Each copy of the human genome consists of about 3,200,000,000 base pairs, and includes about 500,000 repeats of the LINE-1 transposable element (a LINE) and twice as many copies of Alu (a SINE), as…

The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre(IMEC), an independent research center focusing on next generations chips and systems and enabling technologies for ambient intelligence, has developed a…

There is no question that Al Gore’s 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is a powerful example of how scientific knowledge can be communicated to a lay audience. What continues to be debated is…

A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge says that traders with high morning testosterone levels make more than average profits for the rest of that day. This influence of steroids…

Researchers at Duke, Caltech, Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed a living system using genetically altered bacteria that they believe can provide new insights into how…

You already knew that eastern and western cultures regard many aspects of every day life differently but researchers from Canada, Japan and Amsterdam say that eastern and western cultures even assess…

In January, Skyhook Wireless Inc. announced that Apple would use Skyhook’s WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications. The WPS database contains information on access points…

Varanus komodoensis, the fearsome Komodo dragon, is the world's largest living lizard and, with 60 razor-sharp serrated teeth, can take on very large animal prey. A new international study has…

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report that a restricted-calorie diet inhibited the development of precancerous growths in a two-step model of skin cancer,…

A study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, in collaboration with the Charite University Hospital and the Bernstein Center for Computational…

Even in new designs, it's not a bad idea to see how old Mother Nature does it. Using that principle, a group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is mimicking bacteria to…

There is no better way to fall into an IRS black hole than to try to become a scientist. I'm a postdoctoral fellow - which means that I have my PhD, but no permanent job; I'm spending a few years…

A team of European scientists has triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time - deliberately. They did it by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. Next,…

Well, what can you say? He went toe-to-toe with Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr and came up with the nomenclature 'black hole.' It had to be an interesting time. Physics still had worlds to conquer…

The nature vs. nurture debate is familiar to most people, and modern conclusions usually predict a balance between the two. A new paper shows that there is a similar balance between inherited genes -…

Everything interacts with its environment - from the smallest sub-atomic particle to the largest galaxy. We are no different. Interaction insinuates dynamic inter-relationship. Knowledge can be…

This is the second in a series of youtube video's I am making. Which I have chosen to name “Quantum Theory in Plain Language”. In this particular video I give what I hope is a simple and accurate…

Robot soccer is an ambitious high-tech competition for universities, research institutes and industry. Several major tournaments are planned for 2008, the biggest of which is the ‘RoboCup German Open…

UK astronomers have produced the most sensitive infrared map of the distant Universe ever undertaken. Combining data over a period of three years, they have produced an image containing over 100,000…

In research published in Nature, researchers at Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo state that insects have adopted a strategy to detect odors that is radically different from those of…