Month: May 2012

Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both humanmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere’s…

Common variants of the ApoE gene are strongly associated with the risk of developing late-onset…

Researchers have transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it…

Bright black-and-red butterflies that flit across the sunlit edges of Amazonian rain forests are natural…

ApoE4, a well-known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease triggers a cascade of signaling that…

For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states…

Scientists have discovered promiscuous sharing of large regions of DNA code among species by sequencing…

In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers have found that students…

Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the…

Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according…