Better sleep is associated with improved academic success
According to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, getting more high-quality sleep is associated with better academic performance. The positive relationship is...
Unlikely life thriving at Antarctica's Blood Falls
An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea
water, but hidden under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to
support microbial life in a cold, dark, oxygen-poor environment –...
The Arctic offers more evidence of human influences on climate change
A new study indicates that Arctic temperatures suddenly increased during the last 50 years of the period from 1 AD to the year 2000. Because this warming occurred abruptly during...
Ardi displaces Lucy as oldest hominid skeleton
Nearly 17 years after plucking the fossilized tooth of a new human ancestor from a pebbly desert in Ethiopia, an international team of scientists today (Thursday, Oct. 1) announced their...
NAU research ties tree mortality trends to climate warming
Global warming is speeding up the mortality of trees, and Northern Arizona University research is providing some of the data to prove it.
Missing: 2,000 elephants
Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savanna elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, now hover at about 1,000 animals, down from an estimated 3,000 in 2006....
Draft version of the Neanderthal genome completed
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, and the 454 Life Sciences Corporation, in Branford, Connecticut, will announce on 12 February during the 2009 Annual Meeting of...
Scientists cure color blindness in monkeys
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Florida used gene therapy to cure two squirrel monkeys of color blindness — the most common genetic disorder in people.
Chimp's stone throwing at zoo visitors was 'premeditated'
Researchers have found what they say is some of the first unambiguous evidence that an animal other than humans can make spontaneous plans for future events. The report in the...
Sleep apnea occurring during REM sleep is significantly associated with type 2 diabetes
A multi-ethnic study in the June 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine reports that there is a statistically significant relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) episodes occurring...
Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil
skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila
darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing
link" in the...
Obese children at significantly greater risk for post-adenotonsillectomy complications
Obesity in children significantly increases the risk of major and minor respiratory complications following surgery to correct sleep disordered breathing (SDB), according to new research presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting...
Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean, says study
Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon
Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as
initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a...
1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Potato blight reveals some secrets as genome is decoded
Late blight caused the 19th century famine that sparked a wave of emigration from Ireland to the United States, but the disease has also infected tomatoes and potatoes this year....
Serotonin brings locusts together
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Sheep shrink on Scottish isle as world warms, says Stanford biologist
Wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta have been diminishing in size for over 20 years and now researchers have puzzled out why: it's the heat. Like wool socks...
New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while
most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a
large part of Antarctica – the East Antarctic...
Researchers crack the code of the common cold
Scientists have begun to solve some of the mysteries of the common cold by putting together the pieces of the genetic codes for all the known strains of the human...
Why can't chimps speak?
If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?
Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies
Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies,
some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing
heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones;...
Early fire use ignites discussion about the evolution of human brainpower
New evidence that early modern humans used fire in southern Africa
in a controlled way to increase the quality and efficiency of stone
tools is changing how researchers understand the...
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