Other Sciences News

Jan 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, Canadian researchers have suggested that the Earth’s most severe mass extinction was caused by an influx of mercury into the eco-system. In the study, published in the journal Geology, a team of researchers from the University of Calgary hypothesizes a link between the end-Permian mass extinction and the high levels of mercury released into the environment during catastrophic Siberian Traps volcanic eruptions. End-Permian Earth...

Dec 18, 2011 by James Freeman

British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas. The...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Dec 1, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

Nov 23, 2011 by James Freeman

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...

Nov 22, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists led by chemist Robert Doyle demonstrated, for the first time, that a critical hormone that helps people feel full after eating can...

Nov 18, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

Nov 17, 2011 by James Freeman

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...

Sep 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Sep 22, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...

Sep 14, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

Sep 10, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about....

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language.  Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...

Aug 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance....