A harmful algal bloom is the suspected culprit of a die-off in 2011 of millions…
Month: June 2015
BPA can adversely affect parenting behavior in mice
Biparental care of offspring occurs in only a minority of species. Studies have shown that…
Revolutionary microbe for biofuel production developed
A revolutionary strain of yeast has been developed by scientists that could help significantly accelerate…
Researchers find speedometer in the brain
Neural circuits in the brains of mice that are pivotal for movement and navigation in…
Sudden draining of glacial lakes explained
In 2008 scientists documented for the first time how the icy bottoms of lakes atop…
Two chaotically tumbling Pluto moons
If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons Nix or Hydra, you’d have a hard…
What musical taste tells us about social class
Love the opera? Hungry for hip hop? It turns out that your musical likes and…
Ultra-tough fiber imitates structure of spider silk
These researchers are not related to Spiderman. Nevertheless, a group of scientists has produced an…
Visualizing the ‘matrix’: App provides insight into the quantum world of coupled nuclear spins
Magnetic resonance tomography images are an important diagnostic tool. The achievable contrast depends on how…
Cracking the function of the fly olfactory system to understand how neural circuits work
Scientists have undertaken to map the neural circuitry involved in the conversion of olfactory inputs…