|  To curb China's haze, air pollution, use water  | A new idea to cut back on air pollution: spray water into the atmosphere from sprinklers atop tall buildings and towers, similar to watering a garden. In an article published, a researcher suggests this course of action as a novel approach to help curb the severe air pollution and heavy haze. | Read More » New compounds discovered that are hundreds of times more mutagenic  | Researchers have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions -- such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat -- that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent compounds which are known carcinogens. These compounds were not previously known to exist. | Read More » Costs for complications from cancer surgical care extremely high  | Although complications from surgical care for cancer patients may seem infrequent, the costs associated with such outcomes are extremely high, according to researchers. | Read More » Tiny acts of microbe justice help reveal how nature fights freeloaders  | Researchers have discovered that bacteria prevent layabouts from enjoying the fruit of others' hard work by keeping food generated by the community's productive members away from those microbes that attempt to live on others' leftovers. The process could have uses in agriculture, energy and medicine, as well as provide insight into how species protect themselves from the freeloaders of their kind. | Read More » New technique targets specific areas of cancer cells with different drugs  | Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body and deliver those drugs to separate parts of the cancer cell where they will be most effective. | Read More » China destroys ivory: Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates Chinese Government for sending strong anti-poaching message  | The Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates China's State Forestry Administration and the General Administration of Customs for destroying confiscated ivory – a major development in the effort to protect elephants from the ravages of ivory poaching. | Read More » Stimulating brain cells stops binge drinking, animal study finds  | Researchers have found a way to change alcohol drinking behavior in rodents, using the emerging technique of optogenetics, which uses light to stimulate neurons. | Read More » Laying money on the line leads to healthier food choices over time  | People are more likely to choose healthy options at the grocery store if they use the risk of losing their monthly healthy food discount as a motivational tool, according to new research. | Read More » Preventing air accidents: New satellite-based system  | A Norwegian, satellite-based system aims to ensure that helicopters and light aircraft are prevented from colliding with power lines and other obstacles. | Read More » Marriage promotion has failed to stem poverty among single moms  | As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty this month, a new report suggests one recent weapon in the battle has been a disappointing failure. | Read More » Frozen frogs: How amphibians survive the harsh Alaskan winters  | As winter approaches, many of us hunker down and virtually "hibernate" for the season. Classic hibernation in the wild conjures images of furry bears, but other animals are not so lucky to have immense fat stores or fur to protect them from the elements. Frogs that live at northern latitudes have neither of these, but must find ways to survive the harsh winter season. Their solution? Freezing … but not to death. | Read More » Population stability 'hope' in species' response to climate change  | Stable population trends are a prerequisite for species' range expansion, according to new research. | Read More » Online colorectal cancer risk calculator  | CRC-PRO, or Colorectal Cancer Predicted Risk Online, is designed to help both patients and physicians determine when screening for colorectal cancer is appropriate. Current guidelines recommend patients are screened at the age of 50. However, with this new tool, physicians will be better able to identify who is truly at risk and when screenings for patients are necessary. | Read More » Important mutation discovered in dairy cattle  | High milk yield in dairy cows is negatively correlated to fertility. Scientists have now found a mutation in a gene sequence that affects this relationship. | Read More » Meditation for anxiety, depression?  | Some 30 minutes of meditation daily may improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new analysis of previously published research suggests. | Read More » Worker wasps grow visual brains, queens stay in dark  | A queen in a paperwasp colony largely stays in the dark. The worker wasps, who fly outside to seek food and building materials, see much more of the world around them. A new study indicates that the brain regions involved in sensory perception also develop differently in these castes, according to the different behavioral reliance on the senses. | Read More » Newfound planet is Earth-mass but gassy  | An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although the planet weighs the same as Earth, it is 60 percent larger in diameter, meaning that it must have a very thick, gaseous atmosphere. | Read More » 'Ardi' skull reveals links to human lineage  | One of the most hotly debated issues in current human origins research focuses on how the 4.4 million-year-old African species Ardipithecus ramidus is related to the human lineage. New research confirms "Ardi's" close evolutionary relationship to humans. Researchers turned to the base of a beautifully preserved partial cranium of Ardi, which reveals a pattern of similarity that links Ardi to Australopithecus and modern humans and but not to apes. | Read More » RAMBO a small but powerful magnet: System allows high-magnetic-field experiments on a tabletop  | Researchers have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that allows researchers to collect real-time, high-resolution data in a system that couples high magnetic fields and low temperature with direct optical access to the magnet's core. | Read More » New fossils shed light on the origins of lions, tigers, and bears  | A new study discusses the origins of cats and dogs, as well as other carnivorous mammals like bears, seals, and weasels (taxonomically called "carnivoraformes"), and describes new specimens of one of the earliest of these primitive taxa. | Read More » Are gifted children getting lost in the shuffle?  | Gifted children are likely to be the next generation's innovators and leaders—and yet, the exceptionally smart are often invisible in the classroom, lacking the curricula, teacher input and external motivation to reach full potential. This conclusion comes as the result of the largest scientific study of the profoundly gifted to date, a 30-year study. | Read More » Dietary fibers protect against asthma, study suggests  | The Western diet probably has more to do with the asthma epidemic than has been assumed so far, because developing asthma is related to the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed. Gut bacteria ferment the dietary fibers contained in them and fatty acids enter the blood as a result, influencing the immune response in the lungs. This has been shown by a Swiss research project. | Read More » Suicide risk doesn't differ in children taking two types of commonly prescribed antidepressants  | A study released today shows there is no evidence that the risk of suicide differs with two commonly prescribed antidepressants prescribed to children and adolescents. | Read More » Researchers map out world's winegrape varieties  | Researchers have compiled statistics from 44 countries to develop the first database of the world's winegrape varieties and regions. | Read More » Sex matters for microbes  | Researchers have observed mating for the first time in the microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness. | Read More » Disparities run deep: Parkinson's patients utilization of deep brain stimulation treatment reduced in demographic groups  | Among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, female, black, and Asian patients are substantially less likely to receive proven deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery to improve tremors and motor symptoms, according to a new report, which identified considerable disparities among Medicare recipients receiving DBS for Parkinson's disease. | Read More » NASA's Fermi makes first gamma-ray study of a gravitational lens  | Astronomers have made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic alignment allows the gravity of a massive object to bend and amplify light from a more distant source. | Read More » New packaging plastic protects as well as aluminium foil  | Scientists have created an alternative stretchable plastic for prolonging shelf-life of pharmaceuticals, food and electronics. | Read More » Rare eclipsing double asteroid discovered  | Students in an undergraduate astronomy class made a discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and eclipse one another. Fewer than 100 binary eclipsing asteroids have been found in the main asteroid belt. | Read More » Vikings and superheroes: How interconnected characters may reveal the reality behind the stories  | The Icelandic sagas of the Norse people are thousand-year-old chronicles of brave deeds and timeless romances, but how true to Viking life were they? Researchers used a statistical network of associations between characters to find out. | Read More » Stopping molecules with a centrifuge  | A novel deceleration technique brings fast continuous beams of polyatomic polar molecules almost to a halt. | Read More » First dinosaurs identified from Saudi Arabia  | Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula. Scientists have now uncovered the first record of dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia. What is now dry desert was once a beach littered with the bones and teeth of ancient marine reptiles and dinosaurs. A string of vertebrae from the tail of a huge "Brontosaurus-like" sauropod, together with some shed teeth from a carnivorous theropod represent the first formally identified dinosaur fossils from Saudi Arabia. | Read More » Faster method of boarding planes devised  | Researchers have come up with a new way to reduce the time it takes to board an airplane. Passengers are assigned to seats based on the amount of luggage they carry, distributing carry-ons evenly throughout the plane, resulting in a reduction in the total time to board all passengers. | Read More » One in, one out: How people put a limit on their social networks  | A new study has shown that people still put most of their efforts into communicating with small numbers of close friends or family, often operating unconscious one-in, one-out policies so that communication patterns remain the same even when friendships change. | Read More » New, simple technique may drive down biofuel production costs  | Researchers have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production. | Read More » Several forms of vitamin E protect against memory disorders, study says  | Elderly people with high serum vitamin E levels are less likely to suffer from memory disorders than their peers with lower levels, according to a study published recently. According to the researchers, various forms of vitamin E seem to play a role in memory processes. | Read More » Cold weather increases chances of carbon monoxide poisoning; toxicologist offers advice  | Temperatures in the next few days are predicted to be the coldest of the winter so far, and people using space heaters to get some extra warmth into their living and working spaces need to be aware of a potential "silent killer" inside their homes and offices — carbon monoxide (CO). | Read More » Stem cells on road to specialization  | Scientists have gained new insight into how both early embryonic cells and embryonic stem cells are directed into becoming specialized cell types, like pancreatic and liver cells. | Read More » Cancer Statistics 2014: Death rates continue to drop  | An American Cancer Society report finds steady declines in cancer death rates for the past two decades add up to a 20 percent drop in the overall risk of dying from cancer over that time period. Progress has been most rapid for middle-aged black men. Nevertheless, black men still have the highest cancer incidence and death rates among all ethnicities in the US. | Read More » Jumping snails left grounded in future oceans  | Sea snails that leap to escape their predators may lose their extraordinary jumping ability because of rising carbon dioxide emissions, scientists have discovered. Researchers observed that the conch snail, which uses a strong foot to leap away from approaching predators, either stops jumping, or takes longer to jump, when exposed to carbon dioxide levels projected for the end of this century. | Read More » Racism may accelerate aging in African-American men  | A new study reveals that racism may impact aging at the cellular level. A research team found signs of accelerated aging in a group of African-American men who reported experiencing high levels of racial discrimination and who had internalized anti-black attitudes. Findings from the study are the first to link racism-related factors and shortened telomere length. | Read More » | |
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