Scientists have found a new role for the tiny organelles known as primary cilia –…
Month: May 2012
Improved waiting area design increases customer comfort
A researcher has studied restaurant design and has recommendations for how restaurateurs can design waiting…
Antarctic octopus study shows West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have collapsed 200,000 years ago
Scientists have found that genetic information on the Antarctic octopus supports studies indicating that the…
Can a hormone disclose the psychological impact of an accidental injury?
A study that was performed in Zurich and was published in the current issue of…
Female bugs overcome cost of traumatic sex
The study of “sexual conflict” between males and females helps us to understand why sexual…
New family of key mitochondrial proteins for function and viability of the brain discovered
Scientists have described a new family of six genes whose function regulates the movement and…
Self-worth needs to go beyond appearance, experts say
Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the ‘thin and beautiful’ ideal…
Significant water anomaly explained
Physicists have just explained a puzzling water anomaly — a deviation from the common form…
New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian mountains
Researchers working in remote Cambodian mountains are shedding new light on the lost history of…
VISTA views a vast ball of stars
A new image of Messier 55 from ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope shows tens of…