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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsAt 3:26 p.m. ET today (Thursday), NASA's MESSENGER mission to the innermost planet of the solar system came to a dramatic end, smashing into Mercury's surface at a speed of over 8,700 miles per hour.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsTaking aspirin reduces a person's risk of colorectal cancer, but the molecular mechanisms involved have remained unknown until a recent discovery. discovered that aspirin might exert its chemopreventive activity against colorectal cancer...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA previously unappreciated phenomenon has been reported in which the location of injury to a neuron's communication wire in the spinal cord -- the axon -- determines whether the neuron simply stabilizes or attempts to regenerate. The stu...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsStem cells, which have the potential to turn into any kind of cell, offer the tantalizing possibility of generating new tissues for organ replacements, stroke victims and patients of many other diseases. Now, scientist have uncovered det...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsBombardier beetles, which exist on every continent except Antarctica, have a pretty easy life. Virtually no other animals prey on them, because of one particularly effective defense mechanism: When disturbed or attacked, the beetles prod...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsResearchers have experimentally identified a pointlike monopole in a quantum field for the first time. The discovery gives scientists insight into the monopole magnet, an elementary particle that they believe exists but have not yet seen.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA clinical trial for patients with degenerative eye diseases is the first to test the safety of an embryonic stem cell therapy for people of Asian descent. The study, which followed four individuals for a year after they were treated wit...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesStem cells, which have the potential to turn into any kind of cell, offer the tantalizing possibility of generating new tissues for organ replacements, stroke victims and patients of many other diseases. Now, scientists at the Salk Insti...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsWith the Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000 coming to an end in 2015, and the new Sustainable Development Goals now in the works to establish a set of targets for the future of international developmen...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsThe percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new report. Despite this improvement, Texas remains the state with the ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, experts say.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsA team of German and Canadian researchers have discovered areas with extremely low levels of oxygen in the tropical North Atlantic, several hundred kilometres off the coast of West Africa. The levels measured in these 'dead zones', inhab...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsAs it zoomed danger-close to small planet's surface at a mind-boggling 8,700 miles per hour, MESSENGER managed to beam one last look at the Mercurian landscape back to Earth.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA new study shows poor nutrition for honey bee larvae leads to compromised pollination capabilities as adult bees. This is a possible link to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from LiveScience.comWhat happens in the brain when a person has an out-of-body experience? A team of scientists may now have an answer.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA quantum state predicted by the Russian theoretician Vitaly Efimov 40 years ago has been discovered by physicists in a molecule consisting of three helium atoms. The molecule is of enormous spatial extent and exists mainly in the classi...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsThe Calbuco volcano in southern Chile erupted Thursday, releasing a large column of smoke just over a week after it roared to life following half a century of inactivity.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsRecently, a number of terrorist threats have been directed at the Vatican and the city of Rome. So, can the Vatican protect itself?
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsWhen it comes to cracking nuts, wild bearded capuchin monkeys are more skilled than anyone had given them credit for, according to researchers.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsAs the number of bills passed by Congress declines, fewer and fewer Congressional representatives are voting across party lines, leaving only a few key representatives as collaborative voters, according to researchers.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsEcholocation isn't the only tool used by bats when catching prey. Touch sensors, arranged in a unique pattern on their wings, play a crucial role
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsResearchers conducted a review of the current scientific literature on protein consumption and found that a moderate increase in protein consumption at each meal, balanced throughout the day, can lead to significant improvements.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Science BlogImagine a hand-held electronic device – accessible, portable and nearly universal – that could reduce pain and discomfort for patients, and allow doctors to use less powerful and potentially risky […]
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsChanges in the way that DNA is tightly packed in cells leads to mayhem that promotes the aging process.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsOne in six species is threatened with extinction if polluting practices continue unabated, researchers say.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsAn artist climbed to the top of the tallest mountain in England, and removed its highest peak. He then displayed the rock in a London art Gallery, but is it art?
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsBats fly with breathtaking precision because their wings are equipped with highly sensitive touch sensors, cells that respond to even slight changes in airflow, researchers have demonstrated for the first time.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.comAstronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have created a 3D map of the iconic Pillars of Creation. The three gigantic towers of gas and dust are part of the Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16. T...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsIn order to carry out their functions, proteins need to move. Scientists have developed a new technique to study motions in proteins with unprecedented accuracy. The method, which is based on NMR, freezes proteins down to immobility, the...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsMost U.S. clinical registries that collect data on patient outcomes are substandard and lack critical features necessary to render the information they collect useful for patients, physicians and policy makers, new research suggests.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsAustralian Josh Sheehan pulled off one of the most dangerous tricks on two wheels.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsResearchers have developed MarkerMiner, a new software that simplifies analysis of next-generation sequencing data in angiosperms. MarkerMiner is an automated, open-source, bioinformatics workflow that aids plant researchers in the disco...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, and widespread antibiotic resistance has led to urgent calls for new ways to combat them. Researchers report that an experimental drug that stabilizes a protein called HIF-1alpha protects human...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe human body is a cross between a factory and a construction zone -- at least on the cellular level. Certain proteins act as project managers, which direct a wide variety of processes and determine the fate of the cell as a whole. read...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsFor over a century, the scientific understanding of matrotrophy of an embryo developing inside a mom's body has come from vertebrates. This process was thought to be infrequent among the other 33 or so major groups or phyla of animals. B...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsAfter four years orbiting the nearest planet to the sun, Messenger has spent all of its fuel and is prepared to create a new crater
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsHaving short-term household debt -- credit cards and overdue bills -- increases depressive symptoms, research shows. The association is particularly strong among unmarried people, people reaching retirement age and those who are less wel...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsSome clever monkeys in the wild have devised an anvil and stone hammer method for quickly cracking nuts.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsOne in six species on the planet may face extinction if the global temperatures continue to rise.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsThe MESSENGER mission to Mercury came to a spectacular end as the probe crashed into the planet’s surface.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Discovery NewsNASA has released a map of the region where the spacecraft is expected to crash.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsNew research has shown that children who display increasing levels of inattention at the age of seven are at risk of worse academic outcomes in their GCSE examinations (UK).
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsResearchers have perfected a noninvasive "chemogenetic" technique that allows them to switch off a specific behavior in mice -- such as voracious eating -- and then switch it back on. The method works by targeting two different cell surf...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from LiveScience.comA lab worker in Boston became infected with a virus similar to smallpox after he accidentally stuck himself with a needle that was contaminated with the virus, according to a new report of the case.
- A new study demonstrates that perovskite materials - superefficient crystal structures that have recently taken the scientific community by storm - contain flaws that can be engineered to improve solar cells and other devices even further.
- Conflicting sensory information that makes people feel they are teleporting has revealed the brain regions that keep track of our body in space
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsMonkeys observed in Brazil can use tools, but they also know it doesn't take a sledgehammer to crack a nut – instead they exercise judgement and restraint
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from SPACE.comNASA's MESSENGER probe crashed at 3:26 p.m. EDT Thursday (April 30), gouging a new crater into Mercury's surface. This violent end was inevitable for MESSENGER, which had been orbiting Mercury since March 2011 and had run out of fuel.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from LiveScience.comSome Apple Watch users who have tattoos are running into problems when using the device's heart-rate monitor and other features, as it appears the ink in tattoos can interfere with the watch's sensors.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsThe development of an innovative technology that enables the monitoring of telomeres at the cellular level in plants has been described in a new article. The technique allows to demonstrate, for the first time, the role played by these s...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe discovery highlights the broad range of evolutionary experiments in flight that took place close to the origins of birds.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAnother insect that shows that the mechanics of its limbs is more important than messages from the brain when it comes to quick movement.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceIn the U.K., rapeseed is getting a royal treatment. It's called cold-pressing, and it's a method of processing the oilseed to bring out the best of its mustardy flavor.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceAstronomers using telescopes in Hawaii and California have found two exoplanets orbiting a star a mere 54 light years away. The discovery is important for two big reasons.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Physics NewsResearchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Tampere, Finland, have developed a novel reference ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under an ambitious plan announced by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
This is precisely how the horrors of the Netherlands were unleashed. Unless stopped on appeal, it will be worse in South Africa. -
Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceChipotle says providing "food with integrity" means dropping genetically modified ingredients. But critics say the company's new policy is inconsistent and even dishonest.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsNEW YORK (Reuters) - The mouse walked, the mouse stopped; the mouse ignored a bowl of food, then scampered back and gobbled it up, and it was all controlled by neuroscientists, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe Supreme Court has ruled that the UK government must draw up plans to reduce air pollution by the end of this year.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Blue Origin, a startup space company owned by Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos, launched an experimental suborbital spaceship from Texas, the first in a series of test flights to develop commercial unmanned an...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Researchers with NASA recently tested an airplane wing that can change shape -- technology they say will save money and fuel, as well as reduce noise.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA Russian spacecraft delivering supplies to the International Space Station is out of control and will fall back to Earth, unnamed officials say.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal scientists say they have successfully grown Arctic cod in a laboratory, giving them hope that they can learn more about a key Arctic species vulnerable to warming ocean waters.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceHONOLULU (AP) — Black band coral disease is affecting nearly half of the reef sites researchers have surveyed in waters off Kauai, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from International Business TimesChina’s government meteorological authorities are cracking down on storm chasers and other "weather geeks," prohibiting them from publicizing amateur weather reports. The effort is said to target false reports that cause panic and chaos ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has abandoned a 2.6 billion ruble ($51 million) mission to supply the International Space Station, the head of the Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday, the latest setback for the country's beleaguered space...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentWild beavers living in the Tay and Earn have adapted well to living in Scotland, studies by Scottish Natural Heritage suggest.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comLast weekend's tragic earthquake in Nepal, estimated to have killed over 5,000 people , has left many in a tailspin over the increasing risk of earthquakes, with a report in Newsweek warning of additional “extreme geological events” to c...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Physics NewsSynchrotron radiation facilities provide insights into the world of very small structures like microbes, viruses or nanomaterials and rely on dedicated magnet technology, which is optimized ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceBig surprise from a little dinosaur: Fossil indicates wings made of skin rather than feathers.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
It's the iron (Fe) in the hemoglobin molecule to which O2 actually attaches and enables it to be transported in the blood. -
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists in China on Wednesday described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the first birds.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceCHICAGO (AP) — For more than a decade, a college in Chicago stored four unidentified human cadavers in cardboard boxes in a locked, unrefrigerated closet, then fired a doctor who raised questions about it, according to a recently filed l...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsSan Francisco - Anytime, day or night, no matter which way you look, it seems you'll see someone with a smartphone in their hand.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineUNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA—It had been thought that there was a large difference in size between male and female Australopithecus afarensis individuals, but a new study conducted by researchers from Penn State University and Ken...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from National Geographic NewsAn unidentified blast of powerful X-rays suggests something violent is happening at the core of the galaxy—but astronomers aren't sure what it is.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from International Business TimesOriole Park at Camden Yards, its construction finished in downtown Baltimore in 1992, was perhaps the first of its kind: a redbrick, old-style ballpark -- rife with quirk but full of modern features -- squat in downtown area in need of r...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it would ask the operators of Boeing Co's model 787 airplanes to deactivate the plane's electrical power system periodically.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceA visiting conservationist and molecular biologist has joined calls to save our national bird.Dr Stephen O'Brien, who is globally renowned for using tools of molecular biology to help protect endangered species, has been able to...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from NSF NewsErik Gulbranson, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, trudges up a steep ridge overlooking his field camp of mountain tents and pyramid-shaped Scott tents in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. A brief hike nearly...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAfter a decade in space and four years in orbit, Nasa's Messenger spacecraft reaches the end of its mission and crashes into the surface of Mercury.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceFresno native Mark Arax has written about the war over water in his state for decades. "It used to be the farmers against the delta smelt fish, and now it's the urbanite against the almond," he says.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from National Geographic NewsThe secret life of seeds includes the transformation from tiny to immense and a role in the most famous assassination of the Cold War.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe Pap smear has dramatically decreased rates of cervical cancer, but testing too often has a downside, too. Many women say they aren't yet ready to follow new guidelines and skip the annual tests.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - - NASA's pioneering Messenger spacecraft ended its four-year study of the planet Mercury on Thursday by crashing into the planet’s surface, scientists said.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from International Business TimesDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday invoked the names of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Walter Scott -- black males who have recently died at the hands of police -- while calling for criminal justice...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have announced more than $4 million in projects in four states as part of a wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country that supports cattle ranching an...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Physics NewsIntroducing flaws into liquid crystals by inserting microspheres and then controlling them with electrical fields: that, in a nutshell, is the rationale behind a method that could be exploited ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAn American vet has claimed to have decoded the language that cats use, believing that cats use more than a dozen sounds, each having its own meaning.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California officials dramatically scaled back habitat restoration planned during construction of two massive tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to send water to farms and millions of people.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Physics NewsResearchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have carried out the first detailed study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for formation of the brachiopod shell. Comparison ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
Curiously, the blast from biologist and blogger PZ Myers avoids engaging Paul Nelson on teleology except to flatly deny it. -
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentHow thorn bushes and donkeys could save Africa’s predators
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentPluto may have a polar cap of nitrogen ices. This is the tantalising prospect revealed in the latest images to come down from the New Horizons spacecraft.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 from Physics NewsIBM scientists have unveiled two crucial advances toward the creation of a practical quantum computer: an effective way to detect and correct quantum errors, and the design of a silicon chip ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA woman who caught pneumonic plague in Colorado last summer likely contracted it from her friend or his dog. Antibiotics limited the outbreak to four people, and cured them.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Physics NewsSilica dust hazards in large gold mines have been well documented, but the situation is far worse in small-scale gold mining according to a new study.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A stranded sea lion pup has been spotted wandering a San Francisco sidewalk in a scene that marine rescuers warn could become commonplace as the ocean heats up.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NSF NewsToday the National Science Board (NSB) announced that James Duderstadt will receive its prestigious Vannevar Bush Award . Duderstadt, president emeritus and University Professor of science and engineering at the University of Michigan (U...
