A new software package allows researchers to vastly improve the performance of one of the…
Month: June 2013
Making a beeline for the nectar: How patterns on flowers help bees spot their first nectar-rich flower
Bumblebees searching for nectar go for signposts on flowers rather than the bull’s eye. A…
Too green to be true? Highly effective method for converting CO2 into methanol
Researchers have developed a highly effective method for converting CO2 into methanol, which can be…
‘Forrest Gump’ mice show too much of a good thing, can be bad
A line of genetically modified mice that scientists call “Forrest Gump” because, like the movie…
Hospital reduces incidence of hospital-associated C. difficile by 70 percent
Rhode Island Hospital has reduced the incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by…
Potential drug compound attacks Parkinson’s on two fronts
Scientists have found a compound that could counter Parkinson’s disease in two ways at once….
App to protect private data on iOS devices finds almost half of other apps access private data
Almost half of the mobile apps running on Apple’s iOS operating system access the unique…
Lab reproduction of a marine compound with antibiotic properties
Chemists have synthesized baringolin, a substance isolated from the depths of the sea. At very…
54% of pregnant women use insecticides that are harmful to the fetus, Spanish study shows
Pregnancy and infancy are the periods of greatest vulnerability to the use of household insecticides….
Virus combination effective against deadly brain tumor
A combination of the myxoma virus and the immune suppressant rapamycin can kill glioblastoma multiforme,…