Fear of Immune Response to Induced Stem Cells Overstated
Scientists report that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) have a similar immune response in mice as embryonic stem cells (ES). The scientists published their findings…
The Possibility of Life on Extrasolar Moons
A new study examines the probability of life existing on extrasolar moons, identifying tidal heating as a criterion for exomoon habitability and devising a theoretical…
Drug Resistant Gonorrhea on the Rise in North America
The most common STIs in the USA, chlamydia and gonorrhea, are usually easy to eradicate thanks to doses of oral antibiotics, but now gonorrhea is…
Babies Begin Learning Language in Womb
Newborn babies only a few hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign one. A new study indicates…
EU’s Carbon Capture and Storage Problem
Europe’s carbon-trading market and tougher emission targets make it appear somewhat more responsible than the rest of the world at climate-policy negotiations. But recently, the…
Researchers Restore Hearing to Noise-Damaged Ears
By using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School…
Asteroid Apophis Will Make a Record Setting Close Approach to Earth
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, scientists gathered new data on the asteroid Apophis, an asteroid that will make a recording-setting close approach to Earth and…
Dredging Of Canal Could Release Harmful Chemicals
The dredging of a highly contaminated canal along the shore of Lake Michigan, in Indiana, has begun, triggering concerns that the dredging could release harmful…
Happier People Earn More Money
New research indicates that happier people actually earn more money. This comes as a result of a study of 10,000 Americans that showed that those…
Cathodoluminescence Used to Probe Metamaterials
The phenomenon of cathodoluminescence gave geologists an easy way to identify quartz and other minerals in rock samples. Cathodoluminescence allows a piece of quartz to…
Hubble & Spitzer See Weather Patterns in a Brown Dwarf
By using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to simultaneously view the brown dwarf planet 2MASSJ22282889-431026, a team of astronomers has created a…
Wrinkly Fingers Evolved to Grasp Wet Objects
Scientists have discovered the reason why the skin on human fingers and toes shrivels up when soaked in water. Laboratory tests confirmed that wrinkly fingers…
Possible Planetary Disasters That Could Cause Extinction
In the last 40,000 years, there have been at least ten gigantic landslides of more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) in the North…
Cyanobacteria Engineered to Make Raw Materials for Fuels From Sunlight
In a newly published study, UC Davis scientists detail how they engineered cyanobacteria to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics, taking a step forward…
Hubble Reveals 2,000 Year Long Elliptical Orbit for Fomalhaut B
A new Hubble image has allowed scientists to calculate the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b, finding that the orbit takes the planet as…
Pollutants in Lakes Linked to Oil Sands
Some of the world’s largest reserves of crude oil are held in the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, and production has been ongoing. A new…
Graphene Oxide Removes Radioactive Material From Contaminated Water
A newly published study has shown that graphene oxide can rapidly remove some of the most toxic and radioactive long-lived human-made radionuclides from contaminated water,…
Stem Cell Study Paves the Way for New Ovarian Cancer Therapies
By using sophisticated gene sequencing methods to demonstrate a regulatory link between the stem cell factor Lin28 and the signaling molecule bone morphogenic protein 4,…