Human brains pay a price for being big August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Metabolic changes responsible for the evolution of our unique cognitive abilities indicate that the brain may have been pushed to the limit of its capabilities. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal ... | |
 World's smallest snake found in Barbados August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The species -- which is as thin as ... | |
Bulging prison system called massive intervention in American family life August 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The mammoth increase in the United States' prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males. | |
 Hunting the elusive L-function August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a lot of excitement last month about ‘L-functions’. A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Ce Bian, in collaboration with his supervisor, Dr Andrew ... | |
 Australia bans exotic cat breed August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Australia has banned imports of an exotic breed of cat, calling it an extreme risk to the country's native wildlife, a minister said Sunday. | |
Oral pill turns slacker mice into marathonists: study August 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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US researchers have come up with a pill that promises to give a typical junk-food snacking couch potato the silhouette of an athlete and the endurance of a marathon runner. | |
Americans try to see the bright side of high gas prices August 04, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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It's hard, anywhere in the world, to be positive about sky-high gasoline prices. But in the United States, some experts and ordinary citizens are focusing on the benefits of high energy costs to forget about the money pinch ... | |
 Scientists cheer gorilla find, but warn of threats August 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Can there be more lurking in the mist? Despite a startling find announced Tuesday that doubled the estimated number of western lowland gorillas ... | |
Biological 'Clock' Influences Damage Done by Oxidative Stress August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Swing shift workers and frequent fliers beware – scientists have identified yet another biological issue that relates to the “circadian clock” found in almost every species from insects to humans, and discovered ... | |
 Arctic Map plots new 'gold rush' August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Researchers at Durham University have drawn up the first ever 'Arctic Map' to show the disputed territories that states might lay claim to in the future. | |
Great white's mighty bite revealed August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The bite force of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the highest known for any living species, according to new research to be published in the Journal of Zoology. This is the first time that scientists ... | |
Memory, depression, insomnia -- and worms? August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Researchers have spent decades probing the causes of depression, schizophrenia and insomnia in humans. But a new study may have uncovered key insights into the origins of these and other conditions by examining a most unlikely ... | |
Humans' response to risk can be unnecessarily dangerous, study August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The traffic light ahead of you is turning yellow. Do you gun the engine and speed through the intersection, trusting that others will wait for their green, or do you slow down and wait your turn? | |
 New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters August 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote " in vino veritas " – in wine, there is truth – he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon ... | |
 Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost ... | |
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