Researchers have for the first time identified a protein that is key to the regeneration of damage in the peripheral nervous system and which could with further research lead to understanding diseases of our peripheral nervous systems and provide clues to methods of repairing damage in the central nervous system, according to a study in the Journal of Cell Biology. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
You can now not only feel the spicy kick of a jalapeno pepper, you can also see it in full 3-D, thanks to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. Using sophisticated equipment, the researchers generated the first three dimensional view of the protein that allows you to sense the heat of a hot pepper. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
An important study raises concern about the way intensive care physicians approach patients and families facing serious end-of-life medical decisions. Based on interviews with more than 1,200 ICU physicians at five major medical centers across the country, researchers conclude that physicians are less comfortable discussing end-of-life issues and do it less frequently with African-American patients and their families than with Caucasian patients and families. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
There are only four specimens of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle left on Earth -- one in the wild and three in captivity. In order to save this species from extinction, conservation partners recently paired two of them. Listed at the top of the World Conservation Union's Red List, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is the most critically endangered turtle in the world. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Following a three-year legal battle to protect the polar bear from extinction due to global warming, three environmental groups won protection for the species with the announcement May 14 that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the polar bear as a federally "threatened" species. While the polar bear listing is one of the administration's clearest acknowledgments to date of the urgent threat posed by global warming, the administration is simultaneously attempting to reduce the protections the bear will receive under the Act. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Researchers report that a plant compound found in abundance in celery and green peppers can disrupt a key component of the inflammatory response in the brain. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Biologists have determined that faulty RNA, the blueprint that creates mutated, toxic proteins, contributes to a family of neurodegenerative disorders in humans. The study demonstrates that faulty RNA also assists in the onset and progression of disease in fruit fly models. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Real-time access to manufacturing data is essential to modern factories. Researchers are developing software that takes advantage of the real-time data generated by smart devices to support real-time decision-making. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Low-income neighborhoods that lack easy access to grocery stores could lead to a breakdown of food security for hundreds of thousands of people -- not in the developing world, but in major urban areas of the US. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
A leading chemical engineer has revealed the unlikely ingredient needed to make the perfect sandwich ... bubbles. Bubbles in bread are as important for making a good sandwich as its filling, due to the unique composition of wheat. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has sent emergency bamboo-shoot rations to pandas at a reserve in the Sichuan earthquake zone because no one there is collecting it for them, state media said on Thursday.
If it lands safely on Monday May 26, Phoenix will search for water and signs of microbial life in Mars' arctic plain Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 22 May 2008 | 2:18 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the tracks of a herd of 11 long-necked sauropods walking along a coastal mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen, the first discovery of dinosaur footprints on the Arabian peninsula.
More than half of the world's ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction, says the world's official conservation agency. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 1:45 pm
The US city of San Francisco passes new rules requiring businesses to pay for the amount of CO2 they emit. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:48 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The discovery of a "frogamander," a 290 million-year-old fossil that links modern frogs and salamanders, may resolve a longstanding debate about amphibian ancestry, Canadian scientists said on Wednesday.
Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. Created by the death of a star, a new supernova appears in a spiral galaxy only about once a century Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 22 May 2008 | 10:42 am
Suspected souvenir-hunters broke into Stonehenge and vandalised the ancient monument, English Heritage said today Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 22 May 2008 | 9:15 am
Investigations begin into claims that meat from Japan's whaling programme is being stolen with official knowledge. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 1:52 am
Co-founder of charity Facing the world who pioneered reconstructive surgery for children with facial disfigurement Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 21 May 2008 | 11:03 pm
Governments are urged to agree measures to protect oceans and the sea floor at a UN conservation meeting. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 7:15 pm
YOFF, Senegal (Reuters) - Senegalese fishermen dragged dozens of stranded pilot whales back out to sea on Wednesday but at least 20 more died on the beach after mysteriously coming ashore.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Excited astronomers said on Wednesday they had for the first time caught a supernova on camera just as it was exploding, and they may now learn how to spot others.
Astronomers capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 5:26 pm
Mysterious bands of shadow during an eclipse might be produced by sound pulses, a theory suggests. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 3:07 pm
