NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets -- Titan and Enceladus. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The revolution in genomics, with a wealth of data emerging from sequencing and simultaneous expression analysis of thousands of genes, has made it possible to study the numerous pathways and regulatory networks -- systems -- that operate to produce a desirable fruit. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The pattern recognition theory of humor is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively it explains that humor occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it. It also identifies implications of pattern recognition in childhood cognitive development, other species and artificial intelligence, and posits humor as a major driving force in the evolution of humankind's unique perceptual and intellectual abilities. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists have discovered that a certain clone of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, appears to be the most common strain causing Lyme disease in North America and Europe, and may account for the increase in cases for the past 20 years. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
St. Jude Medical, Inc. has announced the first patient implants in a clinical study that is investigating whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy will help people who suffer from major depressive disorder, a severe form of depression. The patients, a 59-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man, were implanted with the St. Jude Medical Libra® Deep Brain Stimulation System, an investigational device. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Research in fruit flies has shown that enhancing the production of a protein called neprilysin can reduce the formation of plaques and neuron death associated with Alzheimer's, at the expense of reducing the flies' lifespan. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes and creating microstructured surfaces to make new types of conductors that would carry more information across microchips than conventional wires do. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
A team of molecular biologists and computer scientists at Stony Brook University has designed and synthesized a new class of weakened polioviruses. They used their synthesizing method with computer software to systematically re-code the poliovirus genome. In doing so, the team is the first to demonstrate that a synthetic weakened virus can immunize an animal. These results show promise in the creation of new attenuated ('live virus') anti-viral vaccines and are reported in the journal Science. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine used concepts borrowed from the popular social networking site to analyze the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. They found that patients' brains were less well-connected than the brains of people without the disorder. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has sacked a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local authorities had said was proof of the existence of a highly endangered tiger.
AP - Nebraska's largest city struggled Saturday to restore power to thousands of residents a day after a severe storm damaged homes, uprooted trees and killed two people in a neighboring community.
LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 12:16 am
Minister pledges hospitals will offer treatments even while they are still being clinically approved Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 28 Jun 2008 | 11:10 pm
Caroline Davies reports on how the food chain became contaminated and talks to the angry allotment owners whose plots have been destroyed Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 28 Jun 2008 | 11:07 pm
Birds face threat to their survival as they make music at night in a bid to be heard above traffic Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 28 Jun 2008 | 11:07 pm
AP - An Arkansas mayor who ordered 10 Humane Society dogs let loose in a national forest is wanted on animal cruelty charges after a special judge issued an arrest warrant. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 28 Jun 2008 | 10:56 pm
SPACE.com - NASA's
Phoenix Mars Lander has scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area
on, NASA announced on Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 28 Jun 2008 | 8:45 pm
AP - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
AP - Authorities in New Jersey are monitoring a group of wayward bottlenose dolphins isolated in the Shrewsbury River near the town of Sea Bright. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 28 Jun 2008 | 5:29 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's booming economy has allowed it to increase spending on research and basic science, but it still has a way to go to catch up with the United States and other developed countries, top science officials said.
AFP - Genes can affect whether people tend to vote in elections or not, according to a US study released this week that suggested that the urge to cast a ballot is inherited.
AP - Nebraska's largest city struggled Saturday to restore power to thousands of residents a day after a severe storm damaged homes, uprooted trees and killed two people in a neighboring community.
AP - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
AFP - Genes can affect whether people tend to vote in elections or not, according to a US study released this week that suggested that the urge to cast a ballot is inherited.