Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as “extremophiles,” so named because of the extreme environmental conditions in which they live and thrive. Almost as radical, ...
Jun 12, 2007
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Mom may have been right all along, especially when we were hormone-raging teenagers, eat your veggies and good things will happen.
Jun 12, 2007
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Mothers know best when it comes to dressing their children, at least among side-blotched lizards, a common species in the western United States. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found that female ...
Jun 12, 2007
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Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have ...
Jun 12, 2007
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Two Belgian explorers currently nearing the end of a staggering 2 000 km trek across the Arctic Ocean were recently guided through hazardous conditions using observations from Envisat, as sea ice in the Lincoln Sea began ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2007
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A University of Warwick physicist has uncovered how female cells are able to choose randomly between their two X chromosomes and why that choice is always lucky.
General Physics
Jun 12, 2007
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A team of European scientists has proved within an ESA study that the weird quantum effect called 'entanglement' remains intact over a distance of 144 kilometres.
General Physics
Jun 12, 2007
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This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to the Göttingen-based researcher Stefan Hell for his revolutionary discovery that resolutions far below the diffraction limit can be achieved in a fluorescence ...
General Physics
Jun 12, 2007
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Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory and the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University have found a new way to control the movement of individual electrons -- they are making them ride the crests of energy ...
General Physics
Jun 12, 2007
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Like a student in a foreign country or a young mother trying to decipher her baby’s cries, we all encounter initially meaningless sounds that in fact carry meaning. With experience, we become better at detecting and discriminating ...
Jun 12, 2007
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