Saturday, October 11, 2008

How We Evolve

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From Seed Magazine: When the previous generation of life scientists was coming up through the academy, there was a widespread assumption, no...

Extending The Life Of Fresh Cranberries

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Cranberry harvest in New Jersey. (Credit: Photo by Keith Weller) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2008) — Cranberries are tart, ti...

Promising New Material Could Improve Gas Mileage

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Up to three-quarters of the potential energy you are paying at the gas pump for is wasted. A good deal of it goes right out the tailpipe ins...

Animals Have Personalities, Too

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From Live Science: We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities — sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such i...

A New Explosive

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A high-energy-density nitrate ester (1) with unique properties was synthesized in good yield in a three-step process. Destructive stimuli st...

New Spacecraft to Explore Interstellar Boundary -- Popsci

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IBEX Mounted on Pegasus: Photo courtesy NASA NASA's IBEX craft is heading out this month to map the edges of the solar system The ...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Sea Ice Extent Recovering Quickly

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(Click To Enlarge) (Photo from Watts Up With That) From Watts With That: As many readers know, the predictions for record low sea ice minimu...

Babies Know Happy From Sad Songs

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(Photo from Baby Pictures Photos ) From Live Science: Babies as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy...

Blood Test Finds Coronary Disease

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( Photo from NHLBI ) From The New Observer: A simple blood test could soon replace expensive and invasive exams to detect coronary artery di...

In Puppy Play, It's Ladies First

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She's the Boss: During puppy play, young males sometimes put themselves in a position where they can be taken advantage of by their fema...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

E-Science: Massive Experiments, Global Networks

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Supercomputers: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists work in the control center of the Large Hadron Collider in Gene...

Hawking: If We Survive The Next 200 Years, We Should Be OK

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Stephen Hawking, here delivering a lecture in May, spoke recently to CNN about his vision of the future. ( Photo from CNN ) From CNN: CAMBRI...

Nobel Prize For Physics Announced

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( Photo From The International Herald Tribune ) From left, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Masukawa and Yoichiro Nambu. (Reuters) 2 Japanese, 1 ...

Nobel Prize For Chemistry Announced

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Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Roger Y. Tsien of UC Sa...

'Unbreakable' Encryption Unveiled

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From The BBC: Perfect secrecy has come a step close with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quant...

Asteroid Near-Miss Prompts Calls For Astronomy Funding

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Scientists say the world has been 'lucky' no asteroids have crashed into the earth in recent years. (Reuters: NASA) From ABC News (...

Your DNA Will Reveal Your Surname

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The Y chromosome confers maleness and is passed, like surnames, from father to son. Scientists believe that a link could exist between a man...

Why Tokyo Gets Bad Earthquakes

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The ruins of the Ginza after the 1923 Great Kanto (Tokyo) Earthquake and fire. (Photo from Geography Department Hewett School ) What Is Givi...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Death, A Cultural And Historical Look

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Death Rituals Reveal Much About Ancient Life -- Live Science Cultures around the world and through time have had wildly varying ways of deal...

Stars Stop Forming When Big Galaxies Collide

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(Photo from National Geographic ) From e! Science News: Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that ...