Robot jaws with human teeth to test how materials would wear in the mouths of people
University of Bristol researchers will fix copies of real human teeth on a set of robotic jaws this year to test how materials would wear in the mouths of individual people. ANI
Freezing conditions, food shortages overwhelmed Neanderthal population in Western Europe
A study of mammal remains from Saint-Cesaire, a Stone Age site in southwestern France, suggests that Neanderthals in Western Europe were ravaged by an increasingly hostile climate, rather than the invasion of modern humans. ANI
Depressed alcoholics are less likely to stay sober: Study
Its hard to stay sober when youre depressed, says a new study on problem drinkers. ANI
Hobbits may owe their peculiarities to genetic mutations
Scientists have discovered that a rare disease called microcephaly, characterized by small brain and body size but near normal intelligence, is caused by mutations in a gene coding for the protein pericentrin. ANI
More than one explosive evolutionary event occurred during the early evolution of animals
While it is believed that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during a rapid evolutionary event called the Cambrian Explosion, which occurred 542 million years ago, Virginia Tech palaeontologists have now identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. ANI
US presidential candidates stands on important scientific issues revealed
A special news report in the current issue of the journal Science has profiled the nine leading candidates for the United States Presidential elections of 2008, on their stand on important scientific issues. ANI
Warming of North Atlantic more due to natural variability, than global warming
A new report has claimed that the warming of the North Atlantic Oceans surface waters is more attributable to natural variability, than global warming. ANI
Plate tectonics may stop at least once again in Earths history
Carnegie Institution researchers say that Plate tectonics - the geological process responsible for creating the Earths continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins - may have stopped at least once in the planets history, and that it may happen again. ANI
Not all biofuels are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels
A new study commissioned by the Swiss government, has suggested that though biofuels reduce more greenhouse gas emissions as compared to fossil fuels, they have to be chosen keeping their harmful consequences in mind. ANI
Carbon dioxide emissions linked to increased human mortality
A new study by a Stanford scientist has outlined for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the environment and increases in human mortality. ANI
Why practice makes perfect revealed
Now the famous saying practice makes perfect has received some scientific backing, for neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the Max Planck Institute have identified the novel mechanism behind long-term learning. ANI
Parts of comet Wild 2 formed close to the sun
New analysis of the samples of the material picked up during NASAs Stardust mission, have indicated that parts of the comet Wild 2 formed in an area close to the sun. ANI
Astronomers find building blocks of life in red dust of disk surrounding star
Astronomers have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the planet-forming disk of red dust surrounding an eight-million-year-old star. ANI
Insects may have caused dinosaur extinction, suggests new study
A new study by scientists has suggested that dinosaurs might have been wiped off the face off the Earth by biting, disease-carrying insects over a long period of time. ANI