News
- Physics
Take the time to break quantum encryption
A time-travel scenario permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity offers a bit of possibility for breaking quantum encryption.
- Health & Medicine
Gender matters in heart transplants
Heart transplant recipients who get a gender-matched organ fare better than those receiving mismatched organs.
By Nathan Seppa - Health & Medicine
Treating viral heart infections
Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients.
By Nathan Seppa -
- Health & Medicine
Mini heart attack best treated like the big one
Patients admitted to hospitals with mild symptoms of a heart attack may benefit from getting a heart catheterization performed promptly.
By Nathan Seppa - Chemistry
Blueprint to repel oil and water
The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off.
By Sid Perkins - Chemistry
Household cleaner makes blood removal simple!
Common household “oxy” cleaners remove blood almost too well.
- Life
Morse Toad: When amphibians tap their toes
Toe wiggling creates motions, vibrations that get potential prey moving.
By Susan Milius - Earth
Stalagmite is scribe for monsoons, society
Cave formation has recorded monsoon strength in China since the third century.
By Sid Perkins - Humans
Food allergy advice may be peanuts
Early exposure to peanuts in a baby’s diet seems to lessen the risk of developing a peanut allergy later.
By Nathan Seppa - Psychology
A genetic pathway to language disorders
Researchers suspect a newly uncovered regulatory link between two genes contributes to language impairments in a range of developmental disorders.
By Bruce Bower - Chemistry
First complete cancer genome sequenced
With the entire genome sequence of a tumor now in hand, scientists may be able to start answering basic questions about cancer.