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Proving life on a thermal level

04/07/2013

Korean team shows how to measure the thermal signatures of single cells and assess their biological activity...

Bosky Man Visits Scarfolk

04/07/2013

I became convinced that the village had a darker secret. I was quite certain that it had its very own coven of witches....

The Endless Inferno Under Centralia

02/07/2013

Centralia, less than three hours from Times Square, stands empty. The emissions break through the ground like fists of mustard gas....

Turning Cement into Metal

27/06/2013

Scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal....

Quantum Couples Go The Distance

22/06/2013

Quantum coupling model demonstrates that it is possible for two particles to cross an energy barrier together, where a single particle could not. ...

Magnetic Nanoparticles

15/06/2013

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that with magnetic guidance, specially designed magnetic nanoparticles can help deliver genes to injured arteries, using stents as the delivery platform...

Animal Cognition

11/06/2013

Animal Cognition: According to standard theory, the best response to current circumstances should be unaffected by what has happened in the past...

I like your Big Feet

10/06/2013

The Karo Batak, who mostly live in scattered rural villages in the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, deem women with big feet as more appealing....

A Pound of Sharks

09/06/2013

Sharks are worth more in the ocean than in a bowl of soup...

The Wrong Kind of Laughter

18/05/2013

Cerebral connectivity patterns differ based on auditory, social information in laughter...

Roundtable discussions begin on bioenergy crops

15/05/2013

Bioenergy crops, such as Miscanthus and switchgrass, appear to be promising resources for renewable energy, but how to measure sustainability impacts....

Staring Into The Sun

14/05/2013

If you look at the brain like a machine, a machine needs fuel. Without sun the fuel runs out. We start to act funny...

EGGS! EGGS! EGGS!

01/05/2013

This year's EB program showcased cutting-egg nutrition research with wide-reaching public health implications of eaters of eggs....

'I'm not sure there is such a thing as an artistic controversy, but there have certainly been many controversies surrounding art' Ruth Garde, curator, talks to Trebuchet about Michaelangelo, Bernini...

GV Art and Mind Symposium

12/04/2013

GV Art, in partnership with Art and Mind, announce the attendance of Charles Ferneyhough at the GV Art and Mind Symposium 16 on May 7th....

Lady Shaving : The case for Pubes

06/04/2013

Lady shaving : Micro trauma prompted by lady shaving and scratching might aid spread of Molluscum contagium....

Our Inbred Ancestors

05/04/2013

Early human bones exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors...

Drink Coffee Stay Up Later – in Life

03/04/2013

Shake it through the night : Greek coffee might be the answer to long life / longevity...

Telomeres, immortal genes and cancer

02/04/2013

This key to immortality involves telomeres : "Cancer is very smart to have figured out a way to use a mechanism to live longer," Yan said ...

Make Better Music 69: On Sound

02/04/2013

"It is common for us to be in situations where we can not see (or at least vision is severely restricted) but exceedingly uncommon to be in situations where we can not hear"...

Autistic Facial Recognition

01/04/2013

Facial Recognition : Some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces -- a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions considered to be the hallmark of the disorder....

Ocean chemistry too ‘boring’ to support life

31/03/2013

UC Riverside-led research team provides the first comprehensive view of early ocean chemistry and its relationship to early organisms....

Bacterial Life in the Mariana Trench

30/03/2013

Highly active bacteria community exists in the sediment of the Mariana trench - even though the environment is under extreme pressure. Bacterial Life...

Mindfulness starts at School

29/03/2013

Mindfulness at school reduces likelihood of depression-related symptoms in adolescents...

Reintroducing the Quantum Drum

28/03/2013

mechanical micro-drum used as quantum memory...

Our Phallus-Shaped Ancestors

27/03/2013

Strange phallus-shaped creature provides crucial missing link - discovery pushes fossil record back 200 million years...

Star factories found in old galaxies

25/03/2013

Using entire galaxies as gigantic gravitational lenses, UA astronomers have obtained new measurements of some of the oldest galaxies in the universe and... Star Factories !...

Fat worms confirm biofuel experiment

24/03/2013

Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully engineered a (biofuel) plant with oily leaves...

Sugar Coated Stem Cells

23/03/2013

Scientists have used sugar-coated scaffolding to move a step closer to the routine use of stem cells in the clinic and unlock their huge potential to cure diseases from Alzheimer's to diabetes....