Helping Tumor Cells Not To Stick To The Wound During Surgical Removal

Sometimes during surgery to remove a tumor, cells become detached from the bulk of the tumor. In a small number of cases, these tumor cells stick to cells at the site of the surgical wound and go on to form a secondary tumor, having an enormous negative impact on the survival and quality of life of the patient.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

'Virtual Archaeologist' Reconnects Fragments Of An Ancient Civilization

Computer scientists working with archaeologists in Greece has developed a new technology that has the potential to change the way people do archaeology.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Parents' Expectations, Styles Can Harm College Students' Self-esteem

College students want to please their parents but often stress out about meeting goals far tougher than what their parents have in mind, psychologists have found. Scientists have examined the effects of parenting styles on how students adjust to college. Students reported making smoother transitions if they have at least one parent whose style combines warmth, a demanding nature and democracy.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Surprising Details Of Evolution Of Protein Translation Revealed

A new study of transfer RNA, a molecule that delivers amino acids to the protein-building machinery of the cell, challenges long-held ideas about the evolutionary history of protein synthesis.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Old Growth Giants Limited By Water-pulling Ability

The Douglas-fir, state tree of Oregon, towering king of old-growth forests and one of the tallest tree species on Earth, finally stops growing taller because it just can't pull water any higher, a new study concludes.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

By Amplifying Cell Death Signals, Scientists Make Precancerous Cells Self-destruct

On the cellular level, death signals can actually be life saving -- by killing off abnormally dividing cells before they turn cancerous. Now, Rockefeller University researchers have found a way to amplify these signals by turning a life affirming protein into a killer. The findings not only mark a breakthrough in the field but also open the door to a new line of drugs for cancer therapeutics.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Personalized Immunotherapy To Fight HIV/AIDS

The main obstacle to creating an AIDS vaccine has been the high genetic variability of the HIV virus. Scientists have overcome this difficulty by designing a personalized immunotherapy for HIV-infected patients.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Stress, Anxiety Can Make Allergy Attacks Even More Miserable And Last Longer

A new study shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person's allergic reaction to some routine allergens. Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person's allergy attack to be much worse.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

New Mushroom Study Shows The Power Of Energy Density

Preliminary research suggests increasing intake of low-energy density foods, specifically mushrooms, in place of high-energy-density foods, like lean ground beef, is a strategy for preventing or treating obesity. This is good news for the more than one-third of US adults age 20 and older who are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Dying Frogs Sign Of A Biodiversity Crisis

Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs, salamanders and their ilk, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. The researchers argue that substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 17 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Tropical Storm Fay soaks Haiti, Dominican (AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008 at 12:15 a.m. EDT shows a weak front extending from the Carolinas through the Gulf States. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are developing along the front. In the Caribbean Sea, Tropical Storm Fay is traveling through Hispaniola. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Fay is dumping heavy rain over Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it makes its way toward Cuba.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 1:11 pm

Storm Fay to become hurricane threat to Cuba and U.S.

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The sixth storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season dumped torrential rain on the Dominican Republic and vulnerable Haiti on Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane threatening Cuba and the United States, U.S. forecasters said.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 12:43 pm

In Germany, wandering whale creates wonderment (AP)

AP - Germans have been treated to the rare sight of a lone and wayward humpback whale swimming in the Baltic Sea, but marine biologists said it may be doomed because the waterway lacks the conditions such mammals need to survive.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 12:33 pm

Canada to search for Arctic explorer's ships (AP)

In this photo released by the National Archives of Canada, Skulls of members of the Franklin Expedition, discovered and buried by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945, at King William Island, N.W.T. (now Nunavut), are shown in this photo from the National Archives of Canada Collections. More than 160 years after Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition vanished in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage, the federal government is backing a search for the Holy Grail of the High Arctic. (AP Photo/National Archives of Canada via The Canadian Press)AP - For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 4:26 am

Flypaper No Match for This Slippery Bug (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In the United States it's not only summer, it's insect season. While flypaper is among the many items used to keep the buzzing to a minimum, in South Africa, they don't need it.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 4:20 am

Guess what? Military funds mind-reading science (AP)

AP - Here's a mind-bending idea: The U.S. military is paying scientists to study ways to read people's thoughts. The hope is that the research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in hospitals.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 16 Aug 2008 | 1:11 am

'Kill Crayfish on sight' appeal

The Scottish Government unveils plans for dealing with the threat posed by American signal crayfish.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 15 Aug 2008 | 11:51 pm

SLIDE SHOW: Ten Reasons Why Bigfoot Is Bogus

Discovery News consults the experts for a skeptic's guide to Sasquatch.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 11:30 pm

Funding fear casts shadow over British rover's mission to Mars

Scientists concerned that will not receive €200m contract to design, build and test rover for Mars mission
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Aug 2008 | 11:24 pm

Bad science: From the mouths of morons in the media

Ben Goldacre: There's not exactly a whole bunch of news going on right now
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Aug 2008 | 11:16 pm

Nigerian troops kill 12 militants in delta attack (Reuters)

A view of Shell's oil and gas terminal on Bonny Island in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta. Crude oil reserves in Nigeria, the world's eighth largest exporter, have increased by 12 percent over the past year to 33.6 billion barrels, a top oil official said Friday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)Reuters - Twelve Nigerian militants and a naval officer were killed in a gunbattle on Friday near a Royal Dutch Shell natural gas plant in the oil-producing Niger Delta, military and security sources said.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 10:50 pm

"Bigfoot" fails DNA test

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 10:48 pm

New York City tornado warning canceled

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers were temporarily urged to take shelter on Friday due to a tornado warning but it was quickly rescinded, officials said.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 10:10 pm

Cassini Spots Icy Jet Sources on Saturn Moon (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The Cassini probe has pinpointed exact locations where icy jets erupt from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 9:02 pm

Bigfoot DNA Dubbed Scam, Believers Undaunted

Two Georgia men say they have found Bigfoot and have his DNA, as others cry hoax.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 8:30 pm

Flypaper No Match for This Slippery Bug

Secret found to the world's slipperiest insect.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 7:58 pm

FDA to hold meeting on baby bottle chemical

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it will hold a public meeting next month about the safety of a chemical found in baby bottles and many other products.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 7:14 pm

Video - Earthquake Forecasts

Number cruncher John Rundle peers into California’s seismic future.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 7:03 pm

Video - Do You Have An Alzheimer's Barcode?

Proteomics research has established a readable pattern of 23 proteins that identify those at risk for Alzheimer's in later life.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 7:02 pm

Why Red Is Such a Potent Color

The answer lies in our tree living past.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 6:42 pm

Little robin from Gabon is world's newest species

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A red-breasted bird discovered by accident in the forests of Gabon is a new species, U.S. scientists said on Friday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 5:10 pm

Little robin from Gabon is world's newest species (Reuters)

Brian Schmidt, a research ornithologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, makes notes of a female specimen of the newly-discovered olive-backed forest robin, in this handout photo. (Carlton Ward/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A red-breasted bird discovered by accident in the forests of Gabon is a new species, U.S. scientists said on Friday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 5:04 pm

Pacific dives recover novel fish

Marine biologists being filmed for a BBC TV series see an astonishing 13 new fish species on an expedition in the Pacific.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 15 Aug 2008 | 4:59 pm

Brooklyn museum to show off fake Egypt sculptures

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Brooklyn Museum, which recently announced its prized collection of stone sculptures from ancient Egypt was cluttered with fakes, is planning an exhibit with these pieces to raise awareness of forgeries in the world's art collections.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 4:17 pm

Video: The MoD challenges schools & colleges to compete for robotic defense contract

The MoD shows off the nominees for its new robot technology competition, the Grand Challenge
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Aug 2008 | 4:08 pm

In Shark Vs. Polar Bear Smackdown, Shark Wins

A polar bear jaw found in the stomach of a Greenland shark is raising eyebrows.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 4:00 pm

Will China Become the No. 1 Superpower?

A good number of people in many countries believe the torch has already been passed.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 3:44 pm

Invasive Snail Multiplying in Lake Michigan

Populations of an invasive snail could overwhelm Lake Michigan's ecosystem.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 3:15 pm

5 Ways to Beef Up Your Brain

Memory is partly a matter of genetics, but there are things you can do to keep your mind in shape.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 2:28 pm

Your questions

Find out more about the greatest ever experiment
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 15 Aug 2008 | 2:19 pm

Earth's Plate Tectonics May Eventually Stop

In about 350 million years the Pacific will effectively close.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 2:18 pm

Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 15 Aug 2008 | 2:09 pm

China's Moon Orbiter Faces Eclipse Wipeout

A coming lunar eclipse could strip China's lunar satellite of its energy supply.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 2:00 pm

MoD hosts grand battle of spy robots

Helicopters, mini-tanks and a flying saucer among 11 surveillance vehicles competing for contracts
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 15 Aug 2008 | 1:30 pm

The Great (and Sometimes Serious) Debate About Pluto

Two planetary scientists duke it out over Pluto.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 1:24 pm

Bones in Lava Tubes Reveal Hawaii's Natural History

Little did I know this interview would begin an adventure to Hawaii, where I would document ongoing research on the endangered Hawaiian Petrel and go probing in lava tubes for extinct and endangered bird bones.
Source: Livescience.com | 15 Aug 2008 | 1:05 pm

Fetus Mummies Were Likely King Tut's

The two fetuses found in King Tut's tomb were likely the offspring of the boy king.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 15 Aug 2008 | 1:00 pm