The love song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been…
Month: February 2012
Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink
When a researcher set out to study a chemical in male mouse urine called MTMT…
Clues to common birth defect found in gene expression data
Researchers have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic hernia, a common and often…
A bug’s (sex) life: Diving beetles offer unexpected clues about sexual selection
Studies of diving beetles suggest sperm evolution may be driven by changes in female reproductive…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter
NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Feb. 1 with the mission’s first…
More environmental rules needed for shale gas, says geophysicist
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the…
Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
A recent discovery enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma…
Medical debt keeps rising, new report shows
A comprehensive new report on health insurance shows the so-called Great Recession caused hundreds of…
Exercise triggers stem cells in muscle
Researchers have determined that an adult stem cell present in muscle is responsive to exercise,…
Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes
Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival…