You are driving in heavy traffic. The brake lights on the car in front of you come on. Is the car slowing or is it going to stop? It slows to 25 mph and the lights go off. You drop back. The car in front of you stops suddenly! You stop just in time. The car behind you collects your rear bumper.
Continuous oral contraceptives may be more effective than the standard 28-day birth control pills in suppressing the ovary, according to researchers. They say that the continuous pill also causes a significant improvement in pain and behavioral changes.
Three engineering professors have created a computer ranking system that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than polls, formulas, other computer models and even the tournament seeds themselves.
Rats eating trans-fatty acid while pregnant or breastfeeding have fatter babies. The unhealthy diet has deleterious consequences even after the fats were removed from the diet and has links to insulin production.
Astronomers have discovered that solar flares - explosions in the atmosphere of the sun - get much hotter when they stay "focused". Solar flares are caused by the sudden release of magnetic energy. The largest can release as much energy as a billion one-megaton nuclear bombs.
Desert heat, a little water, and meteorite impacts may have been enough to cook up one of the first prerequisites for life: The dominance of "left-handed" amino acids, the building blocks of life on this planet. Our amino acid signature may well have come from outer space.
A lynx appears in the Italian Alps for the first time in 100 years, crossing the mountains from Switzerland. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Apr 2008 | 12:30 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has given planning permission for a prototype tidal power project in the northeast England, industry minister John Hutton said on Monday.
A report accuses the EU of handing cheap profits to power firms under its scheme for buying and selling carbon emissions. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Apr 2008 | 12:12 pm
Europe's largest space firm, EADS Astrium, looks set to acquire innovative UK satellite manufacturer SSTL. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Apr 2008 | 12:05 pm
Taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen caused a substantially greater increase over placebo in the amount of quadriceps muscle mass and muscle strength gained during three months of regular weight lifting.
A new study has uncovered how breast tumors use a particular type of molecule to promote metastasis -- the spread of cancer cells. Metastasis is the cause of approximately 90 percent of all cancer-related deaths.
Scientists are beginning to develop a clearer picture of what makes some people stand head and shoulders above the rest. A team of researchers who last year identified the first common version of a gene influencing height has now identified a further twenty regions of the genome which together can make a height difference of up to 6cm.
A surprising analysis of material churned up from the depths of massive stars shows that the mixing processes in these hot, bright stars are much more complicated than thought. The study used the FLAMES instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to decipher the spectra of light emitted by over 800 stars and estimate the chemical composition of the stars' surfaces. This is the most extensive survey of massive stars ever undertaken.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A large cache of stone tools estimated to be up to 35,000 years old has been discovered on the site of one of Australia's largest iron ore mines, sparking calls on Monday for the site's preservation.
The discovery of a colony of short-snouted seahorses living the Thames means that the London river is becoming cleaner, conservationists say Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 7 Apr 2008 | 10:19 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teenagers with a bedroom television tend to have poorer diet and exercise habits and lower grades in school than those without one, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Monday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm in the southwest and said it was investigating two other possible cases days after reporting an outbreak at a nearby chicken farm.
Treatments could be improved by new research identifying 20 sections of genetic code linked to height Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:16 pm
Children barely out of babyhood are getting diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the modern term for manic depression Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:02 pm
Astronomers say they have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 9:09 pm
