While studying the mechanisms of development in shark embryos, University of Florida scientists identified genetic activity that is required for digit development in limbed animals. Previous work…

It will soon be easy to determine whether a person has an alcohol problem. With a tiny prick of the finger a new method can detect any abuse from the last two weeks. It can also reveal injurious and…

Physiologists estimate that humans have 300 million alveoli in their lungs to get rid of just one kilogram of carbon dioxide per day. At rest, they barely exchange ten liters of breathing air each…

It may not seem intuitive that virtual reality can impact the real world environment but it's been shown to have a great deal of leverage in the UK, namely as a principal mechanism for stimulating…

Ancient footprints have provided compelling evidence that some dinosaurs were able to swim. The 15m (50ft) trackway was discovered in the Cameros Basin in Spain, which, 125 million years ago, in the…

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that brains of people with clinical depression react very differently than those of healthy people when trying to cope with negative…

Metforin, the most commonly prescribed diabetes drug, kills tumor cells that lack key regulatory gene p53, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicinr…

Life on Saturn's icy moon? Unlikely, say University of Illinois researchers, and a new model they have created shows it is possible for a frigid, stiff Enceladus without a shifting interior (such as…

"They all look the same" is a common expression regarding people of other races. The “cross-race effect” is one of the most well replicated findings in psychological research and is one reason for…

For the past few months, members of the department of physics at Florida State University have begun using a groundbreaking new research facility to conduct experiments that may help provide answers…

Time to Wake Up America! I grew up thinking that America was the greatest country in the world.  In many ways it is.  However, a recent report from the Census bureau shows that we are not…

In this fourth installment of our on-going series of interviews with some of the leading thinkers and scientists on the subject of energy, we interview William H. Calvin, PhD. Facing and solving…

Portuguese scientists have shown that in bacteria the rate of beneficial mutations – those that increase the capacity of an organism to survive in a particular environment – is much higher than…

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), that brain activity was increased in stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors…

A paper published in the Royal Society journal Interface on 15th August 2007 highlights recent research that predicts that the range and severity of the plant disease phoma stem canker is increased…

Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists. Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at…

Cutting and burning tropical forests releases the atmospheric carbon they store, contributing significantly to global climate change. The "high forest cover and low rates of deforestation" (HFLD)…

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight,…

The invasive nature of cancers in general, and malignant gliomas in particular, is a major clinical problem rendering tumors incurable by conventional therapies. Using a novel invasive glioma mouse…

About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes David Pimentel, Cornell professor of ecology and agricultural sciences. Such environmental degradation,…