Humans get most of the blame for climate change with little attention paid to the…
Month: July 2012
Scientists read monkeys’ inner thoughts: Brain activity decoded while monkeys avoid obstacle to touch target
Scientists who were decoding the activity of populations of neurons in the motor cortex discovered…
What 10,000 fruit flies have to tell us about differences between the sexes
What do you get when you dissect 10,000 fruit fly larvae? Scientists have discovered a…
An earthquake in a maze: Highest-resolution observations yet of the complex 2012 Sumatra earthquake
The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was the largest strike-slip…
Understanding hot nuclear matter that permeated the early universe
A review article describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider…
In utero exposure to diesel exhaust a possible risk factor for obesity
Pregnant mice exposed to high levels of air pollution gave birth to offspring with a…
Virus discovered in Cultus Lake sport fish
A fish-population statistician has uncovered evidence of a potentially deadly virus in a freshwater sport…
A wrinkle in space-time: Math shows how shockwaves could crinkle space
Mathematicians have come up with a new way to crinkle up the fabric of space-time…
Rapid diagnostic test for pathogens, contaminants
Using nanoscale materials, researchers have developed a single-step method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses,…
Unprecedented snapshot of single sperm cell’s genome
Every sperm cell looks essentially the same, with that characteristic tadpole appearance. But inside, sperm…