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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from LiveScience.comWhen compared to a Black Hornet autonomous micro-helicopter, the Anna's hummingbird (seen at various speeds) was 27% more efficient at hovering. This Stanford University research could lead to bird-inspired helicopters and other engineer...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Scientific AmericanStanford researchers claim they have made a breakthrough in creating a lithium anode -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Scientists poring through buckets of raw amber from the Dominican Republic discovered a new insect species. The amber was collected in 1959 and rediscovered in 2011 in a closet.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Scientific AmericanUsing rice starch, researchers have made sustainable, biodegradable polymers that could be used in food packaging -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsMore accurate tests could be created to diagnose diseases such as Alzheimer's or memory problems stemming from head injuries, leading to earlier intervention, according to new findings from researchers. The research involved investigatin...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsEasing heart palpitations is one benefit of catheter ablation. A longer life span is another. Study shows 60 drop in cardiovascular mortality after ablation for atrial fibrillation. More than 4 million people have atrial fibrillation, an...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research suggests that when we accomplish a goal too early in the process, we may not be as happy as we would be if the goal was achieved during an expected interval. The typical progression is: set goal, work to achieve goal, attain...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe fast growth of young brains may come at the expense of infant memories -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research discovers the brain regions that help to optimize social functioning are also important for general intelligence and emotional intelligence. This finding suggests general intelligence emerges from the emotional and social co...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Wired ScienceIn 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped. In other words, she was dead. Som...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research confirms that some people can handle stressful situations better than others. The difference, according to scientists, is not a result of genes as even identical twins show differences in how they respond to stress. In a new...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Phys.org: Feature storySeveral different methods exist for generating electricity from the mixing of salt water and fresh water, which is also called salinity gradient power (SGP). One method uses concentration cells, in which two semi-cells separated by a por...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SPACE.comA private team is priming a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft to perform new science as it travels through interplanetary space after attempts to move the probe into a position closer to Earth failed.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SPACE.comWhile praising NASA's efforts and focus on in-space manufacturing, the U.S. National Research Council report stressed that the agency should organize its various centers to identify priority projects for use on the station.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new study finds that running for only a few minutes a day or at slow speeds may significantly reduce a person’s risk of death from cardiovascular disease when compared to someone who does not run. While it is well known that exer...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Scientific AmericanCalvin is a 48-year-old CEO of a water filtering company who has been experiencing chest pain for 2 weeks. Find out what the most common causes of chest pain are and how his doctor determined... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Scientific AmericanResearchers are using tools borrowed from medicine and economics to figure out what works best in the classroom. But the results aren't making it into schools -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research presents evidence that while the impact of life’s stressors accumulate overtime and accelerate cellular aging, a healthy lifestyle may counteract many of these effects. In the new study, University of California, San F...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Wired ScienceOn the 556th evening of successfully not being murdered by her chucklehead king of a husband in the Arabian Nights, Scheherazade relates the tale of Sinbad’s tanglings with a beast most cruel. Sailing from city to city with merchan...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsUse of electroacupuncture (EA) – a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles – produces significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for e...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers say they have discovered a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to stress reactions that, if confirmed in larger studies, could give doctors a simple blood test to reliably predict a person’s risk of attempting s...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online On Monday, commercial spaceflight balloon company World View Enterprises announced it will “fly research and education payloads during its balloon test flight phase as part of its ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceJoshua Garrett for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Just how deep does this rabbit hole go? Further than initially expected. Earlier this month, a massive hole was found at the “end of the world,” more accurately known as Yamal Penins...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from ScienceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is more widespread than previously believed, as experts have located two additional deep-water coral communities that we...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA diet rich in soy may help feminine hearts, but timing matters, finds a new study published online today in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsUse of electroacupuncture (EA) produces significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for early stage breast cancer patients experiencing joint pain related to the use of aromatase inhibitors to ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsJohns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a chemical alteration in a single human gene linked to stress reactions that, if confirmed in larger studies, could give doctors a simple blood test to reliably predict a person's risk o...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn a new paper, Northeastern researchers show how they've used advanced computational data science tools to demonstrate that despite global warming, we may still experience severe cold snaps due to increasing variability in temperature e...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsSpintronics is a new field of electronics, using electron spin rather than motion. This technology requires insulating components that can control this quantum property. Scientists have shown experimentally that a novel material shows al...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsScientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have synthesized a catalyst that improves their system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas, a precursor of gasoline and other energy-rich products, bringing the process cl...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsToday scientists unveiled the first high-resolution map of the carbon stocks stored on land throughout the entire country of Peru. The new and improved methodology used to make the map marks a sea change for future market-based carbon ec...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsBetween 3 and 6 percent of schoolchildren suffer from an arithmetic-related learning disability. Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich now show that these children are also more likely to exhibit deficits in reading an...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsTo help Americans make better decisions about what they eat, the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year proposed significant changes to the Nutrition Facts label found on nearly every food product in the US. An article in Chemica...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsLong before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process -- think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsPrinting whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs for patients who desperately need them. In the...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe shocking news of an Ohio teen who died of a caffeine overdose in May highlighted the potential dangers of the normally well-tolerated and mass-consumed substance. To help prevent serious health problems that can arise from consuming ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAn innovative 'trigeneration' system fueled entirely by raw plant oils could have great potential for isolated homes and businesses operating outside grid systems both in the UK and abroad.Developed by a consortium led by Newcastle Unive...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsStrange finds indeed have been reported by researchers from China, Europe and the USA in the journal 'Current Biology': 50 million years ago, there were insects living in East Asia that very much resembled those in Northern Europe. This ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA survey of beds within a large teaching hospital in Ireland has shown than many of them did not comply with dimensional standards put in place to minimize the risk of entrapment. The report, published online in the journal Age and Agein...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA study of high-school students by University of Adelaide psychology researchers has shed new light on the links between insomnia-related mental health conditions among teens.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsPeople who have the most common genetic mutation linked to obesity respond differently to pictures of appetizing foods than overweight or obese people who do not have the genetic mutation, according to a new study published in the Endocr...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsMany growth factors that influence the fate of embryonic stem cells must bind to sugars attached to specific receptors on the surface of the cell to work. Because the sugars are difficult to manipulate, biochemists created synthetic stan...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNearly one in every 20 elderly American adults is being financially exploited -- often by their own family members. This burgeoning public health crisis especially affects poor and black people. It merits the scrutiny of clinicians, poli...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers at Inserm, led by Claude Gronfier, have, for the first time, conducted a study under real conditions on the body clocks of members of the international polar research station Concordia. The researchers have shown that a parti...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe household income of its residents is the most important factor in whether a community has high or low rates of avoidable hospital visits -- conditions that could be better managed in a doctor's office or other health care settings if...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsF1000Research today published new research from Bjorn Brembs, professor of neurogenetics at the Institute of Zoology, Universitaet Regensburg, in Germany, with a proof-of-concept figure allowing readers and reviewers to run the underlyin...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsScientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabit...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsCompanies who make their money in the 'sin' industries such as the tobacco, alcohol and gaming industries typically receive less attention from institutional investors and financial analysts. But new research shows social norms and attit...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study out today in The Neuroscientist discusses a systematic shift in perspective and suggests that chronically stimulating premotor areas of the brain would strongly promote stroke motor recovery, for example by restoring balance ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentUS engineers have developed a prototype tablet display that compensates for an individuals' vision problems.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe reindeer herders fighting a British mining company
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentMicro-drones are just starting to catch up with the hovering and flight performance of the tiny hummingbird, say scientists.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceScientists are trying to raise prized bluefin tuna completely in captivity. An experiment at a Baltimore college is the first successful attempt in North America.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe doctor leading Sierra Leone’s fight against the worst Ebola outbreak on record died from the virus on Tuesday, the country’s chief medical officer said.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from NYT > ScienceIn a report released Tuesday, Dr. Boris D. Lushniak, the acting surgeon general, said action needed to be taken to slow the incidence of skin cancer, the most diagnosed form of cancer nationwide.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe Milky Way is lighter than previously thought and is only about half the mass of a neighbouring galaxy, researchers conclude.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentCoral munching bumphead fish give insight into conservation
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from International Business TimesEbola panic is gripping much of West Africa as the deadly disease has spread from its epicenter in Guinea to neighboring countries. The disease has yet to travel beyond the region, but fears rose around the world with the recent confirma...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from International Business TimesSkin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with more than 63,000 cases each year, reported Boris D. Lushniak, the acting U.S. surgeon general, who is urging people to remember the dangers of ultraviolet ray exposure. The...
- NASA Opportunity Rover Is An Off-World Road Warrior, Has Traveled Record 25 Miles On Mars Since 2004Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from International Business TimesWhile 25 miles may not seem like much, the distance is a record for an off-world rover. After its last trip, NASA’s Opportunity rover has broken the record for driving distance previously held by the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 2 lunar rover...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from International Business TimesThe international fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history was dealt another major blow Tuesday with the death of Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor, Sheik Umar Khan. Khan, 39, was working with the Doctors Without Borders, or M...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from International Business TimesThe U.S. East Coast is bearing the brunt of the rise in “ nuisance flooding ” – minor events that shut down roads and clog storm drains but aren’t particularly dangerous. Such floods have increased by more than fivefold in the past 50 ye...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesHow many times will we have to be told? Apparently we haven’t reached the point when we’ll change our habits, but here goes again: Eating five servings of fruits and vegetables every day can help us live longer.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThe eyes may be the window to the soul, but apparently the face is key for first impressions . In a new study, researchers in the United Kingdom investigated how facial features can impact first impressions . As it turns out, the presenc...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays SALEKHARD, Russia, July 29 (UPI) -- Just two weeks after footage of a mysterious crater in Russia's northern Yamal peninsula went viral, two more massive holes have been discovered in Siberia.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comTwenty-five miles and counting! On July 27, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity broke the record for the greatest distance traveled off-Earth, the space agency said. The rover surpassed the previous world record of 24.2 miles, which was set in...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentUp to half a mile of land is being lost every 50 years due to coastal erosion, as Sian Lloyd reports.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyRitot is the first projection watch, a completely different, original timepiece, inspired by future technologies.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy: John Varrasi, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Published: 07/28/2014 02:24 PM EDT on LiveScience John Varrasi is a senior staff writer for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ( ASME ). He contributed this article to ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOne of these images is smaller than a period at the end of a sentence; the other is a masterpiece by Claude Monet. You might be hard-pressed to spot the difference, because researchers at Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and E...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceSardines and other small, oily fish are some of the most nutritious in the sea. Now there's another reason to eat them: Fishermen use a lot less fuel to catch them than many other kinds of seafood.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentFlamingos at a wildlife centre in Wearside produce their first egg in eight years, according to the charity that runs it.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsSir Mark Walport, the government's Chief Scientific Advisor, said that the increasingly 'interconnected' world was placing Britons at risk from imported foreign diseases
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyWorld’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge, which is 1,800-foot-long, just opened in Sochi National Park, Russia.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyIf you allow your child to eat highly processed foods like cereals, candy, and soft drinks, you might as well be feeding them artificial colors by the spoonful. A new study indicates these colors are present in amounts most parents would...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesSure, nobody really thinks of worm sperm as being cute and cuddly -- assuming one thinks about them at all -- but who would have thought they were stone cold killers?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming may hold specimens of DNA from animals who roamed thousands of years ago. Julie Meachem, a paleontologist leading the expedition into the cave, speaks with Audie Cornish about the secrets she hopes to find.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyThe magnets cluttering the face of your refrigerator may one day be used as cooling agents, according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons — quasi-particles in magnets that are collect...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays AARHUS, Denmark, July 29 (UPI) -- Studies suggest a worldwide water shortage is just 25 years away, and at least 30 to 40 percent of the globe will be struggling to meet supply demands by 2020.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHuman beings sometimes have a troubling inability to hold two thoughts in mind at the same time. This is true not only when the two thoughts contradict each other but even when they simply appear to be in conflict with each other but act...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA small cadre of officers is responsible for keeping America's nukes on alert 24/7. Here's a peek into their world, and what it takes to do the job.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademy“Fist bumping” transmits significantly fewer bacteria than either handshaking or high-fiving, while still addressing the cultural expectation of hand-to-hand contact between patients and clinicians, according to a study published in the ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from National Geographic NewsThe deadly virus devastating West Africa likely will make it across the Atlantic, but the U.S. is better able to deal with it.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's decade-old Mars rover Opportunity has set a new off-Earth, off-road distance record, logging just over 25 miles (40 km) on the surface of the Red Planet to surpass the benchmark set in 1973 by a Russian pro...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyA new study from scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and colleagues confirms rising levels of water vapor in the upper troposphere – a key amplifier of global warming – will intensify...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comRichard Tomkins TOULOUSE, France, July 29 (UPI) -- Airbus Defense and Space receives order from the Brazilian Air Force.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesWe take as little as 100 milliseconds to “read” a face for traits such as trustworthiness, but the consequences of such judgments often are far from fleeting, so a group of scientists set out to find out what drives these impressions.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAdam Conover from "Adam Ruins Everything" is here to, well, ruin everything for all you purebred dog lovers by giving the lowdown on how breeding can just be some good, clean fun borderline animal abuse. How? Let's just say Frankenstein ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyScientists using mission data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Their analysis suggests it is possible for liquid water to reach from the moon’s...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserDr. Sheik Umar Khan, one of the leading doctors fighting Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak, died today of the virus in yet another high-profile casualty , reports the BBC . The death of the man hailed by the government as a "national hero" c...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 29 (UPI) -- Researchers are gathering a greater understanding of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill's footprint, and it's "deeper and wider" than they originally thought.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceResearchers found that a class of chemicals similar to nicotine used on corn and soy farms have run off into streams and rivers in the Midwest. There they may be harming aquatic life, like insects.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyOnly 8.2% of our DNA does something biologically important, which means that over 90% of the rest may be completely worthless according to geneticists at Oxford University.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > ScienceVideos that evoke the tingling sensation of the “autonomous sensory meridian response” are popular on the Web, but scientists are only beginning to understand what might be involved.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThat strong, sturdy handshake your grandpa taught you isn't the cleanest way to greet someone, scientists say. So should doctors and nurses in hospitals start bumping fist?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyBig wins can happen in small places. The West Virginia State Supreme Court finalized a big blow to the biotech giant Monsanto this month, finishing a settlement causing Monsanto to pay $93 million to the tiny town of Nitro, West Virginia...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyCompanies like Tyson Foods, Cargill, Inc., and Perdue Farms Inc. dump their garbage—more than 206 million pounds of it—into our water almost every year and leave others to worry about the clean-up. Now, as the Environmental Protection Ag...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHumans have been searching for signs of life on other planets at least since the 1960s, when scientists began scanning the heavens for radio signals that might be evidence of extraterrestrial beings. Scientists even have tried to reach o...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentScientists have separated a particle from one of its physical properties - proving a theory known as the "quantum Cheshire Cat".
