Chitin and Chitosan have been extracted from lobster waste and used in medicine and biomedicine by a team from the University of Havana. These researchers’ work has led to the development of a…

Just in time for the weekend, this study from Dutch researcher Ingmar Franken says that while alcohol does not make good things any better it can make bad things a lot less worse. Previously…

It turns out they do.* And it can tell us a lot about learning. In fact, "competitive fandom" is such a growing field that University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professors Erica and Rich…

White gold. That’s what some call one of the most-eaten seafoods because it's so lucrative. A.k.a. shrimp, the new gold rush has reached landlocked desert farms in Arizona. “What heat-stroked…

For the first time, it can now be shown what enzyme copies the genetic make-up of cells. The discovery is being published in the journal Science by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden in…

New technology could allow a CD to hold up to one hundred times more information by using terahertz radiation rather than visible light, even though the length of a terahertz wave is about 1000 times…

I just saw that Jeremy Bruno is over on ScienceBlogs. We used to have a good time corresponding on my personal site. We'll forgive him for not writing here - they have swanky offices and VC money…

Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have found new evidence that the fragmented structure of…

Researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have uncovered a missing link in scientists' understanding of the physical forces that give DNA its famous double helix shape. "The…

One of the major issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Dr Ali Mobasheri, an Associate Professor from the School of…