A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term shift in species composition, which scientists attribute primarily to the effects of global warming. Invertebrates and warm-water species increase while bottom feeders decrease. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Scientists are studying these varieties to identify the genes and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in order to engineer new drought-resistant crops of potato, as well as other Solanaceous vegetables. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Researchers are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T-cells to one day treat AIDS in humans. Using the zinc fingers, scientists have shown that they could reduce the viral load of immune-deficient mice transplanted with engineered T cells. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with a day's worth of nutrition in a single meal. The researchers have further engineered the cassava plant so it can resist the crop's most damaging viral threats and are refining methods to reduce cyanogens, substances that yield poisonous cyanide if they are not properly removed from the food before consumption. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Using sucrose to reduce pain in newborns undergoing painful procedures should be limited to babies having blood taken for the newborn screening test but not for intramuscular injections, according to new research findings. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Despite much research on acquisition of languages amongst monolingual persons, scientists still have to ask themselves basic questions about bilingual acquisition: How do babies realize that they are in a bilingual environment? What are the clues for them in discovering this? How is discrimination between languages produced in infants? The aim of new research is to find out how the brain acquires and manages languages and to discover in what way languages being similar or different is influential in this process. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 3:00 am
Scientists in Spain and Italy have identified a group of proteins in laboratory rats that could help explain two enduring medical mysteries -- why women live longer than men and why calorie restriction stands as the only proven method of extending longevity. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am
Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater understanding of the processes at work when ice is under stress, influencing how it flows and moves. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am
A new assistive technology allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues. The Tongue Drive system, developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, could help individuals with severe disabilities lead more independent lives. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am
By counteracting the underlying molecular mechanism for high blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, researchers found not only how that ailment and others arise in mammals, but also how the conditions may be treated simultaneously. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 1 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am
LiveScience.com - The rocket's red glare on future July Fourth celebrations may be more eco-friendly as researchers revise the chemistry behind the pyrotechnic displays.
Roman candles and roadside flares typically use potassium perchlorate to speed up the fuel-burning process that drives them. As they burn, they should consume most of the perchlorate, but sometimes the reaction snuffs out before all the fuel is consumed, leaving behind some of the chemical. Excess perchlorate is also sometimes added to pyrotechnics. ... Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 4:16 pm
AFP - Capturing and storing carbon emissions from power generation holds the key to managing climate change amid rising use of polluting oil, gas and coal, an international CO2 conference heard in The Hague on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
Campaigners from many of the 15 sites in England earmarked for "eco-towns" are protesting outside Parliament. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jun 2008 | 1:16 pm
One in four secondary schools in England does not have any specialist physics teachers, says a survey. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
Alok Jha presents our guide to the biggest science experiment of our lifetime: the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. Featuring interviews with Brian Cox, Jim Al-Khalili, and Lawrence Krauss. Warning: contains particle physics (and yodelling) Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 30 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
Alok Jha, Ian Sample and Nell Boase present a mini version of the show - discussing the Mars dichotomy; the safety of anthrax labs; and the science of Homer's Odyssey Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 30 Jun 2008 | 9:24 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new device that uses a tiny magnet can help disabled people steer a wheelchair or operate a computer using only the tip of the tongue, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
AP - Weighing 150 pounds and strong enough to require five men to wrestle her out of her saltwater tank, Dylan the sea turtle is ready to be set free after nine years in captivity and a final checkup by her veterinarian.
Two loggerhead turtles are flown to Gran Canaria and returned to the wild after washing up on UK shores. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jun 2008 | 5:20 am
AP - Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jun 2008 | 12:13 am
Johnjoe McFadden: It is 150 years since Darwin expounded the theory that illuminates our world to this day Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Editorial: Like a lot of amateur astronomers, John Fletcher got the bug in 1969, through watching the moon landing Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Babies born weighing over 10lb (4.54kg) are twice as likely to develop the condition, study finds Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:03 pm
Physicist Brian Cox guides satirist Chris Morris around the Large Hadron Collider. Produced by yada-yada for Cern Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
When Chris Morris visited the LHC, he found a machine to create God for two billionths of a second and a man who wants to smash your face with protons Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
Scaremongers have warned that the collisions at Cern could unleash incalculable danger and perhaps even destroy the Earth. Michio Kaku puts some fears to rest Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
Reuters - Scientists have linked 32 genetic
variations to Crohn's disease, a bowel disorder, highlighting
the complexity of many common diseases and the difficulties
facing researchers seeking treatments. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jun 2008 | 5:20 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have linked 32 genetic variations to Crohn's disease, a bowel disorder, highlighting the complexity of many common diseases and the difficulties facing researchers seeking treatments.
AFP - Capturing and storing carbon emissions from power generation holds the key to managing climate change amid rising use of polluting oil, gas and coal, an international CO2 conference heard in The Hague on Monday.
AP - Jeff Goodhartz is single and has no children. But he wanted to ensure the family name would live on after he's gone.
AP - The National Weather Service says the swollen Mississippi River is about to crest at just under nine feet above flood stage at St. Louis.
AP - Weighing 150 pounds and strong enough to require five men to wrestle her out of her saltwater tank, Dylan the sea turtle is ready to be set free after nine years in captivity and a final checkup by her veterinarian.