The Buzz Of The Chase: Scientists Test Technique Used To Catch Serial Killers ... On Bumblebees

Geographic profiling is a technique used by police forces around the world to help them prioritize lists of suspects in investigations of serial crimes. Now researchers, along with the former detective who invented the technique, have used this criminology technique to look at patterns of foraging in bees.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Symbiotic Microbes Induce Profound Genetic Changes In Their Hosts

Though bacteria are everywhere -- from the air we breathe and the food we eat to our guts and skin -- the vast majority are innocuous or even beneficial, and only a handful pose any threat to us. What distinguishes a welcome microbial guest from an unwanted intruder?
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

New Therapy For HIV Treatment

Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of the HIV virus could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Women End Up Less Happy Than Men

Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life -- even though they start out happier, reveals new research.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Diamonds May Have Been Life's Best Friend On Primordial Earth

Diamonds may have been life's best friend. Billions of years ago, the surface of these gems may have provided just the right conditions to foster the chemical reactions believed to have given rise to life on Earth, researchers in Germany report.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Cerebral Malaria May Be A Major Cause Of Brain Injury In African Children

Researchers have found that cerebral malaria is related to long-term cognitive impairment in one of four child survivors. The research is published in the journal Pediatrics.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 6:00 pm

Could Metals Help Treat Cancer?

A collaboration between chemists and biologists has made it possible to identify the effects of a new class of molecules, polyoxometalates, primarily composed of metals and oxygen. These molecules are very powerful inhibitors of a specific protein kinase, CK2, an enzyme that is overactive in a number of cancers. The enzyme's instrumental role in controlling cell proliferation and survival makes it an important target in the search for new medications.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Thyrotropin Levels Associated With Alzheimer's Disease Risk In Women

Women with low or high levels of the hormone thyrotropin, which affects thyroid gland function and thyroid hormone levels, appear to have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion

Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm -- or slime.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

Protein Plays Jekyll And Hyde Role In Lou Gehrig's Disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the death of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control muscle movements from walking and swallowing to breathing. Scientists now report key findings about the cause and occurrence of the familial form of ALS.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 3:00 pm

UK hacker loses appeal against US extradition (AP)

Gary McKinnon, 40, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United States government computer networks — including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems_ listens to a reporter's question outside the Bow Magistrates Court in central London in this Wednesday May 10, 2006 file photo. The British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the U.S. His appeal against a government order extraditing him was rejected by the House of Lords on Wednesday July 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, FILE)AP - Britain's top court refused Wednesday to stop the extradition to the U.S. of a British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers — something he claims to have done while hunting for information on UFOs.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 10:50 am

NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon (AP)

A K-10 Red robot is seen June 10, 2008, in Moses Lake, Wash. NASA scientists and contractors spent two weeks in Moses Lake field testing some of the vehicles and robots that will be used when humans return to the moon later this century. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 10:47 am

Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk

A large chunk of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jul 2008 | 10:39 am

Future Moonwalkers Will Have High-Tech Maps

Astronauts may get a new personal navigation system on the moon.
Source: Livescience.com | 30 Jul 2008 | 10:30 am

Caught in the net

A Guyanese trek turns up new fish species
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jul 2008 | 10:24 am

The race to space

Nasa's 50-year history in pictures and sound
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jul 2008 | 9:21 am

Earthquake strongly jolts "lucky" L.A.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An earthquake struck just east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, rocking tall buildings and rattling nerves across Southern California, but causing no serious injuries or major structural damage.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 8:51 am

Russian lake mission put off after accident: media

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists suspended a mission to explore the world's biggest lake on Wednesday after one of their submarines collided with a floating platform, media reported.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 7:53 am

Bush pushes Congress to expand offshore drilling (Reuters)

President George W. Bush gives a speech about energy and the economy at the Lincoln Electric Company in Euclid, Ohio, July 29, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush on Tuesday again called on Congress to pass legislation that would give energy companies access to billions of barrels of oil in U.S. waters where energy exploration is now banned.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 12:52 am

Bees join hunt for serial killers

Studying the way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down criminals, scientists believe.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 30 Jul 2008 | 12:52 am

Scientists question dinosaur soft tissue find (Reuters)

Reuters - Soft tissue taken from preserved dinosaur bones may not be dinosaur protein at all, but bacteria, paleontologists said on Tuesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 12:17 am

Scientists question dinosaur soft tissue find

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Soft tissue taken from preserved dinosaur bones may not be dinosaur protein at all, but bacteria, paleontologists said on Tuesday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 30 Jul 2008 | 12:17 am

Editorial: Unequal representation on the UK DNA database

Editorial: Used badly, a DNA database will harm the society it is supposed to protect
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:09 pm

Health: Treatment heralds Alzheimer's breakthrough

New drug twice as effective as current medicines in slowing the disease's progression
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:05 pm

First 'practical jetpack' clears for take-off

New Zealand inventor unveils jetpack that has taken test pilots to altitudes as high as 3ft
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:05 pm

Take the innocent off DNA database, says inquiry

Ex-convicts' records should be erased as retaining profiles 'continues to criminalise them'
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:04 pm

Russia's diving record attempt ends in farce

Scientists forced to withdraw claims that they had set a new underwater record
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:04 pm

Judge: EPA turned 'blind eye' to Everglades (AP)

Semi trucks line up to be filled at the Florida Crystals Corp. distribution center in Okeelanta, Florida July 9, 2008. The company, controlled by the Cuban-born Fanjul brothers, Alfonso and Jose, is in the spotlight following the State of Florida's announced $1.75 billion land purchase deal of U.S. Sugar Corp to restore endangered wildlife habitat in the Florida Everglades. The restoration plan probably cannot work without the Florida Crystals land as well. To match feature USA-SUGAR/BARONS REUTERS/Joe Skipper (UNITED STATES)AP - The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has turned a "blind eye" to Florida's Everglades cleanup efforts, while the state is violating its own commitment to restore the vast ecosystem, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 10:57 pm

Inventor says jet packs ready to take off (AP)

Harrison Martin takes a jet pack for a test flight at the annual EAA Airventure Fly-in Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in Oshkosh, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - This isn't how a jet pack is supposed to look, is it? Hollywood has envisioned jet packs as upside-down fire extinguishers strapped to people's backs. But Glenn Martin's invention is far more unwieldy — a 250-pound piano-sized contraption that people settle into rather than strap on.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 10:57 pm

Rodeo lawsuit against animal-rights group tossed (AP)

AP - A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the booking company for a Cheyenne rodeo against an animal-rights group.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 9:58 pm

Columbus debunker sets sights on Leonardo da Vinci

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:58 pm

Quake Shakes Southern California

Magnitude 5.4 earthquake shakes Los Angeles, no damage reported.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:38 pm

Earthquake Forecasts

Number cruncher John Rundle peers into California’s seismic future.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:32 pm

Alzheimer's drug 'halts' decline

UK scientists have developed a drug which may halt the progression of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:27 pm

Strong Quake Shakes Southern California

A magnitude-5.4 earthquake rocks California from L.A. to San Diego.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:20 pm

BLOG: California Quake Update

Discovery News correspondent Michael Reilly with the latest on the California quake.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 7:20 pm

'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead

A plane equipped with a powerful laser has moved a step closer to becoming a viable weapon to shoot down missiles.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:49 pm

6-Legged Deer Gets New Home After Dog Attack

A six-legged deer found in north Georgia after being attacked by a dog has a new home.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:28 pm

Russia sub's deep lake dive fails to set record

ABOARD THE METROPOLIA PLATFORM, Russia (Reuters) - Russian explorers plunged to the bed of the world's deepest lake on Tuesday in a show of Moscow's resurgent scientific ambitions, but had to withdraw a claim to have set a new record.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:24 pm

Shark Avoids Suffocation by Turning Off Electricity

Epaulette sharks reduce their electrical activity to survive oxygen deprivation.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:20 pm

Discovery Space: NASA at 50

A look back at NASA's 50 years through slideshows, video and expert analysis.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:20 pm

Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 6:03 pm

San Andreas Fault Longer Than Thought (LiveScience.com)

California's Antelope Valley freeway passes near folded layers of sediment above the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, California June 22, 2006. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonLiveScience.com - As if the San Andreas Fault weren't long and menacing enough, newly found mud pots and mud volcanoes now suggest it extends another 18 miles, going under the Salton Sea and beyond, in the desert southeast of Palm Springs.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 5:40 pm

Fossilized Dino Tracks Studied From Air

Aerial photos of ancient tracks are helping scientists understand dino behavior.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 5:21 pm

San Andreas Fault Longer Than Thought

A string of mud pots suggests a southern extension to the San Andreas Fault.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 5:04 pm

Burning ambitions

Why it is time to get serious about large-scale biomass
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Jul 2008 | 4:57 pm

Can Ball Lightning Be Created in Microwave Ovens?

Are glowing orbs in a reheating appliance the same thing as ball lightning?
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 3:03 pm

5 Things You Must Know About Skin Cancer

Facts about melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:47 pm

Here Comes the Bride, Glub, Glub, Glub...

When the pastor pronounced them man and wife, Brian Wilson and Christina Gunn took off their breathing gear and exchanged a kiss 20 feet under the surface.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:45 pm

Canadian Woman Gives Birth to 18th Child

A Romanian immigrant has given birth to her 18th child in British Columbia, making her the province's most prolific mother in 20 years.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:40 pm

Russians in landmark Baikal dive

Russian scientists reach the bottom of the world's deepest body of fresh water - Lake Baikal in Siberia.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:33 pm

'Blimp on Steroids' Joins Hunt for Natural Resources

Giant new blimps are built to ship mega-loads to resource-rich areas.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:21 pm

John McCain Stumps for Sunscreen

Republican Sen. John McCain said Monday he had had a small patch of skin removed from his face and biopsied as part of a regular checkup with his dermatologist.
Source: Livescience.com | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:18 pm

Russian Mini Sub Fails to Reach Lake Bottom

Submarines don't manage to set the record for the deepest dive at Lake Baikal.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 2:16 pm

Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)

AP - Weather around the U.S.A.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 1:30 pm

Coral Reef 'Glue' Damaged by Climate Change

The cement that binds the skeletons of reef structures is lost under climate change.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 29 Jul 2008 | 1:01 pm

The tiny tree-shrew that could drink the average human "under the table"

A tiny tree-shrew that lives on alcoholic nectar could - pound for pound - drink the average human under the table.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:35 am

There's life in space, says someone who's been there

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. commander of space shuttle Discovery believes life probably exists somewhere in outer space, but there is a simple reason why aliens have not visited earth -- the journey is too tough.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 11:15 am

Rare new Tanzania monkey "at risk of extinction"

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A new species of Tanzanian monkey is threatened with extinction just two years after it was formally identified, conservationists have warned.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 29 Jul 2008 | 9:45 am