Unless a corn crop is at risk of developing fungal diseases, a new study shows…
Month: June 2011
Components of speech recognition pathway in humans identified
Neuroscientists have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain…
Corporal punishment: Mothers’ self-recorded audio gives unique real-time view of spanking
In a new corporal punishment study based on actual audio recordings, mothers spank, slap or…
Next generation gene therapy
Inspired by earlier successes using gene therapy to correct an inherited type of blindness, investigators…
Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain
Like the vast African plains, two huge expanses of the North Pacific Ocean are major…
Decade-long study of Pacific predators shows importance of biological ‘hotspots’
An unprecedented decade-long study of apex predators in the Pacific Ocean found a wider range…
Stress in the city: Brain activity and biology behind mood disorders of urbanites
Being born and raised in a major urban area is associated with greater lifetime risk…
Strongest evidence yet indicates icy Saturn moon hiding saltwater ocean
Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show…
Artificial light quality affects herbivore preference for seedlings
Researchers evaluated the preference of adult sweet potato whitefly to cucumber seedlings grown under fluorescent…
Early-season strawberry tested in high elevation conditions
Researchers investigated the use of high tunnels to lengthen the growing season for June-bearing strawberries….