LiveScience.com - Cat-sized reptiles once roamed what is now the icebox of Antarctica, snuggling up in burrows and peeping above ground to snag plant roots and insects.
The evidence for this scenario comes from preserved burrow casts discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains, which extend 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the polar continent and contain layers of rock dating back 400 million years. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:46 am
The threat of global warming may also present a significant opportunity for innovation and fresh solutions to today's energy challenges. According to some researchers,there is a vast untapped potential in using microbes in service to society to meet our energy challenges. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse. The southern planetary nebula SuWt 2 is the scene of the crime, some 6,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
A new study identifies a signaling molecule that plays a major role in radiation-induced intestinal damage. The research may lead to new strategies for protecting normal tissues from radiation during cancer therapies. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
B cells, precursors of autoantibody-secreting cells, have emerged as promising new therapeutic targets in autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study. "This study contributes to the large body of scientific evidence supporting the importance of continuing to be physical active over one's life," said the lead author. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Researchers have developed a new approach to identify molecular changes in the fluid bathing the central nervous system and used it to obtain insight into the mechanisms of central nervous system damage in a monkey model of the dementia and encephalitis (acute inflammation of the brain) that can occur during the late stages of HIV/AIDS. It is hoped that similar approaches could be used to provide new information about other neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Heart transplants save the lives of more than 2,100 Americans every year. But many more patients are still waiting for a new heart to become available, and hundreds will die without ever getting a second chance at life. Meanwhile, tens of thousands more people aren't sick enough to need a transplant, but struggle every day with severe heart failure that limits all aspects of their lives. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The Mars lander delivers a soil sample to an onboard oven, but the material is not registered by the instrument. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:25 pm
Reuters - Dirt that the Phoenix Mars Lander
scooped recently from the planet's surface may be too clumpy to
be analyzed by the machine's onboard system, NASA reported on
Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dirt that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped recently from the planet's surface may be too clumpy to be analyzed by the machine's onboard system, NASA reported on Saturday.
A BBC film crew captures the giant panda's full courtship and mating - from boisterous beginning to noisy ending. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:04 pm
AP - The first sample of Martian dirt dumped onto the opening of the Phoenix lander's tiny testing oven failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.
AFP - Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to cooperate on research into methane hydrate, known as the "ice that burns" which is seen as a promising future energy source.
Scientists in Venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that popular beverage. Their study identifies key substances involved in giving beer an aged or "oxidized" flavor. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows. But animal scientists have taken tracking several steps further with a Walkman-like headset that enables him to "whisper" wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape --- and even remotely gather them into a corral. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
A professor has developed a new water treatment that could help keep a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior. It involves bleach and vitamin C. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has raised the alert level for a volcano on Sulawesi island to the highest after it began spewing hot lava and clouds of smoke, a vulcanology official said on Saturday.
AFP - Five European divers battled a komodo dragon during 36 hours stranded on an Indonesian island reserve for the deadly reptiles after getting caught in strong currents.
The University of Florida develops the world's most powerful portable hurricane simulator. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
AP - Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay have been all but wiped out, but amateur conservationists are signing on to the growing hobby of home aquaculture to help bring the struggling bivalves back.
AP - University of Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi got a bonus after winning the Nobel Prize for medicine last fall: He learned he has a younger sister.
Reuters - Dirt that the Phoenix Mars Lander
scooped recently from the planet's surface may be too clumpy to
be analyzed by the machine's onboard system, NASA reported on
Saturday.
AP - Astronauts debuted the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test.
AP - The first sample of Martian dirt dumped onto the opening of the Phoenix lander's tiny testing oven failed to reach the instrument and scientists said Saturday they will devote a few days to trying to determine the cause.
AFP - Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to cooperate on research into methane hydrate, known as the "ice that burns" which is seen as a promising future energy source.
AFP - Five European divers battled a komodo dragon during 36 hours stranded on an Indonesian island reserve for the deadly reptiles after getting caught in strong currents.
AP - Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo.
AP - Severe thunderstorms were expected in the Great Lakes region on Saturday, with heavy rain, strong winds and hail likely.
AP - Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay have been all but wiped out, but amateur conservationists are signing on to the growing hobby of home aquaculture to help bring the struggling bivalves back.
AP - University of Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi got a bonus after winning the Nobel Prize for medicine last fall: He learned he has a younger sister.