Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long ...

Minimizing a person's sight for as little as a week may help improve the brain's ability to process hearing, neuroscientists have found. Hey-Kyoung Lee, an associate professor of neuroscience and researcher ...

Using very precise ground-based observations, Stephen Lowry (University of Kent, UK) and colleagues have measured the speed at which the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa spins and how that spin rate is changing over time. They have combined these delicate ...

Natural resource managers, policymakers and their advisers, and scientists ...

Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide onto a silicon chip ...

Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world's temperature records available via Google Earth. The Climatic Research Unit Temperature Version 4 (CRUTEM4) land-surface air temperature ...

New findings in mice suggest that merely changing meal times could have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the liver. The results of this Weizmann Institute of Science study, recently published in Cell Metabolism, ...

Researchers have identified a new species of mysterious beaked whale based on the study of seven animals stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans over the past ...

In a range of species, females show clear preferences when it comes to the choice of their partner – they decide on the basis of external features like antler size or plumage coloration whether a male will be a good ...

A national poll from the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute shows 34 percent of respondents would ...

Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an ...

Risk scores for diseases such as CVD are usually presented as the percent chance of contracting the disease within the next ten years. The Heart Age Calculator, http://www.heartage.me, uses the same ...

New figures from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register (NDSCR) based at Queen Mary University of London, reveal the proportion of Down syndrome cases diagnosed antenatally ...

Water supply is the most pressing environmental issue facing the United States according to a survey of policy makers and scientists revealed in a new publication in BioScience by researchers ...

Tape, self-adhesive labels, Post-it notes and masking tape all contain soft adhesives. This makes them easy to remove—a process referred ...

By sandwiching a biological molecule between sheets of graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have obtained atomic-level images of the molecule in its natural watery environment. The ...

NEW YORK – February 5, 2014 – EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (February 4, 2014) - Patients with massive ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Simon Glerup sg@biokemi.au.dk 45-51-22-17-27 Aarhus University Research results show new way for cholesterol treatment A basic research project from Aarhus University now sheds new light on the pharmaceutical industry's new hope in the field of cholesterol treatment; the results show that there is apparently another and just as effective ...

Our cells produce thousands of proteins but more than one-third of these proteins can fulfill their function only after migrating to the outside of the cell. While it is known that protein migration occurs ...

This news release is available in German. When cells migrate in the body, for instance, ...

PHILADELPHA - New research is lighting up yet another ...

Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving ...

This news release is available in German. Higher mammals, such as humans, ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Kevin Dennehy kevin.dennehy@yale.edu 203-436-4842 Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot The release of volatile organic compounds from forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels ...