- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from LiveScience.comThough a slim majority of Americans favor marijuana legalization, Americans are still sharply divided on the health benefits and risks of the drug, a new survey suggests
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsFor the first time dark matter may have been observed interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity. Observations of colliding galaxies have picked up the first intriguing hints about the nature of t...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsScientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrated in field experiments with Nicotiana attenuata plants that it is sufficient to alter the expression of certain defense genes in individual plants t...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIt's estimated that one in three children with disabilities experiences some form of maltreatment. A new study of British children shows that the disclosures of children with intellectual disabilities are as accurate as those described b...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from New Scientist - EvolutionThe massive jaws that male stag beetles use in combat with rivals evolved the way they did because they hardly hamper the insects getting airborne
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIf regulators limit executive pay, boards and CEO gain more collaborative relationships that can lead to more effective, less costly incentives.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Science BlogStimulating both major branches of the immune system halts tumor growth more effectively. The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign […]
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsMitochondrial disorders, rooted in malfunctions within tiny cellular power plants, are notorious complex, with few effective treatments. But by using existing human drugs to improve metabolism in microscopic worms, scientists have set th...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn some cases the abuse took place in special education institutions, the British Sociological Association’s annual conference in Glasgow was told today [Wednesday 15 April 2015].
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Discovery NewsThe discovery that female chimps stab prey with handcrafted spears suggests how the earliest humans first made weapons and hunted.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from SPACE.comThrough 25 years on-orbit, the Space Telescope has repeatedly changed our understanding of the Universe. Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, now NASA's Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate, illuminates why we love this instrument.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from RedOrbit News - SpaceChuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck Close but no cigar for SpaceX on its latest attempt to land a rocket booster on a barge at sea for recovery and reuse, as the made it to its destination but landed “too hard” to survive. Follo...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from LiveScience.comThe western gray whale now holds the record as the mammal with the longest known migration, researchers say.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Psych Central News
A new study suggests participation in meaningful social activities may mitigate normal mental declines among seniors. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led researchers found that after two years in […] - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA team led by Shree K. Nayar, computer science professor at Columbia Engineering, has invented a prototype video camera that is the first to be fully self-powered -- it can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Discovery NewsThe murder trial of a man in a high-profile disappearance of a young boy hinges on whether his confession was true. Continue reading →
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesIn common parlance, the phrase "global climate change" is often used to describe how present-day climate is changing in response to human activities. But climate has also varied naturally and sometimes quite rapidly in the past, with imp...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from SPACE.comNASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has returned its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. The new photo was taken on April 9, from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers).
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Universe Today
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a 24 hour delay due to threatening clouds, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared spectacularly to orbit from the Florida Space coast today, April 14, carrying a Dragon on a science supply run bound for th... - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe sound, light and temperature levels in pediatric hospital wards often vary, highlighting the lack of consistent environmental standards, according to a new study.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Psych Central News
Cannabis oil shows great promise for reducing seizures in severely epileptic children who have not responded to other forms of treatment, according to new research to be presented at the […] - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from SPACE.comStrange bright spots on the surface of the Ceres continue to mystify scientists even as NASA's Dawn spacecraft is beaming the best maps yet of the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers from Aarhus University have for the first time linked a new protein with malignant melanomas. The protein is detected in aggressive malignant melanoma cells and might be used to predict whether and how the cancer will spread....
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from SPACE.comSkywatchers across parts of the United States and southern Canada have a chance to see a Dragon capsule built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX 'chase' the International Space Station across the sky this week ahead of a Friday mo...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThanks to accelerator advances, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a powerful nuclear physics research facility has just shattered its own record for producing polarized proton collisions at 200-giga-electron-volt collision energy. The...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from New Scientist - EvolutionMost chimps that use jabbing weapons to hunt prey are female, a pattern of behaviour that may also have been true of the first humans
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesSpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it upright on an ocean platform failed Tuesday, after a successful launch of its cargo mission to space.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Psych Central News
New psychological research supports parents’ efforts to have their children learn self-control. As reported in the journal Psychological Science, investigators found that children with high self-control were much more likely […] - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Discovery NewsA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the company's Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today, then turned around and nearly pulled off a soft landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA long-term study evaluated four groundcover management systems in combination with composted poultry litter, commercial organic fertilizer, or a nonfertilized control to determine ability to alter near-surface soil quality in a new orga...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNew method allows production of expensive grapefruit aroma Nootkatone biotechnologically from cheap sugar using a 'turbo-yeast.' The versatile, healthy and tasty substance is used in soft drinks, pharmaceutical products or even as an ins...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from LiveScience.comHealth apps are everywhere, but do they do more harm than good? Doctors are debating whether such self-monitoring mobile technology is useless — or even dangerous.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study published in Women's Health Issues explores whether there are differences in outcomes between men and women receiving home care.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsA celebrity mountain lion transformed a wealthy hillside neighborhood into a paparazzi-like scene of scrambling photographers before eluding everyone Tuesday and quietly slipping away.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from SPACE.comSpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the company's Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (April 14) and then returned to Earth, nearly pulling off an unprecedented landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic O...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA stainless steel mesh with a high-tech coating captures oil, but water passes right through. With further development, the researchers say, 'you could potentially catch an oil spill with a net.'
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsAstronomers believe they might have observed the first potential signs of dark matter interacting with a force other than gravity.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ScienceChuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck Deep-sea scavengers known as zombie worms have been around for approximately 100 million years, and may have had a tremendous impact on what types of fossils remain today, according to new res...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from RedOrbit News - SpaceChuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck After two years worth of work by some 300 researchers, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) project have unveiled the first in a series of dark matter maps showing the distribution of the mysterious s...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known. read more
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA study of adolescents has found that youth who are able to mentally take a step back from their point of view become less upset than peers who reflect on a negative situation from a self-immersed perspective. The study also found that c...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsDisabled girls and women are vulnerable to abuse by carers and partners because of their isolation and physical incapacity, new research says.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsRecent media attention has focused on American actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes surgically removed after genetic testing for such cancers. A study led by a team from the Research Institute of the ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsSleep-disordered breathing can hamper memory processes in children, according to a new study.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from Science BlogAtmospheric greenhouse gases have continued to rise during recent years, yet global mean surface temperature has shown no clear warming since about 2000. This slowdown in surface warming, often referred […]
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn a small study, Johns Hopkins researchers found that DNA from the sperm of men whose children had early signs of autism shows distinct patterns of regulatory tags that could contribute to the condition.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA new study suggests that an investigational drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) may repair myelin, the fatty material that protects nerves and is damaged in MS, according to a new study.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsMost chimps that use jabbing weapons to hunt prey are female, a pattern of behaviour that may also have been true of the first humans
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by which an anti-HIV drug induces lethal mutations in the virus's genetic material. The findings from the University of Chicago and the M...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on April 9 and downlinked to Earth the following day. It is the first color image ever made of...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyA study performed at the Institute for Environmental Science of the University of Koblenz-Landau evaluated for the first time comprehensive global insecticide contamination data for agricultural surface waters using the legally-accepted ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Inside ScienceThe color-shifting displays prevalent in nature could puzzle potential predators.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.com"Yep. Nope. Very definitely." Kathryn Schulz, a writer for The New Yorker, heard that seemingly-contradictory response to a question recently. And once she started listening for it, she heard it everywhere: people agreeing by saying "No,...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Physics NewsWhen it comes to supramolecular chemistry, the carboxylic acid group (and its conjugate carboxylate base) is one of the chemist's most flexible friends. In pairs, they act as supramolecular ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science TweetsThe history of how we came to revere Abraham Lincoln #LincolnsLastDay http://smithmag.co/tgaclx pic.twitter.com/1rw2gGdNMh
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsBERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - Bioengineers in California have developed a system that allows human heart cells to function outside the body, a development that could potentially prove a powerful tool
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceWhen your Peeps have gone stale, it's time to donate their marshmallow bodies to science — specifically, for measuring the speed of light.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsA new experimental drug, called anti-LINGO-1, has been found to repair myelin, radically improving nerve signalling
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe SpaceX supply ship is on its way to the ISS with a supply of groceries and a specially designed espresso machine.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science TweetsNew drug could reverse the damage of multiple sclerosis http://bit.ly/1EBmSLK
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Physics NewsThe efficient conversion of light into electricity plays a crucial role in many technologies, ranging from cameras to solar cells. It also forms an essential step in data communication applications, ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaA TV presenter in Singapore has sparked an unlikely viral craze after posting a maths problem that was posed to the nation’s children. Initially confusing but very doable, it has sparked thousands of comments and shares — particularly wh...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from MyScienceAcademySince the Marillac site in France was unearthed, the discovery of fossil remains of animals (90% belonging to reindeer), humans and Mousterian tools has enabled the site to be identified as a hunting area for Neanderthals (Homo neanderth...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays VIENNA, April 14 (UPI) -- In a recent study, scientists in Austria explained how nature preserves can be effectively monitored from the air, using aircraft and laser technology.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from - Science RSS FeedJurassic Park has a lot to answer for. It made the idea seem so simple. Take the DNA from a microscopic drop of dinosaur blood, preserved for 65 million years in the gut of a mosquito trapped in fossilised amber. Carry out a bit of jigge...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Physics NewsThe quality that makes perovskite attractive for photovoltaics makes them near perfect for lasers
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National Geographic NewsThe female, a member of a critically endangered population, swam across the Pacific from Russia to Mexico.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from International Business TimesU.S. stocks closed mostly higher Tuesday, rebounding from early losses, after gains in oil helped boost the energy sector nearly 2 percent. After the closing bell, shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) jumped more than 3 percent to $...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyLook at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human’s. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that primates, Neanderthals, archaic humans—any species, for that matter—don’t possess: a chin. “In some wa...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaEurope's comet lander Philae has remained obstinately silent since a new bid was launched to communicate with it, mission chiefs said Tuesday, but chances for contact were improving daily.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
You'll find roundworms in the compost heap in your backyard. But you will need a microscope to see them well. - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceItaly is sending a high-tech espresso machine to the International Space Station. And NASA is worried it might get be too popular.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > ScienceIn a small step toward cheaper trips to space, a first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket hit its landing target but did not survive intact.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from International Business TimesOne of the most talked-about American TV dramas this fall might air in France and Germany before it broadcasts in the United States. On Monday, NBCUniversal announced that it has entered into a deal with German media company Mediengruppe...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comNope, it isn't magic, and the pilot isn't wildly flapping her arms up and down. Thankfully, the physics that keeps an airplane aloft are a bit more down to earth. In simple terms, planes are held aloft by lift, the force generated when a...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentScientists have uncovered a vital new insight into the nature of dark matter.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, has captured its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Anthropology-News
We often looking for signs or at least following the signs, metaphorically, during the course of ethnographic fieldwork. But, performing an excavation of signage, literally, from our fieldnotes and field images can help us to track the m... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserThe human chin is something of a mystery to scientists. How, exactly, did we end up with a seemingly useless structure at the bottom of our face? One theory, as Smithsonian reported in 2012, is that they offer some support as we chew. Sm...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceThe surface of Mars may still hold water - albeit the saltiest variety possible - according to scientists, after Nasa's Curiosity rover found evidence of liquid brine on the planet.Researchers have detected the presence of a chemical...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RIA NovostiThe chairman of a robotics-oriented nonprofit claims that contrary to popular belief, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, also known as "killer robots," will not have the edge over human combatants, and can actually make things worse by s...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaSpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it upright on an ocean platform failed Tuesday, the company said, after a successful launch of its cargo mission to space.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyThe scientists studied light scattering from a glass cylinder filled with water. In essence, such an experiment represents a two-dimensional analog of a classical problem of scattering from a homogeneous sphere (Mie scattering), the solu...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NYT > ScienceA question of logic proves baffling. Can you figure it out?
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentScientists quantify the emissions from Iceland's spectacular Bardarbunga-Holuhraun eruption.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RIA NovostiHackers infiltrated the computer network shared by law enforcement departments in Maine, then forced the cops to pay a Bitcoin ransom to decrypt the files the hackers were holding hostage.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National Geographic NewsCougar made famous by National Geographic photo has spent three years in urban area.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy: Rachael Rettner Published: April 13, 2015 02:21pm ET A California man tore a tendon in his thumb after playing a puzzle game on his smartphone too much, according to a new report of the case. The case is interesting because such inju...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyResearchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shed new light on synesthesia – the effect of hearing colours, seeing sounds and other cross-sensory phenomena. Lead Researcher, ANU Research School of Psychology’s...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science Tweets#Dragon's solar arrays have deployed, spacecraft now safely on its way to the space station.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserShark attacks like the one that killed a young surfer on Sunday are rare, but according to experts, they're only going to increase in number. In fact, the rate of "unprovoked" shark attacks has been steadily rising for the last century. ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesElectronic health records were supposed to make life better for patients and doctors -- getting rid of bulky and messy paper files, streamlining delivery of care and organizing medical information so that scientists can use it to make di...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RIA NovostiIn a move to expand existing internet addresses, domain names ending with .porn, .sucks, and .adult will soon be available for the public to purchase. But not before celebrities and companies, worried about their brands, scoop them up fi...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceAn heir of one of the world's richest families is banking on 3D "printing" of meat as the next big industry of the future.Justin Rockefeller, a great-great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, is "a relatively small...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science TweetsWatch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lift off with 4,300 pounds of supplies @BI_Video http://read.bi/1FGyMQz pic.twitter.com/0UEJkV38iM
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National Geographic NewsWith a video showing an Assyrian palace's destruction, the Islamic State wants to establish itself as heir to a legacy of "idol destruction."
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science Tweets.@SpaceX's Falcon 9 hit its mark again! And again, it hit it a little too hard http://pops.ci/z4i7wE pic.twitter.com/sHbPHmxqja
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 14 (UPI) -- A recent survey of some 100,000 galaxies turned up no infrared evidence of advanced alien civilizations.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top Science TweetsSpitzer, OGLE spot planet deep within our galaxy http://bit.ly/1FNd1UG
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comA delightful-looking robot called "MEDi," or Medicine and Engineering Designing Intelligence, is being used to help make doctor's visits less painful -- literally. The Alberta Children's Hospital in Canada purchased four of the MEDi robo...
