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Otzi Iceman Had Genetic Predisposition for Atherosclerosis: Much the Same in Ancient Peoples as It Is Today
July 30, 2014 While prevalence and types of risk factors for atherosclerosis have varied over time from ancient times to modern society -- such as levels of obesity, physical activity -- genetic ... full story -
Pesticide DDT Linked to Slow Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes, Mouse Study Finds
July 30, 2014 A new study in mice is the first to show that developmental exposure to DDT increases the risk of females later developing metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of conditions that include increased body ... full story -
Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Result of Carbon Dioxide Decrease, Not Continental Breakup
July 30, 2014 Climate modelers have shown that the most likely explanation for the initiation of Antarctic glaciation during a major climate shift 34 million years ago was decreased carbon dioxide levels. The ... full story -
Deep-Sea Octopus Broods Eggs for Over Four Years -- Longer Than Any Known Animal
July 30, 2014 Researchers have observed a deep-sea octopus brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years -- longer than any other known animal. Throughout this time, the female kept the eggs clean and guarded them ... full story -
Scientists Reproduce Evolutionary Changes by Manipulating Embryonic Development of Mice
July 30, 2014 By modifying the embryonic development of mice, scientists have reproduced in the laboratory the changes in teeth shape which, in mammals, took millions of years of evolution to take ... full story -
Tidal Forces Gave Moon Its Shape Early in Its History, New Analysis Finds
July 30, 2014 The shape of the moon deviates from a simple sphere in ways that scientists have struggled to explain. A new study shows that most of the moon's overall shape can be explained by taking into ... full story -
Double Star With Weird and Wild Planet-Forming Discs
July 30, 2014 Astronomers have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new observations provide the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary ... full story -
Finding Quantum 'Lines of Desire': Physicists Track Quantum System's Wanderings Through Quantum State Space
July 30, 2014 What paths do quantum particles, such as atoms or photons, follow through quantum state space? Scientists have used an "artificial atom" to continuously and repeatedly record the paths ... full storyMore: -
Exploring 3-D Printing to Make Organs for Transplants
July 30, 2014 Printing whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs for ... full story -
Decades-Old Amber Collection Offers New Views of a Lost World: Tiny Grasshopper Encased in Amber
July 30, 2014 Scientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient ... full story -
Mercury's Bizzare Magnetic Field Tells Scientists How Its Interior Is Different from Earth's
July 30, 2014 Mercury's interior is different from the Earth's interior in a way that explains Mercury's bizarre magnetic field, planetary physicists report. Measurements from NASA's Messenger ... full story -
Climate Extremes Are Here to Stay: Expect More Heat Waves and Cold Snaps
July 30, 2014 Researchers show how they've used advanced computational data science tools to demonstrate that despite global warming, we may still experience severe cold snaps due to increasing variability in ... full story -
Chinese Mosquitoes on the Baltic Sea: Ancient Insect Inclusions in East-Asian Amber
July 30, 2014 The analysis of the roughly 3,000 pieces is still in its infant stage. But it is already evident that the results will be of major significance. The Baltic amber comes from the Baltic Sea region, ... full story -
Fossils Found in Siberia Suggest All Dinosaurs Could Have Been Feathered
July 30, 2014 The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find ... full story -
A Blood Test for Suicide Risk? Alterations to a Single Gene Could Predict Risk of Suicide Attempt
July 30, 2014 Researchers say they have discovered a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to stress reactions that, if confirmed in larger studies, could give doctors a simple blood test to reliably ... full story -
Weighing the Milky Way: Researchers Devise Precise Method for Calculating the Mass of Galaxies
July 29, 2014 Does the Milky Way look fat in this picture? Has Andromeda been taking skinny selfies? Using a new, more accurate method for measuring the mass of galaxies, and international group of researchers has ... full storyMore: -
Five Daily Portions of Fruit and Vegetables May Be Enough to Lower Risk of Early Death
July 29, 2014 Eating five daily portions of fruit and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly from cardiovascular disease, but beyond five portions appears to have no ... full story -
Vision-Correcting Display Makes Reading Glasses So Yesterday
July 29, 2014 Researchers are developing vision-correcting displays that can compensate for a viewer's visual impairments to create sharp images without the need for glasses or contact lenses. The technology ... full story -
'Killer Sperm' Prevents Mating Between Worm Species
July 29, 2014 Most cross-species mating is merely unsuccessful in producing offspring. However, when researchers mated Caenorhabditis worms of different species, they found that the lifespan of the female worms ... full story -
The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can Neutrons Be Located at a Different Place Than Their Own Spin?
July 29, 2014 Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin? A quantum experiment demonstrates a new kind of quantum paradox. The Cheshire Cat featured in Lewis Caroll's novel "Alice ... full story
- Otzi Iceman had genetic predisposition for atherosclerosis: Much the same in ancient peoples as it is today
- Pesticide DDT linked to slow metabolism, obesity and diabetes, mouse study finds
- Antarctic ice sheet is result of carbon dioxide decrease, not continental breakup
- Deep-sea octopus broods eggs for over four years -- longer than any known animal
- Scientists reproduce evolutionary changes by manipulating embryonic development of mice
- Tidal forces gave moon its shape early in its history, new analysis finds
- Double star with weird and wild planet-forming discs
- Finding quantum 'lines of desire': Physicists track quantum system's wanderings through quantum state space
- Exploring 3-D printing to make organs for transplants
- Decades-old amber collection offers new views of a lost world: Tiny grasshopper encased in amber
- Mercury's bizzare magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's
- Climate extremes are here to stay: Expect more heat waves and cold snaps
- Chinese mosquitoes on the Baltic Sea: Ancient insect inclusions in East-Asian amber
- Fossils found in Siberia suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered
- A blood test for suicide risk? Alterations to a single gene could predict risk of suicide attempt
- Weighing the Milky Way: Researchers devise precise method for calculating the mass of galaxies
- Five daily portions of fruit and vegetables may be enough to lower risk of early death
- Vision-correcting display makes reading glasses so yesterday
- 'Killer sperm' prevents mating between worm species
- The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin?
- Social origins of intelligence in the brain
- Diet affects males' and females' gut microbes differently
- Evolution in rainforest flies points to climate change survival
- Microscopic rowing -- without a cox: Cells' whip-like appendages can synchronize their movements
- Healthy lifestyle may buffer against stress-related cell aging
- Lead pollution beat explorers to South Pole, persists today
- Cassini spacecraft reveals 101 geysers and more on icy Saturn moon
- Impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coral is deeper and broader than predicted
- Global warming amplifier: Rising water vapor in upper troposphere to intensify climate change
- Learning the smell of fear: Mothers teach babies their own fears via odor, animal study shows
- Fist bumping beats germ-spreading handshake
- New protein structure could help treat Alzheimer's, related diseases
- New meaning to refrigerator magnets: Magnets may act as wireless cooling agents
- Glow in space is evidence of a hot bubble in our galaxy
- Potential 'universal' blood test for cancer discovered
- Mutations from Venus, mutations from Mars: Why genetic fertility problems can persist in a population
- Building 'invisible' materials with light
- Dinosaurs fell victim to perfect storm of events, study shows
- New oral drug regimens cure hardest-to-treat hepatitis C infected patients, could improve treatment uptake
- 'Holy grail' of battery design achieved: Stable lithium anode
- Climate change and air pollution will combine to curb food supplies
- Trees save lives, reduce respiratory problems
- Climate Change Increases Risk of Crop Slowdown in Next 20 Years
- Intensity of hurricanes: New study helps improve predictions of storm intensity
- Bacteria manipulate salt to build shelters to hibernate
- Steam energy from the sun: New spongelike structure converts solar energy into steam
- Saharan dust is key to formation of Bahamas' Great Bank, study finds
- Earlier Stone Age artifacts found in Northern Cape of South Africa
- Parched West is using up underground water: Study points to grave implications for Western U.S. water supply
- Brain's dynamic duel underlies win-win choices
- Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- Pesticide linked to three generations of disease: Methoxychlor causes epigenetic changes
- No returning to Eden: Researchers explore how to restore species in a changing world
- Synchronization of North Atlantic, North Pacific preceded abrupt warming, end of ice age
- DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds
- Invertebrate numbers nearly halve as human population doubles
- Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared
- A reward is valued more if you choose it yourself: New quirky byproduct of learning from reward
- Cancer: Treatment that prevents tumor metastasis identified in animal study
- 'Naοve' pluripotent human embryonic stem cells created
- New mass map of distant galaxy cluster is most precise yet
- Newly discovered gut virus lives in half the world's population
- Maltreatment affects the way children's genes are activated
- Four-billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
- Hubble finds three surprisingly dry exoplanets: 'Hot Jupiters' had only one-tenth to one one-thousandth the amount of water predicted
- Smarter than a first-grader? Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
- Gene inhibitor, salmon fibrin restore function lost in spinal cord injury in rodents
- Dog jealousy: Study suggests primordial origins for the 'green-eyed monster'
- 3-D image of Paleolithic child's skull reveals trauma, brain damage
- Major impact of climate change on Antarctic fur seals
- Age of puberty in girls influenced by which parent 'imprinted' genes are inherited from
- Genetics of cancer: Non-coding DNA can finally be decoded
- How much magma is hiding beneath our feet? Mysteries of Earth's crust pierced
- Strategy proposed for preventing diseases of aging
- New approach in search for extraterrestrial intelligence: Target alien polluters
- Satellite galaxies put astronomers in a spin
- Life expectancy gains threatened as more older Americans suffer from multiple medical conditions
- Therapeutic bacteria prevent obesity in mice, study finds
- NASA's Fermi finds a 'transformer' pulsar
- Bats use polarized light to navigate: First mammal known to use polarization patterns in the sky to navigate
- Study reveals 'unhappiest' cities in the U.S.
- Hubble traces halo of a galaxy more accurately than ever before: An in-depth look at giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A
- Global temperature reaches record high in June following record warmth in May
- Schizophrenia's genetic 'skyline' rising as genetic code linked to illness grows
- HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis: Success of the Millennium shown in most comprehensive study to date
- Massive neutrinos and new standard cosmological model: No concordance yet
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Bacteria swim with whole body, not just propellers
- Researchers eliminate HIV from cultured human cells for first time
- Transiting exoplanet with longest known year: 704 Earth days
- More than glitter: How gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs
- Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
- Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink
- Human platelets successfully generated using next-generation bioreactor
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Genetic risk for autism stems mostly from common genes
- Size and age of plants impact their productivity more than climate
- Sea level rising in western tropical Pacific anthropogenic as result of human activity, study concludes
- New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on DNA
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