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New research suggests birth weight plays a role in autism spectrum disorder

Although the genetic basis of autism is now well established, a growing body of research also suggests that environmental factors may play a role in this serious developmental disorder affecting nearly one in 100 children. ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study uncovers how DNA unfolds for transcription

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human genome contains some 3 billion base pairs that are tightly compacted into the nucleus of each cell. If a DNA strand were the thickness of a human hair, the entire human genome would ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Why certain flavor combinations melt in your mouth

Do all cuisines thrive on kindred flavors? New research suggests that some cuisines may be based on combinations of dissimilar ingredients, but critics say the work is not filtering out flavors that may be ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines

North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study demonstrates a connection between a common chemical and Parkinson's disease

A University of Kentucky faculty member is a contributing author on a new study demonstrating a connection between a common solvent chemical and Parkinson's disease. Dr. Franca Cambi of the UK Kentucky Neuroscience Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Good relationship with teacher can protect first graders from aggression

Children who have a good relationship with their teacher may be protected from expressing aggression and being the target of aggression at school. That's the key finding in a new study of Canadian first graders that appears ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genes ex silico: Computer-designed virus yields phenotype expression benefits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy is medicine’s rising star with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors – nonpathogenic parvoviruses – among the most promising supporting actors, due largely to their ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

A cosmic exclamation point

(PhysOrg.com) -- VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Twin study shows lifestyle, diet can significantly influence course of macular degeneration

Eating a diet high in vitamin D, as well as the nutrients betaine and methionine, might help reduce the risk of macular degeneration, according to new research conducted by Tufts Medical Center scientists. Their study of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key ingredient: Change in material boosts prospects of ultrafast single-photon detector

By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanism for stress-induced epigenetic inheritance uncovered in new study

Researchers at RIKEN have uncovered a mechanism by which the effects of stress in the fly species Drosophila are inherited epigenetically over many generations through changes to the structure of chromatin, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Superconductivity's third side unmasked

The debate over the mechanism that causes superconductivity in a class of materials called the pnictides has been settled by a research team from Japan and China. Superconductivity was discovered in the pnictides ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Iron-pnictide electron orbital pairing promises higher-temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The quest to develop a so-called room-temperature superconductor – one that exhibits lossless electronic transmission – has long fueled both popular and scientific imagination. At ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Testing technicolor physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ramps up the rate and impact of its collisions, physicists hope to witness the emergence of the Higgs boson, an anticipated, but as-yet-unseen, fundamental ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast