NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in…
Month: April 2013
New techniques allow discovery of smallest super-Earth exoplanets
New research has perhaps the smallest super-earth planet in its host star habitable zone. Kepler…
No ‘silver bullet’ for science standards
America’s K-12 teachers are not fully prepared to meet a new set of science standards,…
When it comes to survival of the fittest, stress is a good thing, squirrel study shows
Researchers have shown for the first time how females’ use social cues to correctly prepare…
Neural activity in bats measured in-flight
Scientists have, for the first time, measured the activity of place cells in the brains…
Learning disabilities affect up to 10 percent of children
Up to 10 percent of the population are affected by specific learning disabilities, such as…
Sea-ice ecosystem possibly triggered evolution of baleen whales and penguins
The origin of the unique plankton ecosystem of the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean can be traced…
New solar-cell coating could enable a major boost in efficiency
Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit…
Ethnicity may influence antibody genes: Immunity-related DNA sections could vary depending on ethnicity
Cracking the DNA code for a complex region of the human genome has helped scientists…
Cold winters freezing out breast cancer treatment
For women diagnosed with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, tamoxifen is an essential drug used…