A popular view among evolutionary biologists that fundamental genes do not acquire new functions was challenged this week by a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Indiana University Bloomington biologist Armin Moczek and research associate Debra Rose report that two ancient genes were "co-opted" to help build a new trait in beetles -- the fancy antlers that give horned beetles their name.
Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
David P. Fidler of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law says the developing debate about the responses to Influenza A (H1N1) is important but that people should be wary of simplistic hype about the "panic" public health responses to the outbreak have ostensibly caused.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Indiana University faculty members Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger $267,000 to preserve and annotate oral histories they collected from Yiddish-speaking residents of Eastern Europe and make the material available to scholars, educators and the public.
In a new study, cognitive scientists have shown that when aware of both a negative and positive stereotype related to performance, women will identify more closely with the positive stereotype, avoiding the harmful impact the negative stereotype unwittingly can have on their performance.
Indiana University experts in statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemics, health law and public health discuss statistical models for U.S. cases, challenges to addressing the spread of the swine flu and advice for staying healthy.
Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov lived the life of a typical Russian merchant of the late 1700s and early 1800s, but with a major difference -- he wrote it all down. Indiana University professor David L. Ransel has used Tolchënov's diary to produce a revealing book about a segment of Russian society that had been largely ignored.
Book by Indiana University historian examines criminal justice in China since late imperial period; provides new details about extent of labor camps in 1950s and '60s
In the April tip sheet, Indiana University experts in martial arts, ergonomics and sexual health discuss office qigong and a public opinion survey that gauged the support of rural Hoosiers for high school classroom instruction involving the correct use of condoms.
Senior Chinese and U.S. government health, education and physical activity authorities and Indiana University faculty are meeting soon to craft a blueprint for implementing Sunny Sports China, a directive by Chinese President Hu Jintao to provide daily physical activity for China's 270 million school children. IU officials say the work could benefit Hoosier youth and other U.S. students, as well.
Indiana University faculty experts -- one of them a former EPA deputy administrator -- comment on the EPA's decision Friday to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
Indiana University announced that Huang Ping, consul general for the People's Republic of China in Chicago, will visit Indianapolis today (April 15) to participate in an IU-organized conference on U.S.-China business cooperation.
Stephanie C. Kane, associate professor in Indiana University's Department of Criminal Justice and an expert on port security, discusses piracy, poverty and global trade in the wake of Sunday's dramatic rescue of an American ship captain held hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way Galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the Big Bang, some 13 billion years ago.
William L. Yarber, senior director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University, said a new federally funded media campaign designed to raise public awareness about HIV/AIDS is necessary and welcomed. He said the public's concern about HIV/AIDS has been lessening, particularly in rural areas, where denial is pervasive.
The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, stunned the world. In response, faculty members at Indiana University Bloomington have organized a symposium to address the problem of terrorism from the perspective of three countries hit hard by violence: India, Israel and Turkey.
Candy Gunther Brown, an associate professor in the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded a $150,000 grant to pursue research on divine healing practices and their involvement in globalization.
The organizers of Indiana University's annual Little 500 bicycle races say they are seeing rising interest in this year's events -- both on and off the track -- due in part to the current economic downturn. While both the men's and women's Little 500 races on April 24-25 are expected to again be competitive, IU Student Foundation leaders say the event's true mission -- to raise money for student scholarships -- has become particularly relevant.
Indiana University and several of its research centers and schools in business, law and international studies are coming together to host an ambitious conference on U.S.-China business cooperation that is designed to assist entrepreneurs and promote the prosperity of both countries. More than 50 speakers from China and the United States are participating in the free conference, "U.S.-China Business Cooperation in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges for Entrepreneurs."
An Indiana University School of Optometry faculty member's company is nearing completion of a diagnostic camera that could aid in saving the vision of millions of people worldwide.
Indiana University researchers discuss studies involving hatha yoga practice and fear of falling in older adults, gender differences -- or absence of -- in condom problems related to pleasure, and smokeless tobacco use by youth.
James S. Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young LLP, today (March 3) will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and present a $500,000 gift for a new program that will help the school be more inclusive and attract a more diverse student population.
Indiana University experts in epidemiology, sport medicine and travel discuss the peanut recall, tips for aging well, which include regular exercise, and tips for frugal travel planning.
Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Feb. 13) publicly announced a $15 million gift, which will ignite an ambitious $60 million capital campaign to transform its facilities for undergraduate students. The gift is from a graduate of the Kelley School who wishes to remain anonymous.
Almost 30 Indiana University faculty members, including experts in health care, education, the environment, technology, the arts and other fields, offer policy advice to the new U.S. president.
The book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate, but two Indiana University researchers have confirmed one thing: When men and women talk through technology, it's the women who are more expressive.
Scientists have recovered fossils from a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and more cuddly. Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1,140 kilograms (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 meters (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip -- and that's a conservative estimate.
When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field, men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men's interest during an Indiana University study involving speed dating -- and equally bad at judging women's interest. The study, published in "Psychological Science," focused on the ability of observers to judge romantic interest between others because of evolutionary benefits to finding one's own mate, such as knowing who might be available.
Indiana University experts in mental health, sports medicine and psychology discuss the impact of physical activity on mood for people with serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or major depression, the emotional stages often experienced during athletic injury recovery, and findings concerning prenatal exposure to nicotine and later behavioral problems.
Indiana University Kelley School of Business faculty members are available to comment on Tuesday's reduction of the benchmark federal funds rate to historic low levels.
While the Kinsey Scale has become a fixture in sexuality textbooks and popular culture, the rating system and Alfred Kinsey's findings regarding male bisexuality, and cultural influences on male sexuality in general, have largely been overlooked by today's sex researchers. IU researchers collaborate with Paul Gebhard, an original member of Kinsey's research team, to discuss future bisexuality research.
Indiana University sexual health and fitness experts discuss a Kinsey Institute study about condom use and female pleasure, benefits of circuit training and fitness equipment gift ideas.
Today (Nov. 26), terrorists conducted coordinated attacks in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, targeting at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital. Two experts at Indiana University are available now to offer perspective.
Indiana University health and wellness experts offer tips for keeping upbeat over the holidays despite added stress, revamping unhealthy eating traditions and habits, active date gifts, avoiding holiday-related injuries and managing consumerism and kids' expectations during tough economic times.
Bacterial decay was once viewed as fossilization's mortal enemy, but new research suggests bacterial biofilms may have actually helped preserve the fossil record's most vulnerable stuff -- animal embryos and soft tissues.
A new study involving health care systems in 21 countries -- and the prospects for change in response to such common pressures as rising costs and aging populations -- casts doubt on the possibility of major overhauls of any of these systems because of the history and traditions that created them.
A new study found that adolescents were at the greatest risk of smoking when their parents began smoking at an early age and the parents' smoking quickly reached high levels and persisted over time.
College students and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals are learning together this semester in a course on conservation and global climate change at Indiana University Bloomington. And, through the use of innovative technology, they are doing so in a way that doesn't contribute to climate change.
A new research center has been established at Indiana University Bloomington to explore issues related to energy and the environment, including the carbon cycle and its role in climate, the environmental consequences of energy production and use, and the potential for cleaner fossil fuels and renewable energy.
Indiana University professors of law and sociology discuss issues involved with the same-sex marriage debate in the United States.
USAID has awarded Indiana University $200,000 to turn the Captain Kidd shipwreck and three other underwater preserves in the Dominican Republic into no-take, no-anchor "Living Museums," where cultural discoveries will protect precious corals and other threatened biology. The news follows the discovery of wood at the site, confirming that it's Kidd's ship.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, in which a group called the Summum church wants to be able to erect a religious monument in a Utah city park. Daniel O. Conkle, professor at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington, says the Court's decision could turn on whether it sees the monument as private or government speech.
Indiana University students and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals are learning together this semester in an IU course on conservation and global climate change -- without contributing to further climate change. The class meets on the IU campus, and Fish and Wildlife Service personnel from eight states participate from their homes or offices, linked to the classroom by phone and computer.
Scientists have long known that women's preferences for masculine men change throughout their menstrual cycles. A study from the Kinsey Institute is the first to demonstrate differences in brain activity as women considered masculinized and feminized male faces and whether the person was a potential sexual partner.
A $15 million gift from an alumnus of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will provide for a new, life-changing undergraduate scholarship program for financially challenged students from underrepresented areas of society.
An Indiana University study found that young, female breast cancer survivors often suffer from sexual and intimate relationship issues and are interested in using sexual enhancement products to treat these problems.
As 2008 draws to an end, economists at Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business hope that the nation and Indiana can escape 2009 with only a moderate recession -- similar in severity to those in 1990 and in 2001.
Dozens of researchers from Indiana University's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, School of Medicine, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, School of Nursing and other schools and departments are participating in the American Public Health Association's annual meeting on Oct. 25-29 in San Diego. Below is a sampling of the research. The information is embargoed until the day of the research presentation.
IU's Jacobs School of Music is providing free violin classes to all three first grade classes at a local (Bloomington) low income school. Researchers will study the impact of violin on student success and parental involvement.
A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recently recovered and reanalyzed using modern technology. The results are reported in this week's Science.
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