Month: May 2012

Researchers have analyzed data on 14,000 users of a music-sharing site and have concluded that,…

When flies are made to lose a gene with links to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS),…

NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to…

Astronomers can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy,…

Researchers have shown for the first time that the mechanical force produced by cell-cell interactions…

SpaceX completed a landmark mission May 31 that saw its Dragon capsule deliver half-a-ton of…

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few…

A prevailing theory contends that eastern and western monarchs are genetically distinct, and that genetic…

One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the…

An immune-system receptor plays an unexpected but crucially important role in keeping stem cells from…