Month: February 2012

Global warming has driven Yosemite’s alpine chipmunks to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in…

Unlike Earth, the moon has no active volcanoes. This is surprising as liquid magma is…

New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to…

In a standard biology textbook, cells tend to look more or less the same from…

In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a…

Defects in a protein that functions as a dietary fat sensor may be a cause…

Researchers report that they have identified a class of proteins that detect “painful touch.” Scientists…

Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers’ lives, and there is a scientific foundation that…