Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Saturn's Moon Titan

Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Saturn's Moon Titan

  11:42:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's...

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Solar Power from Your Windows, Awnings, Even Clothing?

Solar Power from Your Windows, Awnings, Even Clothing?

  1:27:00 AM    Science Lover

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On a 104-degree Friday in July when sunlight bathed The University of Arizona campus, doctoral student Dio Placencia sat before a noisy vacuum chamber in the Chemical Sciences Building trying to advance the renewable energy revolution.  An organic photovoltaic cell...

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RNA Network Seen in Live Bacterial Cells for First Time

RNA Network Seen in Live Bacterial Cells for First Time

  12:49:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live bacteria cell -- a sight that could offer new information...

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First Genetic Map of Han Chinese May Aid Search for Disease Susceptibility Genes

First Genetic Map of Han Chinese May Aid Search for Disease Susceptibility Genes

  1:30:00 AM    Science Lover

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The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time, was published online November 25 in the American Journal of Human Genetics by scientists at the Genome Institute...

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Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels

Bioengineers Succeed in Producing Plastics Without the Use of Fossil Fuels

  12:34:00 AM    Science Lover

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A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals. This groundbreaking research, which may now allow for the production of environmentally...

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New Hydrogen-Storage Method Discovered

New Hydrogen-Storage Method Discovered

  1:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem. This schematic shows the structure...

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Alzheimer's Disease : Analyzing Structural Brain Changes

Alzheimer's Disease : Analyzing Structural Brain Changes

  5:20:00 PM    Science Lover

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In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Serial...

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Brain Disease 'Resistance Gene' Evolves in Papua New Guinea Community; Could Offer Insights Into CJD

Brain Disease 'Resistance Gene' Evolves in Papua New Guinea Community; Could Offer Insights Into CJD

  2:40:00 AM    Science Lover

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A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...

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Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

  12:11:00 AM    Science Lover

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Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France. Cigarettes...

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Potential Treatment for Huntington's Disease

Potential Treatment for Huntington's Disease

  1:58:00 AM    Science Lover

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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells (the electrical activity...

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Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass And Strength In Monkeys, Research Suggests

Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass And Strength In Monkeys, Research Suggests

  12:51:00 AM    Science Lover

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A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disorders. Cynomolgus macaque. New research in these...

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LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water On Moon

LCROSS Impact Analysis Indicates Water On Moon

  1:30:00 AM    Science Lover

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The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. (Credit: Image courtesy of NASA) Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being...

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Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They're Stars Not Planets

Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They're Stars Not Planets

  1:05:00 AM    Science Lover

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Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres -- however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking for a potential home for alien life, or even a future home for ourselves,...

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Large People Prone To Enlarged Hearts: Obesity Leading Risk Factor Of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging

Large People Prone To Enlarged Hearts: Obesity Leading Risk Factor Of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging

  9:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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Image via Wikipedia Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and death, according to findings published in the November...

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Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

  3:27:00 PM    Science Lover

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New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. New data...

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Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs

Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs

  12:59:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D. (Credit: Image...

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Spinal Cord Regeneration Enabled By Stabilizing, Improving Delivery Of Scar-degrading Enzyme

Spinal Cord Regeneration Enabled By Stabilizing, Improving Delivery Of Scar-degrading Enzyme

  9:18:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged. By digesting the tissue that blocks re-growth of damaged nerves, the improved enzyme -- and new system for delivering it...

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Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity

Inefficient Selection: New Evolutionary Mechanism Accounts For Some Of Human Biological Complexity

  10:29:00 PM    Science Lover

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A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes. Genomic and proteomic analysis has found...

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Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

  11:45:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment delayed is more than a year after the original spinal cord injury. Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD. (Credit:...

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