Spectroscopic evidence for the unusual handedness of a mammalian lipid may advance our understanding of…
Month: March 2012
New gene therapy approach developed for red blood cell disorders
Scientists have designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat…
Bacteria use chat to play the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ game in deciding their fate
When faced with life-or-death situations, bacteria — and maybe even human cells — use an…
Astronomers detect vast amounts of gas and dust around black hole in early universe
Astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of gas and dust in a galaxy that surrounds…
Blocking ‘oh-glick-nack’ may improve long-term memory
Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline,…
Hot pepper compound could help hearts
The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a…
New evidence that comets deposited building blocks of life on primordial Earth
New research provides further support for the idea that comets bombarding Earth billions of years…
Transparent, flexible ‘3-D’ memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices
New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of…
Competition-linked bursts of testosterone are fundamental aspect of human biology, study of Amazonian tribe suggests
Though Tsimane men have a third less baseline testosterone compared with U.S. men, Tsimane show…
Capsule for removing radioactive contamination from milk, fruit juices, other beverages
Amid concerns about possible terrorist attacks with nuclear materials, and fresh memories of environmental contamination…