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New Microbe Forms Living, Deep-Sea Power Cables
The world’s deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through...
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Moderate Drinking Decreases Brain Cell Regeneration
Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol can have an impact on the ability of brain cells to regenerate, according...
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Exercise Helps Stave Off Cognitive Decline
In a study published in the journal Neurology of almost 700 people born in 1936, researchers found physically active...
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DARPA Wants Robotics to Rise to the Challenge of Disasters
The DARPA Robotics Challenge kicked into high gear this week as the organization announced the top teams competing to...
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Grandmothers Responsible for Human Longevity
The helpfulness of grandmothers is the reason humans don’t die in their thirties the way chimpanzees do, new research...
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Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evolving from Mutated Copies
Researchers have observed in an experiment the exact steps bacterial genes take to evolve a new ability, unexpectedly adding...
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Antarctic Airstrip Melts
Researchers said global warming has caused the glacial ice on the runway to turn to mush just four years...
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Study Links Cooked Food to Early Humans’ Growing Brains
Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to...
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The Presidential Debates’ Great Unmentionable: Climate Change
The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the...
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Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap
Women cluster in certain fields, according to a study of millions of journal articles, while men get more credit