Month: December 2011

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our…

Breastfed children follow a different growth pattern than non-breastfed children, new research shows. Breastfeeding lowers…

Working with a special line of human breast cells, researchers have shown that for low…

Forest thinning to help prevent or reduce severe wildfire will release more carbon to the…

Engineers have developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in…

Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells. A team that…

Researchers are examining tiny worms that inhabit the frigid sea off Antarctica to learn not…

Researchers looking at the thermal conductivity of bundles boron nanoribbons have found that they have…

Astronomers have discovered a strong ultraviolet-wavelength absorber on Pluto’s surface, providing new evidence that points…