Many parents become anxious toward the end of a pregnancy, when women are sleepless, fatigued and finding it difficult to perform their daily activities. Technology during the past 10 years has made labor induction easier and more successful, and now, more than ever before, deliveries are planned during the last few weeks of pregnancies. But studies are showing that a delivery even two weeks early can be associated with newborn complications, according to a maternal-fetal medicine specialist. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Researchers is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth -- the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon. Standing 1.8 meters tall and reaching up to 3.5 meters in length, this huge beast lived more than 100,000 years ago, and despite being one of the most celebrated examples of Australia's Pleistocene "megafauna", there is very little known about them. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Experts explain how and why we find things funny and identify the reason humor is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
The discovery in the last decade of new suites of microorganisms capable of using various forms of nitrogen -- discoveries that have involved a number of University of Washington researchers -- is one reason to rethink what we know about the nitrogen cycle. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a study in Chile's Karukinka reserve on Tierra del Fuego to help protect the guanaco -- a wild cousin of the llama that once roamed in vast herds from the Andean Plateau to the steppes of Patagonia. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Inspired by a chance discovery during another experiment, researchers have created a small molecule that stimulates nerve stem cells to begin maturing into nerve cells in culture. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Estrogen therapy may limit stroke damage if started close to, but not long after reproductive cycles are over, according to a new animal study. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Specific immune therapy works for many people and it is becoming increasingly popular in Europe. When it is green and the flowers have returned, the allergy season has hit its peak. And the number of people affected is still rising. At least 1 in 5 people in get hayfever, and up to half of the population react at least sometimes to airborne allergens like pollen or house dust mites. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
To do complex cardiac repairs while the heart is still beating, surgeons need images that show depth -- especially when navigating inside the hearts of children and newborns. Now cardiac surgeons report good results with a technology borrowed from the gaming industry: flickering glasses that provide stereoscopic vision. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
New research may explain why some people who are stressed or depressed overeat. While levels of the so-called "hunger hormone" ghrelin are known to increase when a person doesn't eat, new findings suggest that the hormone might also help defend against symptoms of stress-induced depression and anxiety. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
LiveScience.com - Ah, wake up and smell the coffee ... and that's all you may need to do to pep up in the morning, a new study finds.
An international group of scientists reports that inhaling the rich, warm aroma of a hot cup of joe may alter the activity of some genes in the brain, reducing the effects of sleep deprivation - no drinking required.
Coffee has been a part of the human diet for more than 1,000 years, and is now the most widely consumed beverage worldwide. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Jun 2008 | 2:31 pm
Japanese car maker Honda begins the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 2:15 pm
AFP - Honda Motor on Monday began producing a next-generation fuel cell vehicle that it hopes will propel zero-emission cars running on hydrogen closer to the mainstream.
Reuters - Floods triggered by torrential rains
have killed dozens of people across China, as officials
struggle to move thousands of victims of last month's
earthquake to escape the threat of landslides caused by
downpours.
Conservative leader David Cameron insists he will not be diverted from his environmental agenda by the economic downturn. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
Dan Nocera on solar power and clean fuel. Leonard Mlodinow on how randomness rules our lives. Plus stink bombs, sharks, and the Methuselah tree. With Alok Jha, Ian Sample, and Nell Boase Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 16 Jun 2008 | 11:45 am
MIT chemistry professor Dan Nocera tells Guardian science correspondent Alok Jha why chemistry can solve the energy crisis Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 16 Jun 2008 | 11:19 am
UK scientist Dr Tom Pike describes the moment the Phoenix lander obtained its first scoop of Martian soil for analysis. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:16 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - Robert Bosch and Samsung SDI have signed a contract to form a hybrid electric vehicle battery joint venture to boost their presence in the next-generation energy business, Samsung said on Monday.
Bulging eyes and flaring nostrils help us see threats and increase breathing as part of fight-or-flight reflex, scientists conclude Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Jun 2008 | 11:24 pm
RSPCA play orphaned fledglings recordings of birdsong to hone twittering skills before they're released in to the wild Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Jun 2008 | 11:01 pm
AFP - Honda Motor on Monday began producing a next-generation fuel cell vehicle that it hopes will propel zero-emission cars running on hydrogen closer to the mainstream.
AFP - European astronomers on Monday said they had located dozens of giant planets in three distant solar systems.
Reuters - Floods triggered by torrential rains
have killed dozens of people across China, as officials
struggle to move thousands of victims of last month's
earthquake to escape the threat of landslides caused by
downpours.