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Hormone Holds Promise as Memory Enhancer
LiveScience, January 26 2011.
Could boosting your memory someday be as simple as popping a pill? Scientists found that rats injected with a hormone could remember better, even two weeks after the memory was formed.
The memory-boosting hormone was IGF2, which plays an important role.. →
Humans Now Look to Well-Known Worm for Virus Advice
LiveScience, January 25 2011.
The worms in microbiologist Marie-Anne Felix’s lab are feeling a little under the weather. It seems they’ve picked up a stomach virus. The virus is actually the first ever found to infect the nematode C. elegans, a carefully studied worm that scientists.. →
Young Adults and Monogamy: ‘It’s Complicated’
LiveScience, January 20 2011.
To many young adult couples, the status of their relationship is a little vague. In a small study, about 40 percent of young couples had differing opinions about how exclusive their relationship was, and even among those who were on the same page, about 30 percent.. →
River Blindness Parasite Relies on Bacteria to Fool Host
LiveScience, January 19 2011.
Even in the strange world of symbiosis, in which a pair of organisms can depend on each other to live, this one’s a whopper: Bacteria living inside a parasitic worm help create a cloak, shielding the worm from the immune system of its hosts (which, in this.. →
To Overcome Obesity, Trust Your Gut (Bacteria)
LiveScience, January 18 2011.
Bacteria living in our intestines may be a key to fighting obesity. Now, researchers have found one protein on the surface of white blood cells that plays an important role in controlling these bacteria.
It may sound disgusting and unsanitary, but the guts.. →
New Metallic Glass Is Hard and Tough
LiveScience, January 18 2011.
A new member of the metallic glass family may rival Scotty’s transparent aluminum in “Star Trek” for its mix of amazing properties. This palladium and silver alloy developed by Caltech researchers is both stronger and tougher than any titanium alloys… →
Firmness of Touch May Evoke Gender Stereotyping
LiveScience, January 12 2011.
Holding a hard or soft ball can influence a person’s perception of how masculine or feminine others are. The finding adds to the growing insight about how connected our sense of touch is to social processing in our brains.
“What you are experiencing.. →
New Pterosaur’s Jawbone Found in Storage Cabinet
LiveScience, January 10 2011.
In a dark corner of a storage cabinet, a pterosaur was waiting for Victoria Arbour. Well, at least its jawbone was. Arbour identified the piece of jawbone, which has been in the University of Alberta fossil collection for years, as a new species of the ancient.. →
Beef Fat Spill Turns the Houston Ship Channel Into a Clogged Artery
Discover, January 7 2011.
Fat is in the news: Not just because of the world’s obesity problems, but because one agriculture company accidentally fattened up the Houston Ship Channel on Tuesday by spilling 15,000 gallons of beef tallow into it.
The fat was in an onshore storage.. →
Aflockalypse: The Media Goes on Apocalyptic Overdrive
Discover, January 7 2011.
Since Monday’s news that a few thousand birds fell from the sky on New Year’s Eve over Beebe, Arkansas, the world has gone a little crazy with talk of the “aflockalypse”: the mass bird deaths that have been documented worldwide. Bird die-offs.. →