Stem Cells May Solve Mystery Of Early Pregnancy Breast Cancer Protection

The answer to why an early pregnancy seems to protect against breast cancer could rest with a decrease in stem cells found after animals have given birth, said researchers in a report in the journal Stem Cell.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Longevity, Cancer And Diet Connected: New Research In Worms Could Apply To Humans

Researchers have discovered a connection between genes that could hold the key to a longer, healthier life. Using worms that share similar genetics to humans, scientists have identified a previously unknown link between two genes -- one associated with aging, the other with certain types of cancer.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Overbearing Parents Foster Obsessive Children, New Study Finds

Parents watch your nagging. A new study from the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada, has found that parental control directly influences whether a child will develop a harmonious or obsessive passion for their favorite hobby.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Putting Pictures Into Words

Visual images can contain a wealth of information, but they are difficult to catalogue in a searchable way. European researchers are generating and combining scraps of information to create a searchable picture.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Easier-to-hit 'Targets' Could Help Older People Make The Most Of Computers

Older people could make better use of computers if icons, links and menu headings automatically grew bigger as the cursor moves towards them.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Interstellar Space Molecules That Help Form Basic Life Structures Identified

Scientists have succeeded in identifying naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules yet discovered in the interstellar medium. The detection of this molecule suggests that a large number of the key components in prebiotic terrestrial chemistry could have been present in the interstellar matter from which the Solar System was formed.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am

Prosthetic Vein Valve Designed To Direct Blood Flow Shows Promising Pre-clinical Results

Engineers have developed a prosthetic vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known as chronic venous insufficiency. The valve was designed to replace damaged, non-functioning valves.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Programmed Cell Death Contributes Force To Movement Of Cells

In addition to pruning cells out of the way during embryonic development, the much-studied process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, has been newly found to exert significant mechanical force on surrounding cells.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Emergence Of Agriculture In Prehistory Took Much Longer, Genetic Evidence Suggests

Researchers have found evidence that genetics supports the idea that the emergence of agriculture in prehistory took much longer than originally thought.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Sole Use Of Impaired Limb Improves Recovery In Spinal Cord Injury

A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full recovery due to increased growth of healthy nerve fibers and the formation of new nerve cell connections. These findings help explain how physical therapy advances recovery, and support the use of rehabilitation therapies that specifically target impaired limbs in people with brain and spinal cord injuries.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm

Glitch shuts "Big Bang" collider for two months

GENEVA (Reuters) - A technical glitch has forced scientists to shut down the huge particle-smashing machine built to simulate the conditions of the "Big Bang" for at least two months, they said on Saturday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 5:47 pm

Scientists monitor growing Lake Erie algae bloom (AP)

AP - Giant floating fields of algae are back in strength this year on Lake Erie and scientists are trying to figure out why.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 5:38 pm

India floods, rain kill at least 32 (AFP)

Indian truck drivers carry belongings through flood waters as toppled trucks are seen in the background along the Pipli-Fedra highway, some 100 kms from Ahmedabad. Thousands of people were evacuated and at least 16 swept away in eastern Orissa state after four rivers burst their banks and inundated scores of villages, officials said Saturday.(AFP/Sam Panthaky)AFP - Thousands of people were evacuated and at least 16 swept away in eastern Orissa state after four rivers burst their banks and inundated scores of villages, officials said Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 4:29 pm

Nigerian militants step up 'oil war' claiming sixth attack (AFP)

Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in Niger Delta. Militants in Nigeria say they have destroyed a pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the sixth attack of a declared AFP - Militants in Nigeria said Saturday they had destroyed a pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the sixth attack of a declared "oil war," with the armed group vowing to reduce oil exports to "zero."



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 4:06 pm

Fault shuts Cern's Large Hadron Collider for two months

Faulty electrical connection halts work to unlock universe's deepest secrets
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 20 Sep 2008 | 1:10 pm

CERN: Damage to new collider forces 2-month halt (AP)

In this file photo dated May 31, 2007, part of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is seen in its tunnel at the CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher, which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month, has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher — which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month — has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 12:18 pm

Boys as Socially Aggressive as Girls: Study

Indirect hostility by spreading rumors, gossiping, excluding others, a guy thing as well
Source: Livescience.com | 20 Sep 2008 | 12:12 pm

Hadron Collider halted for months

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months because of a technical fault.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 20 Sep 2008 | 11:55 am

Officials: Damage to collider forces 2-month halt (AP)

AP - The European Organization for Nuclear Research says its new particle collider has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 11:34 am

Ike Helps Uncover Mystery Vessel on Ala. Coast

When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a ragged shipwreck.
Source: Livescience.com | 20 Sep 2008 | 11:31 am

Size Tradeoff: Horns vs. Copulatory Organs (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 11:21 am

Theo Hobson: Creationists? They just don't have enough faith

Theo Hobson: I believe God created me – a statement requiring total faith on my part. That doesn't mean I can't believe in evolution, too
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 20 Sep 2008 | 8:00 am

Space shuttle moved to launch pad as rescue ship (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis on pad 39A, left, and space shuttle Endeavour on pad 39B stand ready at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Atlantis is scheduled for an Oct. 10 launch on mission STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour will be on standby in the unlikely event that a rescue mission for the Atlantis's crew would be necessary. It is the first time since 2001 - when flights were more closely spaced - that both of NASA's shuttle pads have been occupied. And it will probably be the last. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make — a rescue mission. The shuttle Endeavour is on standby in case the seven astronauts who go up on Atlantis next month need a safer ride home.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 6:51 am

Stardust evidence points to planet collision

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Masses of dust floating around a distant binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 20 Sep 2008 | 1:49 am

Observatory detects record burst

The Swift space telescope witnesses the catastrophic explosion of a massive star some 12.8 billion light-years from Earth.
Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 19 Sep 2008 | 11:44 pm

Only one in five trials on cancer treatment gets published

Ben Goldacre: Media ignores study examining the publication of medical data which is incomplete, arbitrary and self-serving
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 19 Sep 2008 | 11:13 pm

Robot mission to collect rock samples from asteroid

European Space Agency says analysis of asteroid could give information on how our solar system was formed
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 19 Sep 2008 | 11:06 pm

New dwarf planet named Haumea for Hawaiian goddess (AP)

AP - A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea (how-MAY'-ah), after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility. Haumea's name was approved Wednesday by the International Astronomical Union in Paris.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Sep 2008 | 10:38 pm

Most Massive Star in Class By Itself

Astronomers have confirmed the weight of the most massive star in the galaxy.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 9:29 pm

Dwarf Planet Named for Hawaiian Goddess

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name of the solar system's fifth dwarf planet.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 9:28 pm

Explosion From Edge of Universe Seen

An explosion originating near the edge of the universe has been seen by an orbiting NASA telescope.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 9:28 pm

Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.


Source: Reuters: Science News | 19 Sep 2008 | 8:24 pm

One Tysabri PML patient deteriorates, one improves (Reuters)

Reuters - One of two patients who developed a potentially deadly brain infection after taking the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is deteriorating, while one is recovering, according to a researcher involved in their care.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 19 Sep 2008 | 7:45 pm

Ike Uncovers Mystery Ship on Ala. Coast

The receding waves of Hurricane Ike left behind a mystery -- a Civil War-era shipwreck.
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 19 Sep 2008 | 7:20 pm

Scientists Predict the Next President

Two mathematicians have devised what they say is a "surprisingly effective" means to predict the outcome.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 6:53 pm

Video - On Dancing Air: The Story of Wind Power

How wind turbines work; and the 5000 year history of wind technology. Credit: IMAGINOVA
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 6:38 pm

The Long History of the 2008 Financial Mess

Banks seemed to collapse overnight, but the reasons date back decades, even centuries.
Source: Livescience.com | 19 Sep 2008 | 6:09 pm

McCain and Obama take science test

McCain and Obama have now both answered the key questions put to them by America's scientists. Who gets top marks?
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 19 Sep 2008 | 5:21 pm

Japan's Tsunami History Shows What's in Store

At least nine giant tsunamis have hit Japan in the last 3,000 years. Are more to come?
Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 19 Sep 2008 | 4:42 pm