Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.
Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects they’d explored and learn to navigate mazes better than regular mice, suggesting that [...]

Le Soleil sort lentement d’une longue léthargie comme il n’en avait pas connu depuis 1913. Ce repos inexpliqué est-il la cause d’un climat plus froid et perturbé ? Les scientifiques restent partagés.
Alors que l’Europe grelotte, astronomes, climatologues et autres géophysiciens calculent et recalculent sans cesse. Pendant deux ans, le Soleil a affiché un calme inquiétant. [...]

Jupiter took a bullet for us last weekend. An object, probably a comet that nobody saw coming, plowed into the giant planet’s colorful cloud tops sometime Sunday, splashing up debris and leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean. This was the second time in 15 years that this had happened. The whole [...]

Un premier cas de virus A (H1N1) de la grippe a été identifié au Luxembourg chez un habitant du nord du pays, a annoncé mardi le ministère de la santé.
“Il s’agit d’une personne (…) qui a séjourné récemment aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique (New York) et qui s’est présentée l’après-midi du lundi 1er juin auprès d’un médecin [...]

Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.
While millions of people [...]