Stem cells are prised for their ability to give rise to a variety of specialized cell types, including heart, liver, nerve and bone. Unfortunately, it's the stem cells from embryos that have shown the biggest potential, for generating both a range of...
Cheetahs reign as the fastest land mammals capable of sprinting at speeds reaching about 65 miles an hour. But when hunting in the wild, the big cats rarely reach top speed. Instead they rely on rapid acceleration and agility to catch their prey. Tha...
The human voice is capable of forming a plethora of incredibly different sounds. So many, in fact, that each individual language contains only a subset of potential sound units or phonemes. What factors determine whether a phoneme enters coming in us...
Most birds don't have penises. Good, I have your attention. Of course, female birds don't have penises. But, neither do most males. Now researchers have unravel the genetics behind the dispearance of this anatomical apparatus. Their penetrating insig...
It takes a village to raise a child. Well, the same is true for finding what are called spaceworps. That's according to astophysicists who are calling for volunteers to aid in the search for gravitational lenses. Astronomical objects are so massive t...
France considers itself the world's center of wine but there may be some red faces in Burgundy today-because a study provides more evidence that techniques for turning grapes into a glass of wine may have come over what today is Italy. The research i...
Baleen allows the non-toothed whales to strain sea water for the fish and crustacean pray. Alexander Werth of Hampden Sydney College of Virgina avoided a Jonah like journey, and still managed to analyze how baleen works. Two kinds of whales sport bal...
People with anorexia see themselves as heavier than they actually are. But does this distorted selfimage inform unconscious behavior? Scientists are opening doors to find out. Literally, body image and doorways are her linked because the ability to n...
We've discovered that Vitamin C kills MT cells. TB research William Jacob, with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. And in fact it works not only on the multidrug-resistent strains but totally drug-resistent strains as well. Jacobs...
What had the legs of agator and the jaws of fish? Why the earliest land animals? Because a new studies shows that animals evolved weight-bearing limbs long before they had the chambers to really take advantage of a terrestrial diet. The research is i...
