Recent public health efforts have focused extensively on reducing the amount of formula babies are…
Month: May 2013
Invasion of the slugs; Halted by worms
The gardener’s best friend, the earthworm, is great at protecting leaves from being chomped by…
Hubble tells a tale of galactic collisions
When we look into the distant cosmos, the great majority of the objects we see…
Nano-breakthrough: Solving the case of the herringbone crystal
Leading nanoscientists created beautiful, tiled patterns with flat nanocrystals, but they were left with a…
Four new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer identified
A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new…
Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects
New mutations that are absent in parents but appear in their offspring account for at…
Graphene joins the race to redefine the ampere
New research could pave the way for redefining the ampere in terms of fundamental constants…
Gene associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis identified
Researchers have identified the first gene to be associated with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (also called…
Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals, researchers predict
Climate change will cause widespread global-scale loss of common plants and animals. More than half…
Research on cilia heats up: Implications for hearing, vision loss and kidney disease
Experiments have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like “antennae,”…