Science Headlines for August 22, 2008

Radioactive Waste Recycling No Longer A Pain In The Ash

A new recycling plant will soon recover uranium from the ashes of radioactive garbage to be recycled back into nuclear fuel using an efficient, environmentally friendly technology inspired by decaffeinated coffee. The technique's future may even hold the key to recycling the most dangerous forms of radioactive waste.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

Manes, Trains And Antlers Explained: How Showy Male Traits Evolved

For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme. A team of Wisconsin scientists has turned from the question of why such male traits exist to precisely how they evolved. They have worked out the molecular details of how a simple genetic switch controls decorative traits in male fruit flies and how that switch evolved.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

Tracing Origins Of Critical Step In Animal Evolution: The Development Of Nerves

Researchers have traced the origins of one of the most important steps in animal evolution -- the development of nerves.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

Tobacco Industry's Marketing Linked To Youth Smoking

The National Cancer Institute has released a report that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

Continued Breakup Of Two Of Greenland's Largest Glaciers Shown In Satellite Images

Researchers monitoring daily satellite images of Greenland's glaciers have discovered break-ups at two of the largest glaciers in the last month. They expect that part of the Northern hemisphere's longest floating glacier will continue to disintegrate within the next year.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

Killer Carbs: Scientist Finds Key To Overeating As We Age

Scientist has discovered key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, causing increased hunger and, potentially, weight gain as we grow older.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 3:00 pm

'Iceman' Oetzi's Clothes Suggest Shepherd Life

The world's oldest intact mummy was not a hunter-gatherer, research shows.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 22 Aug 2008 | 2:38 pm

Ice Cracks at Greenland's Tip Worry Scientists

New satellite images of Greenland show a 7-mile crack in the Petermann glacier.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 22 Aug 2008 | 2:38 pm

5 Keys to Happiness

If you're depressed or just want something to improve your day. Here are five ways to help get that much-needed mood boost.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 2:16 pm

Typhoon Nuri shuts down Hong Kong

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Typhoon Nuri churned through Hong Kong on Friday, shutting down most of the financial hub with gale-force winds and disrupting hundreds of flights.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 2:14 pm

NASA destroys rocket after failed launch (AP)

AP - NASA says it destroyed an unmanned suborbital rocket shortly after a failed launch early this morning from an island off the Virginia coast.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:46 pm

Hollywood Gets Inside the Minds of Moviegoers (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - "Carl, let me in," whispered actor-director Ben Stiller, grasping at empty air near a sullen teenage boy. "I want to know what makes my little nephew tick."
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:42 pm

Heavy Rain Triggers Destructive Tornadoes

Research shows heavy rain is key during the forming of tornadoes.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:38 pm

Hollywood Gets Inside the Minds of Moviegoers

Neuroscientists could revolutionize how filmmakers make and market movies.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:35 pm

Real-World Recycling Puts U.S. to Shame

Recycling goes beyond sorting your trash in other countries.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:35 pm

Extreme Recycling: Zoo Doo

In a perfect zoo there is Zoo Doo.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:23 pm

US scientists challenge UK over coal-fired power stations

The British government risks scuppering a global deal to cut emissions if it presses ahead with a new generation of dirty coal power, says a powerful coalition of US scientists and environmentalists
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:20 pm

Saber-toothed Cat Fossils Discovered in Venezuela

The cat fossils are 1.8 million years old.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 1:16 pm

Economist Hedges Bets on Wildfires in California

Many think letting a fire destroy many homes hurts the welfare of Californians and dampens the economy. But how do we save people, homes, and firefighters?
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:48 pm

Typhoon Nuri weakens as it lands in Hong Kong (AP)

AP - Typhoon Nuri weakened to a severe tropical storm as it landed in Hong Kong on Friday, bringing strong winds and rainfall.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:41 pm

Pinpointing Alzheimer's Structures

MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer's disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Mystery Of Young Stars Near Black Holes Solved

The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by astrophysicists. Until now, scientists have puzzled over how stars could form around a black hole, since molecular clouds - the normal birth places of stars - would be ripped apart by the black hole's immense gravitational pull.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Molecule That Keeps Pathogens Like Salmonella In Check Uncovered

Scientists have found a potential new way to stop the bacteria that cause gastroenteritis, tularemia and severe diarrhea from making people sick.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Dietary Supplements For Horses, Dogs And Cats Need Better Regulation, New Report Says

The growing use of animal dietary supplements has raised several concerns, including the safety of specific supplements and the approaches taken to determine their safeness.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Face transplant patients happy with the results

Despite episodes of immune rejection, the second and third patients ever to receive the pioneering surgery say their lives have improved enormously as a result
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:59 am

See Trio of Planets at Sunset

Recently, three planets have been clustered rather closely together.
Source: Livescience.com | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:49 am

Study: A bad joke might endanger the teller (AP)

AP - There's a reason comedians call it "dying on stage."

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:38 am

Oil prices sag after big gains (AFP)

AFP - World oil prices edged lower Friday on profit-taking, after bumper gains the previous day as a crisis deepened between Russia and the West over the former's invasion of Georgia, analysts said.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:23 am

At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice (AP)

AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 5:08 am

Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips (Reuters)

Reuters - Affluent Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 22 Aug 2008 | 12:39 am

Face transplants can work, studies show

LONDON (Reuters) - New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a French-Caribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities, researchers said on Thursday.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 21 Aug 2008 | 11:58 pm

Face transplant 'double success'

Successful results from face transplants will speed progress towards more operations, say experts.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 21 Aug 2008 | 11:09 pm

Paul Collier: Charles's fantasy farming won't feed Africa's poor

Paul Collier:A return to organic peasantry will feed only affluent angst. To take on global hunger, genetic modification is crucial
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 21 Aug 2008 | 11:08 pm

FDA to allow radiation of spinach and lettuce

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health regulators have approved the use of ionizing radiation for fresh spinach and lettuce, saying the technique already approved for other foods can help control harmful bacteria and other pathogens.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 21 Aug 2008 | 10:55 pm

Parachute Test Fails for NASA's New Spaceship

A parachute test for NASA's Orion space shuttle successor went awry.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Aug 2008 | 10:25 pm

Report: More Support, Testing Needed for NASA Exploration

Proper funding and testing plan are needed for NASA's tech development program.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Aug 2008 | 10:25 pm

Study: Large Earthquake Could Strike New York City

More faults exist than was known.
Source: Livescience.com | 21 Aug 2008 | 10:20 pm

Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela (AP)

AP - An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists say the find holds the promise of many discoveries to come.

Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 21 Aug 2008 | 10:08 pm

Soggy storm Fay moves over Florida again

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay came ashore on the Florida coast for the third time in less than a week on Thursday, bringing more of the torrential rain that has flooded hundreds of homes.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 21 Aug 2008 | 9:57 pm

Biodegradable Plastics Are Good for Atmosphere, Too

Biodegradable plastic has a hidden advantage: Producing it releases less CO2.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 21 Aug 2008 | 9:38 pm

Angel the dog credited with saving kittens (AP)

AP - You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 21 Aug 2008 | 9:18 pm

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