Fukushima seafood is safe to eat
STONY BROOK (US) — Eating bluefin tuna and other marine animals contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima accident in Japan poses little risk to humans, experts say. Continue…
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Placental mammals evolved from small bug eater
STONY BROOK (US) — Researchers have reconstructed the common ancestor of placental mammals and describe it as a small insect-eating animal. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 19, 2012 15:02 - 0 Comments
For obese, are vibrations as good as exercise?
STONY BROOK (US) — Low-intensity vibrations may be as beneficial as exercise for people who are obese, new research suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 14, 2012 17:25 - 0 Comments
For memory, brain relies on newbie neurons
STONY BROOK (US) / U. TORONTO (CAN) — Newly generated neurons are crucial for normal learning and memory, even in the aging adult brain, new research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 10, 2012 17:08 - 1 Comment
Globally, little forage fish net big profits
STONY BROOK (US) — While helping to maintain the health of marine ecosystems, small forage fish contribute at least $16.9 billion annually to the worldwide fishing industry, a new study shows. (more…)
Top Stories - Aug 29, 2012 11:31 - 0 Comments
Penguins grow ‘frigid’ as Antarctic warms up
STONY BROOK (US) — As temperatures rise on the Antarctic Peninsula, the number of breeding chinstrap penguins is down by more than half, new research shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 30, 2012 10:39 - 0 Comments
Lung infection was mummy maiden’s curse
STONY BROOK (US) — A 15-year-old Inca girl who lived 500 years ago had a lung infection at the time of her death, according to a new method of analyzing protein samples. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 19, 2012 11:57 - 1 Comment
Compact fluorescent bulbs may harm skin
STONY BROOK (US) — Energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs that benefit the environment may be harmful to human skin, new research shows. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 30, 2012 10:40 - 3 Comments
Obesity is painful, study of 1 million finds
STONY BROOK (US) — A clear association between obesity and pain—with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest people—was found in a study of more than one million Americans. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 20, 2012 13:11 - 2 Comments
We text and walk and veer off course
STONY BROOK (US) — Talking or texting on a phone while walking can make it difficult to stay on course and may interfere with memory recall, research shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 13, 2012 14:28 - 0 Comments
Minnows may inherit ideal temperatures
STONY BROOK (US) — Fish can be preconditioned to grow fastest in the same water temperature their parents experienced, say researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 10, 2011 11:41 - 2 Comments
Super carbon denser than diamonds
STONY BROOK U. (US) — Three newly discovered structures of carbon may be three percent denser, more brilliant, and better able to handle pressure than diamonds. (more…)
Top Stories - May 12, 2011 11:30 - 2 Comments
400,000 women raped in 1 year
STONY BROOK U. (US) — In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 400,000 women ages 15 to 49 were raped in a 12-month period. That is 1,152 every day, 48 every hour, and four every five minutes. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 4, 2011 13:24 - 1 Comment
Why Amazon is hopping with treefrogs
STONY BROOK U. (US) — The intermingling of different treefrogs that lasted for more than 60 million years was instrumental in the biodiversity of trees, birds, and insects in the Amazon Basin. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 2, 2011 8:31 - 0 Comments
‘Zip codes’ keep track of sharks
STONY BROOK (US) — A taste in the Asian community for shark fin soup is claiming tens of millions of animals each year. Now scientists are using shark DNA to determine origins of fins turning up in markets around the world. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 18, 2011 10:06 - 0 Comments
Gene coupled to male infertility
STONY BROOK U. (US) — A new role for mitochondria may hold clues to some causes of male infertility and in turn could have potential in the future for use in a male contraceptive. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 18, 2011 11:59 - 0 Comments
Like us, early humans ran the gamut
STONY BROOK (US) — Although they did not act “modern,” new evidence suggests humans living in East Africa 200,000 years ago were as complex in their behavior as humans living today. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 7, 2011 15:04 - 1 Comment
Cocaine ravaging rainforest diversity
STONY BROOK (US) — Cultivating coca bushes—the source of cocaine—is accelerating the destruction of Colombian rainforests and further threatening the region’s plant and animal diversity. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 2, 2010 14:59 - 0 Comments
Fire and ice found in Antarctic cores
STONY BROOK (US) — Biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 650 years appears to be the cause of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. (more…)
