on the…
Anthrax Immunity Gene Found In Mice
Harvard Medical School researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax-an often fatal…
Glass Eating Microbes Found
Welcome to the bottom of the deep-sea food chain. The rock bottom, that is. In the current edition of Geochemistry,…
“Fountain Of Youth” Gene Identified
The body’s inability to grow new tissue as it ages might be overcome by increasing the activity of a gene…
Gene Transfer In Primates A Success
By successfully inserting a gene from a jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rhesus monkeys, scientists have managed to make…
Wealth Of Nations A Matter Of Climate
Why do the rich get richer and the poor stay poor? When it comes to nations, the answers may include…
Morals Under the Microscope
In a study that combines philosophy and neuroscience, researchers have begun to explain how emotional reactions and logical thinking interact…
Human Brain Loves Surprises
Most people love surprises. Scientists at Emory University and Baylor College of Medicine may have discovered why some people actually…
Light-Driven Micromachines
Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in…
Molecule Reduces Alzheimer Plaque
The highways and byways through which the brain exchanges messages require maintenance much as any municipal road. Crucial to these…
Scientific Dumbos
A national survey developed by the California Academy of Sciences and polling organization Harris Interactive, reveals that the American public…
Agent Orange Leukemia Link
A new study supports the possibility of an association between Agent Orange and development of a form of leukemia in…
Biodiversity Key To Absorbing CO2
Biodiversity is an important factor regulating how ecosystems will respond to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, say researchers from the U.S.…
Reversal Of Snell’s Law Verified
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego who last year produced a new class of composite materials believed to…
Memory Makes Sight Possible
The eye as a camera has been a powerful metaphor for poets and scientists alike, implying that the eye provides…
“Light Bricks” Set To Save Electricity
A new co-polymer based plastic brick is the key to what authorities hope will put an end to California’s worsening…
“Missing Mass” Of Galaxy Consists Of Dying Stars
For the last 70 years, as astronomers have gazed up into the heavens, they have known there are two types…
Answering One Of Water’s Basic Mysteries
We drink it. We bathe in it. It’s part of our everyday life, but the driving force behind one of…
Learning Uranium Containment From Nature
Three decades ago, possibly one of the richest uranium deposits in the US was discovered at Coles Hill in rural…