Pregnant women with antibodies that can indicate early thyroid disease are three times as likely…
Month: July 2010
Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution
Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in…
Stem cells for eating and sex pinpointed
New research has identified the stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells…
Black hole jerked around twice
Scientists have found evidence that a giant black hole has been jerked around twice, causing…
Marriage patterns drive fertility decline
Researchers have applied an evolutionary “use it or lose it” principle when studying past marriage…
Video game processors help lower CT scan radiation
A new approach to processing X-ray data could lower by a factor of ten or…
HIV vaccines may induce HIV antibodies in trial participants, can cause false-positive test result
During trials of preventive HIV vaccines, trial participants may develop HIV-related antibody responses that could…
Students design early labor detector aimed to prevent premature births
A team of graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a system to pick…
Muscular heart failure patients may have a better chance at survival, study suggests
Heart failure patients with more muscle have the potential to increase their length of life,…
Climate change causes larger, more plentiful marmots, study shows; Implications for many creatures that hibernate
Researchers have discovered that changes in seasonal timing can increase body weight and population size…