Researchers have identified 29 proteins that are likely to be involved in the spread of…
Month: December 2012
Northeast U.S. sees second driest November in more than a century
Even though Hurricane Sandy helped create wet start, November 2012 went into the record books…
Astronomers discover and ‘weigh’ infant solar system: Young star with rotating dust disk is youngest still-forming planetary system yet found
A young star no more than 300,000 years old is surrounded by a disk of…
The birth of new cardiac cells: Where new heart cells come from
Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but…
When the first stars blinked on: Very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old
Researchers have peered far back in time, to the era of the first stars and…
National disagreement over NASA’s goals and objectives detrimental to agency planning
Without a national consensus on strategic goals and objectives for NASA, the agency cannot be…
Workings of the brain: After 100 years, understanding the electrical role of dendritic spines
More than a century after they were discovered, researchers still remain in the dark about…
Obesity reversed in mice by manipulating production of an enzyme
Approximately 68 percent of US adults are overweight or obese, according to the National Cancer…
Extraverted gorillas enjoy longer lives, research suggests
Gorillas with an extravert personality live longer than their more introverted peers, a study suggests….
Invasive grass fuels increased fire activity in the West
An invasive grass species may be one reason fires are bigger and more frequent in…