Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in…
Month: September 2011
Mars Science Laboratory launch preparations
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Project continues to press ahead with launch preparation activities, planning to…
Digital quantum simulator developed
Physicists in Austria have come considerably closer to their goal to investigate complex phenomena in…
US high school science standards in genetics are ‘inadequate’ according to experts
More than 85 percent of states have genetics standards that are inadequate for preparing America’s…
Habit makes bad food too easy to swallow
Do you always get popcorn at the movies? Or snack while you’re on the couch…
To clear digital waste in computers, ‘think green,’ researchers say
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and…
Researchers identify gene that leads to myopia (nearsightedness)
Despite decades of intensive research, the specific genes whose defects lead to nearsightedness have remained…
Sporulation may have given rise to the bacterial outer membrane
Bacteria can generally be divided into two classes: those with just one membrane and those…
Crippling condition associated with diabetes is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood
A new article explains symptoms and treatments for Charcot foot, a form of localized osteoporosis…
Key function of mutation in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer gene discovered
It is widely known that mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility 1 (BRCA1) gene significantly…