 16 May 2012
Earliest cave art was erotica, say researchers
A block of limestone in southwestern France is adorned with what anthropologists believe are engravings of female genitalia dating back 37,000 years...
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15 May 2012
Ovulation goggles make Mr Wrong look like Mr Right
Nice guys finish last when women are wearing ovulation goggles, say researchers who have been investigating exactly why females in the most fertile phase of their menstrual cycle choose sexy, rebellious cads to pair-up with...
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14 May 2012
Carbon emission levels from deforestation challenged
When trees are felled to create solid wood products - such as lumber for housing - the wood retains most of its locked-up carbon, say scientists who suggest that previous climate models for carbon emissions from deforestation need revision...
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9 May 2012
Entropy the major player in chirality conundrum
Why many of the important molecules in our bodies almost always occur in just one chiral form (either right or left handed) when they could potentially exist in either is a mystery that has confounded researchers for years...
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8 May 2012
Dino farts warmed early climate
Mesozoic methane emissions from dinosaurs could, according to new calculations, have produced more of the notorious greenhouse gas than all modern sources - both natural and man-made - put together...
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7 May 2012
Robot probe maps brain neuron activity faster, more accurately
Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a robotic probe to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain...
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6 May 2012
"Seeing" auras is really synesthesia, say Euro scientists
Spanish researchers say that healers who claim to be able to see the auras surrounding people are actually suffering synesthesia, the neuropsychological phenomenon that mixes the senses...
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5 May 2012
Venus transit to help identify possible neo-Earths
Hoping to eventually identify Earth-like planets in other solar systems, astronomers plan to point the Hubble telescope at the Moon's Tycho crater during the upcoming transit of Venus across the Sun and analyze the reflected Venusian atmospheric spectra...
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4 May 2012
Single gene mutation responsible for modern humans
Scientists believe that the appearance of a novel gene, occurring around the time that the Australopithecus and the Homo lineages separated, was responsible for the sudden increase in brain complexity that led to language and modern humankind...
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3 May 2012
Controversial bird flu research finally published
After an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to block publication, a study that shows how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals was published in full today...
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1 May 2012
Inch-long fleas tormented dinosaurs
Ten times bigger than their modern cousins, fossilized prehistoric fleas unearthed by Chinese scientists reveal a proboscis like a hypodermic needle...
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1 May 2012
Hundreds of rogue stars found outside galaxy
Astronomers say they have identified more than 600 stars that have been violently flung out of the Milky Way toward Andromeda; stellar victims, the scientists believe, of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's core...
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