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| Latest Stories Dead neuron clean-up crew in peripheral nervous system found - Text | HTML | Flash Biochemists have identified members of the "clean-up crew" -- including a protein named Jedi-1 -- responsible for getting rid of the corpses of dead sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system following apoptosis.... Sequencing wasp genome sheds new light on sexual parasite - Text | HTML | Flash Sequencing of the wasp genome is shedding new light on how nature's most successful sexual parasite works.... Studying how black holes grow - Text | HTML | Flash Kelly Holley-Bockelman has received a $1.1 million grant to study how supermassive black holes grow.... Research confirms graphene's exotic electrical properties - Text | HTML | Flash The hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.... Tiny leaf beetles reveal environment's role in speciation - Text | HTML | Flash Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species..... |
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