Immune System For Electronics? Electronics That Can Diagnose And Heal Themselves Under Development

Researchers are working to create electronic systems that can diagnose and heal their own faults in ways similar to the human immune system. The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems).
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Breast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy

Many breast cancer cells facing potentially lethal antiestrogen therapy recycle to survive, researchers say.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea

Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history -- the pterodactyl -- to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation capabilities.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Learning To Shape Your Brain Activity

A new study shows that the successful manipulation of sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) amplitude by instrumental SMR conditioning (ISC) improved sleep quality as well as declarative learning. ISC might thus be considered a promising nonpharmacological treatment for primary insomnia.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Reason For Sickness Absence Can Predict Employee Deaths

Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to circulatory or psychiatric problems or for surgery, concludes a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Ultra-Endurance Competitors: Lessons From Sled Dogs In The Iditarod

Racing sled dogs are best known for their "mushing" each March during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the world's longest sled race. They are the premier ultra-endurance competitors, covering 1,100 miles from Anchorage to Nome, AK, sometimes in just nine days. It is unclear how they can keep running despite heavy blizzards, temperatures as low as 40°F, and winds up to 60 mph. An expert explains what he has discovered thus far.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Oct 2008 | 12:00 am

Advance Offers Revolution In Food Safety Testing

Microbiologists have developed a new technology to detect illness-causing bacteria -- an advance that could revolutionize the food industry, improving the actual protection to consumers while avoiding the costly waste and massive recalls of products that are suspected of bacterial contamination but are perfectly safe.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm

Saturn’s Radio Broadcasters Mapped In 3D For First Time

Observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have been used to build, for the first time, a 3-D picture of the sources of intense radio emissions in Saturn's magnetic field, known as the Saturn Kilometric Radiation.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm

DNA-based Vaccine Shows Promise Against Avian Flu

Though it has fallen from the headlines, a global pandemic caused by bird flu still has the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. Yet, to date, the only vaccines that have proven even semi-effective are produced in chicken eggs, take five to six months to prepare and act against a single variant of the H5N1 virus, which mutates incredibly quickly.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm

Proper Use and Care More Important than New Lens Types for Contact Lens Infection Prevention

Contact lenses are a good alternative to eyeglasses, but are not entirely risk free. Even with today's improved designs, a small but significant number of contact lens wearers develop painful microbial infections of the cornea (microbial keratitis, or MK) that can cause vision loss.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2008 | 6:00 pm

Seas turn to acid as they soak up CO2

Waters near Naples have seen plant and fish biodiversity drop by 30% due to 'ocean acidification'
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:09 pm

Scare stories have drowned out the good that GM could do

GM crops have considerable potential to help the planet, and future benefits could be even better
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:09 pm

Jay Rayner: The war over GM is back. Is the truth any clearer?

The benefits and risks of genetically modified food are being discussed again, but opinion remains divided
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:09 pm

Cancer fear over plans for £50m waste plant

Experts warn rubbish fumes could spark autism, asthma, heart disease and depression
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:09 pm

Health: Millions are ignorant about causes of cancer

Majority of people do not know about the carcinogenic properties of processed meat and alcohol
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:04 pm

Epic missions were flops, claims Nasa

Great expeditions of the past hold lessons for the future, says Nasa commissioned study
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:04 pm

'Intelligent' computers put to the test

Six computers face interrogation to answer question of whether machines can think
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:03 pm

Islanders call for return of Welsh crown

Artefact from holy island of Bardsey currently in storage at Merseyside Maritime Museum
Source: Science | guardian.co.uk | 4 Oct 2008 | 11:03 pm

International Space Station changes orbit awaiting tourist: report (AFP)

The International Space Station as seen from the US space shuttle Discovery in June 2008. The orbital path of the International Space Station was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2008 | 9:12 pm

Elderly turtle pair fails to produce offspring (AP)

In this photo released by Wildlife Conservation Society, a female soft-shell turtle rests near a pool inside a zoo in Suzhou, China, May 9, 2008. Breathless scientists watched as they successfully mated. But the attempt to breed an endangered turtle's last known female with China's last known male has failed because the eggs didn't hatch, disappointed conservationists say. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Gerald Kuchling)AP - She's around 80 years old. He's 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world's most endangered turtles successfully mated.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2008 | 7:12 pm

Hurricane Marie hovers far off Mexico's coast (AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM EDT shows cloudiness over the Great Lakes and the Northeast as a trough of low pressure instigates rain development. To the north, Tropical Storm Laura is located about 315 miles east of Cape Race Newfoundland. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Hurricane Marie hovered far off Mexico's Pacific coast Saturday, barely moving on its northwestern path.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2008 | 4:26 pm

Bird Migration Beaches Quiet After Ike

One of North America's renowned bird migration areas is strangely silent after Hurricane Ike.
Source: Livescience.com | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:47 pm

Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike (AP)

Birds fly around as others sit on a pier damaged by Hurricane Ike Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 in Gilchrist, Texas. One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:23 pm

Grief: The Price of Love (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Years ago while observing a troop of Barbary macaques for behavioral research, I was surprised to see a new mother holding on to her obviously stillborn baby. She clutched the corpse to her chest and made soft cooing sounds, obviously in distress. More remarkable, she held on to that dead baby for more than a week as it began to decompose. Eventually, the mother showed up alone, but then it got even sadder. She began to haunt other mothers, those with live babies. She would sit close to them and try to grab those babies and hug them, as if to make up for her loss. ...
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2008 | 2:10 pm

Journey's end

Leaving behind the Canaries' beaked whales
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Oct 2008 | 1:07 pm