‘Slope winds’ could have built Mars mound

PRINCETON / CALTECH (US) — New analysis suggests that a roughly 3.5-mile-high mound on Mars came from the planet’s dusty atmosphere, not a massive lake, report researchers. Continue…

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Science & Technology - Apr 11, 2013 13:00 - 2 Comments

How your brain chunks ‘moments’ into ‘events’

PRINCETON (US) — Scientists say they have a new explanation for how the brain breaks experiences into “events,” or the related groups that help us mentally organize the day’s many situations. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 16, 2013 7:45 - 3 Comments

Body language reveals how we really feel

PRINCETON (US) — To figure out how someone is really feeling, don’t just read their lips, watch their body language. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 15, 2012 14:53 - 2 Comments

Big banks loom over finance ‘ecosystem’

PRINCETON (US) — Looking at large national and international banks in terms of ecosystem stability and contagion models reveals that their influence and potential power for destruction far exceeds their actual size. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Nov 6, 2012 10:40 - 1 Comment

‘Bottleneck’ may limit herpes outbreak

PRINCETON (US) — Just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin cell in the first stage of an outbreak, resulting in a bottleneck that may make the infection vulnerable to medical treatment. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 26, 2012 13:34 - 0 Comments

Evolution is actually pretty predictable

PRINCETON (US) — “Is evolution predictable? To a surprising extent the answer is ‘yes’,” says Princeton professor Peter Andolfatto. (more…)

Did life crash land on Earth from space?

PRINCETON / U. ARIZONA (US) — Early life forms or the ingredients for life may have traveled to Earth on chunks of rock, scientists say. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 23, 2012 16:15 - 0 Comments

Video game for fish shows how prey survive

PRINCETON (US) — A video game designed for predatory fish may answer some lingering questions about how group formation and movement evolve in animals. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 20, 2012 9:50 - 1 Comment

‘Switchboard’ in brain sorts input jumble

PRINCETON (US) — A mysterious region deep in the human brain may sort through stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jun 26, 2012 14:04 - 0 Comments

How to make medical tests 3 million times better

PRINCETON (US) — New nanotechnology could make a common medical test 3 million times more sensitive, say researchers. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jun 20, 2012 10:39 - 0 Comments

Did human speech start with monkey lip smack?

PRINCETON (US) — The facial mechanics of human speech may have evolved from a friendly primate gesture. (more…)

Health & Medicine - May 30, 2012 14:56 - 0 Comments

To hijack neuron, virus halts cell ‘power plant’

PRINCETON (US) — Viruses that attack the nervous system may thrive by disrupting cell function in order to hijack a neuron’s internal transportation network and spread to other cells. (more…)

Earth & Environment - May 24, 2012 12:16 - 0 Comments

Earth owes its oxygen to a cooler mantle

PRINCETON (US) — New research links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere to a sudden change in the inner workings of our planet. (more…)

Science & Technology - Apr 26, 2012 12:33 - 5 Comments

Is the search for ET pie-in-the-sky fantasy?

PRINCETON (US) — The expectation that life has or will develop on other planets as on Earth may be based more on optimism than scientific evidence, a new study suggests. (more…)

Science & Technology - Mar 23, 2012 9:47 - 1 Comment

Cosmic effect pinpoints velocity in space

PRINCETON (US) — A cosmic effect could help measure the velocity of objects in the distant universe, and clarify the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 28, 2012 17:54 - 1 Comment

Droplet size is key to liquids’ actions

PRINCETON (US) — New understanding of how liquid spreads along flexible fibers could have applications from hairspray to bird rescue after oil spills. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Feb 27, 2012 13:30 - 0 Comments

Universal vaccine could put brakes on flu

PRINCETON (US) — A universal vaccine could for the first time effectively prevent wide-scale spread of influenza by shutting down the virus’ ability to spread and mutate. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jan 27, 2012 13:38 - 0 Comments

Years after Katrina, minds slow to recover

PRINCETON (US) — Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Dec 13, 2011 12:37 - 0 Comments

Night lights pinpoint disease outbreaks

PRINCETON (US) — Researchers are using satellite images of nighttime lights to keep tabs on disease hotspots in developing nations. (more…)

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