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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA systematic review of previously published studies found 'inadequate evidence' that combination lipid emulsions as compared with standard soybean oil lipid emulsion offer any greater benefit in bilirubin levels, triglyceride levels, or ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe degree to which consumers perceive themselves to be knowledgeable about a product influences the likelihood that they will buy a particular product, researchers find in a series of studies published in Psychological Science, a journa...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWith nearly four in five older Americans living with multiple chronic medical conditions, a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that the more ailments you have after retirement age, the short...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsControlling pain during childbirth and post delivery is linked to reduced risk of postpartum depression, says a Northwestern perinatal psychiatrist, based on a new study. The study showed postpartum depression rates doubled for women wit...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsBoth short and tall men in the military are more at risk for depression than their uniformed colleagues of average height, a new study finds. This study was published today in the open access journal SAGE Open.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn this new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. The star cluster, NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million yea...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from SPACE.comThis space wallpaper of an artist’s impression shows dust forming in the environment around a supernova explosion.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanA misalignment in data between satellites went undetected for years before being addressed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comNASA's New Horizons' mission, which blasted off in 2006, will become the first spacecraft to orbit Pluto in July 2015. The flyby will give researchers their first good look at the distant, frigid dwarf planet.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comThe video, which SpaceX released today (July 22), shows a Falcon 9 first stage returning to Earth in a controlled fashion after helping launch six commercial satellites on July 14 for the firm Orbcomm.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NSF NewsIn 2011, U.S.-located companies spent $29.6 billion for extramural (purchased and collaborative) research and development performed by domestic and overseas organizations, according to statistics from the Business R&D and Innovation ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowView from an Iceberg Magnus Petersen and Dave Porter prepare to lower a temperature-depth-salinity sensor into a fjord near the village of Kullorsuaq, as part of a study into changing conditions where Greenland's melting glaciers meet th...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comThe private space company's Falcon 9 re-usable rocket technology was tested on its last flight on July 14th, 2014. Engine restart, landing legs and ocean touchdown at near zero velocity was recorded. See the launch: http://goo.gl/v8e5MS
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comThe European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory imaged NGC 3293, a star cluster in the constellation Carina (The Keel), a site where sibling stars grow and generations evolve.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsSeeking to gain a high-tech edge over illegal fishers, the Government of Belize will use “eyes in the sky” to enforce fishing regulations in the biodiverse Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve and other reef systems in what is the first use of c...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comCreated by lightning, ‘whistlers’ travel along Earth's magnetic field lines from hemisphere to hemisphere. Jupiter’s charged particles ‘sing’ across its magnetosphere (recorded by Voyager).
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowDromedary camels, which can carry MERS. Wilson44691 via Wikimedia Commons Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a viral illness that has sickened nearly 700 and killed at least 209 people a...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanScientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about the value of scientific research and development. Also... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe news comes on the same day as a $650-million donation to expand psychiatric research -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA new study that examined the survival rates of 12 different shark species when captured as unintentional bycatch in commercial longline fishing operations found large differences in survival rates across the 12 species, with bigeye thre...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsPeople diagnosed with depression need to step out for a cigarette twice as often as smokers who are not dealing with a mood disorder. And those who have the hardest time shaking off the habit may have more mental health issues than they ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA link between Medicaid policies on antipsychotic drugs and incarceration rates for schizophrenic individuals has been uncovered by a new study. Researchers found that states requiring prior authorization for atypical antipsychotics had ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA probiotic that prevents obesity could be on the horizon. Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high-fat diet in mice, investigators have discovere...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsContrary to previous assumptions, researchers find that preschoolers are able to gauge the strength of their memories and make decisions based on their self-assessments. The findings contribute to research on the reliability of children'...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA research team has demonstrated a dramatically improved technique for analyzing biological cells and tissues based on characteristic molecular vibrations. The new technique is an advanced form of Raman spectroscopy that is fast and accu...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsVitamin D-deficient individuals are twice as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as people who have sufficient levels of the vitamin, according to a new study. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and is needed for bone and musc...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsPeople with Type 2 diabetes who eat a diet high in salt face twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease as those who consume less sodium, according to a new study. Diabetes occurs when there is too much sugar in the bloodstream....
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsSense of smell is critical for survival in many mammals. In a new study, researchers examined the olfactory receptor repertoire encoded in 13 mammalian species and found that African elephants have the largest number of OR genes ever cha...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA tissue engineering and vascular biology expert recently won a Faculty Early Career Development Award for his work on 3D tissue printing, and its contribution of the advancement of stem cell research.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comPapers from the National Archives record the words President Nixon would have spoken had the Apollo 11 astronauts been unable to return to Earth.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanInsights from embodied cognition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe heat was driven by hot ocean surface temperatures -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now2,458 Cells Fernando Amat et al., "Fast, accurate reconstruction of cell lineages from large-scale fluorescence microscopy data," Nature Methods, 2014 What is this fuzzy creature? Sadly, it's not pettable. This is a microscope image of a...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsVibrate a solution of rod-shaped metal nanoparticles in water with ultrasound and they'll spin around their long axes like tiny drill bits. Why? No one yet knows exactly. But researchers have clocked their speed -- and it's fast. At up t...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers propose a method to create precision crystals by adding polymer to a chemical mixture.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light. The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers, which are predicted to eventually outperf...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science News"Name everything you can think of that is alive." How would a child respond to this question? Would his or her list be full of relatives, animals from movies and books, or perhaps neighborhood pets? Would the poppies blooming on the fron...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists attached radio-frequency identification tags to hundreds of individual honey bees and tracked them for several weeks. The effort yielded two discoveries: Some foraging bees are much busier than others; and if those busy bees d...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsNew research, for the first time, brings scientists nearer to understanding how some cells in the brain and nervous system become cancerous. The team studied a tumor suppressor called Merlin. Their results have identified a new mechanism...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists have made an important discovery about the molecular interactions that occur between generally benign species of Propionibacterium bacteria and the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, the cause of most 'staph' infections.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn contrast to their negative reputation as disease causing agents, some viruses can perform crucial biological and evolutionary functions that help to shape the world we live in today, according to a new report. "Viruses participate in ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe heart of an astronaut is a much-studied thing. Scientists have analyzed its blood flow, rhythms, atrophy and, through journal studies, even matters of the heart. But for the first time, researchers are looking at how oxidative stress...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe Hurricane Imaging Radiometer, known as HIRAD, will fly aboard one of two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft during NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission from Wallops beginning August 26 through September 29. One of the NAS...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanCommon gene variants that have minor effects may contribute about half the risk of developing autism -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsFifteen years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, Chandra has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its unrivale...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsBlueberries pack a powerful antioxidant punch, whether eaten fresh or from the freezer, according to a researcher. Anthocyanins, a group of antioxidant compounds, are responsible for the color in blueberries, and since most of the color ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.comEngineers inspect a boilerplate Mercury capsule.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Scientific AmericanResearchers need help transcribing regimental diaries describing events in the lives of British soldiers during the First World War -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from SPACE.com"Star Wars Episode VII" director J.J. Abrams is giving fans of the franchise their first look at the new movie's updated X-Wing — a fighter plane flown in the original trilogy — in a new video.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA pair of Amur leopards, which zookeepers say are on the brink of extinction, are born at Leicestershire's Twycross Zoo.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentZoo team gives an enormous reticulated python its annual check-up, including using ultrasound to scan its heart.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentDo butterfly wing patterns really mimic predator eyes?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentEU commissioners meet today to agree an energy savings target for 2030 amid serious disagreement about how ambitious it should be.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceMr. Hartsfield, who logged 483 hours in space, flew on the Columbia and the Challenger before they met disaster.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceEnthusiasts gathered in the Meadowlands around black-lighted sheets on Monday as part of National Moth Week.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe United States military spent millions on garbage incinerators in Afghanistan, but they went unused in favor of open burn pits, a report from a watchdog agency said.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentModels and conceptual drawings by famous car manufacturers
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceScientists said that record-setting rains in the weeks before the landslide that killed 43 people in March in Oso, Wash., had clearly played a role, and, possibly, logging.
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Tuesday, July 22, 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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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsBOSTON (Reuters) - Two security experts who a year ago exposed methods for hacking the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape say they have developed technology that would keep automobiles safe from cyber attacks.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsNEW YORK - More than 100 locations on the human genome may play a role in a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia, according to a new study.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceWhat does a 20 percent chance of rain or snow actually mean? Interpreting probabilities in forecasts can be hard even for mathematicians and meteorologists — never mind the average person.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceTake-home sleep tests, self-administered in more realistic settings, without myriad wires and sensors, promise more accurate results for people who may have sleep apnea or other conditions.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceFor one month every summer, hundreds of thousands of purple martins stop by an abandoned shopping mall parking lot in Austin, Texas, on their way to the Amazon Basin. Reporter Luke Quinton visited this year's roosting and offers a glimps...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceResearchers have stumbled on an ingenious idea: Use bubble wrap as a cheap test tube and petri dish. They've even run tests on blood that's sitting inside the poppable packaging. So how does it work?
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAntarctic sea ice may not be expanding as much as recent estimates concluded.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThis may be the most heart-rending, most beautiful eclipse in our solar system. But you can't travel to see it. Not yet.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA study suggests that cutting uterine tissue into pieces before removal can inadvertently spread cancer cells, since undetected tumors in women having hysterectomies are more common than thought.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from International Business TimesIn what might potentially be the first step toward developing a lasting cure for HIV, Danish researchers on Tuesday revealed what has been hailed as a breakthrough discovery that exposes the virus to the natural defenses of the immune sy...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from International Business TimesScientists in Saudi Arabia have found evidence of an airborne version of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, virus, in a barn that housed infected camels.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from International Business TimesOffshore wind turbines may have become the go-to place for food for marine animals such as seals, according to a new study, which also said that some seals deliberately seek out and forage around such structures.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from International Business TimesLawyer and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threatening to publish a book about how childhood vaccines cause autism.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from International Business TimesUsing solar power for steam generation can be a low-cost solution for energy-deficient areas but current methods have been inefficient. Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however, could change that -- with a cheap “...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays JUPITER, Fla., July 22 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old's science project on lionfish, the invasive species, and its ability to thrive in less salty waters has impressed grown ecologists.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have linked more than 100 spots in our DNA to the risk of developing schizophrenia, casting light on the mystery of what makes the disease tick. Such work could eventually point to new treatments, although th...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comActor Morgan Freeman grilled NASA astronauts on the International Space Station about how their work can get humans to Mars someday. "So you guys are out there, floating around, tossing that microphone back and forth there cleverly," Fre...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsResearchers from University College London found people with a rare variant of the GRM3 gene were two to three times more likely to develop schizophrenia or alcohol dependence
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHow does an embryo go from being a lump of cells to a full-fledged nervous system? Just watch for yourself in The New York Times' trippy video above, which traces the colorful dance of cells in developing fly embryos in 3D. Each colored ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsSleep deprived people are more likely to misremember events and hold 'false' memories of the past, scientists have discovered
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comYeah, yeah, yeah. Most of us know that regular exercise can reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease , prevent weight gain, improve sleep , and even boost brainpower . But a new study suggests that exercise can literally change how y...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedA new study has revealed that beef production is 10 times more damaging to the environment than any other type of livestock.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesIf you want to slow climate change, white meat may be the right meat, according to two studies that tally the environmental effect of the beef industry.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA public review into the three person IVF technique has been broadly supportive, says the Department of Health.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedDining on a diet of fatty foods reduces our ability to smell, scientists have claimed.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsBritain set to become first country in the world to create babies with DNA of three people after government set out new regulations
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a distant world with the longest year of any planet in the mission's inventory.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThere has been an increase in the number of slugs in Britain's gardens due to the warm and damp weather.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesAuguste is 3 years old, a charmer with big blue eyes, long lashes and a playful smile. He's wearing a T-shirt that says "Make some noise" and fiddling with his Etch A Sketch in a hospital exam room.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsSchizophrenia is not one disease, but many - and the new genetic research, while fascinating, simply shows us how complicated that picture is, says John Williams
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentMore and more jellyfish are being spotted on the UK's coastline during the summer months, and now scientists have decided to try and find out why.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe Rosetta spacecraft hibernated for 31 months while its orbit took it too far away from the sun for its solar arrays to keep it operational. It's ready for a rendezvous with a comet Aug. 6.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceTed Stanley is giving $650 million to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to find and treat the genetic underpinnings of mental illnesses. His son has bipolar disorder.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comCreationist Ken Ham, who recently debated Bill Nye the Science Guy over the origins of the universe , is calling for an end to the search for extraterrestrial life because aliens probably don't exist -- and if they do, they're going to H...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedThe largest study ever undertaken into the genetic basis of mental illnesses has found more than 100 genes that play some kind of role in the development of schizophrenia – one of the most common of the serious psychiatric disorders.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceMany scientists say capturing the carbon that spews from power plants and locking it away is necessary to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from NYT > ScienceDozens of wildfires are burning hundreds of thousands of acres and forcing thousands of residents from their homes.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesJuly has been a particularly trying month for HIV/AIDS researchers as they mourned the loss of colleagues killed in a militant attack and received new reports of the virus' remarkable tenacity.
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Monday, July 21, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters) - A group of seven leading drugmakers has agreed to share an array of neglected experimental medicines with British academic researchers in the latest example of the deepening ties between industry and external scientists.
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Monday, July 21, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserThe Ebola outbreak that's claimed at least 500 lives in West Africa may have been lurking a while before going on its killing spree, NBC News reports. Researchers figured this by studying blood samples from old cases of viral illnesses i...
