Researchers Grow Human Blood Vessels In Mice From Adult Progenitor Cells

For the first time, researchers have grown in mice functioning human blood vessels from cells obtained from adult blood and bone marrow. This research could eventually lead to treatments for heart attack, acute injuries, wound healing and may facilitate growing new organs.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

New Protocol Streamlines Therapy That Makes More Kidney Transplants Possible

A new therapy improves transplant rates and outcomes for patients awaiting living- and deceased-donor kidney transplantation. The therapy may provide an option for many patients "sensitized" to transplant antigens (human leukocyte antigens, or HLA) who previously would not have been candidates for transplantation because of their intense immune response to these HLA targets.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

NASA Mission To Be Crystal Ball Into Oceans' Future, Mirror To The Past

Imagine the lives that could be saved from flash floods and drought, the millions of dollars in fuel costs that could be avoided for fishing vessels, and the homes that could be spared from the effects of coastline erosion if only scientists could more accurately predict the dynamics of Earth's often unpredictable oceans. Armed with increasingly more accurate forecasts, weather services in countries across the globe are improving time-sensitive warnings of cyclones, flooding and high sea winds, as well as information about when it's safe to scuba dive, sail, or fish 48 kilometers (30 miles) or more beyond coastlines.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Brain Morphology Of Homo Liujiang Cranium Fossil Detailed With 3-D CT Scan

High-resolution industrial computed tomography was used to scan the Homo Liujiang cranium fossil, and the three-dimensional virtual brain image was reconstructed. The brain morphology of Liujiang is assigned to Late Homo sapiens.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Changes In Winds Could Have Been Cause Of Abrupt Glacial Climatic Change

During the last glacial period, small variations in the surface winds could have induced significant changes in the oceanic currents of the North Atlantic, and could even have played a role in the abrupt climate change that occurred at the time.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Loud Music Can Make You Drink More, In Less Time, In A Bar

Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment -- in this case, music -- can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices and consumer time spent in the immediate vicinity. A study of the effects of music levels on drinking in a bar setting has found that loud music leads to more drinking in less time.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Doping legalities

Do legal issues lag behind science on anti-doping?
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 1:06 pm

Buyer Beware: The Many Ways Retailers Can Trick You (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Several studies reveal how Americans shop in irrational ways, and increasingly scientists are figuring out how easily we can be duped. Retailers in turn use these tricks to get inside our heads, encouraging window shoppers to become real shoppers, driving purchases of sales items regardless of real value, and helping buyers feel good about the things they walk out with ... often for no good reason.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:50 pm

Dogs and Cats Get Along Just Fine

If introduced early, dogs and cats learn to get along.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:44 pm

Buyer Beware: The Many Ways Retailers Can Trick You

Shoppers do crazy things. And retailers bank on it.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:43 pm

Tropical Storm Dolly heads for Gulf of Mexico: NHC (Reuters)

Reuters - Tropical Storm Dolly was about to emerge off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula early Monday and move into the Gulf of Mexico where it could become a hurricane on Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest report.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:23 pm

Green light for massive wind farm

Europe's largest onshore wind farm will be built near Abington in South Lanarkshire, it is announced.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:02 pm

Rapid Alzheimer's Improvement After New Immune-based Treatment

Alzheimer's patients showed rapid improvement in language within minutes of a novel immune-based treatment. A new article provides preliminary evidence that the disrupted neural communication seen in Alzheimer's disease may be reversible.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm

Explosive Eruption Of Okmok Volcano In Alaska

Okmok Volcano in Alaska continues to produce explosions and ash plumes through a newly created vent and poses hazards to air travel in the area. Scientists are using a combination of seismic and GPS instruments on the ground and weather and radar satellites in space to track the progress of the eruption. Human visual observations are limited because airborne ash obscures a view of what is happening inside the volcano's 6-mile-diameter caldera and the area is too hazardous to enter.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm

Natural Selection May Not Produce The Best Organisms

"Survival of the fittest" is the catch phrase of evolution by natural selection. While natural selection favors the most fit organisms around, evolutionary biologists have long wondered whether this leads to the best possible organisms in the long run. A team of researchers has developed a new theory, which suggests that life may not always be optimal.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm

First Human Use Of New Device To Make Arrhythmia Treatment Safer

The first person in the world has been successfully treated with a new device designed to make it safer and easier for heart specialists to create a hole in the cardiac atrial septum. The hole, created by the NRGTM Transseptal Needle, allows cardiac catheters to cross from the right side of the heart to the left side.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm

Climate documentary 'broke rules'

A controversial Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules on impartiality and fairness, the regulator says.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 11:25 am

Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Rare (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - As humans look farther into the universe and discover more and more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar system is. Often astronomers in the planet-hunting business say discoveries of Earth-like worlds are just around the corner.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 11:02 am

Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Rare

Solar systems with Jupiter-like planets may be rare in the universe.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Jul 2008 | 10:49 am

1st Responders Urged To Check Mobile Satcom Gear Early

Emergency workers should check their mobile satellite communications gear.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Jul 2008 | 10:48 am

Animal tissue rejection advance

Scientists have found a way to overcome the problem of the human body rejecting animal parts used in transplants.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 10:17 am

Lab animal numbers continue trend

The number of animals used in UK labs for scientific experiments is now more than three million - a level not seen since 1992.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 9:55 am

Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's; experts worry

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and their families.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 7:09 am

Pakistani court upholds curbs on nuclear scientist

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the detention of disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Monday and barred him from talking to the media about nuclear proliferation while he is under house arrest.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 21 Jul 2008 | 6:51 am

Roosevelt redux

A Green New Deal could sort climate, energy and banking
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 1:00 am

'100 months to save the planet'

A "Green New Deal" is needed to solve current problems of climate change, energy and finance, a report argues.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:59 am

Concerns over Olympic drug test

Serious question marks hang over a key drug test just two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, a BBC investigation finds.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Jul 2008 | 12:30 am

Gun advocacy group tours Idaho zoo while armed (AP)

AP - Idaho members of a group that advocates for the right to openly carry handguns in public are turning heads by touring Zoo Boise while packing guns on their hips.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 10:48 pm

Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil (AP)

AP - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 8:35 pm

Fourth Dwarf Planet Named For Polynesian God

A dwarf planet beyond Neptune has been renamed Makemake.
Source: Livescience.com | 20 Jul 2008 | 7:03 pm

Barcelona buzz

Gossip girl Sue Nelson goes to the Euroscience festival
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 20 Jul 2008 | 7:01 pm

Tomorrow's Body Armor Could Fight Germs

Researchers plan to add germ-fighting to the list of Kevlar's virtues.
Source: Livescience.com | 20 Jul 2008 | 3:02 pm

NASA eyes buying Japan's cargo spacecraft: report

TOKYO (Reuters) - NASA has began unofficial negotiations with Japan's space agency on purchasing units of an unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft as the successor to its space shuttles, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 20 Jul 2008 | 11:59 am