Biophysics researchers are trying to reduce post-heart attack damage by studying the way cells die in the heart -- a process controlled by transcription factors. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been preserved through evolution. These conserved differences constitute a signature of sex differences in the brain. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Glass is actually a "jammed" state of matter that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass can't reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors, so it never quite becomes a "proper" solid. Now scientists have revealed that glass "fails" to be a solid due to the special atomic structures that form in a glass when it cools. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Withdrawing certain immunosuppressive drugs following kidney transplantation prolongs survival and saves money compared with keeping patients on these medications for life, according to a new study. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Standard neurological exams of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life and should be part of physician's routine examination of older adults. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
A fortified village that pre-dates European arrival in Western Canada and is the only one of its kind discovered on the Canadian plains is yielding intriguing evidence of an unknown First Nations group settling on the prairies and is rekindling new ties between the Siksika Nation (Blackfoot) and aboriginal groups in the United States. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Researchers are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
A new study of the effects of chemicals found in pollution and cigarette smoke on guinea pig airways has provided insight into how these chemicals are likely to damage airways in individuals with in smoke-related diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic asthma. It is hoped that this information will help in the development of therapeutics to combat the effects of pollutants and perhaps help individuals with smoke-related diseases. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly. In the current issue of Science they uncover systematic errors in existing methods that compare genetic sequences of different species to learn about their evolutionary relationships. They present a new computational tool that provides accurate insights into the evolution of DNA and protein sequences. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that they say could be used to document the existence of life on Mars. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
LiveScience.com - Silicone breast implants and botox could one day be things of the
past thanks to promising new techniques that would allow doctors to
work plastic surgery miracles using only a patient's own stem cells. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:55 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
AP - Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.
Sally Hurst lost her leg to cancer at the age of 27, and is suing her GP for failing to spot it sooner. Bob Chaundy discovers the traumas she faced Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:35 am
AP - Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of southwestern China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.
Listen to a recording of the "umph, umph" sounds baby crocs make from inside their eggs when they are ready to hatch Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:18 am
Sunbathing tree frogs may hold the key to understanding how a deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:16 am
AFP - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said it has signed two oil contracts with Canada's Talisman Energy despite Baghdad's stiff opposition to such deals before a national oil law is drawn up.
LONDON (Reuters) - A pig's delight is three square meals each day, according to a Swedish study on Tuesday showing swine raised in conventional indoor pens are healthier and grow fatter when fed this way.
A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK's Carbon Trust. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 1:49 am
AP - Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.
AP - Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 12:09 am
AFP - Astronomical clues found in Homer's "The Odyssey" could help confirm a total solar eclipse when Odysseus returned home, providing a potentially accurate timeline for the fall of Troy, two scientists reported Monday.
Environmentalists complain that dissent is being suppressed as the International Whaling Commission gathers. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:28 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A single dose of a new insecticide killed cockroaches that ate it and other roaches that fed off their bodies, U.S. researchers said on Monday in findings sure to cheer urban dwellers everywhere.
Letter: The original GM developments were designed primarily to aid farmers to obtain more output from each unit input of labour Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:09 pm
The 'umph, umph' sounds are thought to be critical to the survival of the animals, say scientists Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:08 pm
Kate Sheppard: James Hansen's testimony on climate change has made him a celebrity, but it sadly hasn't done much to influence Congress Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 23 Jun 2008 | 9:32 pm
AP - For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen.
AP - NASA told a Senate panel on Monday that it anticipates losing 3,000 to 4,000 jobs at its launching site once the space shuttles stop flying in two more years, about half the cutback initially reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby crocodiles start chatting to one another and to their mothers just before they hatch, perhaps signaling that it is time to be born, French researchers reported on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would hear a Bush administration appeal of a ruling that restricted the Navy's use of sonar off the southern California coast because the training exercises could harm endangered whales and other marine mammals.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A highly effective leukemia pill may reduce complications and boost the effectiveness of a treatment for the most common type of stroke, an international team of researchers said on Sunday.
Our planet will not be sucked into a black hole made in a new European physics facility, a report concludes. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 23 Jun 2008 | 4:58 pm
A look at the careers of Rex Tillerson and Greg Boyce, chief executives at two of the world's large fossil fuel companies Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 23 Jun 2008 | 3:30 pm
France clashes with the EU Commission after it calls an early halt to bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:46 am
Alok Jha is joined by Bryony Worthington, the founder of sandbag.org.uk, to discuss carbon trading and combating climate change. Plus, is immunotherapy set to revolutionise cancer treatment? And the science of being a cad Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 23 Jun 2008 | 10:14 am
AP - Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.
AP - Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of southwestern China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.
AFP - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said it has signed two oil contracts with Canada's Talisman Energy despite Baghdad's stiff opposition to such deals before a national oil law is drawn up.
AP - Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.
AFP - Astronomical clues found in Homer's "The Odyssey" could help confirm a total solar eclipse when Odysseus returned home, providing a potentially accurate timeline for the fall of Troy, two scientists reported Monday.
AP - For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen.
AP - NASA told a Senate panel on Monday that it anticipates losing 3,000 to 4,000 jobs at its launching site once the space shuttles stop flying in two more years, about half the cutback initially reported.