Women suffering a heart attack wait much longer than men to call emergency medical services…
Month: March 2015
Elusive El Niño arrives: Forecasters predict it will stay weak, have little influence on weather and climate
The long-anticipated El Niño has finally arrived, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center….
How healthy is genetically modified soybean oil?
Soybean oil accounts for more than 90 percent of all the seed oil production in…
Snffing out origins of methane: instrument identifies methane’s origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to…
Nutrient pollution damages streams in ways previously unknown, ecologists find
An important food resource has been disappearing from streams without anyone noticing until now. Ecologists…
Mars: The planet that lost an ocean’s worth of water
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, and covered a…
Hubble sees supernova split into four images by cosmic lens
Astronomers have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The…
Gut microbial mix relates to stages of blood sugar control
The composition of intestinal bacteria and other micro-organisms — called the gut microbiota — changes…
Oxytocin nasal spray causes men to eat fewer calories
A synthetic nasal formulation of the hormone oxytocin reduced caloric intake in healthy men, particularly…
Male partner’s healthier lifestyle may help infertile obese female conceive
Male partners of infertile obese females may increase the odds of conceiving a child by…