Prion Yields Clues to Infection Across Species Barriers
By stitching together segments of two species of infectious yeast proteins, called prions, researchers have produced a hybrid prion that…
New Ideas About Technology And Evolution
What distinguished Neanderthals and near-modern humans from their predecessors 300,000 years ago, it is believed, was their ability to make…
Alzheimer’s Reversible
Lab mice bred to develop the notorious plaques of Alzheimer’s disease had a majority of their plaques disappear 3 to…
Societal Collapse Caused By Climate Change
Contrary to common beliefs, societal collapses of the past have been caused by sudden climate change, not only by social,…
Method Found To ‘Purify’ Partially Entangled States
Entanglement, the bizarre quantum mechanical connection that can exist between particles, is an essential component in many quantum information processing…
Artificial Language Used To Study Language Learning
New evidence shows that babies learning to understand language rely more heavily than previously thought on patterns in the language…
Human Gut Breeding Ground For Antibiotic Resistance
Bacteria in your gut could be exchanging genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes, with bacteria that are simply passing through…
Extra Dimensions Must Be Smaller Than 0.2 Millimeter
University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have…
Possible Violation Of Standard Model Of Particle Physics
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from 11 institutions in the U.S.,…
Biologists Transform Leaves Into Petals
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered how to genetically convert leaves into petals, an achievement that…
What The Universe Is Made Of
In the most accurate picture yet of the makings of our universe, astronomers have determined that a measly 5 percent…
Personality Influences Immune System
Individuals may vary in how well they can protect themselves from illness, depending on personality traits as well as on…
Drug for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Not Effective
Fludrocortisone, a drug prescribed to treat low blood pressure, has little or no effect on symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome…
Me Tarzan, You Genetically Modified
A baby monkey carrying an extra bit of DNA–described in the 12 January 2001 issue of the journal, Science–may suggest…
Earth To Mars In Two Weeks
Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have shown that an unusual nuclear fuel could speed space vehicles from Earth…
Prof Says Science Textbooks Full Of Errors
Educators and parents place a great deal of faith in the accuracy of their children’s textbooks. A new examination of…
Quantum Cryptography Hurdle Cleared
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) report in the Dec. 22 issue of Science that they…
Top 10 Developments For 2000
Science’s Top 10 research advances, chosen for their profound implications for society and the advancement of science, appear in the…
Ozone Recovery – Not Yet
Scientists expect that recovery of the Arctic ozone layer may be slower than previously expected because of unusually low stratospheric…
New Transistor Heralds Nano-Electronics
Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore’s Law, a general…
Rocks On Mars Suggest Ancient Lakes
Although Malin and Edgett favor water as the sedimentary suspect, they also offer an alternative model that involves changes in…
Stem Cells Develop Into Neurons In Living Animals
For years, researchers studying stem cells have been intrigued by the possibility that these cells might be used to treat…
Doors Of Perception Examined
For most of us, seeing the world around us is such an effortless process that we tend not to give…
How Animals Regulate Their Own Numbers
Zoologists from the University of Toronto have cracked the ecological puzzle of how animals – in this case the arctic…
How The ‘Mind’s Eye’ Works
In a first-ever demonstration, UCLA School of Medicine and Caltech researchers have shed new light on how the “mind’s eye”…
‘Immortal Skin’ Holds Medical Promise
From a routine study of the life span of human skin cells, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research project gave rise…
Pre-Columbian Fish Farm
Since the late 1950s, scientists have known about the existence of grand-scale earthworks throughout Bolivia’s Amazonian region of Baures. Recent…
Instant Replay – Building Long-term Memory
Princeton scientists have discovered a key mechanism the brain uses to transfer short-term memories into permanent storage, a finding that…
Bipedal Reptile Fossil Predates Dinosaurs
The oldest known fossil of an upright, bipedal reptile, which predates the age of the dinosaurs by at least 60…
EMF Damages Mice Ovaries
Mice ovarian follicles exposed to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) fail to develop properly in many cases, according to…