Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into the car's electronic systems. This cuts fuel consumption and helps reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Rather than picking our friends based on intentional choice and common values and interests, our friendships may be based on more superficial factors like proximity or group assignments. As reported in a recent issue of Psychological Science sitting in neighboring seats as a result of randomly assigned seat numbers when meeting for the first time led to higher ratings of friendship intensity one year later. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Research into the effectiveness of wearing a particular type of silver ring to alleviate symptoms of arthritis has found some benefits to their use. Researchers found the silver ring splints effective in controlling hyperextension deformity of finger joints, which is common in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Genetically modified (GM) plants that use Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a common soil bacterium, to kill pests won't harm the pests' natural enemies, according to new research by Cornell entomologists. That is welcome news for ecologists and farmers in the debate over GM plants. Much of the debate surrounding the use of GM crops focuses on their effect on organisms that aren't pests. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Children who drink 100-percent juice are no more likely to be overweight and may have a better overall nutrient intake than children who do not drink juice, according to a new report Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists have taken the search for cancer-causing genes an important step forward. They confirm that a gene called DLC1 is a tumor suppressor. They have demonstrated in living mice that its deletion, inactivation or loss precipitates events culminating in an aggressive type of liver cancer closely related to common human epithelial cancers of the liver. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains compared with people who were more than 200 miles away, finds a new Cornell study. "This suggests that really bad experiences may have lasting effects on the brain, even in healthy people," said the study's lead researcher. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Adults who survived childhood Hodgkin's Lymphoma should be especially vigilant about cancer and cardiovascular screenings, according to new research. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Movies portray robots that can move through the world as easily as humans, and use their hands to operate everything from dishwashers to computers with ease. But in reality, the creation of robots with these skills remains a major challenge. Researchers are solving this problem by giving a mobile robotic arm the ability to "see" its environment through a digital camera. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Scientists have found that a daily drink containing probiotic bacteria can modify the immune system's response to grass pollen, a common cause of seasonal hay fever. In a pilot study in humans, the probiotic significantly reduced the production of molecules associated with allergy. But they are not yet recommending that sufferers rush to the supermarket as the changes may not have an immediate effect on symptoms. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
CORDOVA, Alaska (Reuters) - Fed by vast glaciers, Alaska's Copper River flows 300 miles from the rugged Wrangell Mountains, fanning out into a wildlife-rich delta of marshes, sloughs and braided channels.
LiveScience.com - The strange act of eating dirt - known as "geophagy" - is actually common in the animal kingdom. Not only do our closest living relatives the chimpanzees do it - in order to help fight malaria - but so occasionally do humans all over the world. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 1:10 pm
AP - Thunderstorms streamed across the Ohio Valley on Wednesday after a night of tornadoes that destroyed numerous homes in central Indiana. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 1:03 pm
AFP - London shares fell sharply Wednesday, mirroring a poor overnight US showing, as energy and mining firms were hammered by weakening oil and metals prices, while banks continued to suffer from credit worries.
SPACE.com - HOUSTON Astronauts aboard the
International Space Station (ISS) will trade their spaceflight wings for
plumber personas Wednesday to fix a balky space toilet before opening a massive
new Japanese room on the orbiting laboratory. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
The Institute for Figuring's rendition of the Great Barrier Reef in crochet is coming to London's Hayward from June 11 2008 Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 4 Jun 2008 | 10:44 am
AP - A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
The number of puffins at the UK's largest single breeding colony has plummeted by almost a third in the past five years, according to new data Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
When it was first discovered more than 60 years ago, Asperger's syndrome was thought to be a male-only condition. But now that more and more girls are being diagnosed with it, why do we hear so little about them, wonders Joanna Moorhead Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 4 Jun 2008 | 8:36 am
A chemical derived from red wine could one day help keep the heart "genetically young", claim researchers. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:58 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of astronauts on Tuesday completed the first of three scheduled spacewalks on a mission by U.S. shuttle Discovery to install a huge Japanese research lab at the International Space Station.
Puffin numbers at the UK's biggest colony are falling, amid signs of dwindling food, scientists say. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:22 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - After more than a year of training, a rocket ride to space and a two-day journey to reach the International Space Station, the shuttle Discovery crew floated into the orbital outpost with these words: "Someone call a plumber?"
A team of astronauts attaches the $1bn Japanese laboratory Kibo to the International Space Station. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:13 am
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Biologists in Mexico plan to tag hundreds of sharks off the Pacific Coast to help understand the cause of a rare spate of deadly attacks on humans, the local government said on Tuesday.
Craig Venter's Life Decoded and Mark Lynas Six Degrees have seen off competition from the likes of Stephen Pinker to reach the shortlist of the Royal Society's Science book prize Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 11:09 pm
Main purpose of shuttle mission was to deliver main component of the Japanese experimental module, Kibo Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Honeybees can communicate with others from far-off continents by learning to interpret their moves Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Appointees placed by the Bush administration acted to play down and distort global warming findings Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 3 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Frequent use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and a daily disinfectant wipe-down of classroom surfaces can help reduce school absences due to gastrointestinal illness, a new study demonstrates.
AP - NASA's Phoenix lander got extra playtime in the Martian dirt on Tuesday, doing another practice dig as scientists tried to perfect the technique ahead of the actual excavation.
AFP - Fifteen Belgian colza fields, owned by Bayer CropScience, have been contaminated by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned in Europe, the country's public health ministry announced Tuesday.
ROME (Reuters) - Biotechnology can help solve the world's food crisis with benefits such as flood-resistant rice in Bangladesh or higher cotton yields in Burkina Faso, a senior U.S. official said at a U.N. food summit on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Danish and U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have found a way to way to attack malaria by knocking out a gene that helps malaria parasites reproduce inside mosquitoes.
AP - Radiocarbon dating of rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds reinforces a theory that human settlers did not arrive in New Zealand until 1300 A.D. about 1,000 years later than some scientists believe, according to a study released Tuesday. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 3 Jun 2008 | 5:23 pm
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - An agency set up to identify the dead of the Yugoslav wars is now sharing its missing persons expertise with nations including Lebanon, Colombia and Iraq.
ALLADALE (Reuters) - The howl of a wolf echoes through the glen, lumbering bears fish in the lochs and moose amble through the pine forest -- this is multi-millionaire Paul Lister's vision for his estate in the Scottish Highlands, and his grand scheme is already underway.
The UN secretary general calls for revitalising agriculture as a way of tackling the world's worsening food crisis. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 3 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
AP - Residents aboard the international space station were getting ready to take on a new task Wednesday: plumbing.
AFP - London shares fell sharply Wednesday, mirroring a poor overnight US showing, as energy and mining firms were hammered by weakening oil and metals prices, while banks continued to suffer from credit worries.
AP - A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
AP - NASA's Phoenix lander got extra playtime in the Martian dirt on Tuesday, doing another practice dig as scientists tried to perfect the technique ahead of the actual excavation.
AFP - Fifteen Belgian colza fields, owned by Bayer CropScience, have been contaminated by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned in Europe, the country's public health ministry announced Tuesday.