Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone…
Month: April 2013
Recipe for large numbers of stem cells requires only one ingredient
Stem cells and tissue-specific cells can be grown in abundance from mature mammalian cells simply…
Parents tend to share more bacteria with family dogs than children
As much as dog owners love their children, they tend to share more of themselves,…
Towards the origin of America’s first settlers
The international scientific community faces the exciting challenge of discovering the origin of America’s first…
ALMA telescope pinpoints early galaxies at record speed
Astronomers have used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations…
Security holes in smartphone apps
Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that…
Cell-permeable peptide shows promise for controlling cardiovascular disease
Atherosclerosis — sometimes called “hardening of the arteries” — is a leading cause of death…
New keyboard for touchscreens enables faster thumb-typing
Scientists have created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices….
Green tourism: Reducing the carbon footprint of holidaymakers
Each year our desire to get away from it all contributes to around 5% of…
Discovery of genetic defect which triggers epilepsy
Researchers have identified a gene behind an epilepsy syndrome, which could also play an important…