Month: April 2011

Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the…

Across many groups of animals, species with bigger brains often have better cognitive abilities. But…

As cells assemble into a donut shape and ascend a hydrogel cone, they do work…

Scientists have pinpointed a reason older adults have a harder time multitasking than younger adults:…

More than 200 years ago, Luigi Galvani discovered that the muscles of a frog’s leg…

The meaning of the standard fecal coliform test used to monitor water quality has been…

Most people have trouble telling them apart, but bumble bees, honey bees, stingless bees and…

In a new study, scientists describe successfully mutating specific genes of Chlamydia bacteria, which cause…

A chance observation by a researcher might have ended a decades-old debate about the precise…

Fluctuations in penguin populations in the Antarctic are linked more strongly to the availability of…