Neanderthal lineages excavated from modern human genomes


Is this the world's hottest computational biologist?

This year's winner of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science is Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D. You know... really smart... Oxford... Harvard... you are a dumb-ass compared to her etc. etc. Her work is helping scientists identify how to defeat diseases and microbes. Oh, yeah, she also happens to be in a rock band.

Microwires as mobile phone sensors


Scientists find genetic mechanism linking aging to specific diets


River of hydrogen flowing through space seen with Green Bank Telescope

River of Hydrogen Flowing through Space Seen with Green Bank Telescope Using the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space.

Asian ozone pollution in Hawaii tied to climate variability


Understanding rise, fall and re-emergence of plague strains






New boron nanomaterial may be possible

Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility. Graphene has been heralded as a wonder material. Made of a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb arrangement, graphene is stronger pound-for-pound than steel and conducts electricity better than copper.

Is there an ocean beneath our feet?


Why life got big in the Earth's early oceans

Why did life forms first begin to get larger and what advantage did this increase in size provide? UCLA biologists working with an international team of scientists examined the earliest communities of large multicellular organisms in the fossil record to help answer this question.

Report: North and tropical Atlantic warming affects Antarctic climate

The gradual warming of the North and tropical Atlantic Ocean is contributing to climate change in Antarctica, a team of New York University (NYU) scientists supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has concluded. Their findings appear in the Jan. 23 edition of the journal Nature.

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were dark skinned and blue-eyed

  Suck it, white supremacists! The genome of a 7,000-year-old individual from the Mesolithic site of La Brana-Arintero (Leon, Spain) has been recovered and it has African versions in the genes that determine pigmentatio of the skin. 

World's smartest dude regrets biggest blunder

Stephen Hawking, the 70 year old greatest living physicist of the universe, has identified his biggest mistake. Only Hawking can get away with saying that, strictly speaking, there are no black holes in our universe.

Changing climate: How dust changed the face of the earth

Bremerhaven/Germany, 24 January 2014. In spring 2010, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from the South Pacific with a scientific treasure - ocean sediments from a previously almost unexplored part of the South Polar Sea.

Report: Arctic inland waters emit large amounts of carbon


Cooling microprocessors with carbon nanotubes


JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records in both precision and stability


Air pollution tied to China exports

Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean is often caused by the manufacturing of goods for export to the U.S. and Europe, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.