Why Females Do Not Fare As Well As Men In Undergoing Angioplasty For Heart Attacks

Age, condition and treatment delay are among the reasons women who undergo angioplasty for heart attack often do not fare as well as do men, according to two new studies.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

The Day The Universe Froze: New Model For Dark Energy

Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans

Scientists have developed a biosensor that makes it possible to detect small quantities of the fungus Candida albicans, the cause of common sexually-transmitted infections, within just an hour. The technique involves the use of transistors, which incorporate specific antibodies able to recognize yeast, and carbon nanotubes to generate a measurable electrical signal.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

New Gene May Provide Breast Cancer Diagnostic Marker

Scientists describe a new gene called DEAR1 that is genetically altered by mutation and deletion in breast tumors, and that may provide a new breast cancer prognostic marker.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

Genetic Make-up Influences Biased Economic Decision-making, Study Shows

How would you respond if you were told that you had an 80 percent chance of surviving an operation -- would you give consent? How about if you were told you had a 20 percent chance of dying? The answer may partly depend on your genetic make-up, according to new research.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

US-Canadian Shale Could Neutralize Russian Energy Threat To Europeans

Rising shale gas production in the United States and Canada as well as potential natural gas supplies from Iraq could be pivotal in curbing Russia's ability to organize an "energy weapon" against European consumers, according to a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 6:00 pm

Microscope Capable Of Live Imaging At Double The Resolution Of Fluorescence Microscopy Developed

Engineers have developed a microscope that is capable of live imaging at double the resolution of fluorescence microscopy using structured illumination.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 3:00 pm

Faster Computers, Electronic Devices Possible After Scientists Create Large-area Graphene On Copper

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 3:00 pm

Protein-protein Interaction Explains Vision Loss In Genetic Diseases

Scientists can now provide not only an explanation for the variations of vision loss in people with a host of disorders associated with defective cilia within the cells, but also a blueprint for unraveling similar variations in signs among people with other genetic diseases.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 3:00 pm

How Deadly Pediatric Disorder Develops In Brain: Link To Alzheimer's Could Lead To First Treatment

A deadly brain disorder in toddlers may find its first treatment in drugs for Alzheimer's disease. Scientists have discovered how a form of the rare genetic disease known as Sanfilippo syndrome develops in the young brain, causing severe mental retardation and death as early as age 14. Published this week in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the findings suggest that new Alzheimer's drugs may provide therapy for the currently untreatable metabolic disorder.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 11 May 2009 | 3:00 pm

Global ocean talks underway in Indonesia (AFP)

Fishermen in Wakatobi island off eastern Indonesia in late April. A key global conference on oceans has opened in Indonesia with a warning that climate change will accelerate the destruction of already precious marine resources.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)AFP - A key global conference on oceans opened Monday in Indonesia with a warning that climate change will accelerate the destruction of already precious marine resources.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 11:40 am

Shuttle fuels for launch, weather near perfect (AP)

The sun sets on the space shuttle Atlantis Sunday May 10, 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With a forecast of near-perfect weather, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope scientists and managers were euphoric as they awaited Monday's planned launch of shuttle Atlantis on the final trip to the orbiting observatory. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - Fueling has started on space shuttle Atlantis for its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is poised to blast off just after 2 p.m. Monday for NASA's last visit to Hubble.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 11:10 am

NASA set for shuttle launch to Hubble telescope (AFP)

The space shuttle Atlantis sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 10. Atlantis is being prepared for a Monday launch on a mission to service the Hubble telescope.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - The US space agency said it was on target to launch Monday the space shuttle Atlantis on its high-risk final mission to service the Hubble telescope.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 11:02 am

Evolution is slowing snails down

Natural selection is favouring snails with reduced metabolic rates, researchers have discovered.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 May 2009 | 10:44 am

NM farmers work to preserve native chile varieties (AP)

AP - Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he's planted his heat-packed crop for three decades. But as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ground.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 9:15 am

Space shuttle ready for mission to Hubble telescope

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA began fueling the space shuttle Atlantis for launch on Monday on an 11-day mission to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope for a fifth and final time.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 9:11 am

Oldest Human Hairs Found in Hyena Dung (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The oldest known human hair belonged to a 9,000-year-old mummy disinterred from an ancient Chilean cemetery.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 4:19 am

Whaling peace talks 'fall short'

Chances of a peace deal between pro and anti-whaling nations this year are slim, a report seen by the BBC shows.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 11 May 2009 | 4:09 am

Genes Yield Clues to High Blood Pressure (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Two major international studies have identified what researchers describe as a treasure trove of genes linked to high blood pressure.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 11 May 2009 | 3:48 am

Why do we disagree on climate change?

Why is there still disagreement about climate change? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is proposing a radical change in the way we talk about global warming.

Fifty years on from CP Snow's famous lecture on the breakdown in communication between the Two Cultures of art and science, are the arts and sciences further apart than ever before?

All that plus a male contraceptive injection, this month's Science Book Club title – The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes – the bizarre research ideas that could improve our health, and why cancer patients should avoid extreme diets.



Source: Evolution, genetics, medicine, physics & astronomy news | guardian.co.uk | 10 May 2009 | 11:05 pm

Hubble fix mission set for launch

The Hubble Space Telescope will get its last overhaul when a space shuttle mission launches from Florida.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 May 2009 | 10:28 pm

Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space (AP)

FILE - These 1994 file images provided by NASA, show how the same galaxy core, M100, was viewed, left, by the Hubble telescope before it was repaired in 1993. At right, viewed with the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2, which is being replaced in the May 2009 Atlantis mission, the same galaxy core appears much sharper after the initial fix. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 May 2009 | 6:09 pm

An ape escape - but then the orangutan has second thoughts

Adelaide zoo is evacuated after an orangutan escapes from its enclosure - only to let herself back in minutes later.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 10 May 2009 | 2:33 pm

Kuwaiti emir in China to focus on energy ties (AFP)

Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah -- the emir of Kuwait -- addresses the opening session of an Arab summit in 2008. Chinese President Hu Jintao has met the emir as energy-hungry China and the oil-rich Gulf state look to push economic ties to a higher level.(AFP/HO/File/null)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao met on Sunday with the visiting emir of Kuwait as energy-hungry China and the oil-rich Gulf state look to push economic ties to a higher level.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 10 May 2009 | 12:05 pm