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XMM-Newton has discovered an exploding star in the Milky Way. Usually that would be important in itself, but this time there is a special twist. Calculations show that the ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
Starting this week, spacecraft controllers have been executing a series of manoeuvres to gradually bring Venus Express closer to its host planet. In its modified orbit, the spacecraft will ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA’s Mars Express for several close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The swim center for the Olympics, which looks like it formed out of froth, was designed using the mathematics of foam. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
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edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 416 p., . The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
by Robert Paarlberg, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 235 p., .95. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima (eds.), Delacorte Press, 2008, 312 p., . The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Jill Price, Simon & Schuster, 2008, 263 p., . The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Naomi E. Balaban and James E. Bobick, Visible Ink Press, 2008, 376 p., .95. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Richard Preston, Random House, 2008, 240 p., . The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Leonard Mlodinow, Pantheon Books, 2008, 272 p., .95. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
An online atlas of the mouse spinal cord points researchers toward places where genes are active The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
From the August 2, 2008 issue of Science News The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Signals from space to Earth could establish the reality of Einstein's worst fear The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Raman spectroscopy may offer doctors, dentists and forensic scientists a better tool for molecular detection The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Advances in gene therapy could tempt some athletes to enhance their genetic makeup, leading some researchers to work on detection methods just in case The rest of the article can be ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The study of dark-skinned mice has led to a surprising finding about a common protein involved in tumor suppression, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The results ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New research into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease reports improvement in language abilities using a novel immune-based approach. A video accompanying the research, published today in the open access journal ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The selective gene-silencing technique called RNA interference holds promise for medicine if it can be adapted to work in humans. Certain antibiotic compounds called fluoroquinolones enhance the effectiveness of RNA ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A study by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with the Instituto de Biología Molecular of CSIC, reveal a mechanism that controls the movement ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Mouse mothers-to-be have a remarkable way to protect their unborn pups. Because the smell of a strange male's urine can cause miscarriage and reactivate the ovulatory cycle, pregnant mice prevent ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Some 700 leading world scientists from 28 nations convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Japanese researchers at the Universities of Osaka and Kyoto have observed the action of a nanorotor on the molecular scale. As Akira Harada and his team report in the journal ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. The rest of the article can be read ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their "normal ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder often have structural brain damage. Recent findings show that several specific white matter regions, as well as deep gray matter areas, of the brain ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The Heads of the International Space Station Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation. The rest ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Standards in stem cell research help both scientists and regulators to manage uncertainty and the unknown, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Efforts to ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
iTunes has the ability to manage and organize PDF files just as easy as music files, allowing radiologists to better organize their personal files of articles and images, according to ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new study from Duke University Medical Center finds that patients treated solely with medications after suffering from chest pain, heart attack or coronary artery disease are more likely to ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Why do cancer patients develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, sometimes abruptly, after a period in which the drugs seem to be working well to reduce tumors or hold them in ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
When it comes to stenting -- using metal tubes to prop open blocked arteries -- physicians are continuing to choose to gain entry to the circulatory system through an opening ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A report from the Association of Academic Health Centers, "Out of Order, Out of Time: The State of the Nation's Health Workforce," warns that the nation is facing a health ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Talking fish are no strangers to Americans. From the comedic portrayal of "Mr. Limpet" by Don Knotts, to the children's Disney favorite, "Nemo," fish can talk, laugh and tell jokes ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
As part of the agency's user-driven approach to preparing new Earth Explorer missions to advance our understanding of the Earth system, six candidate missions will be presented to the science ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
For the first time, researchers have grown in mice functioning human blood vessels from cells obtained from adult blood and bone marrow.This research could eventually lead to treatments for heart ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
UCLA researchers have confirmed that in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, levels of specific proteins in the blood and spinal fluid can be used to track the progression of AD, ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment -- in this case, music -- can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices and consumer time ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a Johns Hopkins study to be published ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous program. Recent findings confirm that coffee and cigarette use among AA members is greater than among the general US ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Prenatal alcohol exposure may be particularly destructive for neurotrophins, a family of peptides that influence the growth, development and functional plasticity of the fetal brain. A new rodent study ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
New findings from Bristol scientists could lead to future treatments to prevent lower limb amputations in diabetes -- which currently affect 100 people a week in the UK. The rest of ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Borneo (Kalimantan) is the third largest island in the world. Borneo's rain forests are also home to some extremely rare species of orchids, all highly valued for their exotic aromas ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists have created an instrument designed to help determine the shapes and sizes of tiny ice crystals typical of those found in high-altitude clouds, down to the micron level (comparable ... Read more..Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A genetic variant found almost exclusively in individuals of Asian descent increases the risk of elevated plasma triglycerides over four-fold. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..