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Both Maternal and Paternal Age Linked to Autism
February 10, 2012 — Older maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with having a child with autism, according to a recent ... > full story -
Tell Me How You Are, and I Know How Long You Will Live
February 9, 2012 — The way people rate their health determines their probability of survival in the following decades. Researchers have demonstrated that for ratings ranging from "excellent," "good," "fair," and "poor" ... > full story -
Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model
February 9, 2012 — Fingerprints that are potential key pieces of evidence in court currently are not being considered due to shortcomings in the way this evidence is reported. Now, a statistical model has been ... > full story -
High Levels of Cadmium or Lead in Blood Linked to Pregnancy Delay
February 8, 2012 — Higher blood levels of cadmium in females, and higher blood levels of lead in males, delayed pregnancy in couples trying to become pregnant, according to a new ... > full story -
Precision Time: A Matter of Atoms, Clocks, and Statistics
February 1, 2012 — The ability to accurately measure a second in time is at the heart of many essential technologies; the most recognizable may be the Global Positioning System (GPS). A new paper addresses how ... > full story -
Circular RNAs More Common Than Previously Thought: Unexpected Mode of Gene Expression Is Surprisingly Widespread
February 1, 2012 — It may be time to revise this traditional understanding of human gene expression, as new research suggests that circular RNA molecules, rather than the classical linear molecules, are a widespread ... > full story -
Detecting Detrimental Change in Coral Reefs
January 26, 2012 — Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover's Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustan ... > full story -
New Standard for Vitamin D Testing to Ensure Accurate Test Results
January 25, 2012 — At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference ... > full story -
Facebook Is a Community
January 25, 2012 — Researchers in Italy have used two high-speed computer algorithms to analyze the connections between a large sub-set of the more than half a billion users of the social networking site Facebook to ... > full story -
Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered Stone Tools, Anthropologists Discover
January 24, 2012 — New published research from anthropologists in the UK supports the long-held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone ... > full story
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