A new report unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of…
Month: December 2012
Destructive forest cockchafers: Gut microbes help beetles digest wood
European forest cockchafers can damage huge areas of trees. They house microbes in their guts…
Badger sleeping habits could help target TB control
Sleeping away from the family home is linked to health risks for badgers, new research…
Community togetherness plays vital role in coping with tragedies
Community support has remarkable benefits for people coping with traumatic mass shootings, according to an…
Helping the nose know: 100-year-old question about how olfactory feedback mechanism works is answered
More than 100 years after it was first identified, researchers have, for the first time,…
How the brain categorizes thousands of objects and actions
Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially…
Unraveling the threads: Simplest cotton genome offers clues for fiber improvements
An international consortium has published a high-quality draft assembly of the simplest cotton genome. In…
Astronomy: Stars reveal the secret of aging well
Some people are in great shape at the age of 90, while others are decrepit…
Physicists achieve elusive ‘evaporative cooling’ of molecules
Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very…
Scientists debunk the IQ myth: Notion of measuring one’s intelligence quotient by singular, standardized test is highly misleading
After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, scientists concluded that the notion of…