The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people can leave for others to pick up on their mobile phones. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture are creating designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Men may not live as long if they have low testosterone, regardless of their age, according to a new study. The new study adds to the scientific evidence linking deficiency of this sex hormone with increased death from all causes over time--so-called "all-cause mortality." Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Computers are starting to become more human-centric, anticipating your needs and smoothly acting to meet them. The technologies under development leave humans free to concentrate on their real work instead of having to think about the computer and how to operate it. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results show that Saturn's secondary aurora is much more like Jupiter's in origin than it is the Earth's. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Researchers have determined the genetic treatment mechanism of Chaiqinchengqi decoction, which is a basic Chinese herbal compound commonly used in the treatment of acute pancreatitis. It can upregulate sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) mRNA expression of pancreatic tissue as well as inhibit the elevation of calcium concentration in pancreatic acinar cells while relieving pancreatic lesions in an acute pancreatitis model of rats. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists have determined that AMD3100, originally developed in acquired immune deficiency syndrome treatment, could markedly inhibit spreading of colorectal cancer cells by blocking a new pair of ligands and its unique receptor. This effect differs from the usual inhibition by a conventional chemotherapic agent that is more specific to cancer cells with high metastatic potential. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Research using newly developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging technology could soon allow clinicians to confirm Huntington's disease before symptoms appear in people who have the gene for the fatal brain disease. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
An MIT-designed building with walls made entirely of water is being unveiled Thursday at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. This is the first of its kind and illustrates the potential of digital architecture to create spaces that dynamically adjust to people and conditions. The "water walls" that make up the structure are generated by high-speed computer controlled solenoid valves. They can be programmed to take varying shapes, to display patterns, images and text, and to respond dynamically to input from sensors. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
AP - Cloudy and wet conditions were to continue across the Northeast on Saturday. There was a chance of thunderstorms, particularly in the Ohio Valley. Highs were to be in the 70s and 80s.
Briefing notes from a meeting between Environment Minister Phil Woolas and biotechnology industry members has been handed to the BBC. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:20 am
AP - The apparent discovery of ice near Mars' north pole has scientists asking: Did the frozen water melt at some point in the planet's long history to create an environment friendly for life?
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Falling levels of a hormone called leptin that helps the brain resist tempting foods may explain why people who lose weight often have a hard time keeping it off, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
AP - An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted, says a report published Friday.
AP - Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said Friday.
Ben Goldacre: Media science is about absolute truth statements from authority figures in white coats Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 20 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
AP - Florida said it intends to sue the Army Corps of Engineers for violating the Endangered Species Act, a move which could further complicate already strained regional relations over shared water resources. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:20 pm
As salmonella wreaks havoc across the United States, one group of researchers have figured out some of the bacteria's tricks. Source: LiveScience.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:20 pm
Now a doctor may one day be able to manually control the location of this camera with a magnetic device the size of a chocolate bar. Source: LiveScience.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:20 pm
Do people have no choice but to live in a land that regularly suffers fires, landslides and earthquakes? Source: LiveScience.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:20 pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Mars Phoenix Lander has found ice on the surface of the Red Planet, triumphant NASA scientists said on Thursday, a key discovery for the spacecraft as it searches for water and signs of life on Earth's closet planetary neighbor.
SPACE.com - Over 100
space shuttles will land this November at the Kennedy Space Center, though NASA can take credit for only one. The additional orbiters will be courtesy the
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which on Thursday formally announced the
"Shuttles Orbiting the Space Coast" program, a public art exhibit
organized to celebrate the first half-century of U.S. space exploration. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Jun 2008 | 10:01 pm
AP - A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in world energy prices, the country's oil minister said Friday.
AP - Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area the size of Maryland.
LiveScience.com - You may have been looking for her if you are one of the hundreds of thousands of people who got the following e-mail, with the subject line "Please look at this picture then forward": Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Jun 2008 | 7:31 pm
Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft unearths evidence of ice in the soil around its landing site on Mars. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 20 Jun 2008 | 4:55 pm
Humans are a terrible example to follow if you want to develop a conscious machine, writes Charles Arthur Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 20 Jun 2008 | 2:55 pm
AP - Cloudy and wet conditions were to continue across the Northeast on Saturday. There was a chance of thunderstorms, particularly in the Ohio Valley. Highs were to be in the 70s and 80s.
AP - The apparent discovery of ice near Mars' north pole has scientists asking: Did the frozen water melt at some point in the planet's long history to create an environment friendly for life?
AP - An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted, says a report published Friday.
AP - Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said Friday.
AP - A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in world energy prices, the country's oil minister said Friday.
AP - Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area the size of Maryland.