Global Warming 'Feedback' Less Than Thought?

Global Warming 'Feedback' Less Than Thought?

  12:26:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new estimate of the feedback between temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has been derived from a comprehensive comparison of temperature and CO2 records spanning the past millennium. New research implies that the amplification of current global...

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Mouse Sperm Cooperates With Its Brethren

Mouse Sperm Cooperates With Its Brethren

  11:06:00 PM    Science Lover

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Some mouse sperm can discriminate between its brethren and competing sperm from other males, clustering with its closest relatives to swim faster in the race to the egg. But this sort of cooperation appears to be present only in certain promiscuous species, where it affords...

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Neuron Connections Seen in 3-D

Neuron Connections Seen in 3-D

  3:44:00 PM    Science Lover

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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, in Germany, led by the Spanish physicist Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, has managed to obtain 3D images of the vesicles and filaments involved in communication between neurons. The method is based on a novel...

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New 'Nanoburrs' Could Help Fight Heart Disease

New 'Nanoburrs' Could Help Fight Heart Disease

  1:03:00 AM    Science Lover

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Building on their previous work delivering cancer drugs with nanoparticles, MIT and Harvard researchers have turned their attention to cardiovascular disease, designing new particles that can cling to damaged artery walls and slowly release medicine. Researchers have built...

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Ozone Pollution in N. America from Asia

Ozone Pollution in N. America from Asia

  12:23:00 AM    Science Lover

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Springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising primarily due to air flowing eastward from the Pacific Ocean, a trend that is largest when the air originates in Asia. A cadre of government and commercial aircraft helped collect data for a new study linking...

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New Visible Light Photocatalyst Kills Bacteria, Even After Light Turned Off

New Visible Light Photocatalyst Kills Bacteria, Even After Light Turned Off

  12:34:00 AM    Science Lover

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In the battle against bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a powerful new weapon -- an enhanced photocatalytic disinfection process that uses visible light to destroy harmful bacteria and viruses, even in the dark. Jian Ku Shang, a professor...

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Tie Light in Knots by Physicists

Tie Light in Knots by Physicists

  2:05:00 AM    Science Lover

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The remarkable feat of tying light in knots has been achieved by a team of physicists working at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Southampton, UK, reports a paper in Nature Physics this week. The colored circle represents the hologram, out of which the knotted...

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How Music 'Moves' Us: Listeners' Brains Second-Guess the Composer

How Music 'Moves' Us: Listeners' Brains Second-Guess the Composer

  5:43:00 PM    Science Lover

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Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to happen next in a piece of music. So, when the music stops, your brain may...

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Biologists Wake Dormant Viruses and Uncover Mechanism for Survival

Biologists Wake Dormant Viruses and Uncover Mechanism for Survival

  9:44:00 PM    Science Lover

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It is known that viral "squatters" comprise nearly half of our genetic code. These genomic invaders inserted their DNA into our own millions of years ago when they infected our ancestors. But just how we keep them quiet and prevent them from attack was more of a mystery...

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'Wet' Computing Systems to Boost Processing Power

'Wet' Computing Systems to Boost Processing Power

  2:18:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new kind of information processing technology inspired by chemical processes in living systems is being developed by researchers at the University of Southampton. Sketch of artificial wet neuronal networks. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Southampton) Dr Maurits...

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Rise in Certain Disorders can be Explain by Human Evolution

Rise in Certain Disorders can be Explain by Human Evolution

  12:09:00 AM    Science Lover

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The subtle but ongoing pressures of human evolution could explain the seeming rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases, and reproductive cancers, researchers write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Certain adaptations that once benefited...

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Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus

Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus

  10:15:00 PM    Science Lover

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About eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to researchers in Japan and the U.S. A new study shows that the genomes of humans and other mammals contain DNA derived from the insertion of bornaviruses, RNA viruses...

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Evolution's Footprints in Human Genome Precisely Tracked Using New Approach

Evolution's Footprints in Human Genome Precisely Tracked Using New Approach

  10:08:00 AM    Science Lover

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Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits -- resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for...

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The Large Hadron Collider : Physicists Beginning to See Data

The Large Hadron Collider : Physicists Beginning to See Data

  9:41:00 PM    Science Lover

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Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest science experiment. Last month the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider began recording...

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Obesity Now Poses as Great a Threat to Quality of Life as Smoking

Obesity Now Poses as Great a Threat to Quality of Life as Smoking

  1:13:00 AM    Science Lover

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As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to smoking. In a new study, researchers calculate that...

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Elusive Protein Points to Mechanism Behind Hearing Loss

Elusive Protein Points to Mechanism Behind Hearing Loss

  12:37:00 AM    Science Lover

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A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University's A. James Hudspeth, suggests that hearing loss may arise from a faulty pathway that...

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Scientists to Control Quantum Mechanical Force

Scientists to Control Quantum Mechanical Force

  1:39:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force that attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart. These are MEMS used to detect the presence of the Casimir...

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Lithium-Air Batteries might Displace Gasoline in Future Cars

Lithium-Air Batteries might Displace Gasoline in Future Cars

  8:03:00 PM    Science Lover

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Inside surplus of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States each time. Equally scientists rush to discover environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world's ever-growing moving needs, battery researchers are exploring the look good...

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