Rising CO2 Keeps Trees From Cooling Earth

Rising CO2 Keeps Trees From Cooling Earth

Trees help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are preventing them from performing this very important function. According to a new study in PNAS, in some…
Too Much TV Makes Kids Fat And Stupid

Too Much TV Makes Kids Fat And Stupid

Watching too much TV may make children fat, bad at math and expose them to all kinds of other evils, say "child experts" writing in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The authors…
Late Equals Large? A New Look At Brain Evolution

Late Equals Large? A New Look At Brain Evolution

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have successfully altered the brain of one type of Cichlid fish to resemble that of another and discovered differences in the general patterning of…
Study Confirms Darwin's Concerns About Inbreeding

Study Confirms Darwin's Concerns About Inbreeding

Charles Darwin was probably correct about the effects of inbreeding in his family, according to a new study in BioScience. Darwin demonstrated the phenomenon of inbreeding depression in many plants,…
Gas Cloud BYF73 May Help Explain Star Formation

Gas Cloud BYF73 May Help Explain Star Formation

An international team of researchers has captured an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust - BYF73 - in the process of collapsing in on itself, a discovery which could help explain how massive stars…
Growing Strawberries In Space?

Growing Strawberries In Space?

Astronauts could one day tend their own crops on long space missions, and researchers from Purdue say a variety of strawberry called Seascape seems to meet the requirements for becoming a space crop…