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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comThe first test will take place in November on the launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, while the second will be an in-flight trial originating from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Space News reported today (...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comEurope's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting lab on Aug. 12. There will be a number of opportunities to see both the space station and the cargo ship streaking across the night sky.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comA test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft was successfully hauled from the Pacific Ocean onboard a U.S. Navy ship.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NSF NewsConstruction of the highly anticipated Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) can begin now that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has finalized funding. To be located in Chile, LSST is a proposed 8-meter wide-field survey telescope ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowA red-footed tortoise Ltshears Tortoises are using their cleverness to do more than just win long distance races against hares–now they’re moving into the field of touchscreen technology. Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Lincoln...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowThe Vizzies! NSF /Popular Science Here at Popular Science , we’re big fans of visualizations—those often beautiful and always illuminating intersections of science and art. So we’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Nationa...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Genetics NewsScientists have described the molecular blueprint of a surveillance 'machine' that protects bacteria from viral infections.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NSF NewsThe National Science Board (NSB) will meet Aug. 13-14, 2014, to address science and engineering policy of interest to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Members of the media and the public are invited to public portions of the meetin...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanDeep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by mid-century will be needed to avert the worst of global warming that is already harming all continents, a draft U.N. report showed. The... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanFederal forecasters on Thursday downgraded their outlook for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting "below normal" activity with seven to 12 named storms, no more than two of which... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comBlack holes may have grown incredibly rapidly in the newborn universe, perhaps helping explain why they appear so early in cosmic history. Early black hole may have sucked matter in from all around, rather than just from an accretion disk.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comThe solar system coalesced from a huge cloud of dust and gas that was isolated from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy for up to 30 million years before the sun's birth, a new study published online today (Aug. 7) in the journal Science su...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanStrategies for collision avoidance, acceptance and observance -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowOil Spill. A ship floats amongst the oil slick from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Photo was taken in June 2010. kris krüg via Flickr CC By 2.0 By day Arden Warner is a physicist at the Fermi National Laboratory, working on the next ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific American[View the story "Skulls, Elephants and How To Teach Science" on Storify] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comA NASA climate-and-weather satellite captured the rare sight of twin storms Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio from space as the swirling cyclones headed for Hawaii.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Genetics NewsA fundamental chemical pathway that all plants use to create an essential amino acid needed by all animals to make proteins has now been traced to two groups of ancient bacteria. Researchers describe in a new article how they traced the ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Wired ScienceHundreds of feet underwater, where dim rays of sunlight mix with flickers from bioluminescent fish, lanternsharks rely on their sensitive eyes to survive. A new study shows how their eyes have adapted.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comTexas is offering the private space company SpaceX more than $15 million in incentives to build a new launch facility at the southernmost tip of the Lone Star State.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comPreventing shark attacks doesn't require culling sharks. A new study finds that a shark catch-and-release program in Brazil dramatically decreased, by 97%, the number of attacks on humans.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe spacecraft, due in 2020, will have a reverse fuel cell to produce oxygen for fuel—or to breathe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanAn astronomy-related activity from Science Buddies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Genetics NewsResearchers have identified cells’ unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large-scale cell surveys can be done much mor...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe U.S. lags behind much of the world in investing in Africa's energy development -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanEl Niño conditions are still trying to form in the Pacific Ocean -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new Finnish study discovers that aggressive adolescents are more likely to drink, and drink more, than their peers. Researchers also found, surprisingly, that depression and anxiety were not linked to increased alcohol use. Investigato...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new study of how female college students handle unwanted catcalls, demeaning stares, and sexual advances finds that some women may benefit from counseling to relieve internal distress and enhance coping skills. Researchers discovered s...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comIt's not every day that scientists identify a new mammal — especially one that can grow to be more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) long. But researchers recently named a new species of cetacean: the Australian humpback dolphin, Sousa sahulensis.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA Dutch study has found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a fourfold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and that stroke and other vascular damage are important risk facto...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanAlexithymia, a little-known personality trait, reveals the profound power of emotional awareness over health -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comEurope's Rosetta probe made its historic arrival at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko yesterday (Aug. 6), making it the first human-built craft to rendezvous with a comet.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comVirgin Galactic's commercial SpaceShipTwo will soon launch onto — and, in at least one example, out of — the pages of seven books thanks to a partnership between the private spaceflight company and DK, a publisher of illustrated referenc...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comAlien planets could host life well into their old age if they have companion worlds tugging at them, researchers say.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new study provides strong evidence of noticeable differences in brain function through the day for older adults. Canadian researchers discovered older adults perform better on demanding cognitive tasks in the morning. Moreover, brain i...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research finds that baby boomers are driven to exercise — but that doesn’t mean they like it. It turns out boomers view exercise as a “need” rather than a fun activity. In a study recently published in the Int...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Wired ScienceThe thing hampering efforts to quell the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa and treat Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, two Americans with the disease now at Emory University Hospital in Georgia, is that the FDA has approved no medications ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NSF NewsPele. Her name brings visions of fire, lightning, wind--and volcanoes. Of the ancient Hawaiian goddesses, Pele, the "lady in the red dress," is the best known. Locals believe that her powers formed Hawaii's chain of volcanic is...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comSpace may seem calm, but it is a more hostile environment than that on Earth.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceFelicia Chou, NASA Headquarters and Donna Weaver / Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope , a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a “zombie star” after an ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comWith no small amount of irony, the tables have turned with research discovering that we need whales for a healthy marine ecosystem, or at least their poop.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceLori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center By the end of September, NASA aerospace engineer Jason Budinoff is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3-D-manufactured components. “As ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Anybody who has ever cleaned out a closet knows the feeling of finding some long-forgotten item, but scientists at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia have taken it to a next level – r...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The English playwright William Congreve wrote that "music has charms to soothe a savage breast," meaning that music could calm the nerves and emotions of the most agitated person. But...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceGuy Webster, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dwayne Brown, NASA Headquarters NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted the timing of its orbit around Mars as a defensive precaution for a comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 1...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsHuman milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it's also medicine. That's the central premise of a series of articles in a neonatal nursing journal's special issue focused on human milk for sick newborns. The articles are ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsLong-term survival from pancreatic cancer has failed to improve in 40 years -- with the outlook remaining the lowest of the 21 most common cancers, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsBrief, acute psychological stress promoted healing in mouse models of three different types of skin irritations, in a study led by UC San Francisco researchers.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAnalysis of the gut microbiome more successfully distinguished healthy individuals from those with precancerous adenomatous polyps and those with invasive colorectal cancer compared with assessment of clinical risk factors and fecal occu...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsMutations in a gene that helps regulate when genes are switched on and off in cells have been found to cause rare cases of Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer occurring in children.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers from the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered new information about the genetic alterations that may contribute to the development of a subtype breast cancer typically associated wit...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from National Geographic NewsCat Tracker uses GPS to reveal your cat's secret outdoor excursions—as well as help scientists figure out their impact on the environment.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA creation made of composite paper can fold and assemble itself and start working without intervention. Such robots could be deployed cheaply and quickly.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters - Scientists who believed they had started to decipher links between a GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine and the sleep disorder narcolepsy have retracted a study after saying they cannot replicate their findings.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe processor, named TrueNorth, may eventually excel at calculations that stump today’s supercomputers.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAncient Japanese art inspires researchers to design self-folding robots that behave like 'real-life transformers'.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceStart with paper; add Shrinky Dinks, a microprocessor, heat, and voila! It's not quite that easy. But this engineering project might one day lead to a printable, flat spacecraft that folds itself.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsBOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists say they have developed a low-cost robot prototype made from paper and children's trinkets that can assemble itself and perform a task without human help.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fifth of six U.S. test sites chosen to perform research on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, has started operations in Rome, New York, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceHawaii is poised to take its first direct hit from a hurricane in decades, with two large storms moving through the Pacific.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceBy playing with the physics of wing color, scientists get a glimpse into how butterflies get their colors, and how quickly they can evolve from brown to brilliant.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe toxin-creating organisms have been around for billions of years, and modern conditions are ideal for them to flourish.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceIn the case of an elderly patient with multiple medical problems, having a team of health workers deliver care to the home can be cheaper than expensive stays in nursing homes and emergency rooms.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceNASA’s Cassini spacecraft is trying to help scientists understand the seemingly supernatural shape of a gigantic hurricane, larger than the Earth, on the solar system’s most photogenic planet.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from National Geographic NewsMountaineers debate whether an all-female team's summit of K2 counts as a first.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAll power, including heating and lighting, was lost for 19 hours at a research station in the Antarctic housing 13 people, it is revealed.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe government says its badger vaccination project in Gloucestershire is still a vital part of its plan to tackle bovine TB.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA full-scale tidal power generator aimed at showing the potential for renewable energy is unveiled in Pembrokeshire.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceTether a balloon to the floor of a car, step on the gas, and watch the balloon do something it shouldn't. Ask why. Then discover the answer. Then feel smart.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAlmost 100 crane chicks brought over from Germany have been released as part of a project to reintroduce the birds to the UK.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceMillions of people around the world face difficult choices at the end of their lives. Researchers delved into whether stereotypes affect medical decisions when it comes to terminal illness.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAn endangered beetle is sighted in Cambridgeshire for the first time in more than 40 years.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe "ick factor" has kept consumers in the U.S. from eating crickets, locusts and mealworms. To convert skeptics, bug-food advocates are trying to win them over with sleek packages and clever names.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesHurricane Iselle weakened from a Category 4 on Monday to a Category 1 on Wednesday, but the storm could still be at hurricane strength with gusts of up to 90 miles per hour when it hits Hawaii on Thursday, according to the U.S. National ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Hubble Space Telescope observed a weak supernova 110 million light-years away and found something unusual: a zombie star. Usually a supernova, the explosion of a dying star, destroys the star, but Hubble captured what appears to be a...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesThe World Health Organization started its two-day emergency committee meeting today to discuss West Africa’s Ebola virus outbreak, the deadliest in history. One thing the International Health Regulation (IHR) Emergency Committee, a panel...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesWith over 900 deaths since March 25, the World Health Organization has declared this the worst Ebola outbreak in history , and governments around the world are acting to protect the health of their citizens.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Rosetta comet rendezvous is a success after the European Space Agency guided the spacecraft to its target Tuesday. From its launch in 2004 to hibernation in 2011 to waking up in January 2014, Rosetta has spent more than a decade chas...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesDuring most summers at Cleveland’s public swimming pools, the demand for a refreshing dip is so high that lines form outside the gates. But this year it's been relatively quiet, with lower-than-normal temperatures hampering attendance as...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIt's long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more recently identified, less common gene can do the same. Mutations in the gene can make breast cancer up to nine times more lik...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesA pilot program starting this summer will tackle two environmental problems posed by thousands of cargo ships that use the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach each year: The hulking vessels are major sources of air pollution and the ship...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThere's an old joke: "How many baby monkeys do you have take from their mothers to prove that maternal deprivation is harmful?" The answer: "As many as the NIH will pay for." The joke is old because it refers to the 1970s work of Harry H...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesMan has pumped tens of thousands of tons of mercury into the world’s oceans in the last 500 years, nearly tripling the amount of the toxic heavy metal in sea water, according to a study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAn experimental medicine that has been called a “secret serum” is being given to two Americans infected with Ebola.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAnt colonies have their own personalities, which are shaped by their environment., a US study suggests.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAmid crippling drought, many California communities are fighting not the cultivation of marijuana plants — which is legal, though subject to restrictions — but the growers’ use of water.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesThe FDA has authorized use of an unapproved Ebola virus test under a special emergency-use provision, although efforts to develop a vaccine for the deadly illness are unlikely to bear fruit until 2015, officials say.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesWith the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of researchers has spotted a "zombie star" lurking in deep space. What is this astronomical equivalent of the walking dead, and how did it get there?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedOne of Britain’s most important archaeological sites – a vast Iron Age hill fort at Hambledon Hill, Dorset – has been acquired by the National Trust.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceBy October, the state will have the most ambitious commercial food waste ban in the U.S. Institutions that produce more than a ton of waste a week will have to find new uses for their scraps.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentTechnology giants are using their burgeoning wallets to build new headquarters - what kind of buildings do they want?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyNASA will include MIT’s MOXIE experiment on the Mars 2020 rover mission to study how to create oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer Published: 08/06/2014 01:03 PM EDT on LiveScience The "experimental serum" that doctors gave to two American patients with Ebola is in very limited supply, and will not be available for general use, acco...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comMyths and rumors about the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa are hindering health workers from doing their jobs abroad and causing unnecessary panic and paranoia in the United States. Here's the truth about some of the most common misc...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & SciencePretty much everyone thinks that rewards bring happiness, but it's not the size of the payoff that matters, researchers say. Rather it's whether the reward exceeds your immediate expectations.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy Derick Snyder and Daniel Flynn MONROVIA/DAKAR, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut a m...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyThis alien looking creature, lives here on Earth… See what it is.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedScientists have identified a new species of dinosaur, with the help of its 200-million-year-old fossilised bones.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedScientists have identified a new species of dinosaur, with the help of its 200-million-year-old fossilised bones.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIt's only been a few hours since Europe's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at a comet in deep space, but the robotic probe is already beaming incredible close-up photos of its target. The latest images from the Rosetta probe reveal details on ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe World Health Organization also said it was convening a panel to evaluate the possibility of using experimental vaccines to combat the outbreak.
