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| Poop evidence exonerates humans in mammoth mystery: Click here |
| Giant mammals died out before any well-known human populations showed up in the area, a study suggests. |
| Our oceans, extraterrestrial material?: Click here |
| A conventional view that the atmosphere and oceans came from vapors emitted during volcanism may be wrong, a a study says. |
| From chimps, new clues to language origins: Click here |
| Chimps seem to use the left half of the brain to communicate with gestures -- just as humans do to talk, researchers have found. |
| Lunar water "confirmed": Click here |
| Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite shows the moon really does have water, scientists say. |
| Stars' chemistry could give away planetary presence: Click here |
| Researchers say the finding not only could save money and time in planetary searches, it also points to a solution to a longstanding riddle. |
| How could they? Poop-eating apes prompt quest for answers: Click here |
| Nature can be beautiful. Elegant. Graceful. But not always. |
| Ants could inspire military strategies: Click here |
| A researcher has designed a system that uses ant colonies' behavior to help plan troop movements on battlefields. |
| Language learning may start in womb: Click here |
| From their first days, babies cry differently depending on the language of their parents, according to a new study. |
| It's not an earthquake -- it's an aftershock from long ago: Click here |
| Some "earthquakes" that occur in unusual locations may really be aftershocks of quakes centuries ago, a new report suggests. |
| Drunken flies could pave way for alcoholism cure: Click here |
| Intoxicated insects have helped scientists find networks of genes -- also present in humans -- implicated alcohol drinking. |
| Inequality, "silver spoon" effect found in ancient societies: Click here |
| Inequality caused by handed-down wealth was well established long ago, a study has found. |
| Technology could cool the laptop: Click here |
| "Spin" electronics may keep devices from overheating and give information technology a unique twist. |
| Light from a cosmic "dark age": Click here |
| Astronomers are reporting the discovery of the most distant object ever discovered, from a time when the first stars were forming. |
| Being tortured may make people seem guilty: Click here |
| Some witnesses to torture see the victims as more guilty the more they suffer, a study suggests. |
| No joke: new hope for painful "four-hour erection": Click here |
| Hours-long erections may seem like a rich source of jests, but to victims, the pain -- and possible resulting impotence -- is not amusing. |
| "Superspreader" workers may trigger hospital outbreaks: Click here |
| Certain types of health-care workers may play a disproportionate role in spreading germs, a theoretical study suggests. |
| Near-black hole conditions recreated, study says: Click here |
| Lasers can be used to generate extreme states of matter. |
| Scientists find out how moon makes own water: report: Click here |
| The moon absorbs particles from the Sun, which in turn combine with oxygen in the dust to make water, researchers say. |
| New space map reveals "mystery ribbon": Click here |
| Findings don't fit with accepted models of the "solar wind" that helps shield our solar system. |
| Scientists report giving flies false memories: Click here |
| How do you get intelligence from parts that are unintelligent? A group of researchers is exploring that. |
| Giving among strangers more nurture than nature, study suggests: Click here |
| New research addresses the thorny issue of how altruism might have evolved. |
| "Loyal" gators said to display bird-like mating habits: Click here |
| Findings may help shed light on the ancestral mating systems of birds and of many dinosaurs. |
| Distant moon may have oxygen in ocean: Click here |
| The abundant water in Jupiter's moon Europa may have enough oxygen to support even animal-like life forms, a study suggests. |
| Could birth control pills alter mate choices?: Click here |
| Birth control pills may alter women's abilities to choose, compete for and retain mates, scientists say. |
| Huge "hidden" Saturn ring found: Click here |
| Astronomers are reporting the discovery of largest-known planetary ring in the Solar System. |
| Coin hoards may reveal population histories: Click here |
| Buried cash can help reveal the population history of a given time period, a new study suggests. |
| Color plays "musical chairs" in brain: Click here |
| A color divorced from the shape to which it "belongs" seems to go into another one, scientists have found. |
| Pre-"Lucy" fossils reveal secrets: Click here |
| The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was probably not as chimp-like as widely believed, researchers report. |
| Hyenas cooperate better than chimps, study finds: Click here |
| The much-maligned, dog-like creatures may beat out our ape relatives in cooperative problem-solving tests. |
| Rough day at work? You might not feel like exercising: Click here |
| If you use your willpower to do one task, it may deplete your willpower for a totally different task, scientists say. |
| Key to subliminal messaging: keep it negative, study suggests: Click here |
| Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research. |
| Lower IQ's measured in spanked children: Click here |
| Only part of the effect is due to spanking itself, but still, laws should be passed against spanking, some researchers say. |
| Moon may have water: Click here |
| Our moon is potentially not quite as dry as it is traditionally thought to be, researchers say. |
| Exotic life forms: looking for life as we don't know it: Click here |
| A new research group is devoted to finding out how life might evolve using chemicals not found in Earth-based life forms. |
| Study: torture produces unreliable information: Click here |
| Extreme stress appears to warp memories while motivating suspects to say anything to stop the torture, an analysis concludes. |
| Tiny "T. rex" found: Click here |
| An ancestor of the giant predator resembles a miniature replica of it, at 1/90 the weight, scientists say. |
| Negative public opinion seen as warning signal for terrorism: Click here |
| Terrorism is more likely when one country's people dislike the leaders and policies of another, a study has found. |
| Mold-treated violin beats Strad in blind test: Click here |
| A newly developed type of violin won in a blind contest against one made by the most famed violin maker of history. |
| Showerheads may spray germs at you: Click here |
| Your morning scrubdown may give you more than you bargained for. |
| Brain activity may predict schizophrenia: Click here |
| A small area of the brain is linked to the earliest stages of a serious mental illness, researchers say. |
| Graffiti "shield" may offer hope for paint-threatened landmarks: Click here |
| Graffiti mars many historic monuments, and can be hard to erase without damaging the underlying surface. But help may be coming. |
| Memories may persist even when forgotten: Click here |
| Scientists have found that a person's brain activity while remembering an event is similar to when it was first experienced, even if specifics can't be recalled. |
| Cities work much like brains, study finds: Click here |
| Highway interconnections in cities are organized and evolve much like brain connections, research suggests. |
| Oldest known black hole reported found: Click here |
| New research could shed light on the origins of the most massive black holes. |
| Artificial steps against global warming may be dangerous, necessary: Click here |
| Humanity is boxing itself into a corner when it comes to climate change, scientists say. |
| Tiny "nanolaser" could change face of computing, telecom: Click here |
| Researchers say they have created a device that can generate visible light in a space smaller than a protein molecule. |
| Brain region linked to sense of personal space: Click here |
| A new finding may shed light on the brain mechanisms involved in social behavior. |
| Signs of recent Ice Age noted on Mars: Click here |
| The distribution of ground ice hints at a colder time in the Red Planet's past, researchers claim. |
| Last great forest under threat, study finds: Click here |
| Scientists are calling for urgent preservation of the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries. |
| For freeloader birds, careful counting comes in handy: Click here |
| Some birds that freeload on other birds by dumping their offspring on them, may employ sophisticated counting skills to carry out the ruse. |
| Unguided, we really do go in circles, study finds: Click here |
| The popular wisdom about lost travelers is correct, research indicates. |
| Technique reveals buried paintings in new way: Click here |
| A new X-ray method shows never-seen details of a painting hidden under another painting by illustrator N.C. Wyeth, researchers report. |
| Building block of life reported found in comet: Click here |
| The finding supports a claim that ingredients for life might have come from space, according to NASA scientists. |
| Small "epidemic" may have killed Mozart: Click here |
| A minor bacterial epidemic spread from a military hospital may have felled the great composer, scientists say. |
| "Dance restaurant" theory of water takes shape: Click here |
| New studies suggest the molecular structure of water can be compared to a crowded restaurant with a dance floor. |
| Cancer stem cells not drug-immune, researchers find: Click here |
| Scientists say they have found the first chemical that selectively kills cells that spawn deadly tumors. |
| Crash destroyed little planet, scientists say: Click here |
| A NASA telescope is thought to have found evidence of a violent collision between two planets around a young star. |
| Chicken-hearted tyrants? Dinos may have sought easy prey: Click here |
| Huge, meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex seem to have preferred picking on youngsters, researchers say. |
| Tiny deer, gliding frog among 100s of newfound species: Click here |
| A biological treasure trove threatened by climate change, the eastern Himalayas are still giving up secrets. |
| Scientists report growing new teeth for mice, in place: Click here |
| The technique may be a step toward more advanced organ replacement therapies, researchers propose. |
| Sharpest views of a colossal, violent, star: Click here |
| Astronomers have captured the sharpest views yet of the doomed "supergiant" star Betelgeuse. |
| "Dream therapy" set for a comeback?: Click here |
| Similarities in brain activity between a special dreaming state and some forms of mental derangement are drawing interest from researchers. |
| Reflection is key to jewel beetle colors, scientists say: Click here |
| New studies could lead to applications including car paints that reflect different colors from different angles. |
| A new way to fix a broken heart?: Click here |
| Scientists have reportedly devised a method to to coax mature heart muscle cells into regenerating. |
| Astronomers: impact gives Jupiter bruise as wide as Pacific: Click here |
| Something apparently slammed into the giant planet in the last few days, scientists say. |
| Origin of raindrop size "revealed": Click here |
| The sizes of raindrops result from the breakup of larger droplets, new high-speed films indicate. |
| Fossil poop balls reveal secrets of lost world: Click here |
| A study has revealed an intricate network of long-ago interactions in "mega-dung" from giant mammals. |
| Ocean current changes predicted to be gradual: Click here |
| Scientists have released a rare bit of hopeful news linked to global warming. |
| Cats are crafty manipulators, study finds: Click here |
| Anyone who has had cats knows how hard it can be to get them to do anything they don't want to do. |
| %#$!? Swearing may actually reduce pain: Click here |
| Unleashing verbal bombs may show poor self-control, but it sure seems to help people tolerate pain better, scientists have found. |
| Monkeys live longer after eating less, research finds: Click here |
| Cutting calories by 30 percent seems to have remarkable effects, scientists say. |
| A "theory of everything" is said to solve its first real-world problem: Click here |
| String theory, which postulates extra dimensions, has long been criticized for making promises that it failed to live up to. |
| Could coffee reverse Alzheimer's?: Click here |
| Studies with mice are suggesting surprising new possibilities for treating the memory disorder, according to researchers. |
| People only sometimes seek out opposing views, research finds: Click here |
| People tend to avoid ideas they disagree with -- but some factors can prompt them to seek out such points of view, scientists say. |
| Finding may help explain giant black holes: Click here |
| Astronomers are reporting that they have discovered a new class of black hole, the mid-sized one. |
| Scientists look to bat caves for "fountains of youth": Click here |
| Scientists are batty over a finding they say could lead to a breakthrough -- significantly longer lifespans. |
| Scientists report capturing first image of memories being made: Click here |
| Researchers say they have captured the first image of a mechanism underlying long-term memory formation. |
| Flute said to be oldest handcrafted musical instrument: Click here |
| Early modern humans may have been dancing to bird-bone flutes as early as 35,000 years ago, scientists say. |
| Oceans in Enceladus? Scientists can't decide: Click here |
| Two contrasting findings are leaving researchers unsure whether a distant moon has underground oceans. |
| Need something? Talk to my right ear!: Click here |
| Most of us prefer to be addressed in our right ear, and are more likely grant a request when we hear it from the right, researchers have found. |
| Study turns pigeons into "art critics": Click here |
| A Japanese researcher is reporting that he has trained birds to tell apart "good" and "bad" children's paintings. |
| Researchers find "a touch of glass" in metal: Click here |
| Metals and ceramics have more in common with glass than has been previously recognized, a new study indicates. |
| Brain energy use proposed as key to understanding consciousness: Click here |
| Some researchers are proposing a new way to understand a mysterious state of being. |
| "Guilty look" in dogs mostly owners' fantasy, study finds: Click here |
| People may see "guilt" in a dog's body language when they think the dog did something wrong even if it didn't. |
| Lion tamers step aside: beasts could be tamed through genes: Click here |
| Recent research raises the prospect that humans could tame "untameable" species in new ways. |
| Birds didn't come from dinosaurs, study suggests: Click here |
| New findings about bird breathing abilities challenge entrenched ideas, some scientists say. |
| Giant black holes even heavier than thought: study: Click here |
| New findings may affect the way astronomers theorize about galactic evolution. |
| Do sex cells hold the secret to long life?: Click here |
| The secret of longevity may lurk within the genetic activity of sperm and eggs, new research suggests. |
| "Warrior gene" found rife among young thugs: Click here |
| Boys with a particular variant of a gene are more likely to join gangs -- and to be among their most violent members, researchers say. |
| Sandcastle secrets could help revive ancient building technique: Click here |
| The secret of a successful sandcastle could aid the revival of an ancient, eco-friendly building method, according to some engineers. |
| When evolution isn't so slow and gradual: Click here |
| Guppies introduced into new habitats developed new and advantageous traits in just a few years, a study has found. |
| Ocean acidification to trigger job losses, scientists warn: Click here |
| Ocean acidification, a consequence of human activity, is set to change marine ecosystems forever, researchers say. |
| No enforcement, no trade -- not for chimps: Click here |
| Scientists have managed to teach chimps to trade a primitive "currency," but the creatures never really ran with the idea. |
| "Language gene" alters mouse squeaks: Click here |
| Mice carrying a "humanized" gene can't talk, but might tell us something about our evolutionary past. |
| Technique would detect watery worlds: Click here |
| An Earth-like planet would appear in telescopes as little more than a "pale blue dot." What could we make of it? |
| Green tea extract reported to show promise against leukemia: Click here |
| Scientists are reporting positive results in early clinical trials using a substance in green tea. |
| "Swine Flu" was circulating undetected, scientists say: Click here |
| All segments of the virus originated in avian hosts and began circulating in pigs at various times in the 1900s, according to investigators. |
| Earliest cells might have thrived amid asteroid pummeling: Click here |
| The so-called Late Heavy Bombardment wasn't necessarily the end of the world for ancient microbes, scientists say. |
| "Missing link" ancestor reported found: Click here |
| A 47-million-year-old fossil connects humans, apes and monkeys to other mammals, researchers announced. |
| Monkeys found to wonder what might have been: Click here |
| Recordings of brain cells show that monkeys take note of missed opportunities and learn from their mistakes, scientists say. |
| Race is on to preserve "oldest submerged town": Click here |
| An ancient site associated with a legendary Greek "age of heroes" may be about to give up its secrets. |
| Study links daydreaming to problem-solving: Click here |
| Our brains are much more active when we daydream than previously thought, a study has found. |
| Warriors don't always get the girl: Click here |
| Violence isn't the ticket to having more wives and children among all tribal peoples, scientists say. |
| Acupuncture found to beat "usual" care for back pain: Click here |
| A study is reviving questions for some about how the traditional Chinese treatment might really work. |
| Memories stolen by Alzheimer's may be retrievable: study: Click here |
| Scientists have found a gene said to have enabled mice with an Alzheimer's disease-like condition to recover lost memories. |
| Expedition to bursting, undersea volcano yields marvels: Click here |
| The mountain supports unique creatures thriving despite constant eruptions, scientists say. |
| Tiny "invisibility cloak" is like a magic carpet: Click here |
| Researchers have created a "carpet cloak" that conceals objects under it from detection using light near the human-visible part of the spectrum. |
| "Rogue" black holes out there, but fear not: astronomers: Click here |
| It sounds like a sci-fi movie plot: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. |
| Detection of "furthest object" could pave way for probing early cosmos: Click here |
| An explosion detected last Thursday marks the most distant, longest-ago event and object known, astronomers say. |
| A seat of wisdom in the brain?: Click here |
| Two scientists have compiled what they say is the first scholarly review of the basis in the brain of wisdom. |
| A warm TV may drive away feelings of loneliness, rejection: Click here |
| For those feeling unloved, illusionary relationships with TV characters sometimes helps fill the gap, researchers say. |
| "Complex" organic molecules detected in space: Click here |
| Computer models also suggest larger molecules may be out there, including amino acids, essential for life as we know it. |
| Study: personalized drugs may lengthen cancer survival: Click here |
| Researchers used a company's "genetic profiles" of individual patients to create custom treatments. |
| Keeping slim is good for the planet, say scientists: Click here |
| A study finds that maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment. |
| Physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup: Click here |
| A professor and a graduate student say they have found a new "universal principle." |
| Bright feathers found to get color from foamy structure: Click here |
| Some of nature's brightest colors come from tiny structures with a structure similar to beer foam or a sponge, according to researchers. |
| Aerosols may drive much Arctic warming, scientists find: Click here |
| New NASA research suggests around half the atmospheric warming measured in the Arctic is due to particles called aerosols. |
| Researchers wanted: humans need not apply?: Click here |
| Scientists are creating automated systems that can generate new hypotheses and approaches to research. |
| Straw bale house survives quake tests: Click here |
| An earthquake simulation with a force reported as 82 tons couldn't take down a straw home designed by civil engineer Darcey Donovan. |
| Bird can "read" our gaze: Click here |
| A bird whose eyes look rather like human eyes pays good attention to where our glances fall, researchers say. |
| It's not just chemical -- it's the same chemicals, study suggests: Click here |
| Much the same cocktail of substances may flow in both men and women as a result of their mutual attraction. |
| Vindictiveness doesn't pay, study finds: Click here |
| A study of Germans found that people inclined to deal with inequity on a tit-for-tat basis tend to suffer higher unemployment. |
| Crabs suffer, remember pain, study finds: Click here |
| Research is calling into question the view that when small animals recoil from unpleasantness, it's only a reflex. |
| Astronomers catch a "shooting star": Click here |
| Asteroid 2008 TC3 has a humdrum name but an unusual distinction. |
| Brain cell type found to differ between man and mouse: Click here |
| An often overlooked cell embodies one of the very few basic differences that set apart the human brain, scientists propose. |
| Multiple out-of-Africa migrations seen for early humans: Click here |
| Fossils suggest early, anatomically "modern" humans may have split into many isolated groups before leaving Africa, scientists say. |
| Language of music may really be universal: Click here |
| Africans who have never listened to radio can pick up on emotions in Western music, according to a new report. |
| Brain lives at "edge of chaos": Click here |
| Scientists are offering new evidence that our brains function at a critical point between randomness and order. |
| Tiny space engine to push back against sunshine: Click here |
| Researchers are preparing to test what they call the smallest, most precisely controllable engine built for space. |
| Gruesome group death of young dinos analyzed: Click here |
| A muddy lakeside some 90 million years ago drew a herd of young, birdlike dinosaurs to a terrifying end, say paleontologists. |
| "Mind-reading" experiment highlights how brain records memories: Click here |
| New research adds to mounting evidence that it's possible to "read" memories by looking at brain activity. |
| Technology seen slashing battery recharge time, weight: Click here |
| Engineers say they've found a way to move energy faster through a well-known battery material. |
| Rock-hurling zoo chimp stocked ammo in advance: study: Click here |
| Researchers have found what they say is some of the first clear evidence that a non-human animal can spontaneously plan ahead. |
| Faith found to reduce errors in psychological test: Click here |
| Distinct brain activity patterns in believers may dovetail with performance differences, scientists said. |
| Warning: warning labels may enhance lure of raunchy video games: Click here |
| A study claims to have confirmed what many suspected. |
| Martian mountain may answer big question: Click here |
| One Martian volcano is about three times Mount Everest's height. But it's the small details that two geologists are looking at. |
| Odd, bouncing fish with lollipop face dubbed new species: Click here |
| "Psychedelica" seemed the perfect moniker, to a scientist who named this creature. |
| Doodling gets its due: tiny artworks may help recall: Click here |
| Drawing while listening doesn't necessarily imply a wandering mind, a study suggests. |
| From oral to moral? Dirty deeds may prompt "bad taste" reaction: Click here |
| Moral disgust may be an outgrowth of older forms of revulsion, psychologists propose. |
| People walked like us 1.5 million years ago, study finds: Click here |
| Newfound footprints are the oldest evidence of humans walking on anatomically modern feet, scientists report. |
| Missing asteroids explained?: Click here |
| Scientists have reported a case of missing asteroids -- and a possible explanation. |
| Black hole "baldness" reflected in ordinary objects: physicist: Click here |
| A mysterious number remains fixed during a small object's wild orbit about a spinning black hole, theorists say. |
| Richest biological zones found to suffer most wars: Click here |
| More than four in five wars in recent times arose in areas identified as the most biologically diverse, a study indicates. |
| "Green Comet" visits neighborhood: Click here |
| A rodent may be doing its own small part to provide a renewable electricity source. |
| Collective rituals spur support for suicide attacks: researchers: Click here |
| A new study proposes that acts of war by self-destruction are part of a larger psychological phenomenon. |
| Running hamsters, tapping fingers tapped for energy: Click here |
| A rodent may be doing its own small part to provide a renewable electricity source. |
| Cosmologists aim to reveal first moments of time: Click here |
| Scientists want to test whether random, microscopic fluctuations in the fabric of space and time spawned the universe. |
| HIV gene therapy trial results seen as positive: Click here |
| A new treatment appeared to safely boost the number of immune system cells normally attacked by HIV, according to researchers. |
| Researchers cracking code of the common cold: Click here |
| Scientists say they have put together the pieces of the genetic codes for all known strains of the virus behind the common cold. |
| In early humans, "jaws of steel": Click here |
| Nut-cracking abilities in our distant ancestors let them adapt to changing circumstances, a study suggests. |
| "Longevity gene" may boost lifespan: Click here |
| A variation in a gene called FOXO3A seems to increase human life expectancy in populations worldwide, scientists report. |
| "Birthplace" of Zeus found?: Click here |
| Mounting evidence supports a legend linking the king of Greek gods to Mt. Lykaion in Greece, archaeologists report. |
| Wolf in dog's clothing? Study points to twist in fur color: Click here |
| Although dogs descend from wolves, dogs may have passed a helpful genetic mutation back to some wolves. |
| Stem cell recipe gets even simpler: Click here |
| One chemical can convert cells from adult mice into the powerful embryonic-like stem cells needed in medicine, biologists report. |
| Fossil snake said to break length record: Click here |
| An ancient South American snake that might make today's anacondas seem almost cuddly is renewing discussion of why giant species evolve. |
| Like Earth, if you overlook the lava everywhere?: Click here |
| A European satellite has revealed a planet only twice as large as Earth orbiting a distant star, astronomers say. |
| Insulin may help treat Alzheimer's: Click here |
| Scientists are reporting that a substance commonly used to treat diabetes, may also protect against Alzheimer's disease. |
| Chemical found to trigger locust swarming: Click here |
| A common brain chemical in humans also sparks the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation of desert locusts, scientists report. |
| When a stone lands in water: Click here |
| Physicists are clarifying how one of nature's most beautiful spectacles unfolds: the dance of a watery surface hit by a falling stone. |
| Ill-fated ice man may have suffered two attacks: Click here |
| Scientists say they've revealed a new chapter in a murder case some 5,300 years old. |
| "Alarming" bone deterioration after long space flights: Click here |
| Months spent in space may raise astronauts' risk for fractures later in life, a study suggests. |
| Mightier sperm in "cuckolded" species: Click here |
| Where infidelity prevails, sperm evolve to be faster and bigger to cope with the competition, researchers claim. |
| Schizophrenia reassessed as fixation on self: Click here |
| The mental illness may overactivate a brain system involved in self-reflection, scientists say. |
| Makings of a deadly brown cloud: Click here |
| Burning wood and dung for home use is mainly responsible for a haze over south Asia, researchers report. |
| Micro-motors would fit to swim human arteries: Click here |
| Many complex surgeries for stroke, hardened arteries or blood vessel blockages are about to become safer, scientists say. |
| "Cannibalism" creates huge stars: Click here |
| Oddly bloated stars known as blue stragglers grow by feasting on companions, astronomers claim. |
| Evidence of ancient chemical warfare reported: Click here |
| A poison-gas assault on Roman soldiers may be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare, a researcher says. |
| Enforcer of conformity: our own brains: Click here |
| Although a grammatically challenged advertisement exhorts us to think different, group opinion affects us powerfully. |
| How "puppydog eyes" do their trick: Click here |
| A so-called trust hormone may promote bonding between members of different species, as well as within a species, researchers say. |
| Through DNA, breathing new life into museum pieces: Click here |
| From marsupials to manuscripts, researchers are dusting off old specimens to learn their secrets using genetics. |
| Climate-induced food crisis seen by 2100: Click here |
| Barring drastic action, global warming could cripple agriculture in hotter areas, a study predicts. |
| Black holes came first, astronomers conclude: Click here |
| Scientists may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem. |
| Our galaxy no longer "little sister": Click here |
| Fasten your seat belts: our galaxy spins faster, weighs more, and is more likely to collide than we thought, researchers claim. |
| Materials for "Earths" may be common in universe: Click here |
| New findings add to evidence that rocky planets are a normal occurrence, astronomers say. |
| Using light beams to grab molecules: Click here |
| Researchers say they've created a trap that can capture DNA molecules and other tiny objects. |
| Competition, not climate, killed Neanderthals: study: Click here |
| The stocky breed of early humans couldn't hold its own against more modern populations, scientists claim. |
| Life grew in two, millionfold leaps, researchers say: Click here |
| Earth's creatures come in all sizes, yet scientists believe they all descend from the same single-celled organisms. |
| Ancient African exodus mostly involved men: geneticists: Click here |
| An ancient migration out of Africa is thought to have led to most human populations outside the continent. |
| Still today, most will torture if ordered: study: Click here |
| Scientists say they have replicated an experiment in which people would obediently give painful shocks to others when prompted. |
| Odd bird fathering styles may come from dinos: Click here |
| Males in some flightless bird species are devoted fathers -- and polygamists. |
| Is global warming preventing an Ice Age?: Click here |
| While human-caused effects are potentially leading Earth to disaster, they may also be preventing a cold spell, some researchers say. |
| At least 8 genes tied to obesity, all in brain: Click here |
| Variants of at least eight genes contribute to determining body weight, scientists have found. |
| God, science no easy mix for many: Click here |
| In many or most people's minds, religion and science conflict fundamentally, a study suggests. |
| Wobbly planets could reveal Earth-like moons: Click here |
| Moons outside our Solar System capable of supporting life may have just become easier to find. |
| Distant moons may have liquid oceans: Click here |
| Tidal motions may generate enough heat to maintain liquid oceans within the outer planets' icy moons, a scientist says. |
| Chemistry of other stars' planets coming to light: Click here |
| Astronomers have identified carbon dioxide around a planet outside our solar system. |
| Brain drugs for healthy people OK: scientists: Click here |
| Healthy people should be allowed to take brainpower-boosting drugs, if the risks are properly managed, some researchers say. |
| Poverty may reduce kids' brain function: Click here |
| Scientists are calling new findings an alarming "wake-up call." |
| Happiness spreads socially, study finds: Click here |
| Your happiness may depend on many people you don't know -- friends of friends of friends. |
| How unusual cells may hold key to HIV control: Click here |
| Rare people who manage to control HIV on their own are offering new insights into how the immune system kills infected cells. |
| Scientists produce illusion of body-swapping: Click here |
| Neuroscientists say they have gotten people to perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. |
| Did a modern-day scourge save ancient Earth?: Click here |
| A gas blamed for global warming may once have helped Earth escape a deep freeze, some scientists propose. |
| Canada skyburst attributed to 10-ton rock: Click here |
| Researchers have been collecting witness reports and data on a giant flash in the skies over western Canada Nov. 20. |
| Oceans acidifying much faster than was thought: study: Click here |
| The process could pose a threat to some ocean life, scientists argue. |
| Needy amoebae reach out to "family": Click here |
| When in distress, some single-celled creatures seek the support of kin, researchers say. |
| Microbes may help fossilize ancient embryos: Click here |
| Bacterial decay was once viewed as the mortal enemy of fossilization, but a new study suggests otherwise. |
| Vast underground glaciers reported on Mars: Click here |
| The findings could present new avenues for the search for life or provide water to support future exploration, scientists claim. |
| Woolly-mammoth genome decoded: Click here |
| Biologists report that they have for the first time unraveled nearly the whole genetic code of an extinct animal. |
| Signs of dark matter found?: Click here |
| Telltale residue may have turned up from a mysterious and invisible substance that pervades the universe, astronomers say. |
| Earliest known nuclear family reported unearthed: Click here |
| Four ancient skeletons unearthed in Germany in 2005 seem to have been united in death as they were in life, researchers say. |
| "Super-aged" brains reveal secrets of sharp old-age memory: Click here |
| Tiny tangles may make the difference between a declining brain and lasting mental acuity. |
| Photo captures 3 planets by distant sun: Click here |
| The technology for imaging worlds in far-off solar systems is making strides, astronomers say. |
| Videogame craving may rev up brain's addiction circuits: Click here |
| When the urge to play a video game strikes, some players show similar brain activity to that of drug addicts, a study suggests. |
| Mouth microbes helping the chef make magic?: Click here |
| Bacteria play a role in creating the distinctive flavors of certain foods, scientists report. |
| Forgotten but not gone: leprosy lives on in America: Click here |
| Long seen as a disease of biblical times, leprosy still lurks but is often misdiagnosed, researchers warn. |
| Bullies may enjoy others' pain: Click here |
| Brain scans suggest unusually aggressive youth find pleasure in others' suffering, scientists say. |
| Cancer genome sequenced: Click here |
| Researchers report success with a new strategy for identifying mutations involved in cancer. |
| Giant simulation could help solve "dark matter" mystery: Click here |
| A search for the mysterious substance making up most of the material in the universe may be over before long, cosmologists claim. |
| Kids' music practice may pay off in other skills: Click here |
| Children who study an instrument outperform others even in non-musical skills, a study has found. |
| Same gene, different results: Click here |
| Scientists are learning to their surprise that a single gene very often functions differently in different parts of the body. |
| "Real" Crusoe's isle said to yield clues to sojourn: Click here |
| The tale of the marooned Robinson Crusoe is thought to be based on the real experience of sailor Alexander Selkirk. |
| Study: red enhances men's attraction to women: Click here |
| Something many players of the love and dating game have long suspected, now has scientific confirmation. |
| Thin line between love, hate? Science explains why: Click here |
| Brain scans suggest a certain overlap between hate and romantic love, experimenters say. |
| Green space better for kids' waistlines, health: Click here |
| In an era of rampant obesity, researchers see a better outlook for children in leafy neighborhoods. |
| Two asteroid belts found in solar system's young "twin": Click here |
| A nearby star has two rocky belts, an outer icy ring and probably unseen planets, researchers say. |
| World's smallest storage space: an atomic nucleus: Click here |
| A study describes yet a new step toward quantum computing. |
| Warm hands, warm hearts: Click here |
| Just holding a hot cup of coffee can improve one's attitude toward a stranger, scientists have found. |
| Dancing molecules "trapped": Click here |
| New technology aims to better show how molecules move, rather than just how they're made. |
| Key to fighting poverty: toilets: Click here |
| More toilets and safer water would do more to improve world health than any other possible measure, a report says. |
| Dino crests may have had communication role: Click here |
| Scientists are taking a new look at strange, bony crests on the heads of some dinosaurs. |
| Scientists: one brain cell may reverse muscle paralysis: Click here |
| Activation of a single brain cell may help restore muscle activity, researchers report. |
| "Peacenik" chimps not always so nice: Click here |
| A study on bonobo hunting habits challenges traditional ideas of how aggression originates. |
| "Other half" of Darwin's theory passes test: Click here |
| Some flirtatious cells have confirmed Darwin's view of how sexual advertising evolves, biologists say. |
| Study: narcissists tend to lead, but not better: Click here |
| Self-centered, overconfident types often take control -- and others tend to accept it, scientists claim. |
| Why some kids suffer chronic bullying: Click here |
| Researchers say factors identifiable in infancy predict later victimization. |
| Craft "ready" to map outer solar system: Click here |
| A NASA satellite is to image and map processes at the regions where a hot wind from the Sun hits cold outer space. |
| Found: earliest known animal tracks?: Click here |
| Scientists claim to have found possibly the earliest animal footprints, but admit the report will stir skepticism. |
| Religion can spur goodness -- but it depends: Click here |
| Belief in God has fostered cooperation that aided the rise of some large, stable societies, researchers say. |
| AIDS pandemic may be a century old: Click here |
| A study suggests the most pervasive strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924. |
| "Nanoparticles" may seep through skin: Click here |
| The health implications of nanoparticles in the body are uncertain, investigators note. |
| NASA: snow found in Martian skies: Click here |
| It's not certain whether the flakes ever reach ground, researchers say. |
| Researchers explore amnesia, sex link: Click here |
| Investigators are puzzled by reports suggesting sexual intercourse may occasionally lead to temporary amnesia. |
| One more terror for ancient fish: monster ducks: Click here |
| Duck-like birds almost the size of small airplanes, armed with tooth-like spikes, once skimmed ocean waters, researchers say. |
| Possible oldest-known rocks found: Click here |
| A section of Canadian bedrock more than four billion years old may help shed light on Earth's early evolution, geologists say. |
| Temporary collider shutdown a "blow": Click here |
| Technical problems have struck a giant particle-smasher whose recent launch scientists hailed as historic. |
| Something beyond visible universe detected?: Click here |
| Scientists have measured an unexpected motion in distant clusters of galaxies. |
| "Smoothest" mirror could lead to new microscopes: Click here |
| Physicists say they have created unusual surfaces that could help image biological samples more precisely without destroying them. |
| Origin of fingers seen in fish: Click here |
| Previous findings on the subject were mistaken, a report claims. |
| Sensitivity to sudden noises may predict your politics: Click here |
| Our political views come from places deeper inside of us than many had suspected, a study suggests. |
| "Relic" ant said to hail from lost past: Click here |
| A bizarre predatory, blind, underground ant probably descends almost straight from the first ants, scientists say. |
| Spider sex cannibalism: it may come down to size: Click here |
| There's no deep, complex reason why females eat the males -- they're just hungry, two researchers say. |
| World's largest study of near-death experiences to start: Click here |
| New research aims to establish whether people may have thoughts for a time while clinically "dead." |
| "Historic" collider operation begins: Click here |
| The first beam in the world's newest and largest particle collider was switched on this morning, scientists announced. |
| On-and-off floods formed Mars valleys, study finds: Click here |
| Floods that created distinctive features of Mars were not of a catastrophic sort, scientists claim. |
| Report: cells "from space" have unusual makeup: Click here |
| A lineage of mysterious microbes found in some rain give off colors in a strange way, two scientists are reporting. |
| "Junk DNA" key to human evolution?: Click here |
| Genetic material once dismissed as useless might have contributed to our upright walking, researchers say. |
| Robotic helicopters teach themselves stunts: Click here |
| The research is a prelude to designing choppers that search for land mines or fight fires, scientists predict. |
| Cancer cells may "prepare" earlier than thought: Click here |
| New research on mice suggests disturbing conclusions but also could inspire new therapeutic strategies, researchers say. |
| Why are flies so hard to swat? Chalk it up to good planning: Click here |
| Fast, high-resolution video imaging is revealing secrets of the wily insects. |
| Scientists report converting cells to new type directly: Click here |
| Research described as a major advance sidesteps previous complications with the production of stem cells for medical treatment. |
| A surprising new way to discourage risky behaviors?: Click here |
| Linking a risky behavior with groups of "other" people is an effective way to discourage it, researchers claim. |
| New collider promises to transform physics: Click here |
| A massive particle smasher to start operation next month will reveal deeper laws, physicists say. |
| "Extreme" rain follows global warming: Click here |
| Heavy rain is coming unexpectedly more often as global warming continues, researchers say. |
| Washington's doctors absolved: Click here |
| The statesman was beyond help when his much-maligned doctors found him on a fateful morning in 1799, a study concludes. |
| Scientists: century-old drug might cure Parkinson's, more: Click here |
| A study with mice suggests a century-old drug could slow or even cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, researchers say. |
| Computer helps reassemble a lost past: Click here |
| Rebuilding shattered artifacts can be like solving jigsaw puzzles of bewildering proportions. |
| Stone-Age graveyard reveals life in a "green Sahara": Click here |
| Scientists in Niger are reported to have found the Sahara Desert's largest known Stone-Age graveyard. |
| A bit of dazzle to throw off predators: Click here |
| Bright patterns may really work to protect animals from becoming a meal, researchers say. |
| Mass extinction going on, researchers say: Click here |
| Great die-offs of amphibians are a sign that a mass extinction is underway on Earth -- brought on by us, some scientists argue. |
| Pride and shame displays "universal": Click here |
| In both victory and defeat, athletes blind from birth behave much like their sighted counterparts, psychologists have found. |
| "Extreme" rain follows global warming: Click here |
| Heavy rain is coming unexpectedly more often as global warming continues, researchers say. |
| Dolphins and the evolution of teaching: Click here |
| Some dolphins seem to teach their young to forage, by repeating actions many times and "pointing" at things, scientists report. |
| Martian salt not bad for life: scientists: Click here |
| A finding of perchlorate salts is leading researchers to "reassess" the planet's habitability. |
| Nature's mightiest bites calculated: Click here |
| The great white shark has the hardest bite of any living species known -- yet it's a mere nibble compared to that of an extinct shark, a study finds. |
| U.S. understated HIV infection rate: Click here |
| Many more Americans pick up the AIDS virus yearly than past official estimates showed, authorities said. |
| Road to obesity may begin by age two: Click here |
| Children often become overweight by age two -- thereby hitting a "tipping point," researchers report. |
| NASA confirms water on Mars: Click here |
| The agency's robotic Phoenix Lander "touched and tasted" the Red Planet's frozen water, a mission scientist says. |
| Drug may trick body into "thinking" you exercised: Click here |
| A new study is creating both hope, and worries that a remarkable substance could be ripe for abuse. |
| Revealing a world of hidden paintings: Click here |
| Researchers unveiled a new technique for seeing what lies beneath visible layers of paint. |
| Diamonds may have best friend to earliest life: Click here |
| The surfaces of gems may have provided the conditions for life to evolve, scientists say. |
| Earth filmed as "alien" world: Click here |
| The first spacecraft from Earth to have studied a comet up-close has taken on a new project. |
| Single atoms viewed thanks to super-material: Click here |
| A recently discovered substance may be both the strongest known, and the first to allow the imaging of small atoms. |
| Baby penguins found dead by the hundreds: Click here |
| The news comes weeks after a report claimed penguin populations are being devastated globally. |
| Robotic mini-snowmobiles ply the Arctic: Click here |
| Researchers are developing the devices in a bid to better understand effects blamed on global warming. |
| Tweaking quantum force lowers barrier to tiny devices: Click here |
| Cymbals don't clash on their own -- in our world, anyway. |
| Smog may boost storms, NASA finds: Click here |
| Pollution is being called a likely reason why summer storms in the southeastern U.S. are worst at midweek. |
| Tit-for-tat: birds found to repay wartime help: Click here |
| Pied flycatchers and red-winged blackbirds share two traits, studies suggest: they're feisty defenders and shrewd account keepers. |
| Atoms found to interact unexpectedly: Click here |
| A surprising process may change our understanding of chemical reactions in the atmosphere and our bodies. |
| In mice, "youth" drug seen prolonging vigor but not life: Click here |
| A red wine ingredient can ward off many ill effects of aging in mice who start taking it at midlife, researchers have found. |
| Study finds lasting benefit in banned mushroom drug: Click here |
| The compound psilocybin may bring psychological benefits, but also harm if taken without proper supervision, researchers say. |
| Secret of the great violins? The wood, study suggests: Click here |
| The long-sought explanation for the unmatched sound may lie in uniformity of density, a scientist claims. |
| Penguin populations falling steeply: biologist: Click here |
| Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for possible environmental disaster, an expert warns. |
| Red wine may mitigate red meat's dangers: Click here |
| Chemicals in wine may thwart formation of harmful substances during digestion of fat in meat, scientists say. |
| "Most primitive" known four-legged animal described: Click here |
| New findings may further close the already shrinking gaps in in the fossil record of the epochal transition, from land to sea. |
| Brain region for adventurousness reported found: Click here |
| Located in a primitive part of the brain, it's activated when we choose unfamiliar options, researchers say. |
| Epic crash may explain two faces of Mars: Click here |
| Scientists have been hard-pressed to explain why the two halves of Mars look very different. |
| On brink of collapse, Neanderthals may have flourished: Click here |
| Newfound stone tools offer a snapshot of ancient technological change, experts say. |
| The Odyssey astronomically accurate?: Click here |
| The ancient Greek epic of adventure at sea and long-awaited homecoming may have more truth than suspected, scientists say. |
| From the egg, baby crocs call out: Click here |
| Pre-hatching calls actually mean something to the siblings and mothers, researchers have found. |
| Planes with glass wings?: Click here |
| A new insight into the nature of glass might make it possible, some scientists say. |
| In distant universe, the same laws: Click here |
| Nature's laws appear to be the same far off as they are here, helping to resolve a scientific debate, scientists report. |
| Faked research data common, survey suggests: Click here |
| Scientific misconduct may be much more widespread than hitherto suspected, U.S. government researchers say. |
| Study: gays' brain symmetry resembles other sex: Click here |
| Researchers have found that gay people's brains resemble those of the opposite sex in some ways. |
| Eat the parents: Click here |
| In a practice thought to be over 100 million years old, some creatures feed on their mothers' skin. |
| Some "dwarf planets" are now "plutoids": Click here |
| Newly introduced terminology further complicates the once-simple concept of "planet." |
| Just-launched telescope scans gamma-ray sky: Click here |
| The cosmos looks much different outside the narrow range of colors our eyes see. |
| Drug found to cure alcoholic rats: Click here |
| Scientists say the research suggests a potential treatment for human boozers. |
| Taming volcanoes: Click here |
| Chunks of limestone might be key to stopping lava in its tracks, a study proposes. |
| Parasite turns host into bodyguard: Click here |
| Among those nasty creatures that live as unwanted guests inside others, some are particularly sinister. |
| From cracks to catastrophes: Click here |
| A field known as singularity theory explores hidden complexities in events from the everyday to the extraordinary. |
| Obesity may not be directly due to eating: Click here |
| A study of worms suggests the nervous system controls eating and fat separately, researchers say. |
| Brain abnormalities seen in heavy pot smokers: Click here |
| Two important brain structures appear smaller in long-time, heavy pot smokers, a study has found. |
| Revealed: One of the last 'uncontacted' tribes: Click here |
| A new photo shows members of one of the last tribes not to have any contact with the outside world, living in the deep Amazon rainforest. |
| Gender math gap erasable, studies suggest: Click here |
| New research may shed light on a long, bitter debate: are boys better at math than girls? |
| Monkey controls robotic arm with thoughts: Click here |
| Scientists reported what they said is a smoothly working system that might help paralyzed people. |
| Big quakes found to spark jolts worldwide: Click here |
| Bumps even on the opposite side of the globe can follow a large earthquake, researchers say. |
| Mars craft lands in search of ice: Click here |
| The event marks the start of what scientists hope will be the first in-depth robotic exploration of water ice, and perhaps life, on the planet. |
| Crystal skulls are fake: study: Click here |
| As Indiana Jones races to find an ancient artefact in the new film, he might want to take a moment to check its authenticity. |
| Tests back up theory of hot springs on Mars: Click here |
| Mars may have experienced life-giving processes similar to those that occur at Yellowstone National Park, researchers say. |
| Robot follows in cricket's footleaps: Click here |
| A tiny new robot weighs little more than a medium-sized coin and can jump more than 27 times its body size. |
| For once, a supernova is seen at birth: Click here |
| A stroke of luck may provide valuable insight into massive stellar explosions. |
| Spray turns people to pushovers: Click here |
| Researchers have identified brain centers activated by betrayal of trust -- and a way to keep them quiet. |
| Extinct gene resurrected: Click here |
| Scientists say they have gotten a gene from the now-lost Tasmanian tiger to work in a mouse. |
| Erectile woes may portend heart disease: Click here |
| Erectile dysfunction is always a matter of the heart, but new research suggests more than romance is at stake. |
| Brighter universe seen: ours: Click here |
| Simple dust has kept scientists from realizing that the cosmos is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers say. |
| U.S. to list polar bears as threatened: Click here |
| But because climate change is thought to be involved, there are big questions as to whether the ruling will spark decisive action. |
| Dip in brainpower may follow drop in real power: Click here |
| Researchers say lack of status seems to erode mental function -- with complicated implications for society. |
| Designer isotopes push the frontiers: Click here |
| Creating rare variants of chemical elements may be the next big thing in nuclear physics. |
| Brain molecules may tell of child abuse: Click here |
| A study has found distinct chemical markings on the DNA of people who took their own lives after suffering maltreatment. |
| Study: galactic goings-on were dinos' undoing, and maybe ours: Click here |
| Our movement through the galaxy may cause mass extinctions, researchers claim. |
| Probe to reach near sun: Click here |
| An unmanned NASA craft would plunge into an inferno more than hot enough to liquefy stone. |
| "Nanotrees" might help miniaturize gadgets: Click here |
| Beautiful and possibly useful, tiny structures shed light on strange aspects of crystal growth, scientists say. |
| Mega-storm continues on Saturn: Click here |
| Saturnian electrical storms resemble Earth thunderstorms, but much larger, with lightning 10,000 times stronger. |
| Musical genes may be coming to light: Click here |
| Musical ability seems to share genetic roots with language, scientists report. |
| Training may boost type of intelligence: Click here |
| General problem-solving ability may be improved through a series of exercises, researchers say. |
| Gene therapy success reported in blindness cases: Click here |
| Clinical trial results are being called one of the first clear successes for gene therapy. |
| Fateful signature may haunt unsuspecting patients: Click here |
| When you tell your doctors to cut life support -- then forget you did and change your mind -- there may be a problem. |
| The inbred -- betrayed by scent?: Click here |
| Female mice can sniff out inbred males, and the same might be true of other species, researchers say. |
| Understanding of superconductivity may be nearing: Click here |
| A strange effect called superconductivity offers hopes of a new electrical golden age. But scientists don't quite know how to get there. |
| Brain found to prepare decisions in advance: Click here |
| New research casts fresh doubt on whether we have free will. |
| Step toward man-made lightning reported: Click here |
| Scientists say they have touched off electric discharges in thunderclouds by shooting powerful lasers. |
| Dinosaurs along the Grand Canyon?: Click here |
| Arizona's monstrous gorge may be 55 million years old or more, researchers say. |
| Unproven genetic tests called health threat: Click here |
| Little is done to keep unreliable or misleadingly advertised tests off the U.S. market, a report warns. |
| Strange animal finds: Lungless frogs, crawling fish: Click here |
| Biologists are still getting over their surprise from unrelated findings of two weird species in the past week. |
| Meteorites left "seeds" of Earth's left-handed life: Click here |
| New research could explain why Earthly life forms prefer only one orientation of molecules called amino acids. |
| Hunting was just final straw for mammoth, study finds: Click here |
| Does the human species have mammoth blood on its hands? Scientists have long debated it. |
| Scientist: "superbugs" resist all drugs, portend pandemic: Click here |
| Doctors are resorting to drugs once abandoned due to harsh side effects -- and even that has stopped working in some cases. |
| Organic chemicals detected at Saturn moon: Click here |
| A surprising "brew" is erupting like a geyser from Saturn's moon Enceladus, according to researchers. |
| Preterm birth tied to lifelong problems: Click here |
| Premature birth leads to health issues more varied and lasting than was known, scientists report. |
| Uniqueness in human brain's language zone: Click here |
| Human cells have more complex interconnections in and around language-linked brain areas, researchers say. |
| The evolution of drug abuse: Click here |
| New research challenges traditional explanations of why we wallow in chemical gratification. |
| Blast called furthest object visible to naked eye: Click here |
| Halfway across the known cosmos, scientists say, a massive stellar explosion March 19 was briefly visible to unaided eyes. |
| Distant moon may have hidden ocean: Click here |
| Scientists are reporting evidence of a vast body of water and ammonia inside Saturn's moon Titan. |
| Money might buy happiness -- when you spend on others: Click here |
| People report greater happiness if they spend money on gifts or charity, researchers say. |
| Drive to complexity seen in animal evolution: Click here |
| A study claims to clarify a longtime debate: does evolution have long-term trends? |
| Estimates for peopling of Americas getting earlier: Click here |
| Humans appear to have first entered the Americas some 22,000 years ago, according to some archaeologists. |
| More "little people" fossils found: Click here |
| A finding may renew and complicate a debate over whether miniature, island-dwelling people once evolved. |
| That habitable planet might not be so far: Click here |
| We just might have neighbors among the closest stars to our sun, scientists say. |
| Butterflies may keep memories of caterpillar youth: Click here |
| Scientists have wondered for over a century whether memory survives metamorphosis. |
| Grand Canyon 20 million years old, study says: Click here |
| The canyon's "incision history" has been disputed for more than a century. |
| Study: media misconstrues blues as "chemical imbalance": Click here |
| An ancient, but unsupported notion about depression still finds its way into many news reports, a study has found. |
| After jeers, some recognition for "reverse evolution" theorist: Click here |
| A leading research journal is set to publish work by a controversial Turkish physiologist who studies people who walk on all fours. |
| Dark energy, or just dust? Findings raise questions: Click here |
| Outer space may be strewn with tiny whiskers of carbon that dim faraway objects, researchers say. |
| Pollution may make birds change their tune: Click here |
| Nothing like a birdsong to remind you of nature's glory, right? Maybe not quite, according to rather creepy new findings. |
| Brain workings linked to parental instinct: Click here |
| Infant faces spark a flurry of activity in a key brain region, researchers have found. |
| "Noah's Ark" seed vault opens: Click here |
| A remote vault designed to protect seeds for future generations received its first shipments. |
| Expert: obesity, global warming could be fought together: Click here |
| Redesigning cities to curb excess driving could reduce both warming and waistlines, a physician claims. |
| Pirates had "democratic" ways: Click here |
| Pirates of old created impressive examples of self-rule and mutual fairness -- largely because they had little choice, a researcher says. |
| Computers learn "regret": Click here |
| New programs imitate human decision-making in strategy games by looking backwards. |
| Music may aid stroke recovery: Click here |
| A study suggests music helps stimulate repair of brain wiring, researchers report. |
| Moon systems, not planets, may be place to find life: Click here |
| Alien life might be both easier and more interesting to discover through a new strategy, a study suggests. |
| Brain cells tied to consciousness reported found: Click here |
| Trying to understand what causes consciousness is one of the all-time most exasperating problems in science. |
| Study links heavy cell phone use to cancer: Click here |
| Increased risk of salivary gland tumors might be avoidable by using hands-free devices, researchers say. |
| Salt might have thwarted Martian life: Click here |
| New findings may narrow the possibilities for where and when microbes could have lived on the red planet. |
| People feeling powerful don't listen, study finds: Click here |
| Don't bother trying to feed your boss a new idea while he's feeling important, new research suggests. |
| Two strange dinos, one dark hunger -- fresh meat: Click here |
| Newfound fossils highlight the unusual carnivores that prowled southern lands in the Cretaceous, researchers say. |
| Simple recipe for ad success: art: Click here |
| Seeing almost any painting on a product or product pitch makes people rate the item more highly, studies suggest. |
| Why anyone can make a sandcastle: Click here |
| The precise amount of water in the sand doesn't matter much. Researchers now think they know why. |
| Probe would swim into alien seas: Click here |
| Scientists hope to send a robotic submarine into oceans that may lurk within a moon of Jupiter. |
| A function for "gay genes" after all?: Click here |
| Studies of some unusual men in the remote Pacific have led scientists to surprising conclusions. |
| A machine with a taste -- for espresso: Click here |
| Can a machine taste coffee? The question has plagued scientists who study the bracing beverage. |
| "Sounds" of individual molecules captured: Click here |
| Physicists claim to have made their tiny vibrations, describable as sound by some definitions, audible. |
| Severe stress in pregnancy may be tied to children's schizophrenia: Click here |
| The popular notion that a mother's state of mind can affect her unborn baby seems to have some truth, scientists say. |
| Communing with nature less and less: Click here |
| People are losing interest in the outdoors, and it bodes ill for health and the environment, researchers warn. |
| Particle smasher may reveal extra dimensions: Click here |
| Physicists have big hopes for the world's most powerful particle accelerator, to start up this summer. |
| A common ancestor for all blue-eyed people: Click here |
| Everyone with blue eyes can trace their lineage to one person who lived around the late Stone Age, researchers say. |
| Surprises from smallest planet: Click here |
| A spacecraft has given scientists a totally new look at Mercury, NASA reports. |
| Get lazy, age faster: Click here |
| People who are physically active in their spare time seem biologically younger than their couch-bound peers, researchers say. |
| Girl changes blood type, immune system: Click here |
| Doctors are describing a teenage Australian as something of a medical miracle. |
| A new geologic age -- started by us: Click here |
| A radical proposal is gaining ground among geologists. |
| Researchers report blackest black yet made: Click here |
| A new material could one day improve solar energy technology by increasing light absorption, scientists say. |
| Claim of alien cells in rain may fit historical accounts: study: Click here |
| A controversial theory concerning recent strange, red rains hasn't died. In fact, things might be getting weirder. |
| Do rich nations "owe" poor ones for eco-abuse?: Click here |
| It would seem they do -- more than $1.8 trillion, if a new appraisal is to be believed. |
| "Largest" ever fossil rodent found: Click here |
| A rodent as big as a bull once roamed South America, researchers report. |
| Death by flowers: giant, suicidal palm has botanists stumped: Click here |
| Scientists are wondering how a self-destructing plant got to Madagascar and eluded discovery before now. |
| Clone food safe, FDA says; no sales foreseen yet: Click here |
| U.S. regulators say and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat. |
| Did Columbus lead syphilis to Europe?: Click here |
| A study suggests as much, but some researchers say it's far from the last word. |
| Researchers recreate rat heart: Click here |
| The work may be a first step toward building lifelike, functioning human hearts, scientists say. |
| Mystery world a merged planet?: Click here |
| A strange object "needs a strange explanation," an astronomer says. |
| "Unprecedented" results after new Alzheimer's treatment: Click here |
| Researchers say an already approved drug reverses symptoms of a devastating illness. |
| Pollution found to shrink fetuses: Click here |
| New findings bode ill for the lifelong health of affected children, scientists warn. |
| Four healthy habits may give 14 more years: study: Click here |
| Researchers see a remarkable combined benefit in following four basic healthy practices. |
| "Micro-needle" would spare patients the sting: Click here |
| A tiny needle made partly of ceramic may allow painless injections, researchers claim. |
| Shrinking helium reserves may threaten more than kids' play: Click here |
| The element that lifts balloons, spirits and voice ranges also plays key roles in technology -- but it may run out. |
| Did insects take down T. rex?: Click here |
| A new book fingers a surprise suspect as contributor to the dinosaurs' demise. |
| Search for ET beefed up -- with your help: Click here |
| A search for radio signals from alien civilizations is set to become 500 times more powerful, investigators say. |
| Anthrax may be ally in cancer war: Click here |
| Most people wouldn't consider anthrax helpful. But its toxin may someday be a cancer therapy, scientists claim. |
| Science gives beauty some of its mystery back -- for now: Click here |
| There may be more to good looks than averageness, after all. |
| Is humor tied to male aggression?: Click here |
| A doctor's hobby of unicycling turned into a study of human nature that offers a new perspective on why we joke. |
| Small asteroids may do major damage: Click here |
| A new look at a 1908 event suggests disaster from space could be more common than once thought. |
| Whales evolved from raccoon-sized creature, study finds: Click here |
| The "missing link" for whales and dolphins was a small hoofed mammal, researchers say. |
| Galaxy seen blasting neighbor: Click here |
| A jet from a galaxy's giant, central black hole is pummeling a nearby galaxy, according to astronomers. |
| Famed wreck reported found, "pristine": Click here |
| Remains of a ship linked to the scandalous 17th century "pirate," Capt. Kidd., could shed light on a pivotal era, archaeologists say. |
| Global warming to worsen malnutrition: report: Click here |
| Amid rising concern over climate change, three U.N. agencies issued a stark new warning. |
| Why we feel "slow motion" during crisis: Click here |
| Why does "time fly" as you get older -- or seem slower during accidents? Scientists say they have an answer. |
| Life's building blocks formed on Mars: study: Click here |
| Organic molecules might be able to form on any cold, rocky planet, researchers claim. |
| Did "dark stars" reign in early cosmos?: Click here |
| Stars powered by dark matter might still exist, some scientists propose. |
| Google's kinship with the mind: Click here |
| Thinking and using a Web search engine might seem to be very different activities. But a study has found they may draw on similar principles. |
| Honey may be best for cough, research finds: Click here |
| Some cultures have long used honey for cough relief. |
| Fitness predicts longevity better than fat: study: Click here |
| Fat but fit may be OK, researchers say. |
| Flu mystery may be cracked: Click here |
| Influenza spreads in winter because the virus thrives on cold, dry air, scientists have found. |
| Humans lose to chimps in number memory game: Click here |
| Young chimps have an "extraordinary" ability to remember numerals, researchers report. |
| Dino "mummy" has skin turned to stone: Click here |
| A startlingly well-preserved dinosaur may have had stripes and the ability to outrun T. rex, according to researchers. |
| First reversal of aging in an organ claimed: Click here |
| A short-term success in rejuvenating the skin of mice points the way to future progress against aging, scientists say. |
| Antarctic image map to "revolutionize" research: Click here |
| A new map of the frozen continent, in unprecedented detail, is free on the Web. |
| Scientists hope to give artificial limbs "feelings": Click here |
| New findings point to a way amputees could gain sensation in, and more control over, prostheses, researchers say. |
| A "Big Bang" of plant evolution: Click here |
| Scientists are shedding light on what Charles Darwin called an "abominable mystery": how flowers evolved. |
| Site tied to Rome's legendary founding revealed: Click here |
| Archaeologists revealed a site said to have been venerated as the cave where, by legend, a she-wolf raised Rome's twin founders. |
| Stem cells on demand? Possible, studies suggest: Click here |
| Two research teams are reporting that they may have made human cells into stem cells. |
| "Noah's flood" spread farming, researchers say: Click here |
| An ancient deluge -- controversially linked to the tale of Noah's Ark -- kick-started European agriculture, a study claims. |
| Robot infiltrators sway roach group decisions: Click here |
| They don't look like cockroaches -- but they smell and act enough like them. |
| Drastic diet may extend human life: study: Click here |
| Researchers knew it worked in animals, but whether we'd benefit has been unclear. |
| Monkey embryos reported cloned: Click here |
| The work could lead to a way to produce patient-specific stem cells for curing disease, researchers say. |
| What's in a name? Studies link initials to success: Click here |
| If you like your name too much, even unconsciously, you might be in trouble, scientists suggest. |
| Alzheimer's "vaccine" seen to aid mice: Click here |
| Immunization might blunt or even prevent the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, researchers say. |
| Cosmic mystery "solved" after decades: Click here |
| Ultra-energetic cosmic rays probably come from supermassive black holes, a study concludes. |
| Why poor kids may make sicker adults: Click here |
| Scientists believe they're starting to understand why the poor suffer worse health and shorter lives than the rich. |
| Solar system "packed with planets" looks like our own: Click here |
| Astronomers report finding a solar system that resembles ours more than any other known. |
| Even monkeys rationalize, study finds: Click here |
| After we make a questionable choice, we often think up -- or make up -- new reasons why it was right after all. |
| Gene tied to lower cognitive function in kids: Click here |
| The research raises new possibilites for therapies targeting cognitive function, researchers say. |
| Competition drives forward robotic car technology: Click here |
| A university team won $2 million for its entry in a government-sponsored competition for self-driving cars. |
| Study suggests how DNA building block might have formed: Click here |
| Researchers say the work could help understand how DNA originated on early Earth. |
| Genes affecting generosity may be found: Click here |
| One gene underlying altruism is an evolutionarily ancient strip of DNA also found in rodents, a study indicates. |
| At 400, clam may be longest-lived animal known: Click here |
| A venerable mollusc could shed light on the mysteries of aging, researchers say. |
| Majority found willing to consider cosmetic surgery: Click here |
| The widespread appeal of plastic surgery surprises a scientist studying the issue. |
| Humans go into heat after all, strip club study finds: Click here |
| Mammals go into heat. Except humans -- it's just for animals, right? Wrong, a study has found. |
| Cosmic anomaly could point to ultimate realities: Click here |
| A new proposal for the possible cause of a strange "cold spot" suggests profound implications. |
| Scientists report flipping worms' sex preferences: Click here |
| Research suggests human sexual orientation may be genetic, as with roundworms, researchers say. |
| Researchers: warming could cause mass extinction: Click here |
| Predicted climate change could kill off more than half of animal and plant species, a study warns. |
| A predisposition to pedophilia?: Click here |
| Male pedophiles are shorter than average, hinting at biological factors in pedophilia, researchers say. |
| Aspirin against heart disease: just for men?: Click here |
| First it was an apple; now a small aspirin a day is thought to keep the doctor away, or at least heart attacks. But women might benefit less. |
| Study: Neanderthals had "language gene": Click here |
| The only gene known to date to underlie language was present in our stocky cousins, scientists say. |
| Elephants tell human friends from foes, study finds: Click here |
| Elephants are remarkably perceptive in distinguishing ethnic groups, research suggests. |
| Nobel scientist catches heat over race comments: Click here |
| A DNA co-discoverer's reported statements on African and European intelligence raised an uproar. |
| Trip to beach a milestone in human evolution: study: Click here |
| The discovery of coastal living may have put our forbears on the road to modernity, according to researchers. |
| Making light bend backwards: Click here |
| An unusual material could help usher in new electronic devices and ultra-potent microscopes, engineers say. |
| Probing ancient shipwrecks with DNA: Click here |
| DNA can help tell what long-sunken transport jars contained, say scientists studying a Greek wreck. |
| "Most complete" giant dino, new species, reported found: Click here |
| A dinosaur with a huge neck is part of a bonanza of newly described finds. |
| Feminists are sexy, study finds: Click here |
| Stereotypes of feminists as sexually unappealing are wrong: in fact, feminism may improve romance, researchers say. |
| Hormone found to predict mother-child bonding: Click here |
| Levels of a hormone in a pregnant woman predict how closely she'll bond with her baby, scientists report. |
| Genes for overeating?: Click here |
| People driven to eat may need to eat more than others do to get the same rewarding feeling, researchers say. |
| Oldest wall painting said found: Click here |
| Archaeologists report finding an 11,000-year-old mural in Syria. |
| Other universes may be detectable, published study claims: Click here |
| If there are other universes, then one or more of them might leave a mark on ours, a study suggests. |
| When our vices get the better of us: Click here |
| What happens in the brain when we just can't say no? |
| "Megadroughts" may have driven human evolution: Click here |
| Extreme droughts parched tropical Africa as early humans evolved, researchers report. |
| Could you eat this? Hunt for better fertilizer leads to human urine: Click here |
| Healthy people's urine is nutrient-rich and virtually sterile, scientists say. |
| What lies beneath? Possible Mars caves found: Click here |
| A discovery is fueling interest in searches for caves that could shelter Martian life, or human explorers. |
| Pain relief without the numbness: Click here |
| Scientists say they finally can knock out pain-sensing cells without disabling other types. |
| Craft lifts off to asteroid belt: Click here |
| In a mission astronomers are hailing as an historic first, a NASA spacecraft is on its way to study asteroids. |
| Arctic ice disappearing: Click here |
| Arctic sea ice extent just hit a low that shattered previous records, researchers report. |
| Age of "personal genomics" coming: Click here |
| The ethical and clinical implications must be carefully considered, experts say. |
| Good fences make good neighbors, scientists find: Click here |
| Could the cold reasonableness of math prevent the burning irrationality of ethnic strife? |
| A language dies every two weeks, researchers say: Click here |
| The demise of each obscure language in some corner of the world snuffs out centuries of tradition, culture and thinking. |
| Worrisome "silence" in genes may predict lung cancer: Click here |
| When it's quiet -- almost "too quiet" -- in movies, it's a sign something may be about to go wrong. Lung cancer may work similarly, researchers say. |
| Built-in brain "templates" may clue tots to threats: Click here |
| Do babies know something about spiders before ever seeing one? |
| Cold probably didn't end Neanderthals: study: Click here |
| What caused the demise of Neanderthal people, around 28,000 years ago in Europe? |
| Tailored virus kills brain cancer cells in mice: Click here |
| A customized virus killed stem cells that cause a highly aggressive, tenacious brain cancer, researchers report. |
| Sunless but livable planets may be detectable: Click here |
| They drift through deep space alone, studies suggest -- lightless, but perhaps not lifeless. |
| Report: Most polar bears to die out by 2050: Click here |
| Global warm-ing will kill off two-thirds of polar bears by 2050, U.S. government scientists forecast. |
| Researchers cracking case of the vanishing bees: Click here |
| A virus may explain a a mysterious syndrome in which bees abandon their hives, investigators say. |
| Asteroid "crime family" blamed in dino wipeout: Click here |
| Scientists say they've learned where the thing that killed the dinosaurs probably came from. |
| "Spooky" atomic links could lead to "quantum internet": Click here |
| Physicists report making two atoms seemingly communicate across space. |
| Rockers really are more likely to die young: Click here |
| The adage "live fast and die young" seems to be true for rock and pop stars, a study finds. |
| "Lean gene" found: Click here |
| Researchers have reported finding a gene that helps keep its bearers skinny. |
| Surge in youth bipolar diagnoses seen: Click here |
| A study notes a 40-fold rise over a decade in the number of visits to doctors leading to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in U.S. youths. |
| Finding used to show "race isn't real" withdrawn: Click here |
| Famed geneticist Craig Venter dropped his claim that all people have 99.9 percent identical genes, but he still says race doesn't exist. |
| Reports of dolphin's demise premature: Click here |
| A businessman has spotted a Yangtze River dolphin weeks after it was reported probably extinct, scientists say. |
| Some gene damage from smoking is permanent: study: Click here |
| New research may help explain why former smokers are still more prone to cancer than those who have never smoked. |
| "Spiderman suit" may be on the way: Click here |
| Using technology adapted from gecko and spider feet, we could climb walls and ceilings, a study predicts. |
| Scientists: Ancient Mars microbes might still live: Click here |
| Some microbes can live for more than half a million years by repairing their DNA, a study indicates. |
| "Out of body" research attacks philosophical questions: Click here |
| Researchers say they have induced in healthy people the sensation of leaving their own bodies. |
| Monkeys "baby talk" young: Click here |
| Rhesus monkeys make special calls to infants -- but surprisingly, not their own, research has found. |
| Gaping "hole" in universe detected: Click here |
| Astronomers say they have come across an empty zone of stupendous size. |
| Free Google program brings heavens to Earth: Click here |
| It's like having a planetarium on your desktop, an astronomer says. |
| Humans not just "big-brained apes": scholar: Click here |
| Contrary to fashionable thinking, new studies show we really are unique, a psychologist argues. |
| Behind school shootings, rejection and anger: Click here |
| In a study, psychologists offer an assessment of why some students go on killing sprees. |
| Drug found to erase memories in rats: Click here |
| Memory erasure is a recurrent theme in science fiction, but until recently it has stayed in that realm only. |
| Star with long tail astonishes scientists: Click here |
| The object is in a sense a real shooting star, unlike most "shooting stars" which are rocks in the sky, astronomers say. |
| Mom's junk food could put babies at risk: Click here |
| Eating junk food while pregnant and breastfeeding could lead to overeating, obese kids, a study suggests. |
| Pollution blamed for four in 10 deaths: Click here |
| Water, air and soil pollution are behind some 40 percent of deaths globally, a study claims. |
| Animated fluids getting fancy: Click here |
| Beer pours, and waves roar, in a video illustrating the latest efforts to make computer-simulated liquids better and cheaper. |
| Facial attraction: how sexual choices shaped the face: Click here |
| Men with large jaws, wide cheeks and big eyebrows are sexy -- or at least were to our evolutionary ancestors, researchers say. |
| What? Where? When? Some animals may know: Click here |
| New findings may bear on debates over whether animals are conscious. |
| Perseid meteor shower enlivens sky: Click here |
| The meteor shower's natural fireworks should become visible in all their glory tonight. |
| First human-caused dolphin extinction reported: Click here |
| China's Yangtze River dolphin was a victim of fishers, and its perilous situation was long known, according to researchers. |
| Giant galaxy pileup seen: Click here |
| Four galaxies are merging in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed, astronomers say. |
| Dark matter doubters not silenced yet: Click here |
| Growing "proof" that an unseen, exotic substance pervades space still hasn't won over a core of skeptics. |
| Brain stimulation "awakens" near-unconscious patient: Click here |
| A new brain stimulation treatment awakened a patient from a near-vegetative state, researchers report. |
| Orangutan communication resembles "charades": Click here |
| Captive orangutans use gestures not unlike humans do in the parlor game, researchers say. |
| Scientists recreate "Hydra" of myth, in miniature: Click here |
| In the ancient Greek tale, the hero Hercules kills a many-headed monster that could regrow its heads. |
| Ancestor of the "living fossil" sheds new light: Click here |
| Zoologists called it the find of the century in 1938: a fish thought to have been extinct since dinosaurs roamed. A new discovery may help complete the story. |
| Blacks who kill whites likeliest to be executed, study finds: Click here |
| Bias in the U.S. justice system continues even after sentencing, a sociologist says. |
| Sabotage, Drinking Reports Shake NASA: Click here |
| America's space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports. |
| Pot could boost psychosis risk later in life, study finds: Click here |
| Evidence points to a link between marijuana use and eventual loss of contact with reality, scientists say. |
| Obesity spreads socially, study finds: Click here |
| Your chances of becoming obese almost triple if a close friend is that way, research suggests. |
| "Itch gene" found: Click here |
| Are you scratching yourself to distraction? Relief may come soon, scientists claim. |
| Renewable energy wrecks environment, scientist claims: Click here |
| "Renewable" energy isn't green, says a researcher who played an early role in publicizing the issue of global warming. |
| Surprising chemicals found among stars: Click here |
| Discoveries are adding to the known ways in which life's ingredients could form, astronomers say. |
| Climate change behind U.K. floods?: Click here |
| Severe flooding hitting England may stem from global warming, according to some scientists. |
| Computers can play "perfect" checkers game: Click here |
| Computers have played every possible checkers move and solved the game once and for all, scientists report. |
| Species hiding in plain sight: Click here |
| New species are evading detection using an almost foolproof disguise -- their identical appearance to other, known species. |
| Little protection from cold seen in Vitamin C: Click here |
| Taking extra vitamin C daily won't help most people avoid common colds, a report says. |
| How fear memories take hold: Click here |
| Scientists have uncovered a molecular mechanism that they say governs the formation of fears stemming from traumatic events. |
| Baby mammoth found: Click here |
| SCIENCE IN IMAGES: Scientists are studying what they call the best-preserved specimen of a baby mammoth, found in May in the frozen ground of northwest Siberia. |
| "Clear signs" of water on foreign solar system: Click here |
| Researchers say they have the best evidence to date that planets outside our solar system have water. |
| How Roman farmers left their mark on nature: Click here |
| Recently unearthed, ancient settlements are found to have had surprising effects on the landscape above. |
| Gene therapy reported to wipe out pancreatic cancer in mice: Click here |
| Researchers report encouraging signs in the fight against one of the deadliest cancers. |
| Researchers modify herpes virus to fight cancer: Click here |
| A virus designed to kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones shows promise in a preliminary study, scientists say. |
| Do women really talk more than men?: Click here |
| New research challenges the popular idea that women are the big chatters. |
| New cancer mutation found: Click here |
| Biologists say they have found a mutation implicated in at least four types of cancer. |
| Cops racist in shooting? Not as much as the rest of us: Click here |
| A study has found little evidence that police shoot unarmed black people more readily than unarmed whites. But the research did turn up a surprise. |
| Poor smell sense could signal early Alzheimer's: Click here |
| Difficulty identifying common smells may be the first sign of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study. |
| First baby born from eggs matured in lab, frozen: Click here |
| Experiments are leading to novel fertility treatments, scientists report. |
| Universe "forgets" its past: Click here |
| Another universe may have preceded ours -- but its exact properties may be unknowable, some physicists have concluded. |
| Warm rock keeps North America from drowning, geologists say: Click here |
| Much of the continent would sink were it not for heat that makes rock buoyant, research has found. |
| Kitty's family tree analyzed: Click here |
| Housecats trace their ancestry back to Near Eastern wildcats, a study indicates. |
| Archaeologists think they have mummy of Queen Hatshepsut: Click here |
| Some researchers believe Hatshepsut, the most famous queen to rule ancient Egypt, has been found. |
| Human-like altruism claimed in chimps: Click here |
| Scientists often assume that purely unselfish behavior, if it exists, is unique to people. |
| Ancient giant penguins liked it hot: Click here |
| New finds shed light on the world of ancient penguins, some of which were as tall as many humans. |
| Intelligence favors first-borns, study finds: Click here |
| Children raised as the eldest sibling score slightly higher on intelligence tests, a study has found. |
| Ancient wolves had bone-crushing teeth, scientists find: Click here |
| A specialized breed of gray wolves once roamed Alaska's icy expanses, a study indicates. |
| The perks and pitfalls of pride: Click here |
| What is the origin and purpose of this complex emotion? |
| Power goes wireless: Click here |
| Researchers hope to banish the tangle of cables that keep alive our cell phones, laptops and other small devices. |
| Gigantic, bird-like dinosaur reported: Click here |
| Remains of a colossal, surprisingly bird-like dinosaur have been found in China, scientists say. |
| Rome reborn in virtual glory: Click here |
| Experts have recreated ancient Rome in a three-dimensional computer simulation. |
| Doctors investigate why man bled green: Click here |
| A report in a medical journal describes an unusual case. |
| First patent claimed on man-made life form, and challenged: Click here |
| A research institute is seeking a patent on what could be the first largely man-made organism. |
| Stem cells from anyone?: Click here |
| Patients could one day get new organs and other treatments using cells drawn from their own bodies. |
| T. rex, the clumsy giant?: Click here |
| New research challenges the traditional notion that the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex could turn quickly and chase down agile prey. |
| Abnormal sex acts linked to array of sleep disorders: Click here |
| Sexual behaviors during sleep may be more common than was once thought, researchers say. |
| Dump "ethnic cleansing" jargon, group implores: Click here |
| A team of scholars wants doctors and scientists to lead the world in consigning the phrase "ethnic cleansing" to history. |
| Lessons from orangutans: upright walking may have begun in trees: Click here |
| A new theory suggests our two-legged walk first arose in ancient, tree-dwelling apes. |
| Deer moms come to the rescue -- sometimes: Click here |
| Mothers in one deer species seem quite generous in defending other parents' kids, a study has found. Not so another species. |
| The evolution of animal personalities: Click here |
| Personality differences have been documented in dozens of species. What produces the variations? |
| Radio "screams" portend nasty space weather: Click here |
| Bursts of radio waves can provide advance warning of hazardous radiation storms, astronomers say. |
| Monster black holes, quietly cruising the cosmos?: Click here |
| Research suggests some galaxy mergers can spit giant black holes into space, for good. |
| Dolphin braininess due to social life, studies suggest: Click here |
| Dolphins and their kin are widely thought to be among the cleverest creatures. But what might have made them so is unclear. |
| Genes may influence our language: researchers: Click here |
| Differences in our genes may affect the type of language we speak, linguists report. |
| Study: stereotypes alone can hurt female performance: Click here |
| A stereotype that boys outperform girls in math causes anxiety that undercuts women's work -- in math and other areas, researchers report. |
| "Definitive" evidence of dinosaur swimming found: Click here |
| A trackway with 12 claw marks is the best evidence to date that some dinosaurs swam, scientists say. |
| Finger length linked to exam scores: Click here |
| Measurements of children's finger lengths appear to predict their scores on math and literacy tests, researchers have found. |
| Antibiotic resistance genes in our food?: Click here |
| The food we eat could be fueling the disturbing spread of antibiotic-resistant infections, scientists warn. |
| Saturn rings found clumpier, heavier than thought: Click here |
| Saturn's largest, most compact ring consists of clumps of particles separated by gaps, new findings indicate. |
| Sex-free shark birth startles scientists, and worries them: Click here |
| A female hammerhead shark was found to have given birth without having sex. |
| What is consciousness? Study aims to settle debate: Click here |
| Researchers also propose to subject claims of "out-of-body experiences" to a strict test. |
| Morality: where it came from, where it gets us: Click here |
| Morality is an evolved system, not quite equipped to deal with global-scale clashes of values, a scientist says. |
| Antarctic depths called possible "cradle of life": Click here |
| Scientists have found hundreds of new sea creatures in a vast, dark deep surrounding Antarctica. |
| Biodiversity good for mental health, scientists find: Click here |
| Species-rich parks may bring more peace of mind than big green spaces alone can, a study suggests. |
| Roots of "free will" seen in flies: Click here |
| Insects, with their apathetic eyes and stiff little frames, often seem to epitomize a common view of lower animals as robots. Not so, researchers say. |
| The galaxy next door -- our destined home?: Click here |
| New simulations predict what could happen when our galaxy, as expected, runs into a neighboring one. |
| First map of planet outside our system: Click here |
| Astronomers plan someday to map continents and oceans on distant planets. |
| Mutation may contribute to human uniqueness: Click here |
| Scientists have identified a gene that they say could help account for our distinctive cognitive abilities. |
| King Herod's tomb said to be found: Click here |
| Herod is said in the Bible to have ordered a slaughter of babies in order to be rid of the newborn Jesus. |
| Global warming could shorten day, report predicts: Click here |
| Earth's familiar 24-hour cycle may become a hair shorter due to human activities, scientists say. |
| "King" of star explosions seen: Click here |
| Astronomers report what could be a new type of supernova, the death blast of a massive star. |
| Ripples on Sun reported, after 30-year search: Click here |
| Findings could help understand the Sun's core -- hub of the original, spinning cloud that became our Solar System. |
| New "longevity gene" spurs hopes of long life: Click here |
| Findings could lead to new anti-aging treatments, scientists say. |
| Female duck anatomy evolves to block "rape": Click here |
| Male and female ducks are evolving in a sexual arms race, according to a study. |
| Clues to language origins seen in ape gestures: Click here |
| Scientists have found what they call new evidence for an old theory that language began with gestures. |
| Is reality a misunderstanding?: Click here |
| Several physicists say they've confirmed strange predictions of modern physics that flout our most basic ideas of reality |
| Internet-controlled robots anyone can build: Click here |
| New research is touted as bringing robotics to an unprecedented level of public usability. |
| Distant planet judged possibly habitable: Click here |
| Astronomers report finding the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date. |
| Origin of brain lies in a worm, scientists say: Click here |
| Surprising findings also suggest we've flipped over during the course of evolution. |
| City-sized fossil forest found: Click here |
| A "spectacular" discovery in a coalmine is said to transform our understanding of the first rainforests. |
| Black holes may scatter "seeds of life" through cosmos: Click here |
| Black holes aren't the all-consuming monsters they're often portrayed as, new research has found. |
| Ape facial expressions foster group harmony, study finds: Click here |
| Facial expressions may have evolved as a sort of social glue in our ape-like ancestors, researchers say. |
| Robotic arm to conduct brain surgery: Click here |
| The machine will give surgeons an unprecedented degree of fine control, the designers say. |
| Grow a garden to fire kids' veggie-ardor: Click here |
| Homes with fruit and vegetable gardens see healthier eating among youth, a study finds. |
| Swarms of dust-sized particles would explore planets: Click here |
| Engineers are devising a new breed of planetary probes: tiny devices that ride the wind. |
| Ethanol vehicles pose health risks, study finds: Click here |
| Ethanol is widely touted as a clean, eco-friendly fuel. But new research challenges that view. |
| Findings uphold "standard model," for now: Click here |
| Researchers presented long-awaited initial data from tests on ghostly particles called neutrinos. |
| Gene study finds "clearest link yet" to obesity: Click here |
| U.K. scientists say they have identified the clearest genetic link yet to obesity in the general population. |
| Dinosaur molecules decoded: Click here |
| Researchers have analyzed molecules from soft tissue of a T. rex, a feat once thought impossible. |
| "Space tsunamis" investigated: Click here |
| New findings are shedding light on celestial storms that help create dramatic light shows. |
| Catching suicide bombers: Click here |
| U.S. researchers say they have developed a way to defeat a key edge that suicide bombers possess. |
| Plague as a weapon: Click here |
| Scientists worry that a disease tied to medieval epidemics may re-emerge as a bioterrorism tool. |
| Climate report charts "highway to extinction": Click here |
| A new international report on global warming makes dire predictions. |
| Even after dino dieoff, our mammal forebears laid low: study: Click here |
| The dinosaurs' extinction wasn't the direct cause of the great flourishing of mammals, research indicates. |
| Hexagon on Saturn mystifies astronomers: Click here |
| An odd, six-sided feature encircles Saturn's north pole. |
| Human evolution, radically reappraised: Click here |
| Our evolution has been speeding up exorbitantly, a study contends. |
| "Emotional eavesdropping" seen in toddlers: Click here |
| Toddlers eavesdrop on adults' emotional communications, researchers say. |
| The next great quake: Click here |
| A geophysicist warns that seemingly innocuous geological structures may be "locked, loaded, and dangerous." |
| Brain mishaps lead to "cold" morality: Click here |
| A study at the crossroads of philosophy and neuroscience probed the ingredients of ethics. |
| Could self-moving objects explain away "dark matter"?: Click here |
| Each year, four points on Earth could witness a bizarre phenomenon, a study claims. |
| Traditional plant knowledge found to give health boost: Click here |
| Globalization can strip indigenous peoples of valuable botanical knowledge, researchers say. |
| Rats can reflect on their knowledge, study finds: Click here |
| New research was touted as the first to find this ability in an animal other than primates. |
| Probe to explore deepest known sinkhole: Click here |
| A robotic sub explores and maps unknown, subterranean waters -- a possible prelude to a probe on a distant moon. |
| Robot walks and swims: Click here |
| A new device demonstrates that nature often offers the best solutions for robot design, researchers say. |
| Little genomes for big dinosaurs: Click here |
| They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird. |
| Unifying principle said to govern all galaxies: Click here |
| The discovery could say something deep about the cosmos, astronomers claim. |
| Therapy for traumatized Iraq vets: Iraq again, virtually: Click here |
| An unusual treatment has worked for a few troubled war veterans, psychologists report. |
| "Mafia" behavior noted in birds: Click here |
| Researchers have found a new low in the ways of some parasitic birds, which impose their progeny on other birds. |
| "Wound" in seafloor to be probed: Click here |
| Scientists plan to set sail to study a strange geological finding in the depths of the Atlantic. |
| Seeing red affects achievement: Click here |
| Just a flash of red is enough to impair performance on tests, psychologists have found. |
| Inching closer to regrowing spinal tissue: Click here |
| Researchers have regrown a tadpole tail in what they say could be a stride for regenerative medicine. |
| Angry God, angry people: Click here |
| Scriptures portraying a vengeful Lord may encourage their readers to behave in kind, a study reports. |
| Milky Ways black hole seen as particle smasher: Click here |
| The center of our galaxy acts as a juiced-up version of the particle accelerators we build on Earth, physicists say. |
| Death from across the galaxy: Click here |
| Explosions called gamma-ray bursts could beam lethal radiation across a galaxy, frying life forms along the way, a study has found. |
| Chimps found using spears: Click here |
| Chimps in Senegal were reported making sharpened sticks to hunt other, small primates. |
| Story of first Americans being rewritten: Click here |
| An anthropologist says new evidence could be the final nail in the coffin of traditional views on America's peopling. |
| Birds found to plan future meals: Click here |
| Western scrub jays seem to be acquainted with the concept of diet planning, scientists report. |
| Video games may boost surgical skill, tests find: Click here |
| A small study has linked video game savvy to skill in simulated laparoscopic surgeries. |
| Genome scan finds new genetic links to autism: Click here |
| The first results from a scan of the world's largest collection of DNA from families affected by autism point to two new genetic links. |
| Sun's "twin" found, as embryo: Click here |
| It's one of four newfound "proto-stars" that are probably the youngest imaged by astronomers, the researchers said. |
| Origami technology: Click here |
| Folding a piece of paper, it turns out, can yield a virtually endless array of shapes. Scientists are taking advantage of that. |
| Cleopatra no beauty? Judge for yourself: Click here |
| An Egyptian queen's vaunted looks got an unkind, Valentine's day reassessment from researchers. |
| Pot found to ease HIV-linked pain: Click here |
| Smoked marijuana reduced severe foot pain associated with HIV by a third, researchers report. |
| Study: Naps may cut heart deaths: Click here |
| Naps may do your heart good, researchers have found. |
| Parents blind to their children's weight, study finds: Click here |
| Many parents don't notice their children's excess weight -- bad news amid an obesity boom, researchers warn. |
| Plans for "Noah's Ark" seed vault unveiled: Click here |
| A "Doomsday" seed vault would protect today's seeds for a post-apocalyptic future. |
| Action video games sharpen vision, researchers say: Click here |
| A shoot-em-up game improved students' visual acuity 20 percent, according to scientists. |
| Cosmic blasts re-evaluated: Click here |
| They spit out as much energy in seconds as our Sun does in 10 billion years, but no one knows quite why. |
| Next-generation particle collider planned: Click here |
| A proposed accelerator would recreate conditions in the cosmos a trillionth of a second after its birth. |
| "Youth" pills, hawked online, win over top scientists: Click here |
| A company selling pills with "youth-prolonging" molecules has snagged a leading biologist and a Nobel Laureate as customers. |
| For some species, an upside to inbreeding: Click here |
| While not recommending it for humans, researchers found inbreeding may make for better parents. |
| Report spurs backing for global body on warming: Click here |
| Fear of runaway global warming pushed over 40 countries to support a bid for a body that could single out, and perhaps police, polluting nations. |
| How drugs cause hallucinations: Click here |
| Scientists say they have partly explained what causes the mind-bending effects of substances such as LSD. |
| Huge settlement unearthed near Stonehenge: Click here |
| The dwellings housed those who built the U.K.'s fabled stone monument, archaeologists say. |
| Dig deeper for Mars life, scientists urge: Click here |
| Probes haven't drilled deep enough to find the living cells that might lurk within the red planet, according to new research. |
| Most horrible sound: vomiting, study finds: Click here |
| An online experiment has produced a surprising answer to the age-old question of which sound is most awful. |
| Family loyalty driving sperm teamwork?: Click here |
| The promiscuity of rats and mice may lead to partnerships among their sex cells. |
| Cancer killed Napoleon, study concludes: Click here |
| A new investigation may put to rest nearly 200 years of lingering mysteries, a scientist reports. |
| Dino flew like a "biplane": Click here |
| The Wright brothers weren't the first to come up with their trademark, double-decker design for aircraft wings, if two scientists are correct. |
| Activation of brain area found to predict altruism: Click here |
| A study might help reveal how the desire to help others takes root in the brain. |
| Black diamonds come from space, scientists claim: Click here |
| Rare, dusky gems may have been parts of massive asteroids that struck Earth, scientists say. |
| Study: Nobel Prize may add two years to life: Click here |
| Fame alone, independently of wealth, seems to give a life-extending boost, two economists report. |
| Mother ducks cooperate on parenting: Click here |
| For eider ducks, parenting is a negotiated joint venture, researchers say. |
| Earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe reported: Click here |
| Modern humans who first arose in Africa moved into Europe as early as about 45,000 years ago, a new study indicates. |
| Homer's Ithaca possibly found: Click here |
| British researchers say they may have solved a centuries-old mystery. |
| How the body becomes asymmetric: Click here |
| Tiny molecular motors in cells might help determine which organs go on which side, scientists claim. |
| "Superstrings" could raise cosmic clatter: Click here |
| Physicists are looking for huge, flopping loops of energy in space that could point the way to a theory of everything. |
| Brain's "shopping circuitry" mapped: Click here |
| Researchers say they can now predict whether someone will buy a product by checking their brain activity. |
| First stars may have been supergiants, researchers say: Click here |
| New observations are being cited to support a claim that astronomers have seen the universe's first bright objects. |
| Nightmares, suicidal tendencies linked: Click here |
| A study has found that nightmares are associated with suicidality. |
| Scans pinpoint brain regions that "see the future": Click here |
| Psychologists say they have found that the brain draws heavily on the past to imagine the future. |
| Bush administration proposes listing polar bear as "threatened": Click here |
| Environmentalists hailed the move as a possible major shift in direction for U.S. policy on global warming. |
| Even rats may dream in pictures, study finds: Click here |
| Animals, like humans, appear to have sleep imagery, according to scientists. |
| Surprises in comet dust: Click here |
| Dust gathered from a comet and brought to Earth tells a tale of a solar system that partially turned itself inside out, researchers say. |
| Mammals might have flown before birds, scientists claim: Click here |
| An ancient squirrel-like, gliding beast differed from all known orders of mammals, a study suggests. |
| "Trust hormone" now tied to "mind reading" -- and increasingly, autism: Click here |
| An unusual hormone has a growing list of documented powers, some of them surprising -- and intriguing to scientists hunting autism treatments. |
| Why laughter is contagious: Click here |
| You can catch it without asking for it, or even necessarily wanting it. Now, scientists say they have an idea of why. |
| Humor beats disease, researchers find: Click here |
| Scientists are reporting what they call most direct evidence yet that ability to laugh saves lives. |
| Hysteria is real, study finds: Click here |
| Hitherto unexplained cases of partial paralysis or numbness may have a physical cause after all, scientists say. |
| Drastic speedup in Arctic melting forecast: Click here |
| Arctic summers could be nearly ice-free by 2040, new research suggests -- much sooner than previous forecasts have predicted. |
| Water still flows on Mars, scientists say: Click here |
| NASA photos have revealed bright new deposits in two gullies on Mars. |
| Galactic evolution both "nature" and "nurture": Click here |
| Galaxies evolve as a result of influences from their surroundings, astronomers have found. |
| NASA announces lunar base plan: Click here |
| The space agency has announced plans to build a permanent lunar base by 2024. |
| City birds sing their own tune: Click here |
| Members of a bird species that have adapted to city life sing a shorter, sharper, faster song than their forest kin, a study has found. |
| Hard, brutal lives for Neanderthals: Click here |
| Neanderthal remains from Spain speak of malnutrition and possible cannibalism, researchers report. |
| Gene "archaeology" sheds light on male pregnancy: Click here |
| A gene might help explain why males get pregnant among members of the seahorse family, according to biologists. |
| Oldest known ritual: python worship, archaeologist says: Click here |
| Snake-worship in Stone-Age Africa might have been the first human ritual, if new findings are correct. |
| Genes may help predict infidelity, study finds: Click here |
| Could DNA tests tell you your risk of being cuckolded? Scientists think so. |
| Ancient sky calculator awes scientists: Click here |
| A 2,000-year-old computer could transform our view of the ancient world, according to researchers. |
| Success may be a "family affair": Click here |
| A study has led researchers to speculate that career success may be partly genetic. |
| Science teachers' association accused of oil company influence: Click here |
| After the top U.S. science teachers' group spurned some free DVDs, a controversy erupted over a reason they gave for the decision. |
| Backache? Sitting upright could be culprit: Click here |
| "Dignified" might not always equal healthy, a study suggests. |
| Pot may be good and bad, researchers propose: Click here |
| The truth about marijuana might be more complex than either its opponents or its champions suggest, some scientists argue. |
| We're more genetically diverse than thought: study: Click here |
| Research has found that at least one in 10 human genes vary in the number of copies of certain DNA sequences. |
| A step toward quantum computers: Click here |
| Physicists say they've taken a step toward making computers that work at blinding speeds thanks to the weird realities of quantum physics. |
| One cell makes almost any heart tissue, study finds: Click here |
| New research could be a stride forward for therapy to rebuild hearts, but its use of embryonic cells may stir controversy. |
| Molecules may "anchor" memories in brain: Click here |
| Our brains nail down memories by using special proteins as anchors, a study suggests. |
| Extreme black hole pushes spin "limit": Click here |
| A black hole's blindingly fast rotation could help explain some strange phenomena, physicists say. |
| Monkeys wearing perfume? Study investigates: Click here |
| Some wild spider monkeys dab on a chewed-leaf paste that may act as a sort of cologne, researchers say. |
| Red wine ingredient found to boost endurance: Click here |
| A substance earlier linked to long life in animals, also "re-programs" muscle to double endurance, a mouse study indicates. |
| "Dark energy" an age-old phenomenon, study finds: Click here |
| A weird force pushing our universe outward has existed since near the beginning, astrophysicists say. |
| Neanderthal DNA partially sequenced: Click here |
| Scientists have preliminarily mapped out when the stocky human cousins diverged from our species. |
| Cleansing nuclear fallout from the body: Click here |
| A U.S. government scientist envisions purging the body of fallout with a compound from crab shells. |
| Physical activity might explain vets' risk for wasting disease: Click here |
| A report has found "limited and suggestive evidence" that military service raises the risk for Lou Gehrig's disease. |
| Gay men likelier to gamble addictively, study suggests: Click here |
| A small study may fuel a charged debate over why homosexuals, as growing evidence suggests, suffer addictions unusually often. |
| Laser reveals hidden earthquake "time bombs": Click here |
| Using an aircraft-mounted laser, scientists say they've found quake-prone fault lines concealed by woods. |
| Mystery of sudden infant deaths may be solved: researchers: Click here |
| "Sudden infant death syndrome" results from abnormalities in the brain stem, a primitive brain region, a study suggests. |
| Pollution may impair brain development worldwide, researchers say: Click here |
| A silent pandemic may have boosted the number of retarded people while sapping the ranks of the intelligent, a study claims. |
| Saturn moon resembles Earth at lifes birth, study finds: Click here |
| Hazy skies on early Earth, similar to those on Saturns moon Titan, could have provided the ingredients for life, chemists say. |
| Testosterone levels dropping, research finds: Click here |
| Scientists cited a "substantial," unexplained drop in American men's testosterone levels in the past two decades. |
| Almost no more seafood after 2048 at current rates, study warns: Click here |
| Seafood will be all but a memory if fishing and pollution go on at current rates, a study predicts. |
| Antimatter rays studied as medical treatment: Click here |
| Scientists are studying what could arguably be the first use of an exotic substance, antimatter, in medical treatment. |
| Brain scans examine "speaking in tongues": Click here |
| People lose control of their speech in a mysterious religious practice, brain scientists report. |
| Study: red wine substance counteracts bad diet, extends life: Click here |
| A compound found to extend lifespans in various small animals, does so even in mice on fatty diets, researchers say. |
| More evidence for Neanderthal-human mixing claimed: Click here |
| A study has concluded that some long-ignored fossils are blends of human and Neanderthal. |
| The newborn mind's not-quite "blank slate": Click here |
| New findings may shed light on the old nature-nurture debate, researchers say. |
| Elephants recognize mirror image; elephant ancestor found: Click here |
| Two new studies make strides in elephant biology, according to scientists. |
| Report: dinos took repeat pounding before final exit: Click here |
| A new account of the reptiles' demise demotes a famous meteor impact to a secondary role. |
| Oldest complex organic molecules found in fossils: Click here |
| Ancient molecules from creatures known as sea lilies offer a new way to map evolution, scientists say. |
| Vampires shown mathematically impossible: Click here |
| Researchers have laid to rest one source of Halloween nightmares. |
| A wild, and gay, kingdom: Click here |
| Nature is prancing, fluttering and altogether teeming with gay animals, say organizers of the first museum exhibition on the topic. |
| Strange, underworld microbes raise hopes for alien life: Click here |
| Bacteria found deep in a gold mine rely on energy from radioactive uranium to live, scientists say. |
| Pot against Alzheimer's?: Click here |
| Research suggests the widely maligned drug may protect against a devastating brain illness. |
| Facial expressions may be inherited: study: Click here |
| The blind make similar facial expressions as their relatives, researchers have found. |
| Yes, we have no blue bananas: Click here |
| Color perception depends partly on expectations, a study suggests. |
| The science of dough: Click here |
| The squishy bread ingredient has become an object of engineering studies. |
| Paper challenges bedrock law of nature: Click here |
| The conservation of energy law states, in essence, that there's no free lunch. But is there? |
| Tiny genome may be melting away, study suggests: Click here |
| Researchers have identified the smallest known genome, and say it may suffer a strange fate. |
| Earth's wobbles may explain some extinctions, research finds: Click here |
| Wobbles in Earth's orbit may explain a puzzling cycle of extinctions, scientists say. |
| Strongest evidence yet that planets form from "disks": Click here |
| The philosopher Emmanuel Kant got it right 200 years ago, researchers proclaim. |
| For ants, one playbook fits many situations: Click here |
| Scientists are interested in the "algorithms," or step-by-step rules, by which organisms make decisions. |
| Fitness, childhood IQ may affect old-age brain function: Click here |
| Mental function in old age depends more on fitness than on childhood IQ, a study has found. |
| Computers help churn out cancer remedies: Click here |
| Scientists are working on ways to make computers churn out new cancer treatments, with no need to figure out how they work. |
| Computers help churn out new cancer remedies: Click here |
| Scientists are working on ways to make computers churn out cancer remedies, with no need to figure out how they work. |
| Burglars found to be as skilled as pilots: Click here |
| Burglars are so good at robbing houses, they should be regarded as experts in their field, researchers say. |
| Scientists attack mysteries of Mona Lisa: Click here |
| For centuries she has given us mysterious looks. Now researchers claim to have cracked some mysteries of the painting itself. |
| Physicists seek to put one thing in two places: Click here |
| Researchers say they've made an object move just by watching it, which is inspiring them to a still bolder project. |
| Earth hottest in 5,000 years, study suggests: Click here |
| A further slight increase will produce dangerous sea level rises and species exterminations, scientists warn. |
| Chemistry defeats the "Godzilla of odors": Click here |
| Chemicals known as isonitriles have a stench so vile, its victims claim to suffer mental scars for a while. |
| "Lucy's Baby": pre-human fossil dazzles scientists: Click here |
| Human-like below the waist, ape-like above, an ancient tot is stirring up the study of our origins. |
| Woman gets "bionic arm": Click here |
| A new device is meant to let amputees move artificial arms just by thinking. |
| Ancient writing system said to be found: Click here |
| Archaeologists report the oldest writing system known in the New World. |
| Planet "lighter than cork" baffles astronomers: Click here |
| An unknown mechanism may heat some planets internally, puffing them up, researchers say. |
| Neanderthals hung on tough, study finds: Click here |
| Neanderthals didn't give up on existence easily, scientists report. |
| Arctic meltdown?: Click here |
| Arctic sea ice is hitting record lows, probably due to global warming, NASA researchers say. |
| Voices in your head might be good: Click here |
| Psychologists have launched a study to learn why some people consider voices in their heads helpful. |
| Green tea may save lives, researchers find: Click here |
| A Japanese study links the beverage to lower death rates. |
| Baby bugs team up for sex scam: Click here |
| The moment they're born, beetles of one species join forces for a curious drill. |
| "Vegetative" patient can think, study suggests: Click here |
| Brain imaging peers into the inner lives of people thought to be totally unresponsive. |
| Eye photos might deter crime, police say following research: Click here |
| An unusual experiment is the inspiration for a new police campaign. |
| Paintings really can be "heard," scientist says: Click here |
| It seems the artist Kandinsky wasn't talking nonsense when he said his pictures could be heard. |
| Livable worlds abound, simulations find:: Click here |
| Computer studies indicate Earth-like planets, warm and wet enough for life, should be plentiful. |
| Lost planet, or vastest system?: Click here |
| A planet thought to drift alone may instead help form the widest known planetary system, scientists say. |
| Gene fights cancer by aging us, studies find: Click here |
| Biologists say they've found a gene that protects against cancer by suppressing cell division -- making us age faster. |
| Protest over new planet definition: Click here |
| More than 300 scientists have signed a petition protesting a redefinition of "planet" adopted officially last month. |
| Study: Most dinosaurs still unaccounted for: Click here |
| Researchers say 71 percent of dinosaur types have yet to be discovered. |
| Invisible 9/11 victims: the unborn: Click here |
| Stress over the 2001 attacks apparently triggered hundreds of miscarriages if not more, studies have found. |
| NASA awards contract for moon craft: Click here |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract to build a manned lunar spacecraft. |
| Bird attacks a force in human evolution?: Click here |
| Prehistoric raptors may have routinely targeted our ancestors for meals, scientists say. |
| A trip to cannibal country: Click here |
| A journalist ventures into one of the last places on Earth where humans eat each other, and like it. |
| Researchers create permanently "happy" mice: Click here |
| A breed of permanently "cheerful" mice is providing hope for depression treatment, scientists report. |
| Pluto no longer a planet: Click here |
| A newly adopted definition of "planet" shuts out a longtime member of the planetary club. |
| New stem cell technique would avoid killing embryos: Click here |
| Scientists say they've managed to grow human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. |
| Jilted dogs feel intense jealousy, study finds: Click here |
| New research challenges long-held scientific beliefs about animal emotions. |
| Ants' Olympic jumps caught on tape: Click here |
| New high-speed videoclips show how certain ants manage to jump 40 times their own length. |
| Stupendous crash proves "dark matter" exists, astronomers claim: Click here |
| The most forceful known collision in the universe has torn apart normal and dark matter, researchers say. |
| "Artificial muscles" to liven TV color: Click here |
| Scientists are exploring a technology that they say could produce more lifelike colors. |
| A gene that makes us human?: Click here |
| A newfound gene might help explain why our brains are so big, researchers say. |
| Bringing back the extinct: Click here |
| Mouse experiments are reviving the idea that some extinct species can be resurrected. |
| Now downloadable: "music" of the stars: Click here |
| The ancient Greeks believed the stars participate in a sort of celestial symphony. They had it wrongbut not totally. |
| "Toxic environment" making kids fat, study claims: Click here |
| Unhealthy, addictive food is behind today's obesity epidemic, a scientist says. |
| No black holes after all?: Click here |
| One of the universe's brightest and furthest known objects might not be a black hole as traditionally thought, a study suggests. |
| New robot rolls on ball: Click here |
| A newly built robot balances and moves on a metal ball instead of legs or wheels. |
| Driverless cars to unclog traffic: Click here |
| Authorities in Europe are pushing a plan to ease traffic and pollution through automated vehicles. |
| Human-animal mixing going too far, report says: Click here |
| An organization is warning that the creation of fused organisms raises grave ethical questions. |