The universe forms fewer stars than it used to, and a new study has now…
Month: August 2011
Ancient clams yield new information about greenhouse effect on climate
Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago…
Window fall-related injuries among youth examined
Approximately 5,200 children and adolescents 17 years of age and younger were treated in US…
Nanowires get into the groove
Scientists have discovered that growing nanowires out, not up, can keep them in line.
Are stellar explosions created equal? Scientists recheck a standard model for supernovae on which cosmic distance measurement is based
A new analysis of Type Ia supernova, used to measure cosmic distance, suggests many of…
Ignored virus can cause liver cancer, study suggests; Should we be screening blood for hepatitis G?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared hepatitis G non-harmful in 1997, but researchers in…
Quick and cheap data storage? New multiferroic material is both electrically charged and magnetic
Researchers have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at…
Better ‘photon loops’ may be key to computer and physics advances
Scientists have designed a fault-tolerant way to make “photon delay” devices, a key component for…
Good ruminations or bad ruminations in the depressed brain?
All of us, at times, ruminate or brood on a problem in order to make…
Road block as a new strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s
Two main agents involved in the inception of Alzheimer’s disease (APP and beta secretase) follow…