Pigeons and humans use similar visual cues to identify objects, a finding that could have promising implications in the development of novel technologies, according to new research conducted by a University of New Hampshire ...
Feb 20, 2007
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Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been able to construct ...
Astronomy
Feb 20, 2007
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A promising approach to gene therapy involves short DNA fragments (interfering RNA) that bind to specific genes and block their "translation" into the corresponding, disease-related protein. A stumbling block has been the ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 20, 2007
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Silver-bearing ore found at the settlement founded by Christopher Columbus's second expedition was not mined in the Americas, new research reveals. The ore that researchers excavated from the settlement, La Isabela, came ...
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2007
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Ancient people living in Panama were processing and eating domesticated species of plants like maize, manioc, and arrowroot at least as far back as 7,800 years ago – much earlier than previously thought – according to ...
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2007
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Adobe Systems announced that its Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 software is now out of beta and available for customers at a special introductory price of US $199. New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the professional photographer's ...
Software
Feb 20, 2007
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North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels, according to scientists from the University of Exeter. An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius could completely eliminate ...
Feb 20, 2007
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How does the heart attain its characteristic shape? Shape may be sculpted by cell movement, cell division, or changes in cell size and shape, all of which can be influenced by the local environment. The heart appears as ...
Feb 20, 2007
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