Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
The Cassini mission is new two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets: Titan and Enceladus. On 30 June, ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
The Ulysses spacecraft, whose mission was expected to end on 1 July 2008, is hanging on valiantly as spacecraft controllers wait for a sign of the fuel freeze that ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Fossil finds suggest an early origin for human speech The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
At least one editor argues that maintaining the ethical behavior of journal authors requires constant policing. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Preschool boys perform better in classes where the girls outnumber them The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Study hones in on proteins that may affect longevity The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A single impact might explain why the Red Planet’s surface looks smoother in the north and rugged and rocky in the south The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Soil-dwelling roundworms avoid light by using nerve cells and pathway reminiscent of vertebrate vision The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
New approach could effectively use a scarce supply of vaccine The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Review by Tia Ghose The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The book details the 28 historic deluges that have hit the Lone Star State since 1900, with plenty of black and white photographs. Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2008, 330 p., . The rest of ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
An illustrated tour of Egyptian tombs recounts the history and culture of ancient burial rites. Thames & Hudson, 2008, 368 p., . The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Scientists generally agree that sonar can trigger strandings of certain whales, but no one really knows what leads these deep divers to the beach The rest of the article can be ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
This fall, the massive Large Hadron Collider beneath France and Switzerland will switch on The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
To fight off an infection or illness, the body shifts into a slow-down mode that mirrors some symptoms of depression. In fact, scientists now think the immune response itself may ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
In the July 19 Comment, Dudley Herschbach, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, discusses how to infuse scientific ideas into humanities education with an aim of increasing overall ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers here now have a picture of a key molecule that lets microbes produce carbon dioxide and methane -- the two greenhouse gases associated with global warming. The findings ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. But that could change, thanks to a new molecule found by Stanford University School ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Violence between partners, friends and acquaintances appears prevalent both during and before college, according to results of a survey of students at three urban college campuses published in the July ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher. The rest of the article can be read ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A combination drug taken within an hour after the start of a migraine is effective in relieving symptoms, according to research published in the July 8, 2008, issue of Neurology, ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The new fossil data also indicate that the current pattern of distribution of life -- with low species diversity in the poles and a very high diversity in the tropics ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Pregnancy alone does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of the most prevalent mental disorders, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
From the surface, the two areas of ocean off the coasts of northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York look the same. But to NOAA scientists, the four-square-mile patches ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The public health approach to HIV treatment, in which a limited number of drug combinations is used for all patients in South African programs, works just as well as the ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of cells. ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
US companies are helping spread fair hiring practices across the world as they set up shop in developing nations, according to a new study of gender and age discrimination co-written ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists have identified a new anti-tumor drug that might prove useful in developing treatments for a multiple human cancers. The research, published by Cell Press in the July 8 issue ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new analysis indicates that birds don't fly alone when migrating at night. Some birds, at least, keep together on their migratory journeys, flying in tandem even when they are ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant to taper off drug use when less ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers have made the first mixed-oxide pellets from recycled spent nuclear fuel in a process that doesn't produce a separate plutonium stream. Tiny changes at the nanometer scale can have ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Washing hands with soap and water before delivering a newborn infant is associated with a lower rate of neonatal deaths in developing countries, according to a report in the July ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In a New York City metro-area first, a 93-year-old Bronx man underwent implantation of a new stent graft at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the only center on the Eastern Seaboard with access ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
By studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins, scientists have discovered some features of their structure that contradict long-held engineering theories. Dr. Frank Fish will talk about ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Panic, staffing issues and geographic boundaries are some of the challenges that public health experts need to address as they plan for a possible influenza pandemic, according to a new ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Almost 1 in 20 cases of tuberculosis worldwide is resistant to multiple drugs (known as multidrug-resistant TB or MDR-TB) and the World Health Organization has called for a massive scale ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Pittsburgh researchers report that alterations in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana, called cannabinoid 1 receptor, may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, suggesting possible new drug targets ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Guidelines for the treatment of older patients with respiratory conditions are routinely ignored. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Health Services Research shows that recommended treatments are ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Recent research at the National Brain Research Center, India, published in Journal of Neurochemistry, has shown that Japanese encephalitis virus, commonly known as brain fever, damages the brain in two ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 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..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Women who have breast reconstruction after an elective mastectomy are satisfied with their decision, have low complication rates and 98 percent would do it again, reports a study in July's ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
An innovative program is helping busy primary care physicians improve the care they provide for school-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to a study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children's ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A comprehensive survey of coral biodiversity in Panama's Las Perlas Archipelago, published in the journal Environmental Conservation by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and their colleagues, has resulted ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The baby's smile that gladdens a mother's heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
In future, climate change will bring an increase in salty surfaces on the Earth and in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, this higher CO2 has some positive ... Read more..Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
North Carolina State University scientists have figured out one reason why pregnant yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), one of the most important disease transmitters worldwide, choose to lay their eggs ... Read more..