- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 13th, 2012
Understanding Root Systems Can Lead to Better Plants
Researchers are making considerable headway in the lab
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 10th, 2012
Fresh Fault Ruptures Studied with 3D Models
New technique allows the taking of before-and-after pictures
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 4th, 2012
“Great Dying” Destroyed Life in Stages
This was the most severe mass extinction in history
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 3rd, 2012
Natural Selection Is Augmented by the “Founder Effect”
New process found working side by side with evolution
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 2nd, 2012
How Spider Webs Handle Stress and Damage
The answer does not lie exclusively in the strength of the fiber
- Nano-Biotechnology
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 30th, 2012
Tissue-Like Electronics Could Be Tattooed on the Body
A research team is now trying to make this technology feasible
- History
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 23rd, 2012
History of Mediterranean Sediments Reveals Clues on Climate Change
Latest IODP expedition reveals earliest discoveries
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 9th, 2012
Earth's Deepest Secrets Are Jeopardized by Microbes
Researchers are literally starting to dig deeper and deeper into our planet's past
- History
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 5th, 2012
Evolution Favored Long Teeth and Beefy Arm Bones
The two traits evolved in tandem to give predators an edge
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 4th, 2012
NSF Delays Funding for Giant Telescopes Until Early 2020s
Two huge installations could be left unfinished due to insufficient funds
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 20th, 2011
Humans Pass Disease On to Corals
This is the first time such an occurrence has been observed
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 10th, 2011
Analyzing Fukushima's Radioactive Discharge in the Pacific
New study deals with the effects of the first four months of contamination
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 2nd, 2011
How Yellowstone Wolves React to Climate Change
Studying them could provide proxies for other species as well
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 2nd, 2011
Start/Stop Patterns Accompanied the Emergence of Oxygen on Earth
Our atmosphere did not become life-friendly in a large, single step
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 19th, 2011
San Andreas Fault Observatory Nears Completion
Work on this ambitious project began back in 2004
- Health
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 17th, 2011
MammaCare Improves Early Breast Cancer Detection
The tool is being used around the United States to train physicians
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 17th, 2011
How Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains Formed
Investigators finally crack 53-year-old mystery