Viruses are thought to spread by entering a cell, replicating, and then moving on to infect new cells. But a new study published in Science reveals that some viruses spread much faster than…

It's strange how quickly the image conjured up of a place can change so quickly for so many. If I'd used "Haiti" in the subject line two weeks ago, I'd guess most of you wouldn't quickly think of how…

Wednesday 6 January 2010 There have been only two standing ovations at the AAS in his memory, said Society president John Huchra, and the other heralded a presenter who later won the Nobel Prize.…

Nature has put up some free pieces on syntehtic and systems biology on their Synthetic Systems Biology Web Focus. Unfortunately they haven't made it all free, but you can go read this one: Five hard…

Can The UK Met Office Weather The BBC Contract Storm? The UK's Met Office could lose its contract with the BBC, according to recent media reports. To the general public there is no difference between…

University of Iowa (UI) astronomers have made the first clear, rainbow-like, radio telescope images of a distant stellar coronal loop, at the eclipsing, non-nova binary star Algol, found in the…

  Why We Must Abandon The  Concept That There Exists A ‘One Real Image’ Of Any Observed Object.     Ayad bin Izzet   January 20, 2010 – Damascus, Syria      …

  Why We Must Abandon The  Concept That There Exists A ‘One Real Image’ Of Any Observed Object.     Ayad bin Izzet   January 20, 2010 – Damascus, Syria      …

Recently, I came across an article in “The Times”, “Why non-scientists are a pain in the arts” by Ben Miller, presumably the physicist turned comedian, going back to his science…

I think that in many ways, the motivation of scientists is similar to that of prospectors in the 1800s. The prospectors had gold fever, grubstakes, the ability to persevere against long odds of…

In a new Cerebral Cortex study, researchers say they can predict a person's performance on a video game simply by measuring the volume of specific structures in their brain. The authors found that…

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has just released a new image of NGC 6334, an emission nebula discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837 and dubbed the Cat's Paw Nebula.  This new…

In a new article published in WIREs Congnitive Science, researchers from Duke University and the NIH suggest that the latest cognitive science research has the potential to fundamentally change how…

Biologists know that Chaperonins ensure proteins are folded properly to carry out their assigned roles in cells, and according to a new letter published in Nature, they may also know how these…

 According to a new study in Nature that analyzed large sets of ozone data captured since 1984, springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising primarily due to air flowing…

According to a new study in the American Naturalist that compared the skull shapes of domestic dogs with those of different species across the order Carnivora, domestic dogs have followed their own…

Genetic (in)stability in Hypericum perforatum L.: physiological and induced sources of genetic variation Eva CELLAROVA, Matus SKYBA, Jan KOSUTH PAVOL JOZEF SAFARIK UNIVERSITY IN KOSICE, FACULTY OF…

“In vitro propagation of stone pine (Pinus pinea L). Molecular and physiological bases” Ana Rodríguez, Candela Cuesta, Millán Cortizo, Belén Fernández and Ricardo Ordás Área de Fisiología Vegetal.…

Tuesday, 5 January 2010 There are several ways to spot an exoplanet.  The two most common are the radial velocity and transit techniques.  Radial velocity measurements detect changes in the…

Some pyschologists suggests that too many choices can negatively impact our health. But a meta-analysis of 50 published and unpublished experiments that investigated choice overload  found that…