 20 November 2009
Popular cigarette brands loaded with bacteria
Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria known to be harmful to humans, a new study claims. And, according to the researchers, some of the organisms identified are resilient enough to survive the burning process...
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19 November 2009
Sunscreen, cosmetics cause genetic damage
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles - found in common household products such as cosmetics, sunscreen and vitamins – were found to cause systemic genetic damage in mice...
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18 November 2009
Oscar Pistorius' artificial limbs provide "major advantage for sprinting"
Human performance experts say that the artificial lower limbs of double-amputee Oscar Pistorius give him a major advantage over his competition - lopping at least 10 seconds off the 400-meter sprint...
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17 November 2009
Common chemical found to feminize boys' brains
Adding to an earlier investigation that linked two common phthalates to abnormal male genital development, the same researchers now say that those chemicals can also alter masculine brain development, making boys less likely to play with male-typical toys and games...
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16 November 2009
Universal quantum processor demonstrated
Physicists have demonstrated a "universal" programmable quantum information processor that uses two quantum bits of information to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics...
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13 November 2009
Rosetta anomaly stumps scientists
When Rosetta swings by Earth today for a critical gravity assist, orbital data will be collected that could help unravel a cosmic mystery that has stumped scientists for two decades...
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12 November 2009
Plastics workers risk impotence, ejaculation difficulties
A groundbreaking study into Bisphenol-A exposure amongst Chinese factory workers has found that men working in environments where the chemical was present had quadruple the risk of erectile dysfunction and seven times more risk of ejaculation difficulty... |
10 November 2009
Biologists plot concept of "organismality"
A new paper argues that high levels of cooperation and low levels of conflict - from the genetic level on up - give a living thing its "organismality," whether it's an animal, a plant, a bacterium, or a colony...
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9 November 2009
Social behaviors revealed by finger length
Finger length ratio is a reliable predictor of how an animal will behave socially, say scientists who have been running the tape-measure over groups of primates...
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6 November 2009
Gay or straight, the rules of attraction don't change
New experiments suggest that regardless of sexual orientation, men's brains are wired for attraction to sexually dimorphic faces - those with facial features that are most synonymous with their gender...
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5 November 2009
Midwest still shakin' all over - 200 years later
Seismologists now believe that the majority of modern earthquakes in the Midwest United States are merely aftershocks of a big quake that occurred two centuries ago...
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