Physicists who have studied the mixing between two incompatible fluids have found that it is…
Month: March 2012
Groundbreaking, waterless approach to microchip making
The tiny, high-speed computer chips found in every modern electronic device bear little resemblance to…
Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment
What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an…
Warming Antarctic brings changes to penguin breeding cycles
Three penguin species that share the Western Antarctic Peninsula for breeding grounds have been affected…
Energy requirements make Antarctic fur seal pups vulnerable to climate change
A new study has found that changing weather conditions can impact the metabolic rates of…
Mercury’s surprising core and landscape curiosities
Scientists have found that Mercury’s core, already suspected to occupy a greater fraction of the…
Trees may play role in electrifying the atmosphere, study suggests
Plants have long been known as the lungs of the Earth, but a new finding…
Sharp rise in cases of new strain of whooping cough in Australia
Australia’s prolonged whooping cough epidemic has entered a disturbing new phase, with a study showing…
Chemical pollution in Europe’s seas: The monitoring must catch up with the science, experts say
According to a recent poll of more than 10,000 citizens from 10 European countries, pollution…
Brain’s involvement in processing depends on language’s graphic symbols
Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew…