An international collaboration of scientists has detected the highest energy gamma rays ever observed from…
Month: October 2011
Why does conflict arise when social identity is threatened?
Be it at school, office, the neighborhood or the community people live in, conflicting situations…
Astronomers find elusive planets in decade-old Hubble data
In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual…
Race disparity found in post-hospital arrival homicide deaths at trauma centers
New research based on post-hospital arrival data from U.S. trauma centers finds that even after…
3-D look at Philippe provided clues of transition into a hurricane
Tropical Storm Philippe took its time to strengthen into a hurricane because of wind shear…
NASA’s Aqua satellite sees birth of two tropical cyclones in Eastern Pacific
The tropics in the eastern Pacific were quiet for a couple of days after Hurricane…
People without cars, financial assets less likely to marry: study
A new study finds that people who lack personal wealth in the form of a…
Decade of effort yields diabetes susceptibility gene
Ten years of meticulous mouse breeding, screening, and record-keeping have finally paid off for researchers…
Genetic makeup affects testosterone concentrations in men
Genetics play an important role in the variation in, and risk of, low testosterone concentrations…
Diabetes susceptibility gene identified: Tomosyn-2 regulates insulin secretion
A group of researchers has pinpointed a gene that confers diabetes susceptibility in obese mice….