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The Herschel spacecraft is now undergoing a series of mechanical tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC. The tests are carried out to ensure that the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A computer may defeat champion poker players for the first time. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Astronomers have found big benefits from recruiting the public to lend their eyes and image-processing prowess The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Lowly earthworms keep house, sequester seeds The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Using game theory, scientists show single gene knockouts miss some gene functions The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
To find some of the smallest things in the universe, scientists have to think big The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Particles are the building blocks of matter, and matter makes up everything you can see. The Earth and moon are matter. So is your body, your computer’s screen, even the air you ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
India’s coastal villagers show emotional strength in tsunami's wake The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Backyard barbecues and beach bonfires are beloved summer activities across the country, but they also put people -- especially children -- at risk of painful, long-term injury. The rest of the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Southern highbush blueberries are emerging as an important fruit crop in Georgia, but experienced farmers say the fruit can be a challenge to grow. To determine if the blueberry shows ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
For 5,000 years the only way to shape metal has been by the "heat and beat" technique. Even with modern nanotechnology, metalworking involves carving metals with electron beams or etching ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station today announced that an SRS scientist and other researchers have officially named the fungus responsible for killing redbay and other trees in the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Eleven years ago, Dr. Mary Estes of Baylor College of Medicine and her colleagues discovered the first viral enterotoxin, rotavirus NSP4, a toxic protein that affects the intestines, causing diarrhea. The ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Running for more than 1,000 kilometers along picturesque coastline, California's Highway 1 is easy prey for many of the natural hazards plaguing the region, including landslides. The rest of the article ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The cultivation of genetically modified maize has caused a drastic reduction in organic cultivations of this grain and is making their coexistence practically impossible. This is the main conclusion reached ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
July's edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman, from the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University, and ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Twenty-one new genetic risk factors associated with Crohn's disease have been discovered, more than doubling the amount of genetic information about the disease. An international consortium of Crohn's disease researchers ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Susan Wolf, J.D., professor and chair of the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences, led a multidisciplinary team of national ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
We're number 16 ... in world happiness. Feel the joy. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
People in most countries around the world are happier these days, according to newly released data from the World Values Survey based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Berkeley Lab researchers have invented a technique in which DNA assays -- the key to personalized medicine -- canbe read and evaluated with no need of elaborate chemical labeling or ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Britain's economic progress at risk because the enterprises on which it depends are not doing enough to stop cyber crime and human error from damaging or even hijacking the vital ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A class of powerful, invisible waves hidden beneath the surface of the ocean can shape the underwater edges of continents and contribute to ocean mixing and climate, researchers from the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The "La Mente Bilingüe" research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the faculty of arts at the University of the Basque Country analyses bilingual processing of language. The aim ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T-cells to one day treat AIDS in humans. The ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The American Chemical Society's News Service Weekly PressPac contains reports from 36 major peer-reviewed journals on chemistry, health, medicine, energy, environment, food, nanotechnology and other hot topics. The rest of the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a major pathogen has led to more complications and longer hospital stays for children with acute bone infections, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
By counteracting the underlying molecular mechanism for high blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, researchers found not only how that ailment and others arise in mammals, but also how ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Nearly one in 10 obstetricians in a new study has considered giving up obstetric practice because of the emotional toll of stillbirths and infant deaths. Three-quarters of the 804 obstetricians ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new assistive technology allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues. The Tongue Drive system, ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
People who have a birthweight over 10 pounds are twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis when they are adults compared to individuals born with an average birthweight, according to ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Using sucrose to reduce pain in newborns undergoing painful procedures should be limited to babies having blood taken for the newborn screening test but not for intramuscular injections. The rest of ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
To survive tough times, cells sometimes resort to a form of self-cannibalism called autophagy. But as Hashimoto et al. reveal, autophagy can have a down side, destroying the pancreas by ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
To meet increasing consumer demands for healthy, high-quality fruit, commercial growers in the United States are ramping up production of blueberries. Domestic production of this tiny antioxidant-packed "super food" has ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a novel function for an enzyme that plays a role in the tissue injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome, also ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In recent years, stem cell researchers have become very adept at manipulating the fate of adult stem cells cultured in the lab. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. Deformed wing ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists in Sydney have identified a process, a synergistic encounter between two molecules, that may account for the extreme allergic reactions some people experience. By silencing at least one of ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The cognitive strategies humans use to regulate emotions can determine both neurological and physiological responses to potential rewards, a team of New York University and Rutgers University neuroscientists has discovered. ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In a paper published online June 29 in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Rates of sexually transmitted infections have doubled among the over-45s in less than a decade, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The rest of the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
An international consortium of Crohn's disease researchers has combined data from three independent studies to identify 21 new genetic variants associated with the inflammatory bowel disorder, bringing the total number ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Heavy birthweight female babies are twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis in adulthood as their average birthweight peers, suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of the ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New research has trebled the number of genetic regions known to be implicated in Crohn's disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, to over thirty. The research, published today in ... Read more..Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
UK and US guidelines on how much physical activity children need to boost their health and stave off obesity need to be revised, conclude researchers in a study published ahead ... Read more..