Engineers have mapped out the amounts of compression required to cause wrinkles, creases, and folds…
Month: July 2013
Discovery of stone monument adds new chapter to ancient Maya history: New World ‘Cleopatra story’ waits 1,000 years to be retold
Archaeologists tunneling beneath the main temple of the ancient Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in…
Personality may predict if you like spicy foods
Certain aspects of an individual’s personality may be a determining factor in whether they like…
Empty decoys divert antibodies from neutralizing gene therapy in cell, animal studies
Gene therapy researchers have produced a bioengineered decoy that fools the immune system and prevents…
‘Intelligent knife’ tells surgeon which tissue is cancerous
Scientists have developed an “intelligent knife” that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they…
Earth’s gold came from colliding dead stars
We value gold for many reasons: Its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, and its rarity….
Great white sharks’ fuel for oceanic voyages: Liver oil
New research shows that great white sharks power their nonstop journeys of more than 2,500…
A heart of gold: Gold nanofibers in engineered heart tissue can enhance electrical signalling
Scientists have integrated cardiac cells with nanofibers made of real gold particles to create functional…
How rice twice became a crop and twice became a weed — and what it means for the future
With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice GeneBank,…
BPA and chlorine means bad news: Modified forms of bisphenol A found to alter hormone signaling in new, disturbing ways
The ubiquity of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A led researchers to ask what it might…