Interesting science news, research tidbits and science discussion. http://www.scienceagogo.com 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... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20091005174839data_trunc_sys.shtml 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... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20091004180352data_trunc_sys.shtml A fascinating new study of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20091003202424data_trunc_sys.shtml A new study demonstrates an unforeseen link between the hunting behavior of wolves and biochemical hot spots on the landscape that provide vital nutrients for plantlife... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20091003005625data_trunc_sys.shtml Tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in Vermont are providing scientists with some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20091001214747data_trunc_sys.shtml Scientists have found that people with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it. Disturbingly, about 30 percent of the population has the variant... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090928215616data_trunc_sys.shtml Despite a three decade lifespan that should provide ample time for cells to grow cancerous, naked mole rats have never been known to suffer cancerous tumors of any kind - and now University of Rochester scientists think they know why... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090927033700data_trunc_sys.shtml Experiments involving fairness and generosity showed that people in rooms which had been freshly scented with a cleaning product exhibited a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior. Such ethic-promoting scents, say the researchers, could have significant application in workplaces and retail environments... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090925203702data_trunc_sys.shtml Concerns about the biological safety of nanotechnology are being voiced by the medical community, but Swedish researchers say that their experiments with rats show that the brain can effectively deal with any bits of nanowaste that might find their way there... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090922211220data_trunc_sys.shtml A surprising new study has found that exposure to a combination of excess stress hormones and chemicals while in the womb can affect a man's fertility in later life... http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090921223344data_trunc_sys.shtml