All Stories by Jenny Lauren Lee
- Health & Medicine
Brain doesn’t sort by visual cues alone
Blind and sighted people’s brains sort the living from the nonliving in the same way, suggesting this ability may be hard-wired.
- Space
Half the boom better than no boom at all
The Large Hadron Collider will begin colliding protons at half of the designed energy this November, with plans to repair the faulty sections of the accelerator at the end of 2010.
- Health & Medicine
Adult mouse gut makes new neurons
Scientists find newborn nerve cells in the intestines of adult mice, suggesting a new line of research for treating intestinal disorders.
- Physics
Putting the pressure on light
Changing pressure helps scientists gauge the speed of light in composite materials.
- Life
Allergy meds slim down obese mice
Animal study shows over-the-counter medications lower weight and treat type 2 diabetes. The study is one of four to link type 2 diabetes with the immune system.
- Earth
Salty water power
A study reports a new, cheaper way to harvest energy from salt water and fresh water.
- Earth
Arctic images declassified
High-res Arctic sea images should be declassified, says National Research Council.
- Chemistry
A new low for nano ice
A new study shows that nanoparticles of frozen water melt at drastically lower temperatures than water in bulk.
- Physics
Mass mismatch makes mystery for proton’s strange cousin
An exotic cousin of the proton is caught in action again. But its measured mass doesn’t match previous results.
- Paleontology
Flexible molars made chewing champions out of duck-billed dinosaurs
Tiny scratches in the fossilized teeth of Edmontosaurus suggest what these large herbivores ate and how they ate it.
- Physics
Glass beads cluster as they flow
High-speed camera catches liquidlike behavior in a stream of granular material.
- Physics
Martian lightning
The Red Planet’s dust devils charge up particles, providing first direct evidence of this type of electrical discharge on Mars.
