Humans with a high motor excitability have a better working memory than humans with a…
Month: December 2013
Clues to how plants evolved to cope with cold
Researchers have found new clues to how plants evolved to withstand wintry weather. Scientists constructed…
Solar activity not a key cause of climate change, study shows
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a…
Where Alzheimer’s starts and how it spreads
Using high-resolution fMRI imaging in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and in mouse models of the…
Greenland ice stores liquid water year-round
Researchers have found an extensive reservoir in the Greenland Ice Sheet that holds water year…
Scientists anticipated size and location of 2012 Costa Rica earthquake
Scientists using GPS to study changes in the Earth’s shape accurately forecasted the size and…
Some plants may not adapt quickly to future climate change
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests…
Innovative screening strategy swiftly uncovers new drug candidates, new biology
Scientists have demonstrated a drug-discovery strategy with a double payoff —- it enables the rapid…
Malaria drug target raises hopes for new treatments
Scientists have taken an important step towards new malaria treatments by identifying a way to…
Van Allen Probes shed light on decades-old mystery
New research using data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific…