A project running almost 10,000 climate simulations on volunteers’ home computers has found that a…
Month: April 2012
Young girls more likely to report side effects after HPV vaccine
Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil,…
Golfers can improve their putt with a different look: Visualize a great big hole
Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as…
Robosquirrels versus rattlesnakes
Robot squirrels are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on…
New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system
The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according…
Darwin in the genome: Research on stickleback fish shows how adaptation to new environments involves many genes
A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is whether adaptation to new environments is the…
Less than 1 in 6 Americans frequently washes grocery totes increasing risk for food poisoning
Reusable grocery totes are a popular, eco-friendly choice to transport groceries, but only 15 percent…
Coral links ice sheet collapse to ancient ‘mega flood’
Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to…
Promising vaccine targets on hepatitis C virus
Scientists have found antibodies that can prevent infection from widely differing strains of hepatitis C…
Autistic kids born preterm, post-term have more severe symptoms
For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to…