Researchers have extracted and sequenced tiny bits of DNA remaining in the teeth of 300-year-old…
Month: March 2015
Amphibians, already threatened, face increased susceptibility to disease from environmental stress
New research supports the hypothesis that environmental stressors increase salamanders’ susceptibility to infection, based on…
Biofuel proteomics: Researchers use proteomics to profile switchgrass
Researchers used an advanced proteomic techniques to identify 1,750 unique proteins in shoots of switchgrass,…
New class of drugs dramatically increases healthy lifespan, mouse study suggests
Scientists have identified a new class of drugs that in animal models dramatically slows the…
Teens, adults hazy on Washington marijuana law, study shows
Only 57 percent of Washington parents surveyed knew the legal age for recreational marijuana use…
Study of fruit fly ‘brain in a jar’ reveals mechanics of jet lag
Long the stuff of science fiction, the disembodied ‘brain in a jar’ is providing science…
New angle on x-ray measurements
Criminal justice, cosmology and computer manufacturing may not look to have much in common, but…
After 60 million years apart, two fern genera form hybrid in the mountains of France
A fern discovered in the French Pyrenees is a recently formed intergeneric hybrid between parental…
Amid chaos of Libya, newly unearthed fossils give clues to our own evolution
A discovery of mammal fossils uncovered in the Zallah Oasis in the Sirt Basin of…
Quantum sensor’s advantages survive entanglement breakdown
The extraordinary promise of quantum information processing — solving problems that classical computers can’t, perfectly…