Red All Over: How The Color Red Affects A Referee's Judgment

A new study has found that choosing the color red for a uniform in competitive sports can actually affect the referee's split-second decision-making ability and even promote a scoring bias.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

Cancer-inhibiting Compound Found Under The Sea

Researchers have discovered a marine compound off the coast of Key Largo that inhibits cancer cell growth in laboratory tests. Largazole, named for its Florida location and structural features, seeks out a family of enzymes called histone deacetylase. Overactivity of certain HDACs has been associated with several cancers such as prostate and colon tumors, and inhibiting HDACs may activate tumor-suppressor genes that have been silenced in these cancers.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

Mutation Found In Dachshund Gene May Help Develop Therapies For Humans With Blindness

Cone-rod dystrophies are a group of eye diseases caused by progressive loss of the photoreceptor cells in the retina. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have identified a novel mutation in a gene associated with CRD in dogs, raising hopes that potential therapies can be developed for people suffering from these eye disorders.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

Why Gene Therapy Caused Leukemia In Some 'Boy In The Bubble Syndrome' Patients

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), sometimes called 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', is a genetic disorder in which the patient lacks most types of immune cell. Almost 10 years ago, two independent groups used gene therapy to treat a few infants with the most common form of SCID, SCID-X1, which is caused by mutations in the IL2RG gene.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

Capturing Deer Safely With Minimal Trauma Using New Apparatus

A new portable device allows researchers to humanely trap deer and other wildlife as part of field studies to control ticks and other parasites.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

Compressor-free Refrigerator May Loom In The Future

Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 Aug 2008 | 12:00 am

PSA Screening May Be Biased Against Obese Men, Leading To More Aggressive Cancers

Testing men for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen in the blood -- the gold standard screening test for prostate cancer -- may be biased against obese men, whose PSA levels tend to be deceptively low. And this bias may be creating more aggressive cancers in this population by delaying diagnosis, according to a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm

Fungal Disease Culprits Identified With Molecular Genetics

A new method rapidly detects the "genetic fingerprints" of fungi responsible for millions of dollars in losses in western wheat.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm

Brown Tree Snake Could Mean Guam Will Lose More Than Its Birds

Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm

Testosterone Key To Disease Transmission

High levels of testosterone may be a key factor in spreading disease among mice, according to biologists. The findings could help explain why males in a population are often more likely to get infected, and transmit disease.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 6:00 pm

Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park (AP)

This undated image provided by the National Parks Service shows the Wall Arch prior to it's collapse Monday Aug, 4, 2008. One of the largest and most visible arches in Arches National Park collapsed according to park officials. Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch has been a favorite stopping point for photographers. Henderson said the arch was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy others in the park: gravity and erosion. (AP Photo/National Parks Service)AP - One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 12:29 pm

137 dead, missing after storms hit northern Vietnam (AFP)

Flood-affected Vietnamese people evacuate their village on a country boat in Ha Hoa district, Phu Tho province. At least 137 people were dead or missing in mountainous northern Vietnam after heavy rains brought by tropical storm Kammuri triggered widespread flash floods and landslides.(AFP/Str)AFP - At least 137 people were dead or missing in mountainous northern Vietnam on Sunday after heavy rains brought by tropical storm Kammuri triggered widespread flash floods and landslides.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 11:24 am

Iran, Algeria to discuss OPEC-style gas group (Reuters)

Reuters - Iran and Algeria are expected to discuss the formation of an OPEC-style gas group during a visit by Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Algeria said in remarks published on Sunday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 9:02 am

Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery (AP)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, Bernann McKinney of the U.S. holds one of five cloned pitbull pupies during her first meeting with them at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Aug 2008 | 12:15 am

High-rise honey

Nepalese farmers risk all for the sweetest taste
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Aug 2008 | 11:15 pm

Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up

Scientists warn that the North Pole could be free of ice in just five years' time instead of 60
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Aug 2008 | 11:09 pm

Untested drugs offer cancer hope for NHS patients

NHS gives go-ahead to experimental treatments for hundreds of patients who have failed to respond to conventional cures
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Aug 2008 | 11:06 pm

Case studies: the new cancer drug trial

Almost 800 terminally ill cancer patients already participate in clinical trials being run by 19 experimental cancer medicine centres
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Aug 2008 | 11:06 pm

The new cancer trial that offers hope to thousands

Across the country 800 terminally ill men and women have agreed to be human guinea pigs in a hunt for new cancer drugs
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Aug 2008 | 11:06 pm

Scientists ask to plant GM trees

University researchers ask the Forestry Commission if they can plant genetically modified trees on its land.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Aug 2008 | 10:10 pm

Eat kangaroo to 'save the planet'

Switching from beef to kangaroo burgers could significantly help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian scientist says.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Aug 2008 | 2:03 pm

Sub to make deep Caribbean dive

UK scientists will use their new auto-sub to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes, 6km down in the Caribbean.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Aug 2008 | 1:52 pm