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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanA chemistry challenge from Science Buddies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanDavid Spergel explains why a widely publicized gravitational-wave discovery could be wrong, and how it could affect the public’s perception of science -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanAn academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now"Night's Slow Poison" by Ann Leckie Illustration by Lisa Kay This is an excerpt from Popular Science' s special issue, Dispatches From The Future . Visit iTunes to download the edition onto your iPad , or return to our list of excerpts ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanChiplike screening devices show that yellow light gets algae to make more lipids for fuels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanOr just another line item in the budget? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SPACE.comNASA's Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth as heroes at the end of their successful manned moon landing mission. See how Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down in the Pacific Ocean and returned to the United States.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SPACE.comAstrophotographer took this image of the moon, Venus, and the Pleiades on June 24, 2014 from Tucson, Arizona.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SPACE.comWhile the Apollo 11 landing was on the cutting-edge of technology in 1969, today it's a demonstration of how much could be accomplished with so little.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanSurgeons have implanted a new prosthesis in four patients to correct disabling dizziness. The device may someday restore balance to hundreds of thousands more -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Wired ScienceResearchers at MIT have created a ball with a customizable surface texture through the science of wrinkling.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As pet owners, we tend to believe our pets have emotions such as love, loyalty and grief. But what about jealousy ? Charles Darwin believed they could feel jealousy. On the other hand...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from ScienceRayshell Clapper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The manner in which bats use echolocation has long been of interest to scientists, but new research shows that bats use more than echolocation to get around. In fact, the Natural E...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from ScienceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Around the end of the last ice age roughly 10,000 years ago, mammoths and mastodons lived in North America. According to the Field Museum of Natural History , the 14-foot tall mammoth...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Industrial pollution could help in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ), claim Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) researchers who have started looki...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn a new study, researchers found that maltreatment affects the way children's genes are activated, which has implications for their long-term development and health. The researchers examined DNA methylation, a biomechanical mechanism th...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsUsing meta-analysis to asses 49 studies from around the world, researchers have found that community service that includes reflection is more beneficial for adolescents than community service that does not. The studies analyzed were cond...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA study of 1,890 identical twins has found that strong early reading skill might positively affect later intelligence. The twins, who are part of an ongoing longitudinal study in the United Kingdom, share all their genes as well as a hom...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NSF NewsIn the Namib Desert of Africa, the fog-filled morning wind carries the drinking water for a beetle called the Stenocara. Tiny droplets collect on the beetle's bumpy back. The areas between the bumps are covered in a waxy substance that m...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAfter a long day at work, sometimes you just want to turn on the TV or play a video game to relax. This is supposed to make you feel better. But, a recent study published in the Journal of Communication, by researchers at the Johannes Gu...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsOdds are, there's a virus living inside your gut that has gone undetected by scientists for decades. A new study led by researchers at San Diego State University has found that more than half the world's population is host to a newly des...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe discovery of water vapour in the atmospheres of three exoplanets includes the most precise measurement of any chemical in a planet outside the solar system, and has major implications for planet formation and the search for water on ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsFor decades, couples in which a wife had more education than her husband faced a higher risk of divorce than those in which a husband had more education, but a new study finds this is no longer the case.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsQuantum computers have yet to materialize. Yet, scientists are making progress in devising suitable means of making such computers faster. One such approach relies on quantum dots -- a kind of artificial atom, easily controlled by applyi...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA Technical University of Denmark researcher has developed a method that uses X-rays for the rapid identification of substances present in an indeterminate powder. The new technique has the capacity to recognize advanced biological molec...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsInfections caused by food-borne microorganisms are an increasing public health burden. In a PhD project at the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, new methods of characterizing and detecting food-borne illness...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers have uncovered a way the malaria parasite becomes resistant to an investigational drug. The discovery, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also is relevant for other infectious diseases including bacteri...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers in Germany and the US have proven for the first time that specific individual immune cells, termed 'central memory T cells,' have all the essential characteristics of adult tissue stem cells. Such cells can perpetuate themsel...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA team of astronomers has made the most precise measurements yet of water vapour in the atmospheres of Jupiter-like planets beyond our Solar System and found between ten and a thousand times less water vapour than what models predict.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNew research has found that birthday-related drinking is associated with upsurges in hospital admissions among young people. This study of drinking behavior in Ontario, Canada was published online in the scientific journal Addiction.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Nearly two years ago, NASA scientists first announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had departed the heliosphere and passed into interstellar space – but new research suggests the ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from SPACE.comThe United Arab Emirates has announced plans to launch a mission to Mars by 2021. A first for the Arab world, the mission and accompanying Space Agency are a big deal for the UAE – scientifically and politically.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanSalmonella's primary fuel source is the molecule fructose-asparagine. Starving it of that fuel in an infected person could kill it without harming beneficial gut bacteria. Karen Hopkin reports.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from SPACE.comRussia launched a robotic ship on an express delivery run to the International Space Station today (July 23) to bring fresh supplies to the crewmembers on the orbiting outpost.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird happens upon a vessel of water, but when he tries to drink from it, he finds the water level out of his reach. Not strong enough to knock over the pitcher, the bird drops pe...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers are working to protect consumer data by using companies spam volume to evaluate its security vulnerability through the SpamRankings.net project.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsStudents graduating from U.S. medical schools in 2012 feel they’ve received a better education in health policy issues than graduates surveyed in 2008, according to a multi-center study. The study applied a new framework for teaching and...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsSludge obtained from water treatment plants were studied as suitable materials to be used in the pottery industry to make suitable pottery products.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from SPACE.comScientists are still debating whether NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is in interstellar space, but a new study outlines a test that could definitively show where the far-flung probe is on its journey out of the solar system.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from SPACE.comAs fighting continues in Israel and Gaza, astronauts living aboard the International Space Station can see signs of the deadly conflict from space.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Scientific AmericanJealousy appears to be a primordial emotion seen not only in humans, but in other animals as well -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsBuy the latest electronic gizmo du jour, or use that money to fix a leaky roof? Go out with friends, or stay home to catch-up on work to meet that looming deadline? And after you've finished that big project, do you treat yourself to a s...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsMen and women who have served in the military have a higher prevalence of adverse childhood events (ACEs), suggesting that enlistment may be a way to escape adversity for some. ACEs can result in severe adult health consequences such as ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsHoney bees, especially the young, are highly sensitive to temperature and to protect developing bees, adults work together to maintain temperatures within a narrow range. New research also supports the theoretical construct of the bee hi...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from SPACE.comHubble Space Telescope scientists are going to explain how they use the huge eye in the sky during a live chat Thursday (July 24).
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Wired ScienceThe popularity of drones is climbing quickly among companies, governments and citizens alike. But the rules surrounding where, when and why you can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle aren’t very clear. The FAA has tried to assert contr...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsSpinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists: the ability to convert sunlight into a clean, efficient alternative fuel. Physicists are using spinach to study the protein...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA large phase 3 clinical trial for cystic fibrosis patients has concluded, showing that a combination of two new cystic fibrosis drugs modestly improved lung function and offered better health outcomes for some patients. Now, scientists ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA therapy combining salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain restored voluntary motor function impaired by spinal cord injury, scientists have found. In a study on rodents, researche...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe drought that has the entire country in its grip is affecting more than the color of people's lawns. It may also be responsible for the proliferation of a heat-loving amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater bodies, such as lakes, riv...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceTwo operational coal-to-gas plants in China and 48 proposed ones would together emit an estimated 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, Greenpeace said.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNasa is asking for help to get data back from future science missions orbiting Mars or roaming its surface.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceNew research examines the effects of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month during which millions of people around the world go without food all day. Does religious practice affect economic growth?
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters) - Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published on Thursday.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe timing of when a girl reaches puberty is controlled by hundreds of genes, say scientists.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA new study to be released Thursday found that Texas and Oklahoma would be among the biggest economic winners under a regulation proposed by President Obama to fight climate change.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceSome of the testing may help illuminate exactly what happened to the jetliner after it was hit by a surface-to-air missile.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentJealousy is not just part of the human condition, a study suggests, it appears to be hard wired into the brains of dogs too.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceMichael Farrell, who has led the Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology laboratory since 2009, “voluntarily resigned” on Tuesday, a spokesman for the agency said.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceSupporters say the wind farm experiment is essential if states want to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and meet new federal rules on carbon emissions.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - Dogs are a man's best friend, and research released on Wednesday says canines want to keep it that way.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - In what may be the ultimate in long-distance telephone service, NASA on Wednesday put out a call for a commercially owned and operated satellite network on Mars.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentWhy the US public quickly lost interest in lunar exploration
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWho knew Neil Armstrong's heartbeat would make such a smooth bass line? On July 20th, 1969, the astronaut became the first person to set foot on the moon, and uttered these famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comYou fall in love. You tie the knot. And then you find out you’re related to your spouse. A.J. Jacobs, an author and Esquire Editor at Large, joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani to discuss this potentially uncomfortable ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIf you're an animal that enjoys eating mayflies, and you live in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, this is your time to chow down. If (as is likely the case) you are human, you're out of luck. The annual mayfly hatch along the Mississi...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson predicted during an interview with Salon published Wednesday that climate change will have to "get very bad" before Congress feels threatened enough to advance meaningful environmental legislation. "In ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA crew of sailors is embarking on a pioneering citizen science expedition through the Northwest Passage between Canada and Greenland.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIf you took a six-month or two-year (or maybe even a one-way) trip to Mars, what would your life really be like once you land? How would you exercise? What would you eat? And, laundry? Pssh. How would you even have water in the first pla...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentWarming seas are reducing the food supply for Antarctic seals, say researchers.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceOperators of the Turkey Point nuclear plant near Miami have received federal permission to run their cooling system above the old 100 degree limit. The decision is meant to combat algae growth and rising temperature in cooling canals, bu...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comI've been fascinated by quantum physics since I was five. I have even written here about my enchantment with Bell's Theorem ( see the article here ). My mother brought me over to the large oak table in our home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsSEATTLE (Reuters) - A series of explosions set off by a team of scientists were expected to rattle Washington state's Mount St. Helens on Wednesday as researchers map the interior of the volcano, whose 1980 eruption was the deadliest in ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOur sun erupted with activity, sported several sunspots and unleashed massive solar flares just last month in what scientists dubbed a "solar mini max." But now, the sun appears to have gone strangely quiet. In fact, the side that faces ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAn important report offers advice on ways to cut coastal risk in a changing climate. Will politicians listen?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentChanges in the Antarctic climate are showing up in the fur seal population, say scientists who have studied the animals for 30 years on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIt has been well-documented how disgusting beer pong balls can get. But now, there is a new solution. In one of the most college-friendly Kickstarters to date, Tyler Dobush has invented the "Clean Cup," the world's first portable and aut...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceDog owners don't doubt that their pooch has feelings. But scientists aren't so sure. An experiment found that dogs act upset, dare we say jealous, when their owners ignore them for a stuffed animal.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA map captures the Martian craters, valleys and peaks in stunning detail and offers ideas on where the rovers of the future might land.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceHe lived in a village in Tanzania. He dreamed of being an astronaut. Now he's studying in a Florida flight academy — and hoping his secret potato salad recipe will bring support to pay the tuition.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA paper says that if you are petting another dog, your canine is going to show a form of jealousy. But some say such emotion is too complex for a dog.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentArturo, the polar bear dubbed 'the world's saddest animal', will be staying at his zoo in Argentina, despite a massive petition calling for him to be moved to a colder climate.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: Science News(This July 22 story is refiled to include omitted title for Chris Valasek, paragraph 3)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA Beverly Hills auction house has an unusual fossil for sale. It's not an ancient animal. It's something an ancient animal left behind — and it's very, very long.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy Meredith Salisbury Nic Volker. Beatrice Rienhoff. Alexis and Noah Beery. If you happen to be a scientist or clinician in the genomics field, you already know the topic of this article just from those four names. Each is a child who su...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comForget "silent but deadly." How about "rank but restorative"? Media sites recently reported news that delighted flatulence lovers: Scientists had published a study that said smelling farts is good for you . The only problem was, reports ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceWhile researchers pursue high-cost remedies for rare ailments, development of broadly useful drugs like antibiotics is lagging.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAcetaminophen -- perhaps known best by the brand name Tylenol, and overseas as paracetamol -- is so widely used, that surely we must know how exactly it works, right? Believe it or not, experts are actually not 100 percent sure how the d...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comJuly 23 (Reuters) - A group of top scientists has called for a fundamental change to how the United States deals with risks to its Atlantic and Gulf coasts from storms and climate change in a National Research Council report released Wed...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentMembers of the European Union will have to boost their energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 according to Commission.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comElephants are known for their impressively long trunks, but perhaps less well known is the large number of genes that code for their sense smell. In a study of 13 mammals, African elephants were found to be superior sniffers, possessing ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comLess than a year from now, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make the first-ever visit to Pluto, potentially revolutionizing scientists' understanding of the dwarf planet. Because Pluto is so far away — it orbits the sun at an average ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comA newfound alien planet is one for the record books. The alien planet Kepler-421b — which crosses the face of, or transits, its host star from Earth's perspective — takes 704 Earth days to complete one orbit, and thus has the longest yea...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentZoologists find that bats use the pattern of polarised light in the sky at sunset to help them navigate.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA significant percentage of obese kids think their weight is just fine. But do they need to know the truth to get healthier?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAntarctic sea ice may not be expanding as much as recent estimates concluded.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe UN's seabed authority issues exploration licences that accelerate a search for valuable minerals on the ocean floor.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from International Business TimesBats are not entirely creatures of the dark as some of these animals rely on light to some extent to navigate, according to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from International Business TimesA city in northern China has been sealed off and about 151 people have been placed in quarantine after a man died of bubonic plague last week, state media reported Tuesday. A 38-year-old man was reportedly infected by a dead marmot, a ty...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from International Business TimesResearchers at Temple University announced this week that they completely eliminated a dormant strain of HIV embedded in human cells with a kind of "molecular scissors," raising hopes that science is a little closer to not only suppressi...
