Bad Sign For Global Warming: Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool

Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Sexologists Can Infer A Woman's History of Orgasms By The Way She Walks

A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Artificial Meadows And Robot Spiders Reveal Secret Life Of Bees

Many animals learn to avoid being eaten by predators. Now ecologists have discovered that bumblebees can even learn to outwit color-changing crab spiders. Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to new research.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Scientists Identify Genetic Link That May Neutralize HIV

A genetic target may provide a significant new opportunity for vaccine or therapeutic development. Scientists have uncovered new evidence that strengthens the link between a host-cell gene called Apobec3 and the production of neutralizing antibodies to retroviruses. The finding adds a new dimension to the set of possible explanations for why most people who are infected with HIV do not make neutralizing antibodies that effectively fight the virus.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Defibrillators Save Lives, Don't Diminish Quality Of Life, Researchers Find

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest among patients with heart failure, and they do so without significantly altering a person's quality of life, say researchers from Duke University Medical Center.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

A Light Bulb And A Few Chemicals: Scientists Find A Way To Help Make New Reactions

Scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions. The method of catalysis, when used, could lead to groundbreaking kinds of drugs and agricultural chemicals and will provide a shortcut to standard multi-step methods of chemical production.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Major Flooding Risk Could Span Decades After Chinese Earthquake

Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries. A geographer from Durham University makes the observations on returning from carrying out investigative fieldwork in the China earthquake zone.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Cardiac Cell Transplant Studies Show Promise In Cardiac Tissue Repair

Two studies involving cardiac cell transplantation have shown an evolving role for bone marrow cells in cardiac cell therapy. The implantation of heart muscle cells and subsequent restoration of cardiac function was enhanced when bone marrow cells were implanted along with the cardiomyocytes. Researchers also found that mesenchymal stem cells derived from bone marrow provided an advantage over fetal amniotic fluid derived cells when differentiating into appropriate cells for cardiac cell transplantation and repair.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

What A Sleep Study Can Reveal About Fibromyalgia

Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative technologies to work in the sleep lab.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Fatal Protein Interactions May Explain Neurological Diseases

Researchers have investigated how proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease interact to form unique complexes. Their findings explain why Alzheimer's patients might develop Parkinson's, and vice versa. The new and unique molecular structures they discovered can now be used to model and develop new drugs for these devastating neurological diseases.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Leo Hickman on whether the world ends on Wednesday

Leo Hickman: I don't believe we're about to disappear down Cern's black hole. But ... what if?
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pm

Amazon idea

Can capitalism save the world's largest rainforest?
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:13 am

China to launch space mission in late September (AP)

AP - China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:34 am

The Nation's Weather (AP)

The forecast for noon, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 shows Tropical Storm Hanna will continue moving up the eastern seaboard, drenching coastal New England will rain and producing strong wind. Areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected in the Plains and Great Lakes. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Heavy rain and thunderstorms were forecast Sunday for northern New England as Tropical Storm Hanna heads toward Newfoundland and out into the Atlantic Ocean.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:23 am

High-resolution satellite launched in California (AP)

This image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows the successful launch of a Delta II, carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite, rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 at Vandenberg Air Force base in Calif. The satellite makers say GeoEye-1 has the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system. It can collect images from orbit with enough detail to show home plate on a baseball diamond.(AP Photo/Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Nathaniel Prost)AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:14 am

China counts down to third manned space launch

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, still patting itself on the back after a hugely successful Olympics, will launch a three-man space flight this month, with all systems already in final preparation, state media said on Sunday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:12 am

Shun meat, says UN climate chief

People should consider eating less meat as a way to tackle global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:10 am

UK digs deep for secrets of cosmos

Unique laboratory at bottom of Cleveland mine could be first to discover what is holding the universe together
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:03 pm

European space probe completes asteroid fly by (Reuters)

Reuters - The European Space Agency obtained on Saturday the first images of an asteroid 360 million km (224 million miles) from earth, part of a space mission which scientists hope will help them understand the origins of the planets.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:57 pm

European space probe completes asteroid fly by

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Space Agency obtained on Saturday the first images of an asteroid 360 million km (224 million miles) from earth, part of a space mission which scientists hope will help them understand the origins of the planets.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:57 pm

Rosetta probe makes asteroid pass

Europe's Rosetta space probe makes a close pass of asteroid Steins, taking pictures and recording other scientific data.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 6 Sep 2008 | 8:12 pm

A bug's life: Tim Adams takes a tour of the Natural History Museum's stunning Darwin Centre

Tim Adams takes a tour of the Natural History Museum's stunning Darwin Centre - an eight-storey high, concrete cocoon in the heart of South Kensington
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 6 Sep 2008 | 7:34 pm

Bush: Congress should allow more offshore drilling (AP)

President Bush arrives the White House from Camp David, Md. Saturday, Sep. 6, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Bush says if Congress doesn't permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect voters to support them in November.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Sep 2008 | 7:09 pm

In pictures

Asteroid Steins as captured by the Rosetta probe
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:32 pm

Wanted - plumber to protect Antarctic pipes

The British Antarctic Survey is advertising for a plumber to maintain one of the world's most remote research stations.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 6 Sep 2008 | 3:35 pm

European Cargo Ship Departs Space Station

Europe's space station cargo ship Jules Verne undocked late Friday.
Source: Livescience.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:53 pm

Feds Warn Climate Change Could Harm Giant Sequoias

Warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly.
Source: Livescience.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:30 pm

How Hot Is the Yellowstone Hotspot? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Yellowstone National Park has hot springs that can reach a scalding 150 degrees Fahrenheit (66 Celsius). But in recent years scientists have become interested in a different sort of hot spot - the area of hot molten rock flowing beneath the surface.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:03 pm

Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops (AP)

A Feb. 25, 2007 file photo shows mission specialists at the ESA European Space Operation Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, operating the Rosetta probe during it's fly-by of planet Mars. European Space Agency ESA scientists are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system. Rosetta is set to rendezvous with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just before 1900 GMT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 at a distance of just less than 500 miles (800 kilometers). (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)AP - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:51 pm

Despite Glitch, European Spacecraft's Asteroid Flyby a Success

Despite glitch, scientists declared the Rosetta probe's asteroid flyby a success.
Source: Livescience.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:40 pm