First Results from Dark Matter Detector Announced
A mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a new experiment named LUX has proven itself the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world.
Super-thin membranes portend tiny pumps
A super-thin silicon membrane could pave the way for diagnostic devices the size of a credit card.
Tracking Tweets to Enhance Food Safety
The system combines machine-learning and crowdsourcing techniques to analyze millions of tweets to find people reporting food poisoning symptoms following a restaurant visit.
New Type of Neutrino Oscillation Confirmed
The new finding could help explore a fundamental question of science – why is the universe made up almost exclusively of matter, when matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang?
Madagascar No Longer an Evolutionary Hotspot
Daniel Scantlebury calls Madagascar “an ideal evolutionary laboratory” for studying species formation because it has long been isolated and geologically stable relative to other regions.
What’s Your Motion Quotient
A surprisingly simple exercise measures the brain’s unconscious ability to filter out visual movement, and points to an unexpected link between IQ and motion filtering
Naked Mole Rats Cancer-resistant Chemical ID’d
The biologists’ focus on high molecular weight hyaluronan (HMW-HA) began after they noticed that a gooey substance in the naked mole rat culture was clogging the vacuum pumps and tubing.
Autistic Kids Detect Motion Faster
Such heightened sensory perception in autism may help explain why some people with the disorder are painfully sensitive to noise and bright lights.
‘Mean Girls’ Be Warned: Ostracism Cuts Both Ways
A new study shows that individuals who deliberately shun another person are equally distressed by the experience.
Making Sense of Monkey Math
The study tracked eight olive baboons, ages 4 to 14, in 54 separate trials of guess-which-cup-has-the-most-treats.