- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comSilkpunk brings ox sinew and silk to a world of imagined technologies.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.comSince the early 1900s, paleontologists have believed that the dinosaur genus Brontosaurus (thunder lizard) was in fact the Apatosaurus. Now, a new study, led by Dr Emanuel Tschopp of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Museu da Lourinhã...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsA new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that many women diagnosed with breast cancer are concerned about the genetic risk of developing other cancers themselves or of a loved one developing cancer. r...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
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- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science BlogBodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed the secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century Europe, according to a research team led by the […]
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Discovery NewsThe Dead Sea is drying up, and gaping sinkholes are appearing in its wake at an alarming rate.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsUse of neonicotinoids, a class of controversial insecticides, has risen dramatically, posing threat to pollinating insects.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsBy determining the structure of a common respiratory bacterium's toxin, researchers have taken a step toward development of drugs and vaccines for reactive airway diseases. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is spread by sneezing, coughing, talking a...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comVery low levels of radioactive isotopes leaked from Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have been detected along the North American coast for the first time.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe exceptional properties of tiny molecular cylinders known as carbon nanotubes have tantalized researchers for years because of the possibility they could serve as a successors to silicon in laying the logic for smaller, faster and che...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesResearchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio today revealed the molecular structure of the cytotoxin from Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a widespread, highly contagious bacterium that in...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn four years following the 2008 recession, the US coal industry lost more than 49,000 jobs, while the natural gas, solar, and wind industries together created nearly four times that amount, according to a new. Few of the new jobs were a...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsThe effects of general relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year, distorted light to create this beautiful ring-like image of a distant galaxy
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesAs we approach the miniaturization limits of conventional electronics, alternatives to silicon-based transistors—the building blocks of the multitude of electronic devices we've come to rely on—are being hotly pursued.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comMore U.S. teens are using long-term forms of birth control that they don’t have to remember every day, but these methods are still relatively uncommon.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from SPACE.comLiving on comets requires great care — the gravity is so weak that you could easily jump off the frozen bodies and into space.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Universe Today
If you’ve ever been impressed by the brilliance of Venus or the pulchritude of the Pleiades, you won’t want to miss what’s happening in the western sky this this week. Venus has been inching closer and closer to the s... - Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial IntelligenceTuesday, April 7, 2015 from Universe Today
It’s become a kind of legend, like Newton and the apple or George Washington and the cherry tree. One day in 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with colleagues at the Fuller Lodge at Los Alamos National Laboratory i... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists are using single-walled carbon nanotube composites (SWCNTs) as a material in "unconventional" computing. By studying the mechanical and electrical properties of the materials, they discovered a correlation between SWCNT concen...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsBodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed the secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century Europe, according to a research team led by the University of Warwick. read more
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsSeveral big carbon emitters, including the EU and US, have filed plans for cutting emissions ahead of a UN deadline in the run-up to the Paris climate summit
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsAbdominal pain, fever and unexplained bleeding - which are commonly believed to indicate infection with the Ebola virus -- are not significantly predictive of the disease, according to the results of a study examining a new Ebola Predict...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsConsumers are one step closer to benefiting from packaging that could give simple text warnings when food is contaminated with deadly pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella , and patients could soon receive real-time diagnoses of infectio...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsThe sudden closures of big-box stores like Future Shop and Target may make it seem like online shopping is killing real-world stores. But shoppers are actually engaging in "web-to-store" shopping—buying offline after comparing prices onl...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsThe Hubble Space Telescope has served for more than two decades as the sharpest eyes ever to peer into the universe.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comA new study identifies a number of mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that may help doctors provide women with more precise estimates of their cancer risk.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Universe Today
Millions of viewers across the western United States and across the Pacific, to include Australia and New Zealand were treated to a fine Easter weekend lunar eclipse on Saturday. And while this was the third of the ongoing tetrad of four... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe self-organization properties of DNA-like molecular fragments four billion years ago may have guided their own growth into repeating chemical chains long enough to act as a basis for primitive life, says a new study by the University ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsAstronomer Zoltan Levay uses the Hubble Space Telescope to create stunning images of cosmic landscapes.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsBumblebees trained to go to feeders labeled with a certain color or pattern cue but avoid differently labeled alternative feeders did so when feeders were arranged horizontally but didn't when arranged vertically. Researchers believe thi...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsSuicide figures may not be as accurate as they are reported, with key Western countries having a higher suicide rate than that reported in official figures, a new study concludes. "The tragedy of suicide is double-edged, the loss of the ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsThe gases used to knock out surgery patients are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere, where they make a small contribution to climate change, report scientists who have detected the compounds as far afield as Antarctica. Like the well...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comA remarkable heat wave warmed Antarctica's northernmost peninsula to slightly above 63 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius) two weeks ago — a record high for the normally cold continent.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
Eistein Rings are more than just an incredible novelty. It’s also a very rare phenomenon that can offer insights into dark matter, dark energy, the nature of distant galaxies, and the curvature of the Universe itself. The phenomenon, cal...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsFruit flies appear to make memories of the calories in the food they eat, an observation that may have implications for weight control in humans.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsInvestigators have published what is believed to be the first reported successful use of stereotactic body radiation therapy for an often deadly complication of kidney cancer. The stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) was used t...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Discovery NewsThe hard to see but easily heard small frogs called Spring Peepers start breeding from March to June.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesBacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that "hang out on their own," says molecular biologist Kevin Griffith of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However, scientists now realize that in fact, bacteria exhibi...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsBacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that 'hang out on their own,' says a molecular biologist. However, scientists now realize that in fact, bacteria exhibit social behavior within groups. In a new paper, researc...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from SPACE.comA new satellite map shows where lightning flashes most often on Earth.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsIn the world of the tiny zebrafish, the predatory red tiger oscar is the stuff of nightmares. And while the species has no natural reason to fear robots, researchers at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering have published the first s...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsResearch that focused on open-angle glaucoma provided study results that are uncertain, claiming that information on important outcomes is lacking. As such, no added benefit can be determined for the fixed combination of tafluprost and t...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science BlogThe polar bear (Ursus maritimus), one of the largest carnivorous mammals on Earth, is being made vulnerable by the series of dangers it faces. An international team has established a […]
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Universe Today
Every year since 1970, astronomers, geologists, geophysicists, and a host of other specialists have come together to participate in the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPCS). Jointly sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science BlogIn the world of the tiny zebrafish, the predatory red tiger oscar is the stuff of nightmares. And while the species has no natural reason to fear robots, researchers at […]
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from LiveScience.comA boy in Canada mysteriously became allergic to fish and nuts after he received a blood transfusion, according to a new case report.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
The Sun undergoes a type of seasonal variability with its activity waxing and waning over the course of nearly two years, according to a new study by a team of researchers led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)....
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn rare cases, children can develop anaphylactic allergies to previously tolerated foods after receiving blood products via transfusion, report the authors of a case study. Blood donors who have food allergies can transfer immunoglobulin...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Discovery NewsThis is one of the finest examples of an Einstein ring spotted to date, but it wasn't observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, this stunning example of general relativity in action was captured by the world's most powerful groun...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.com"If you can't find me," Meng Zhaoguo said over a cell phone whose signal faded from its isolation, "Just head to the last house on the logging commune lane. Or ask anyone who's around." Everyone knows the first Chinese person to allegedl...
- Russian Industrial Giant Rostec Makes Forays Into Africa Amid Increasing U.S. And European SanctionsTuesday, April 7, 2015 from International Business TimesA massive Russian state-owned conglomerate, is set to build a $4 billion oil refinery in Uganda and a $3 billion platinum project in Zimbabwe as western sanctions continue to put pressure on the economy at home. Rostec, which has holdin...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserFor the first time since Abraham Lincoln was a young man, there are wild bison in Illinois, and ecologists were thrilled to welcome a new calf this week. The baby bison was born at the Nachusa Grasslands prairie restoration preserve just...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThanks to a quirk of fate, two seemingly unrelated events happened this past Monday that, when taken together, shine a light on the most vital partnerships in our collective fight against cancer. The first was the public opening of the n...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaWhile Indian law makers are still debating whether putting pictures on cigarette packets is necessary or not and what size should such pictures be, a new study by a Washington State University, Vancouver, psychologist has found that youn...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from - Science RSS FeedScientists have dramatically increased the efficiency of producing clean hydrogen fuel from plant waste in a breakthrough that could one day lead to petrol stations being replaced by a network of roadside “bioreactors” for refuelling cars.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
I've previously discussed the ethical ideas associated with Peter Singer. Now meet Jean Vanier. - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Science TweetsFrom SN 1965, a 1960s study probed birth control pills’ effectiveness in preventing pregnancy: http://ow.ly/LgEpS pic.twitter.com/zYPjqb7MJw
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from RIA NovostiActivision Blizzard, makers of the popular massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has blocked access to Battle.net for Crimean users, a statement on the service's official forum noted Tuesday.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe iconic name Brontosaurus, which was once used to describe a titanic family of dinosaurs, is being revived after it was killed off more than a century ago.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThis musician is really tuned in to how to put a smile on these kids' faces. Through a nonprofit organization called the Ukulele Kids Club , guitarist Corey Bergman is using the instrument to bring joy and relief to hospitalized kids aro...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Physics News
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from RIA NovostiNew research proposes that if intelligent life outside Earth’s atmosphere exists, chances are it’s enormous.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from International Business TimesGwyneth Paltrow is officially off the market! According to reports the 42-year-old actress and "American Horror Story" co-creator/ TV producer Brad Falchuk made their official debut as a couple over the weeken. The duo were spotted walki...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsScientists have discovered that the same bodily process which helps fuel the body also improves memory and learning
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineWATERLOO, BELGIUM—Amateur military historian Gareth Glover of the Waterloo Association thinks he may have identified the 200-year-old remains discovered at the site of the Battle of Waterloo in 2012 by archaeologist Dominique Bosqu...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from RIA NovostiSeattle-based startup Echodyne is developing radar technology that is sophisticated enough for the military, but cheap enough to be used on privately owned cars and drones.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comMore than 1 million Californians don’t have access to clean drinking water and it has nothing to do with the historic drought that’s been ravaging the state. California’s severe drought , which entered its fourth year in October, has lef...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWhat does a young star look like? Turns out, it resembles an intergalactic Eye of Sauron . At first, anyway. A new set of before-and-after renderings released by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory show a massive star forming 4,200 ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from International Business TimesAndroid 5.0 Lollipop updates continue to trickle out to smartphones in the U.S. and the Samsung Galaxy S5 for U.S. Cellular and HTC One M8 for AT&T are the latest devices to receive the new software. The Android 5.0 update has been h...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from International Business TimesNorth Korean is out, but Iran is in. China’s Ministry of Finance said Tuesday the Islamic republic will join the United Arab Emirates in becoming founding member states of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Science TweetsCommon language & methods needed to fulfil synthetic biology's potential http://ow.ly/Li82P #synthbio pic.twitter.com/hUFQkWAAXG
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists said they have invented a cheap, long-lasting and flexible battery made of aluminum for use in smartphones that can be charged in as little as one minute.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comTalking about yourself all the time might make you a jerk, but it doesn't necessarily make you a narcissist. Although it may seem logical to assume that narcissists talk about themselves more than the average person -- after all, the per...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comA group of college students have created a custom-sized, zippy new wheelchair for two kids who are unable to walk or crawl -- and it’s one sweet ride. Five students at Brigham Young University (BYU ) developed one of the world’s smallest...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesAfter a two-year hiatus, the giant proton-smasher that discovered the Higgs boson is back in action – and ready for bigger challenges. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, successf...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from NYT > ScienceIf legislators have their way, the statue will replace that of the Rev. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Catholic priest, in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserIt's big news, quite literally. New research indicates that the Brontosaurus really did exist, some 112 years after scientists declared the opposite was true. The backstory: Paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh and his team discovered th...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsJohn Simm and David Threlfall were not enough to lift this forensic science drama, says Gerard O'Donovan
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserThe first complete skeleton retrieved from the Battle of Waterloo has been identified as a German who wouldn't be allowed in any modern army, the Sunday Times reports via the Independent . The soldier was apparently Friedrich Brandt, 23,...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineCAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—New research and imaging work has discovered erasures in The Black Book of Carmarthen , the earliest surviving medieval manuscript written solely in Welsh. The book, which contains religious and secular poetry&md...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Science TweetsHelp @PNASNews celebrate 100 years of service to #science & society. Visit the 100th Anniversary Portal for more → http://pnas100th.org
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Physics NewsAn experimental single-stranded oligonucleotide-based drug, MGN1703, comprised only of natural DNA components, stimulates the human immune system to fight infections and attack cancer cells ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from International Business Times"If you could travel back in time, would you kill Adolf Hitler and prevent World War II?" That's the type of question that gets posed over a round of drinks, on Web forums or on social media. It's also the type of question that's perfect...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from - Science RSS FeedThe Brontosaurus, known fondly as one of the largest creatures to have ever walked the planet while having had one of the smallest brains of all the dinosaurs, is back.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comDid you know that "Fly Me to the Moon", a popular song written in 1954 by Bart Howard, was originally titled "In Other Words"? First recorded by Kaye Ballard in 1954, most of those in my demographic more readily recognize Frank Sinatra's...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceWe're not talking about just a smidge. Roughly 10 percent of samples tested contained at least 10 percent cow's milk. Doctors say the diluted milk could be dangerous for babies for several reasons.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from RIA NovostiSeveral Bakersfield, California, residents were left confused after seeing a mysterious “blue light in the sky.”
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Physics NewsConsumers are one step closer to benefiting from packaging that could give simple text warnings when food is contaminated with deadly pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella, and patients could ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe liberal legal scholar Laurence H. Tribe, who taught Barack Obama at Harvard, represents the coal company Peabody Energy in its challenge to E.P.A. rules.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Science TweetsThe Brontosaurus is back! Iconic dinosaur is resurrected as its own genus! http://bit.ly/1FasJpE via @ThePeerJ @EurekAlertAAAS
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from RIA NovostiCreated by a group of renegade artists, the 100-pound bust of Edward Snowden placed in a NYC park has been removed by authorities. But in a show of solidarity, guerilla projectionists crept into Brooklyn Monday night, replacing the confi...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesSouthern California's water wholesaler is planning to wield its powerful hammer to force more urban conservation this year by cutting water deliveries.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe new research on western Canada’s glaciers had implications for predicting glacier loss around the world caused by climate change.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from National Geographic NewsFrom Vermont to California, grassroots efforts drive state actions to protect elephants and rhinos.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Science TweetsColorful new 'dwarf dragons' found in South America: http://on.natgeo.com/1DZmJl8
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A sushi restaurant in downtown Flagstaff added a Pluto roll to its menu. A yearlong exhibit celebrates the work of the amateur astronomer in the city who discovered the now-dwarf planet in 1930. And a walking tour...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from RIA NovostiDraft legislation authorizing mass digital surveillance powers by French authorities has been approved - and condemned by human rights organizations.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from National Geographic NewsAn exploding star gets brighter, and a planet makes a close pass by the Pleiades star cluster.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesTo date, no living person has gotten a definitive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy - the constellation of cognitive and psychiatric symptoms that appears to result from repeated blows to the head. The definition of the disea...
