| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... | |
| Ultraviolet starlight key to making water in space ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered the key ingredient for making water in space- ultraviolet... |
| Market for Space-Based Internet Service Heats Up for ViaSat Originally published September 4, 2010 at midnight, updated August 16, 2010 at 8:29 p.m. It appears that the competition to provide satellite-based Internet service is heating up for ViaSat, the... |
| The Week in Space Supernova 1987A, the nearest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova of 1604, was originally tracked by NASA in 1987. In 2004, however, the Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Just a small snippet of hair may hold the key to predicting a person's risk of heart attack months in advance, according to a new Canadian... |
| Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads to Breakthrough in Cancer Research A multidisciplinary research group at UCLA has now teamed up to not only visualize a virus but to use the results to adapt the virus so that it can deliver medication instead of disease. In a paper... |
| Functional Motor Neuron Subtypes Generated from Embryonic Stem Cells Scientists have devised a method for coaxing mouse embryonic stem cells into forming a highly specific motor neuron subtype. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of... |
| Why Fish Oils Work Swimmingly Against Inflammation and Diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the molecular mechanism that makes omega-3 fatty acids so effective in reducing chronic inflammation... |
| New Animal Model for Hemophilia A Developed Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a new animal model for studying hemophilia A, with the goal of eventually treating people with the disorder. Hemophilia A, a hereditary... |
| Verbal Snippets Offer Insights on Well-Being Amid Separation, Divorce A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things -- not so much by what they say but how they say... |
| The Christian Science Monitor: Apple Ping network slammed with spam launched a platform called Ping, which is built into the latest iteration of iTunes. Ping is a sort of Facebook or MySpace for iTunes people: You can use the service to share your favorite songs and... |
| UCLA Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record With High-Speed Graphene Transistors Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:19 CDT Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and... |
| Verbal Snippets Offer Insights On Well-Being Amid Separation, Divorce Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:17 CDT New data from a UA study reveals how romantically separated people give spoken clues to how they 're coping.A new study from the University of... |
| Science's Policy Clout Diminished, But Oil Risk Looms Large Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:10 CDT More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a... |
| Serendipity Contributes To MRSA Susceptibility Findings Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:06 CDT Duke University Medical Center researchers have found two genes in mice which might help identify why some people are more susceptible than others to... |
| Amazon may be headed for another bad drought LIMA — Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American... |
| Google celebrates 25 years of the 'buckyball' The Buckminsterfullerine molecule was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice university, Texas, and named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, noted for... |
| MPs don't use Twitter effectively: Expert Do you follow any politicians on Twitter? Yes, they keep me informed No, they're a waste of time What's... |
| Stephen Foley: The new space race can give desert state economic lift-off US Outlook: It is approaching truth or consequences time for space tourism. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has some big milestones coming up in its effort to put paying passengers... |
| Julian Baggini: If science has not actually killed God, it has rendered Him unrecognisable In an age when even some bishops are near atheists, "man doesn't believe in God" is hardly headline news. Unless, it seems, that man is Professor Stephen Hawking. It seems that every subject has its... |
| The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor | Book review ). Now, Timothy Taylor, reader in archaeology at the University of Bradford, makes a claim for technology in general and, in particular, the invention of the baby sling – not, as you may have... |
| What I see in the mirror: Marcus Du Sautoy When I look in the mirror, I see a 10cm scar across my brow. It's new and I'm still getting used to it. Very conveniently, it runs the length of my left eyebrow but, to my eyes, it makes my face look... |
| West Island green space deal questioned The wooded area, shown in green, extends from Cap-Saint-Jacques nature park in Pierrefonds alongside the l'Anse-à-l'Orme Park to Angell Woods in... |
| New Zealand Earthquake Pictures: Walls, Roads Crumble Christchurch, New Zealand (see map) , early Saturday, local time. The New Zealand earthquake caused road damage and wall collapses in parts of the city of 400,000, and authorities said looters had... |
| Pictures: Crab Swarms Overtake Island—Mystery Solved Photograph from Photolibrary Children watch migrating Christmas Island crabs (file photo), which overtake Australia's Christmas Island at the beginning of the wet season, in October or November.The... |
| Manitoba man jailed for violent home invasion A Birch River, Man., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a violent home invasion that saw an innocent victim awakened in the night and beaten bloody with a fence picket. Michael Fox,... |
| German kids given porn pens by mistake To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which... |
| Test-tube Calf Embryos More Likely To Survive Texas Summers By: Robert Burns, Texas AgriLife News Think you're uncomfortable in the extreme Texas summer heat? Try being an ovulating 1,200-pound mother cow.Studies have shown that heat-stressed dairy cows... |
| NASA Imagery Reveals Weaker, Stretched Out Fiona Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 13:59 CDT NASA satellite data has noticed that Tropical Storm Fiona is getting "longer." That is, the storm is elongating in almost a north-south... |
| Laser-Based Missile Defense For Helicopters Being Developed Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 13:05 CDT Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni... |
| Scientists Discover The Mechanisms And Function Of A Type Of Mysterious Immune Cell In two closely related studies, two teams of Scripps Research Institute scientists have discovered the underlying mechanisms that activate a type of immune cell in the skin and other organs. The... |
| Sight-Saving Research Halted By Stem Cell Ruling The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), a professional organization of member scientists, opposes the Federal District Court injunction that froze federal funding for human... |
| GEN Reports On The Greening Of The Life Sciences Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 12:27 CDT Biopharmaceutical firms and other life science organizations are taking definitive steps toward creating greener working environments and developing... |
| You Say, 'Bio-Math,' I Say, 'Math-Bio': Crossing Science Education Divide The old joke is a joke no more. In a special September issue of the ASCB's online journal, CBE—Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE), the adage that biology is for science students who don't do math is... |
| Cosmic Log: Why the N.Z. quake is no Haiti 7.0 quake hit New Zealand , and early indications are that it caused relatively few serious casualties. Why the difference? The main reasons don't have to do so much with the earthquakes... |
| European Space Agency captures images of huge ice island This August 23, 2010 NASA Earth Observatory image taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-colour image on August 16, 2010 which... |
| Fire-Tornado Pictures: Why They Form, How to Fight Them Photograph by Nancy Greifenhagen A fire tornado swirls near a chimney on the roof of a burning house in an unidentified location (file photo). Fire tornadoes occur when intense heat and turbulent... |
| Why Hurricane Earl Weakened on Path to Cape Cod Earl was a very intense storm with winds exceeding 140 miles (225 kilometers) an hour as it moved northward along the U.S. East Coast.But as of Friday morning, Earl had diminished to a Category... |
| Children learn science lessons the fun way Abu Dhabi: An estimated 6,000 children have participated in an educational show in the nation's capital which aims to teach young learners about science and astronomy with the help of popular Sesame... |
| 1st Canadian Commander of Space Station Named A Canadian astronaut is set to become the first International Space Station commander from the Maple Leaf Nation. Veteran Canadian spaceflyer Chris Hadfield will take command of the space station... |
| Wanna scan the universe? Just open Windows BANGALORE: Global software major Microsoft has designed a computer programme that allows you to scan the universe and zoom into outer space through its Windows. “We have designed a virtual... |
| Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record With High-Speed Graphene Transistors Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have... |
| NASA satellite and International Space Station catch Earl weakening NASA satellites and the International Space Station are keeping eyes on Hurricane Earl as it heads for New England. Watches and Warnings are posted in the US... |
| Terror suspect back in court to set bail hearing OTTAWA - One of three men accused in an alleged homegrown terror plot will return to court next week to schedule a two to three-day bail hearing. Identifying himself as Dr. Khurram Sher - he's a... |
| Ontario pair sorry for stealing from cops SARNIA, Ont. - Two friends earned themselves a year's probation after a drunken birthday celebration ended with the pair breaking into a police station garage. Court heard Friday the two 22-year-old... |
