Infants and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day and who watch two or more hours of television per day are twice as likely to become overweight by age 3 than children who sleep longer.
Science and engineering workforce availability in the United States is under serious scrutiny by observers who worry about a decline in the nation's ability to fill future demand. However, three new National Science Foundation reports show increasing supplies of scientists and engineers, as well as a strong labor market.
A recent study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Fungi processing audio signals. E. Coli storing images. DNA acting as logic circuits. It's possible, and in some cases, it's already happened. In any event, performing digital signal processing using organic and chemical materials without electrical currents could be the wave of the future. Electrical engineers and computer science specialists describe experiments that perform signal processing with novel materials while stirring the engineering community towards "a possible not-so-electronic future" of digital signal processing.
New research in monkeys suggests the feasibility of treating cocaine addiction with a "replacement" drug that mimics the effects of cocaine but has less potential for abuse -- similar to the way nicotine and heroin addictions are treated.
An innovative discovery has been reported that highlights the problems that oxidative stress resulting from iron cumulated in the human brain can generate in relation with the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, the brain disorder affecting almost 30 million throughout the world.
Having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women, according to a new study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. For men, the picture is very different: A wife saves men from about an hour of housework a week.
Consuming EGCG, an antioxidant in green tea, significantly inhibits breast tumor growth in female mice. These results bring us one step closer to better understanding the disease and potentially new and naturally occurring therapies.
Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near you. Scientists report that minerals from clay could form the basis of a new generation of inexpensive, highly effective antimicrobials for fighting MRSA infections that are moving out of health care settings and into the community.
Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.
The creator of DNA fingerprinting
heads the shortlist for the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying South Korea's first astronaut blasted off into space on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
DETROIT (Reuters) - When Tom Weatherbee swapped his minivan for a Toyota Prius hybrid two years ago, he was mostly hoping to save money at the gas pump.
South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, blasts off for a sojourn on the International Space Station. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The first images of a German merchant raider sunk in a fierce battle with an Australian warship more than 66 years ago were released on Tuesday by international deep-ocean wreck hunters.
PEENEMUENDE, Germany (Reuters) - Few Germans know the global space race started on a remote and sandy island off the Baltic coast, an unremarkable place with wide open skies and a carpet of pine trees.
Tests show a Chinese man probably contracted bird flu from his son - renewing fears about the risk to humans. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 8:02 am
The Brazilian government begins producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 6:40 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Skin cells re-programmed to act like embryonic stem cells eased symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats, researchers reported on Monday in a first step toward tailored treatments for people that bypass concerns about using human embryos.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons like a dose of music from the rock band Coldplay to help them fall asleep, a survey from hotel chain Travelodge found on Monday.
EU ministers approve the legal instrument that releases the billions needed to build Europe's sat-nav system. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Apr 2008 | 11:44 pm
Bulk of shares in Surrey Satellite Technology Limited are being sold by Surrey University in one of the largest cash spin-outs from a British university Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 7 Apr 2008 | 11:03 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday it will not lift a voluntary moratorium on selling meat and milk from cloned animals to consumers any time soon.
The International Maritime Organization calls for proposals to limit shipping's impact on Antarctic waters. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Apr 2008 | 6:11 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - Three Rhine barges are hauling a former Soviet space shuttle on a roughly 600 km (375 miles) journey up the river to a museum in western Germany because the spacecraft is too unwieldy to be transported in any other way.
GENEVA (Reuters) - British physicist Peter Higgs said on Monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible -- as he first argued 40 years ago.
Doug Melton from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute discusses embryology and ethics. Plus, the robot that pre-empts human surgeons, and the trustworthiness of regional accents Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 7 Apr 2008 | 2:59 pm
