Quantum Sized Transistors for Luxury and Exotic Cars
Engineers at the University of Rochester have created uniform silicon quantum dots-molecule-sized crystals of silicon that could someday offer computer…
Secret To Mass Extinction Events Uncovered
Some 34 million years ago, almost 90 percent of the tiny, shell-bearing sea creatures living along the U.S. Gulf Coast…
Light Shed On How The Brain ‘Thinks’
Bioengineers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, taking Plato’s concept of reality and illusion into the world of robots, have…
Spoilt In Space
American astronauts and mission control personnel who participated in missions to the Mir space station tended to be less happy…
Planets Lacking A Central Star Discovered
Scientists have discovered 18 planet-like objects, drifting free of any central star, in a region of the Orion constellation. If…
New Evidence That Garlic Protects Against Cancers
Garlic might not make breath smell like springtime in the Alps, but it can help protect against stomach and colorectal…
Earthquakes Still Threaten The Central United States
The threat of large earthquakes striking the New Madrid seismic zone remains all too real for people in St. Louis,…
Gene Therapy Reverses Effects Of Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, and Lausanne, Switzerland, have successfully used gene therapy to reverse the anatomical, cellular…
Immune System Can Control HIV
A research team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has shown that the majority of HIV-infected individuals who begin antiviral therapy…
Fetuses Hear At 30 Weeks
Listen up expectant dads: All those hours spent talking to your unborn child via your partner’s burgeoning belly don’t go…
Promising HIV Vaccine Strategy Identified In Monkey Studies
Vaccines designed to trigger an immune response to a small HIV protein called Tat could be a promising way to…
Himalayan Ice Reveals Climate Warming
Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed…
Lung Function May Predict Long Life Or Early Death
How well your lungs function may predict how long you live. This finding is the result of a nearly 30-year…
Warming Trend Seen In Late Freeze, Early Thaw
A 150-year record of freeze and ice breakup dates for lakes and rivers in such far-flung locales as Wisconsin and…
Primordial Meteorite In A Class By Itself
A chemical analysis of a rare, uncontaminated 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth earlier this year shows that its…
Intensive Exercise Is Bad For Your Lungs
“There is nothing like sport to improve your breathing!” people often say. Yet this is one piece of advice many…
Successful Use Of Drugs To Extend Lifespan
In a collaborative effort, scientists have for the first time successfully increased normal life span in the nematode worm C.…
Deadly For Bacteria, Great For Consumers
“Electrolyzed water” – produced by applying an electrical current to a very dilute saltwater solution – kills bacteria on fresh…
Brief Exposure To Nicotine Makes Lasting Mark
Brief exposure to low levels of nicotine, as little as that provided by a single cigarette, can cause lasting changes…
Quake Risk On Berkeley Fault Overrated
A new model of the northern Hayward Fault in California’s San Francisco Bay Area suggests that a major earthquake along…
Cloned Pig Sets Stage For Organ Transplants
Her name is Xena, and she joins that other famous female, Dolly, in the ranks of the barnyard cloned. Xena’s…
Stress Makes St. John’s Wort More Effective
Plant pathologists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that hypericin (pronounced hi-PARIS-in), an active…
‘Fat Switch’ Fights Flab At The Cellular Level
The discovery of a cellular “fat switch” — described in the 11 August issue of the international journal, Science —…
Arctic Temperatures Warmest In Past Four Centuries
Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century, which were the warmest in four centuries, have been accompanied by a variety…
Rare Hallucinations Make Music In The Mind
Some hear choruses singing folk songs, others hear Mozart or even the Glenn Miller Orchestra — but there is no…
Rocks Provide Clues To Origin Of Oxygen On Earth
Scientists analyzing some of the oldest-known rocks on Earth have discovered for the first time a way to recover from…
Obesity Risk Factors Present At Birth For African Americans
Obesity is more prevalent among African Americans than among Caucasians. In a retrospective study of 447 African American subjects published…
Brain’s Inability To Regulate Emotion Linked To Impulsive Violence
The human brain is wired with natural checks and balances that control negative emotions, but breakdowns in this regulatory system…
Coffee Linked To Rheumatoid Arthritis
Coffee drinkers seem to be at increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, suggests research in the Annals of the Rheumatic…
NASA Helps Skywatchers Track International Space Station
As the Russian service module “Zvezda” nears its July 25 rendezvous with the International Space Station, stargazers and space enthusiasts…