Protein Essential In Long Term Memory Consolidation Identified

New research has identified a specific protein essential for the process of long term memory consolidation. The process of memory creation and consolidation is the first to be affected in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; understanding the biological mechanisms of this process brings us one step closer to finding a treatment for these incurable diseases.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Nanoscale Droplets With Cancer-fighting Implications Created

Scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Eating Fish While Pregnant, Longer Breastfeeding, Lead To Better Infant Development, Research Finds

Higher prenatal fish consumption leads to better physical and cognitive development in infants, according to a study of mothers and infants from Denmark. Longer breastfeeding was also independently beneficial.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Diversity At Medical Schools Makes Stronger Doctors, Study Shows

A new UCLA study disputes controversial legislation like Prop. 209 that claimed campus policies to promote student-body diversity were unnecessary and discriminatory. UCLA researchers found that medical students who undergo training in racially diverse schools feel better equipped to care for patients in a diverse society.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Climate: New Spin On Ocean's Role

New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that are profoundly influencing marine life and the world's climate. These massive swirling structures -- the largest are known as gyres -- can be thousands of kilometers across and can extend down as deep as 500 meters or more, new research shows.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Upper Mass Limit For Black Holes?

There appears to be an upper limit to how big the Universe's most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

New Nano Device Detects Immune System Cell Signaling

Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances. The signals the researchers detected originated in dendritic cells -- the sentinels of the immune system that do the initial detection of microscopic invaders -- and was received by nearby T-cells, which play a number of crucial roles in the immune system, including coordination of attacks on agents that cause disease or infection.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 3:00 pm

New Drug Hope For Cystic Fibrosis Patients

A new drug therapy may represent a tremendous step forward in the treatment of some 70,000 cystic fibrosis patients worldwide. One of the researchers said, "The early results with VX-770 suggest that drug therapies which target defects at the root of the disease have the potential to improve greatly the quality of life of CF patients."
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 3:00 pm

Why Do Some Lifelong Nonsmokers Get Lung Cancer?

A new study finds that lung cancer death rates among never-smokers are highest among men, African-Americans and Asians residing in Asia.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 3:00 pm

Manure 'Smells Like Money' As Energy Costs Rise

With energy prices driving the cost of agricultural inputs up, nutrient-rich manure is getting another look.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 3:00 pm

Massive particle collider passes first key tests (AP)

LHC project leader Lyn Evans of Great Britain, right, gestures as other European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists look on at the CERN's control center, during the switch on operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. (AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool)AP - The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:33 pm

NASA Scrambles for Samples as Sun Sets on Mars Lander (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - As winter's icy grip prepares to take hold of the northern plains of Mars, NASA scientists are scrambling to fill all of the instruments aboard the Phoenix Mars Lander with samples of Martian dirt before the sun sets below the horizon and the spacecraft loses its energy source.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:32 pm

Memories of killer 1900 storm haunts Galveston ahead of Ike (AFP)

This September 9, 2008 NOAA satellite handout image shows Hurricane Ike at 1910 GMT. Residents here on Tuesday warily followed the progress of Hurricane Ike -- currently tearing through the Caribbean on a path to the Texas coastline -- mindful of the anniversary this month of a storm that devastated the island city in 1900.(AFP/HO-NOAA/File/Ho)AFP - Residents here on Tuesday warily followed the progress of Hurricane Ike -- currently tearing through the Caribbean on a path to the Texas coastline -- mindful of the anniversary this month of a storm that devastated the island city in 1900.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:29 pm

Largest Atom-Smasher Runs Successful Test

The Large Hadron Collider successfully fires a beam of protons around its 17-mile ring.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:24 pm

Some Must Touch Before They Buy

The feel of a cup can affect how tasty people find the beverage within it, especially those who have a "high need" for touch.
Source: Livescience.com | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:19 pm

Mega-Quakes Hit Where Ocean Mud Piles High

Earth's strongest quakes often strike where sediments fill ocean trenches.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:19 pm

Scientists start world's biggest physics experiment

GENEVA (Reuters) - International scientists celebrated the successful start of a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday aiming to recreate the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:13 pm

How Ice Melts

Researchers solve a cold mystery of melting ice with computer simulations. Credit: University of Uppsala
Source: Livescience.com | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:08 pm

Jurassic Undertakers Feasted on Dead Dinosaurs

Dermestid beetles are well known in forensic circles.
Source: Livescience.com | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:58 pm

Lost cat returned home after nine years (Reuters)

Reuters - A couple have been reunited with their missing cat after nine years, the RSPCA said on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:58 pm

Gossip Girl

Sue Nelson reports from the BA Science Festival in Liverpool
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:37 pm

Large Hadron Collider: What the LHC could discover

From the particle that gives everything its mass, to mini black holes and extra spatial dimensions, the LHC has the potential to make a host of amazing discoveries
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:37 pm

Atom Smasher Works, World Survives

The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test.
Source: Livescience.com | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:10 pm

Wild Animals Suffer on 'Junk Food' Diets (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In the Baltic Sea, birds called common guillemots raise their young on herringlike fish called sprat. In the 1990s, local sprat became unusually abundant after populations of their main predator, cod, plunged because of overfishing and climatic changes.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:56 am

Study tracks 'pathways to terror'

Psychologists believe they have a clearer idea of what makes a terrorist after interviewing a group of Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:41 am

Jordan Jan-Aug inflation at record 14.9% (AFP)

A man stands outside his shop at a market in central Amman. Jordan's inflation reached 14.9 percent in the eight months through August, mainly due to hikes in oil prices, the kingdom's statistics department has said.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Jordan's inflation reached 14.9 percent in the eight months through August, mainly due to hikes in oil prices, the kingdom's statistics department said on Wednesday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:35 am

Steroids could prevent miscarriages

Up to 3000 miscarriages each year in the UK could be prevented thanks to new research into what causes women to lose their baby early in pregnancy
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:28 am

'Big Bang' experiment starts well

Scientists hail as a success the start of an experiment to recreate the conditions a few moments after the "Big Bang".
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:23 am

Ian Sample talks to LHC project manager Lyn Evans about the big switch-on

The Guardian's Ian Sample talks to LHC project manager Lyn Evans about the big switch-on as scientists at Cern prepare to recreate the aftermath of the big bang
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 10 Sep 2008 | 11:14 am

Private Suborbital Spaceships Could Aid NASA Science

The number of private groups working on suborbital vehicles is growing.
Source: Livescience.com | 10 Sep 2008 | 10:57 am

Hungry as a bear

David Shukman samples some Arctic cuisine
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 10:54 am

Tim Radford on science's shifting pantheon

Should children know about Darwin and not Galton? Tim Radford asks what, and who, determines a generation's science heroes
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 10 Sep 2008 | 9:43 am

Parties 'fail on climate change'

The UK's main political parties have been accused of retreating from the green agenda by leading environmental campaign groups.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 9:35 am

Fusion power seeks super steels

Scientists say an understanding of how the Twin Towers collapsed will lead to new steels needed to build fusion reactors.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 7:36 am

Bacteria glue points to superbug vaccine: scientist

LONDON (Reuters) - A sticky glue secreted by drug-resistant bacteria could help scientists develop an effective vaccine against "superbugs", U.S. researchers told a conference on Wednesday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 5:32 am

Cold water rings dinner bell for West Coast salmon (AP)

AP - A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast for salmon and other sea life off the West Coast, reversing a trend that contributed to a virtual shutdown of West Coast salmon fishing this summer.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 Sep 2008 | 2:11 am

Union urges more flood planning

Firefighters' leaders urge ministers to do more to prevent a repeat of last year's flooding damage.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 1:27 am

UK gives Bangladesh climate help

The UK is to announce funding to help Bangladesh protect itself against the impacts of climate change.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 10 Sep 2008 | 12:34 am

Mysteries of Britain's autumn 'bat discos' probed

Biologists are preparing to watch and listen to an autumn phenomenon of swarming bat "discos".
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:19 pm

Power firms 'can lease sea bed'

Sections of Scotland's sea bed are to be leased to developers for generating electricity from the tides, BBC Scotland understands.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:14 pm

Ariane Sherine: Black hole silver linings

Ariane Sherine: If the world is hoovered up today when physicists try to recreate the big bang, it won't be all bad
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm

The question: Could brushing your teeth save your life?

Lucy Atkins: Scientists say the body's defences overreact to the threat of gum disease and start to destroy other protective cells too
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm

Stuart Jeffries tries to get to grips with what 'mysteries of the universe' scientists at Cern are hoping to solve

Stuart Jeffries: gets to grips with Higgs bosons, quarks, supersymmetric particles and miniature black holes
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:05 pm

Study shows how false memories rerun 7/7 film that never existed

People claim to have seen CCTV footage of Tavistock Square bomb, say researchers
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:05 pm

Letters: Science on a collision course

Letters: UK research institutes face a future fraught with worry
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 11:05 pm

Boss' Gender Can Affect Workers' Stress

Boss' gender can can affect stress levels and health of employees.
Source: Livescience.com | 9 Sep 2008 | 9:21 pm

Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth?

Whether the world's largest atom smasher will destroy Earth is just one question buzzing around on the eve of LHC's opening.
Source: Livescience.com | 9 Sep 2008 | 9:06 pm

Air Pollution Harms Patients After Heart Attack

Particles can cripple heart's electrical functioning, researchers say
Source: Livescience.com | 9 Sep 2008 | 8:28 pm

Music Therapy Improves Well-Being of Very Ill Patients

Study finds even family members appear to benefit
Source: Livescience.com | 9 Sep 2008 | 8:24 pm

Can Exercise Overcome Genes? (Time.com)

Time.com - According to a new study of an active Amish population, researchers say fat genes may not destine you to a lifetime of obesity
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 9 Sep 2008 | 8:15 pm

U.S. vision researchers share major Portugal award

LISBON (Reuters) - Two U.S. researchers whose work could boost efforts to eradicate blindness have won a 1 million euro ($1.41 million) prize, Portugal's Champalimaud Foundation said on Tuesday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 9 Sep 2008 | 7:24 pm

Big Bang project gets rap treatment online

GENEVA (Reuters) - A project to re-enact the "Big Bang" at CERN near Geneva on Wednesday is getting the rap treatment on the Internet from a group of young people working there.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 9 Sep 2008 | 6:14 pm

Zoo Animals Try Online Dating

The Web is subbing for Mother Nature in the world of captive animal breeding.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Huge Ancient Lake Discovered in Russia

Geologists find evidence of huge ancient glacial lake, implications for climate.
Source: Livescience.com | 9 Sep 2008 | 5:41 pm

Neanderthals Conquered Mammoths, Why Not Us?

Neanderthals were savvy hunters with complex brains. So how did they die?
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Sep 2008 | 5:00 pm

Morocco "goat plague" poses regional threat: FAO

ROME (Reuters) - Millions of sheep and goats in Morocco could be killed by a virus which poses a risk to other north African and European countries but not humans, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 9 Sep 2008 | 4:54 pm

Study finds way to keep steel solid

Scientists find magnetic qualities in iron that weaken it at low temeratures
Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 9 Sep 2008 | 4:04 pm

Tiny Critters Survive Space (With No Spacesuit)

Tardigrades, tiny segmented creatures, show they can survive the extremes of space.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Sep 2008 | 4:00 pm

Hawking Bets Collider Won't Find 'God Particle'

Stephen Hawking is betting the Large Hadron Collider won't find the Higgs particle.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Sep 2008 | 2:30 pm

NASA May Have to Abandon Space Station

NASA's plan to use Russian capsules to get to the space station could be scuttled.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 9 Sep 2008 | 1:43 pm