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Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:50 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 2.96 km/s, only 100 km from the centre of the ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 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, August 17th, 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, August 17th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of Echus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 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..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in European Space Agency | No Comments »
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
New suggestions for defining a planet would put Pluto and many other objects back on the list. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
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by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 384 p., The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
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Protein improves old rats’ ability to form new memories The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The ultrasonic din of dying trees inspires a new kind of research to save forests from beetle attacks †and battle climate change The rest of the article can be read ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Recent changes in hearing-related genes may have influenced language development The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
The eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in Peru changed global climate and triggered famine as far away as Russia The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Calculations find that many universes could sustain stars The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Cassini spacecraft reveals location of icy geysers on one of Saturn’s moons The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Pluto’s satellite meets definitions of plutoid and dwarf planet The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
A Stone Age graveyard offers insights into two poorly understood cultures The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in ScienceNews.org | No Comments »
Kidnapped worker ants do a little quiet sabotage The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A second Phase I AIDS vaccine clinical trial in India was successfully completed, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the National AIDS Control Organization and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A growing body of research suggests that there is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression that doesn't involve getting a prescription. This potent weapon? Hope. "We're ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
While many studies have examined cheating among college students, new research looks at the issue from a different perspective -- identifying students who are least likely to cheat. The study ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Carbon nanotubes' atomic structure should, in theory, give them mechanical and electrical properties far superior to most common materials. Unfortunately, theory and experiments have failed to converge on the true ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in BioMed Central's open ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Ventilator-induced injury in the lungs is responsible for a vast number of deaths in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Even healthy surgical patients, who require temporary mechanical ventilation, are at risk ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Based on cell-culture and animal experiments, researchers believe they've found a critical weakness in neuroblastoma -- one that could lead to the development of a lifesaving therapy for victims of ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists at Michigan State University have identified a new protein necessary for chloroplast development. The discovery could ultimately lead to plant varieties tailored specifically for biofuel production. The rest of the ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
The main obstacle to creating an AIDS vaccine has been the high genetic variability of the HIV virus. Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy and his team from the Research Institute of the ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are urging companies to embrace new methods for following trail of dangerous carbon emissions. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community. Their findings were published in the ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A physicist at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has developed a theory that will help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters for electricity transmission and distribution systems. ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
For the first time, a drug therapy appears to reduce lung function loss in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the results of a randomized, ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Young horses may be easier to train if they temporarily lay off the sweets, says a Montana State University study. The rest of the article can be read here. Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a novel way to churn out large quantities of drugs, including antiplaque toothpaste additives, antibiotics, nicotine, and even morphine, using mini ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A virus that commonly infects potatoes bears a striking resemblance to one of the key proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease, and researchers have used that to develop antibodies that may ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A case study of the 2004 US Presidential election by researchers at Yale shows that prediction markets are proving to be a strong forecasting tool, one that may have an ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
If you're over 55 and have spent more than a few sleepless nights, you're not alone -- insomnia affects about half of all people over 55 ― but you may ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A new report from the National Research Council, ASSESSMENT OF THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION'S SECURITY PROGRAM, looks at the level of security preparedness at many of the nation's largest dams, ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
On the cellular level, death signals can actually be life saving -- by killing off abnormally dividing cells before they turn cancerous. Now, Rockefeller University researchers have found a way ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A team of Princeton University computer scientists working in collaboration with archaeologists in Greece has developed a new technology that has the potential to change the way people do archaeology. The ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Biologists at the University of Virginia have discovered a switching mechanism in the eye that plays a key role in regulating the sleep/wake cycles in mammals. The rest of the article ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Investigators from the Melbourne Center of the international Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Pacific Edge Biotchnology Ltd today reported that they have developed a test to predict whether a ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
College students want to please their parents but often stress out about meeting goals far tougher than what their parents have in mind, a study by University of Central Florida ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, but, when compared to girls, they are also more likely to grow out of it in adolescence and have ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
Preliminary research, led by Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, MD, Director of John Hopkins Weight Management Center, suggests increasing intake of low-energy density foods, specifically mushrooms, in place of high-energy-density foods, like ... Read more..Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in EurekAlert! | No Comments »
A study in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during ... Read more..