Oct. 28, 2009 -- Culture, not just genes, can drive evolutionary outcomes, according to a study released Wednesday that compares individualist and group-oriented societies across the globe. Bridging a rarely-crossed border between natural and social ...
Sept. 21, 2009 -- Paralyzed rats whose spinal cords had been severed from their brains were made to run again using a technique that scientists say can work for people, according to a study released Sunday. Consistent electrical stimulation and drugs ...
August 3, 2009 -- Researchers said they had pinpointed the biochemical pathway by which cannabis causes memory loss in mice. The discovery could help open the way to drugs that have marijuana's desired pain-killing properties but without its amnesic ...
June 17, 2009 -- Scientists reported Wednesday the first link ever found between cancer and a type of genetic defect, called copy number variation, characterized by missing or extra bits of DNA. The breakthrough came in a study on neuroblastoma, a ...
Aug. 20, 2008 -- The habitats of wild bird species are shifting in response to global warming, but not fast enough to keep pace with rising temperatures, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers in France also found that the delicate ...
Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon's primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday. Their groundbreaking experiments explore the vanishing boundary ...
June 18, 2008 -- The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and U.S. climate researchers reported Wednesday. Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, ...
To email this article, type in your friend's name and email address, your name and email address, and a message. Then click "submit." June 17, 2008 -- Mass extinctions that wiped out up to 90 percent of Earth's flora and fauna ...
June 11, 2008 -- The internal temperature of leaves, whether in the tropics or a cold-clime forest, tends toward a nearly constant 71 degree Fahrenheit, reports a study released Wednesday. It had long been assumed that actively photosynthesizing ...
Jan. 31, 2008 -- Astrophysicists believe they are closing in on one of the cosmos' great mysteries: why the Big Bang, is accelerating. The answer could be tantalizingly within reach, according to their study, released by the British weekly science ...
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