News
- Humans
Statistical tests suggestive of fraud in Iran’s election
One mathematician’s closer look at voter ballot data reveals that results run afoul of Benford’s Law and show other suspicious anomalies.
- Animals
Turtles make sense after all
The odd bodies of turtles add a wrinkle to standard land-dwelling vertebrates.
- Space
Pairing off in the early universe
New simulations reveal that some of the first stars in the universe formed in pairs.
- Health & Medicine
Caloric restriction extends life in monkeys, study finds
New study finds calorie restriction delays age-related diseases in monkeys. Another study reports that an immune-suppressing drug helps elderly mice live longer.
- Anthropology
Maize may have fueled ancient Andean civilization
A chemical analysis of skeletons from Peru’s Andes Mountains suggests that cultivation of key crop made building a prehistoric civilization possible.
- Physics
Graphene gains nearly perfect liquid status
Scientists have found that electrons in a layer of carbon atoms can become a strongly interacting swirling soup.
- Physics
Capping the length of extra dimensions
The existence of a small, elderly black hole places a new upper limit on the length of any extra dimension, a new study suggests.
- Life
Hornets suffocate in bee ball
Researchers find a spike in carbon dioxide, along with an increase in heat, makes honeybees' enemies vulnerable.
- Life
Climate change shrinks sheep
Milder winters help small, weak lambs survive but more competition for food slows growth.
- Earth
New cyclone predictor
Researchers link occasional sea-surface warming in central Pacific with more, stronger hurricanes in North Atlantic.
- Life
New drug hits leukemia early
An experimental drug may stop a deadly leukemia in its early stages, a study of mice shows.
- Chemistry
Concerns over bisphenol A continue to grow
Recent research finds that the hormone mimic may be more prevalent and more harmful than previously thought, highlighting why BPA is a growing worry for policy makers.
