Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop-per-second data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes. The code run on the machine mimics brain mechanisms underlying human sight. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Just about everyone knows what happens when you drop Mentos mints into a Diet Coke. Students have documented why the reaction occurs by studying the physics responsible for the fizzy result and had the results published in the American Journal of Physics. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists have discovered an unknown regulator of fat and cholesterol production in the liver of mice, a significant finding that could lead to new therapies for lowering unhealthy blood levels of cholesterol and fats. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
A blood substitute's effectiveness and safety was addressed in a large Phase III clinical trial by academic and industry researchers. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
After over 17 years of operation, the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses will officially conclude on 1 July this year. The spacecraft, which studied the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space for almost four times its expected lifespan, will cease to function because of the decline in power produced by its on-board generators. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? Scientists now show in the journal Science that the answer lies in the brain areas activated by each task. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 14 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
There are roughly 42 million square kilometers of forest on Earth, a swath that covers almost a third of the land surface, and those wooded environments play a key role in both mitigating and enhancing global warming. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
New evidence blames traffic-related pollution for increasing the risk of allergy and atopic diseases among children by more than fifty percent. What's more, the closer children live to roads, the higher their risk. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Women with delayed sleep phase syndrome are more likely to report irregular menstrual cycles and premenstrual symptoms. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Researchers in Spain have proven that metamaterials, materials defined by their unusual man-made cellular structure, can be designed to produce an acoustic cloak -- a cloak that can make objects impervious to sound waves, literally diverting sound waves around an object. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Progress towards developing a global strategy to cut emissions is too slow, say environmental campaigners. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 3:41 pm
AFP - The identified object seen floating behind the space shuttle Discovery could be a thermal clip whose loss would "not cause any concern" for the shuttle's landing Saturday, NASA officials said.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts checked space shuttle Discovery's landing systems and packed gear for a planned Saturday landing after a successful mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station.
While we wait for the potential McCain-Obama election scandals to unfold, test yourself on these historic election controversies. Source: LiveScience.com | 13 Jun 2008 | 3:13 pm
Reuters - Turkey and Syria are considering
setting up a joint energy company and could build joint nuclear
power plants for electricity, Syria's oil minister was quoted
as saying on Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 2:57 pm
LiveScience.com - A prospecting geologist stumbled upon a ragtag bunch of bones in the northern part of British Columbia, more than three decades ago. A new study suggests these fossils could represent a new species of dinosaur.
But beyond that, the dinosaur's identity is a mystery - sort of a Dino Doe.
The small collection of bones includes seven shin, arm and toe bones, as well as a possible skull fragment. Based on the shapes and sizes of the bones, paleontologists think they could have belonged to a type of small- to medium-sized dinosaur, possibly a pachycephalosaur or ornithopod. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 2:55 pm
AP - Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 100 city blocks were under water.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its revived lunar exploration program that aims to land astronauts on the moon again by 2020, officials said on Thursday.
DENVER (Reuters) - A lightning-sparked wildfire has blackened 20,000 acres in southeastern Colorado, and was threatening archeological sites in a national forest, officials said on Thursday.
Henry Paulson, US Treasury Secretary, is urging G8 nations to support a $10bn fund to tackle global warming. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 12:10 pm
A cannon and other key artefacts are raised from an Elizabethan ship wreck off the coast of the Channel Islands. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
AP - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged other Group of Eight industrialized nations Friday to back a special fund of up to $10 billion to help developing countries fight global warming.
St Louis in Senegal is the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa, a UN official says. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
A part of the brain that can stay active in brain-damaged patients offers recovery clue, say scientists. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 10:25 am
AP - One of Alaska's most eroded villages is getting more than $3 million in state aid to help it relocate to higher ground as Alaska tries to cope with the effects of global warming. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 13 Jun 2008 | 7:27 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new kind of mass spectrometer can sniff out biological, chemical and nuclear threats, all at virtually the same time, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
Nasa's new lander on Mars is learning how to cope with the clumpy soil at its location on the northern plains. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 13 Jun 2008 | 12:22 am
An advanced satellite that will improve substantially the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe is launched into space. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 12 Jun 2008 | 10:15 pm
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Authorities in Arizona are stepping up a program to put mosquito-gobbling minnows into the stagnant pools of foreclosed or abandoned homes to prevent an outbreak of West Nile virus.
Reuters - Some unethical Web sites and clinics
are offering "snake oil" treatments that claim to provide cures
using stem cells but are at best raising false hopes, stem cell
experts said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some unethical Web sites and clinics are offering "snake oil" treatments that claim to provide cures using stem cells but are at best raising false hopes, stem cell experts said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images confirm reports that the Ethiopian military has burned towns and villages in the remote Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time witnessed the flash of light produced inside a dying star just before it explodes, according to a study on Thursday that provides a unique glimpse into how a supernova forms.
The seed germinated after being recovered from the rubble of King Herod's pleasure palace and has now been dated as 2,000 years old, smashing the record for the oldest seed ever grown Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 12 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
AFP - Madagascar and France on Wednesday signed an agreement allocating 20 million dollars (13 million euros) to preserve Madagascar's rich biodiversity, the World Wildlife Fund said.
A £1.25m grant will be spent trying to make Stirling the first carbon neutral city in the UK. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 12 Jun 2008 | 2:09 pm
AFP - The identified object seen floating behind the space shuttle Discovery could be a thermal clip whose loss would "not cause any concern" for the shuttle's landing Saturday, NASA officials said.
AP - NASA engineers say a metal clip from the space shuttle's braking system fell off Discovery on Friday.
AP - Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 100 city blocks were under water.
AP - Last month's massive earthquake in central China likely could not have been predicted, a leading American seismologist said Friday.
AP - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged other Group of Eight industrialized nations Friday to back a special fund of up to $10 billion to help developing countries fight global warming.
Reuters - Some unethical Web sites and clinics
are offering "snake oil" treatments that claim to provide cures
using stem cells but are at best raising false hopes, stem cell
experts said on Thursday.
AFP - Madagascar and France on Wednesday signed an agreement allocating 20 million dollars (13 million euros) to preserve Madagascar's rich biodiversity, the World Wildlife Fund said.