'Death Stench' Is A Universal Ancient Warning Signal, Biologists Discover

The smell of death proves to be an ancient warning signal to safeguard against predators and disease contagion. Researchers found that corpses of animals, from insects to crustaceans, all emit the same death stench produced by a blend of specific fatty acids.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

In The Middle Of Brain Surgery, Patients Wake Up And Begin Talking

Kim Delvaux was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor when doctors woke her up. Her doctor talked to her about her favorite topics -- NASCAR and her kids during the surgery.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

Findings Could Lead To Improved Lip-reading Training For The Deaf And Hard-of-hearing

A new study suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans. Researchers found that an automated system significantly outperformed human lip-readers -- scoring a recognition rate of 80 per cent, compared with only 32 per cent for human viewers on the same task.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

Cigarettes, Not Swedish Snuff Linked To Increased Risk Of MS, Study Finds

While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not, according to a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

Graphitic Memory: Advances Bring Graphite As Storage Medium A Step Closer

Advances have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

Inner Workings Of Molecular Thermostat Point To Pathways To Fight Diabetes, Obesity

Researchers have discovered a molecular circuit involving the oxygen-carrying component of hemoglobin -- heme -- that helps maintain proper metabolism in the body, providing new insights into metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes. This happens through a molecular pathway that allows the cell to monitor and adjust internal heme levels via Rev-erb±, creating more when heme levels fall, and slowing it down when levels rise.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:00 pm

Global Warming Causes Outbreak Of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds

Scientists have found a rare species of algae that is tolerant of stressful environmental conditions and that proliferated in Caribbean corals when the corals' more-sensitive algae were being expelled during the sea-temperature warming of 2005. The research is one of the first times that anyone has had the opportunity to conduct a community-wide study of corals and algae before, during and after a bleaching event.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am

Early Results From Clinical Trials Of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccines In Healthy Adults

Encouraging reports are now emerging from various clinical trials of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines, conducted by various vaccine manufacturers. Additional companies are expected to announce their preliminary trial results shortly. The early data from these trials indicate that 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines are well tolerated and induce a strong immune response in most healthy adults when administered in a single unadjuvanted 15-microgram dose.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am

Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?

A wide-ranging study of big cat skulls has shown that tigers have bigger brains, relative to their body size, than lions, leopards or jaguars.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am

RNA: Protein Regulators Are Themselves Regulated

Scientists in Switzerland have shown that short strands of ribonucleic acid (RNA) which regulate protein production are themselves also regulated. This additional layer of regulation opens up new perspectives for therapeutic approaches.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am

The Nation's weather (AP)

This Weather Underground forecast for Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 says large low pressure system over the Southern Plains will provide significant rain and thunderstorms from Texas through the Southeast. Another low will provide scattered showers and thunderstorms in the West. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Wet weather is anticipated over the South on Sunday due to an area of low pressure. This slow moving system will continue picking up moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and push widespread scattered showers and thunderstorms over the southern Plains and the Lower Mississippi River Valley.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 4:27 am

Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95 (AP)

File - Norman Borlaug, visiting professor at Texas A&M University, and the 1970 Nobel Prize recipient, looks over some sorghum tests in this Oct. 30, 1996 file photo taken in one of A&M's teaching greenhouses, in College Station, Texas. The Nobel Prize-winning agricultural scientist has died in Texas at age 95. Texas A&M University spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips said Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday Sept. 12, 2009 at his home in Dallas. Known as the father of the 'green revolution,' Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger. (AP Photo/Bill Meeks, File)AP - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 3:18 am

Nobel-winning agricultural scientist Borlaug dies

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norman Borlaug, the U.S. agricultural scientist who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding crops to prevent famine in the developing world, has died at age 95, Texas A&M University said.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 13 Sep 2009 | 12:55 am

Q&A: Examining the No-Impact Life (Time.com)

Time.com - Colin and Michelle Beavan talk to TIME about their yearlong attempt to impact the environment as little as possible -- and how the experiment changed their lives
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 11:35 pm

1.27 million displaced by China's Three Gorges Dam (AFP)

A woman at her makeshift hut built on the sides of the expanding man-made lake generated as a result of the construction of the Three Gorges dam. China has relocated 1.27 million people to make way for the controversial development, the world's largest hydroelectric project, state media reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China has relocated 1.27 million people to make way for the controversial Three Gorges dam development, the world's largest hydroelectric project, state media reported.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 11:07 pm

Oil threat to Australia wildlife

An oil slick coats beaches and wildlife along Australia's east coast, after a cargo ships spills its load in stormy seas.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 12 Sep 2009 | 9:28 pm

Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills (AP)

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 7:19 pm

Calif. lawmakers pass tougher clean energy goals (Reuters)

Reuters - A bill that would power up California's already ambitious effort to shift to cleaner, renewable energy has cleared the state legislature, but it was uncertain if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would sign it.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 3:15 pm

Why Do We See the Moon in Daylight? (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Any clear morning this week around 10 a.m. you can see the moon riding high in the western sky. Many people are surprised to see the moon in full daylight, yet it is a completely normal occurrence.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am

7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Our personalities do more for us than determine our social circles. Temperament can impact a person's physical health.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 8:56 am

7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You

What's on your mind can affect your health.
Source: Livescience.com | 12 Sep 2009 | 8:54 am

Shuttle astronauts prepare for Texas homecoming (AP)

The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Friday, Sept.11, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - After diverting to California, astronauts from space shuttle Discovery prepared to reunite with their families and NASA managers in Texas on Saturday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 12 Sep 2009 | 8:06 am