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The study sheds new light on the link between sleep deprivation and obesity. Image credit: Sweet Briar College.

New Study Confirms Link between Poor Sleep and Obesity

Aug 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food. The study sheds...

Researchers have painted the Mini Lisa on a substrate surface about 30 microns in width (Carroll KM et al)

World’s Smallest Mona Lisa Created

Aug 6, 2013 by News Staff

Using an atomic force microscope and a method called thermochemical nanolithography, scientists have painted the Mona Lisa on a surface about one-third...

Henry Blackburn Randolph Caldecott, A Personal Memoir (London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Limited, 1889; via the Florida Center for Instructional Technology)

Study Reveals Evolutionary Pathway for Emergence of Monogamy

Jul 30, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the threat of infants being killed by rival males is the key...

New study shows that lunar cycle modulates human sleep and melatonin rhythms (Image: Luc Viatour)

Full Moon Can Disturb Human Sleep, New Research Shows

Jul 26, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Current Biology provides the first scientific evidence that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep. New study shows...

Scientists find a strong relationship between the ability to remember words and the structure of arcuate fasciculus, a bundle of axons connecting the Wernicke's area to the Broca's area

Researchers Identify Neural Pathways Involved in Learning of New Words

Jul 23, 2013 by News Staff

European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...

Cape Washington, Antarctica (© University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Study Provides Evidence for Several Global Warmings During Pliocene

Jul 22, 2013 by News Staff

According to researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, global warmings between 5 – 3 million years ago may have caused parts of the...

Redoubt volcano as seen from Ninilchik, AK, on May 9, 2009 (© Brenda Cruickshank / Alaska Volcano Observatory)

Some Volcanoes Scream Before Eruption at High Frequencies, Scientists Say

Jul 15, 2013 by News Staff

Volcanologists analyzing data on a 2009 eruption sequence at Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano have detected unusually high frequencies of a signal called harmonic...

This is a map of Indonesia, the green circle shows the island of Flores. The inset shows facial approximation of LB1, female Homo floresiensis (Susan Hayes / Australian Archaeological Association)

Homo floresiensis Distinct Human Species, Says New Research

Jul 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by Dr Katerina Harvati from Tübingen University, Germany, suggests the small-brained Indonesian hominin was a distinct species of human, rather...

Bacterial cells of Staphylococcus aureus (Eric Erbe, Christopher Pooley)

Compound Could Be Novel Class of Antibiotics

Jul 10, 2013 by News Staff

Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...

Neanderthals (University of Utah via kued.org)

Neanderthals, Denisovans May Have Had Their Own Language, Suggest Scientists

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

A broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something...

Satellite data shows the per cent amount that foliage cover has changed around the world from 1982 to 2010 (Randall Donohue et al)

Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Cause Desert Greening, Satellite Observations Reveal

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused...

New Attempt to Identify Techniques Used by Antonio Stradivari

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Marco Malagodi from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy and his colleagues have used innovative methods to identify the techniques used by...

Scientists Reconstruct Break-up of Eastern Gondwana

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British-Australian team of scientists has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates at 165 million years ago,...

Pages from the astrological section of the Voynich manuscript (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Voynich Manuscript Has Real Message After All, Say Scientists

Jul 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim...

According to the study, the rate coefficient for the reaction between the hydroxyl radical and methanol is almost two orders of magnitude larger at 63 Kelvin than previously measured at 200 Kelvin (Orion Nebula by ESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2)

Chemists Reveal Secrets of Space Alcohol Formation

Jul 1, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Chemistry has filled a significant gap in the scientific understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed...

Two mutations altered the energetic landscape of protein-ligand binding. A, left: thermodynamic landscapes of the ensemble of interaction networks of the synthetic estrogen NPT and residues 41, 75, and 82 are shown for AncSR2 - the ancestor of the nonaromatized steroid receptors clade - containing the ancestral states glu41 and leu75; or, B, the derived states GLN41 and MET75 (adapted from Michael J. Harms et al., 2013)

Scientists Resurrect Ancient Proteins, Identify Two 500-Million-Year-Old Mutations

Jun 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. researchers have discovered two large-effect mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution about 500 million years ago. Two mutations altered the energetic...

Dr Carmel O'Shannessey and Light Warlpiri speakers (University of Michigan)

Light Warlpiri: New Study Sheds Light on Origins of Recently Discovered Australian Language

Jun 18, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...

Pressure-induced transitions are associated with near two-fold volume expansions. While an increase in volume with pressure is counterintuitive, the resulting new phases contain large fluid-filled pores, such that the combined solid-fluid volume is reduced and the inefficiencies in space filling by the interpenetrated parent phase are eliminated (Argonne National Laboratory)

New Technique ‘Defies’ Laws of Physics

Jun 14, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress. Pressure-induced...

Geography May Influence Sound System of Languages, New Study Suggests

Jun 13, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological...