Researchers have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. A chromatin modifying enzyme helps compensate for the fact that males have only one copy of the sex chromosome X, while females have two. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time a high-performance infrared imager, based on a Type II superlattice, which looks at wavelengths 20 times longer than visible light. The technology has the potential for broad applications in the detection of terrorist activities, such as use in night vision, target identification, and missile tracking. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The notion that talking on a cell phone while driving a car isn't safe seems obvious, yet what happens in the brain while it juggles the two tasks is not. A new study provides a better understanding of why language -- talking and listening, including on a cell phone -- interferes with visual tasks, such as driving. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
A new study has revealed that effects of the drug ecstasy are compounded when taken in warm environments. Preclinical research shows that ecstasy deaths, which are invariably related to elevated body temperature, may be related to drug users' failure to recognize their body is abnormally hot. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
In the initial studies of a new class of high-temperature superconductors discovered earlier this year, research has revealed that new iron-based superconductors share similar unusual magnetic properties with previously known superconducting copper-oxide materials. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
When patches of red, flaky and itchy skin on newborn mice led rapidly to their deaths, researchers looked for the reason why. What they found was a molecular alarm system that serves as a sentinel to monitor the integrity of skin -- the body's essential protective barrier. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
People with schizophrenia from families with no history of the illness were found to harbor eight times more spontaneous mutations -- most in pathways affecting brain development -- than healthy controls. By contrast, no spontaneous mutations were found in people with schizophrenia who had family histories of the illness. The findings strongly suggest that rare, spontaneous mutations likely contribute to vulnerability in cases of schizophrenia from previously unaffected families. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
For patients with type 2 diabetes, a condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease may be an important risk factor for diabetes-related chronic kidney disease, according to a new study. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
A new study has transformed scientists' understanding of Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes autistic behavior and other disabling symptoms. Until now, scientists thought that the gene behind Rett syndrome was an "off" switch, or repressor, for other genes. But the new study, published today in Science, shows that it is an "on" switch for a startlingly large number of genes. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
AP - Lugging an enormous new lab, shuttle Discovery was in fast pursuit of the international space station on Sunday following a spectacular launch that one astronaut called "the greatest show on Earth."
AFP - The US shuttle Discovery carrying a Japanese research laboratory raced toward the International Space Station Sunday after a successful launch from Florida.
AP - Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow near the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.
AP - The possible economic cost of confronting global warming from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery blasted off a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday to deliver Japan's huge new research laboratory to the International Space Station.
Lorenzo Odone, whose condition inspired the film Lorenzo's Oil, has died a few days after his 30th birthday Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 May 2008 | 11:02 pm
British researchers have unearthed evidence that women in Ancient Greece were major power brokers in their own right Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 31 May 2008 | 11:02 pm
Discovery blasts off for the space station with the hub of a Japanese science lab, and a new toilet pump, aboard. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 May 2008 | 10:24 pm
The scientist who coined the term "global warming" calls for millions of artificial trees to pull CO2 from the air. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 31 May 2008 | 9:07 pm
AFP - Pakistan will advance the official clock by one hour at the stroke of midnight Saturday to use more daylight time in a bid to conserve energy, the interior ministry said.
LiveScience.com - A Denver man named Jeff Peckman wants to spend $75,000 in taxpayer money to deal with aliens, and not the illegal kind. He wants the City of Denver to create an "Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission" that would handle the problem of alien encounters. It's unclear what, exactly, that is, but perhaps those who have been anally probed by aliens would receive counseling or victims' assistance funds.
But here's where the story gets strange.
To publicize his efforts, Peckman held a press conference on May 30 announcing that he had definitive proof of alien visitation. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 31 May 2008 | 12:32 pm
AP - Lugging an enormous new lab, shuttle Discovery was in fast pursuit of the international space station on Sunday following a spectacular launch that one astronaut called "the greatest show on Earth."
AFP - The US shuttle Discovery carrying a Japanese research laboratory raced toward the International Space Station Sunday after a successful launch from Florida.
AP - Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow near the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.
AP - The possible economic cost of confronting global warming from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.
AP - It's not just concern for the squeamish biology students who wince at the feel and smell of cutting into a formaldehyde-soaked animal.
AP - A weak tropical storm became the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season, dumping rain as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula.
Reuters - Australia has become a refuge for a new
endangered species: the high-flying banker.
AFP - Pakistan will advance the official clock by one hour at the stroke of midnight Saturday to use more daylight time in a bid to conserve energy, the interior ministry said.