Science news articles about 'vexing question'

  • Exercise in a pill

    ... 38 percent. The result, while very dramatic, gave rise to a vexing question: Why is exercise so important? First and foremost, exercise depletes muscles' energy store, a chemical ...
  • Trying to satisfy too many agendas slows school reform

    Despite investments, community goodwill and some good ideas, a vexing question remains in the age of school reform: Why has so much hope and effort led to disappointment? Beginning in ...
  • Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts

    ... team’s predictions that eastern parasites are more benign. Aside from shedding light on the vexing evolutionary question of why parasites harm their hosts, the study has implications for the health ...
  • Manes, trains and antlers explained

    ... world's noted evolutionary biologists. "How can this trait be made in one gender and not the other?" The question of the origins of secondary sexual characteristics -- traits other than reproductive ...
  • 1,300-year-old Islamic note may solve mystery

    ... his name on a block of red sandstone over 1,300 years ago may help solve a question about the Qur'an that has vexed historians for hundreds of years: Why was the text seemingly ...
  • NYU scientists discover dangerous new method for bacterial toxin transfer

    ... the relatively high efficiency suggests that other cases may well exist in nature, raising new questions about the ease with which unrelated microbes might gain some of the more notorious S. aureus ...

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