Other Sciences News

Aug 11, 2013 by News Staff

New research reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience says that oxytocin, a hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being, can cause emotional pain – an entirely new, darker identity for the hormone. Stylized structural diagram of oxytocin (DARPA). The study is the first to link oxytocin to social stress and its ability to increase anxiety and fear in response to future stress. Oxytocin appears to be the reason stressful...

Aug 8, 2013 by News Staff

Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has been discovered in a rapidly cooled mixture of aluminum, iron and silicon, is neither a pure glass, a crystal, nor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...