Floods of molten lava may sound like the stuff of apocalyptic theorists, but history is…
Month: April 2014
How Australia’s Outback got one million feral camels: Camels culled on large scale
A new study has shed light on how an estimated one million-strong population of wild…
Political ravens? Ravens notice the relationships among others, study shows
Cognitive biologists have revealed that ravens do understand and keep track of the rank relations…
Picture books aren’t just fun: Children learn sophisticated animal facts when parent read them
Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about…
2.5 million basketball injuries to high school athletes in 6 seasons, research finds
The first study to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball-related injuries…
Researchers compare hip width and sexual behavior
Hip width and risk of birth-related trauma may play a role in a woman’s decision…
Inverse effects of midlife occupational, leisure time physical activity on mobility limitation in old age
Strenuous occupational physical activity in midlife increases the risk of mobility limitation in old age,…
Loss of memory in Alzheimer’s mice models reversed through gene therapy
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects some 400,000 people in…
Liquid spacetime: What if spacetime were a kind of fluid?
What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical…
Cell division speed influences gene architecture
Speed-reading is a technique used to read quickly. It involves visual searching for clues to…