Gleaning from the natural process of X chromosome inactivation, scientists recently discovered a way to “turn off” the extra copy of chromosome 21 in Down syndrome, a strategy that might one day cure…

Aplysia californica is a curious beast indeed. The California sea hare is a species of sea slug; a hermaphroditic gastropod mollusc that feeds on seaweed and occasionally squirts ink if you piss it…

Rapid coastal subsidence in the central Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (Bangladesh) since the 17th century has been deduced from submerged salt-producing kilns. The densely populated low-lying Ganges…

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars, which first landed inside the Gale Crater on Aug. 6th, 2012, may provide clues as to how the red planet lost its original atmosphere, which scientists…

Today I am quite happy to report of a new groundbreaking result from the CMS collaboration at the CERN LHC - the experiment to which I devote 100% of my research time. We published overnight a report…

Heart tissue sustains irreparable damage in the wake of a heart attack but because cells in the heart cannot multiply and the cardiac muscle contains few stem cells, the tissue is unable to repair…

If a physics department has no women, does that mean there is hiring discrimination? Only if your job in sociology is to find discrimination. Simple statistics shows that is not true or there would…

Everything in moderation, goes an old saying, and it is true that too much alcohol can be bad for you in lots of ways.  But teetotalers, those who abstain from alcohol completely, aren't…

Maybe some day, depression and anxiety could benefit from good vibrations. University of Arizona researchers have found in a recent study that ultrasound waves applied to specific areas of the brain…

Tomorrow, we are being photographed from space. No, it is not another NSA spying operation, it is NASA's Cassini and MESSENGER spacecraft, taking pictures of Earth from Saturn and Mercury. The image…

Women are waiting longer before getting married - if they get married at all, according to a new analysis. The U.S. marriage rate is now at 31.1 - which in statistical terms means roughly a rate of…

An “intelligent knife”, dubbed the iKnife (naturally) can tell surgeons whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In operating room situations, the iKnife diagnosed tissue samples from…

A research project at Kansas State University has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance. More than 28 million people in the United States suffer some form of hearing loss and mutation…

When we want to combine several estimates of a physical quantity, to obtain a more precise one that accounts for all inputs in the correct way, we routinely rely to the weighted average: we take each…

Fish is good for you so health advocates would prefer that people eat more of it. Environmentalists don't want fish to be depleted while natural food advocates don't want food that isn't free-range.…

A new biomaterial that facilitates generating bone tissue - artificial bones, in their words - from umbilical cord stem cells has gotten a patent for researchers in Granada, Spain. The material is…

Oxytocin, a hormone with powerful effects on brain activity that is linked to the formation of social bonds, could have benefits for children with the autism disorder - but it is unlikely, according…

Our digestive system is home to trillions of bacteria which battle for our health. Sometimes they help us digest food and something they battle harmful microbes. When we take antibiotics to combat…

Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals and not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed? Professor Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide argues that cold-blooded dinosaurs…

A study using adults who listened to short Hungarian phrases and then sang them back found that singing in a foreign language can significantly improve learning how to speak it.   Three…