Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years. Police now have the ability to analyse the traces of cannabis, cocaine and other drugs, or explosives, in a fingerprint itself. The new technique reveals, in extraordinary detail, the chemical compounds that […]

When spring is in the air and there is more natural light, people (and animals) go out more, are more happy and more active. But the opposite also applies. A deprivation of light causes a change in mood, as can be witnessed when the long dark winter nights arrive. People get more irritated or depressed, […]

Some neurons, which are sensitive for the amount of glucose in blood, appears to play an important roll in the cause of Diabetes mellitus type 2 (adult-onset diabetes). These neurons become active when more glucose appears in the blood, which causes an increase in sugar-uptake. If these neurons are made insensitive, artificially, for glucose, diabetes […]

By changing the DNA on two places, scientists have developed a super-muscled mouse, with four times the amount of muscle as usual. The protein myostatine was already known to slow down the muscle grow. Animals and humans without this protein develop extra big muscle cords as well as a lot of muscle cords. It is […]

The chili pepper is faking our nerves while eating: normal temperature appears incredibly hot. And this is quite useful, as this protects us from inflammations, but also protects the pepper from being eaten. On the 23rd of October 1997, David Julius and colleges wrote in Nature an article about their discovery, which got them the […]