Disinfectants may promote growth of superbugs

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

Using disinfectants could cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics as well as the disinfectant itself, according to research published in the January issue of Microbiology. The findings could have important implic ...

Neuroscientists uncover possible basis of short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 27, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (17) | 0

Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience and physiology/biophysics, and Phillip Larimer, PhD, a MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...

Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 27, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (11) | 2

The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...

Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Space & Earth / Environment

Dec 27, 2009 | 2.1 / 5 (14) | 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is causing habitats to move across the landscape. Can the creatures living there keep up? If they can't, some species may die out, researchers say.