Friday, October 17, 2008

Colossal Black Holes Common In Early Universe, Spectacular Galactic Collision Suggests

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Artist’s conception of the 4C60.07 system of colliding galaxies. The galaxy on the left has turned most of its gas into stars, and the black...

Awesome Pictures Of The Sun

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Boston.com published some great pictures of the Sun. The link is HERE .

The Power Of Music

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(Image from University of East Anglia ) Amazing Power of Music Revealed -- Live Science More than 7,000 runners who raced earlier this month...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Even Moderate Alcohol Seems To Shrink Brain

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Image from Sottish Youth Parliament From Future Pundit: Using 1,839 subjects in the Framingham Offspring Study examined with functional magn...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

World's Hottest Ever Planet Is Discovered - At A Sizzling 2250C It's Half As Hot As The Sun!

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Hottest ever: The new planet is half the temperature of the Sun (Image from the Daily Mail) From The Daily Mail: Scientists have made an ama...

Reading This Will Change Your Brain

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Jeff Sherman / Taxi-Getty Images (Photo from Newsweek) From Newsweek: A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can r...

Mysterious Cyclones Seen At Both of Saturn's Poles

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From National Geographic: Saturn boasts cyclones at each of its poles that dramatically outpower Earth-roving hurricanes, new images reveal....

Einstein's Relativity Survives Neutrino Test

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From E! Science News: Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless pa...

Asia Trumping US On Science R&D

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(Click To Enlarge) From Christian Science Monitor: Federal funding for research has been falling in real terms. Is the nation’s economic edg...

Coolest Inventions Of 2008

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From Popular Mechanics: Popular Mechanics Picks Them; The complete list can be found HERE .

Genetic Reasons For Baldness

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Hope for the hairless: Researchers in Europe isolated stem cells from the hair follicles of mice (shown here under a microscope) and transpl...

Earliest Known Human TB Found In 9,000 Year-old Skeletons

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The Skeletons submerged at the Alit-Yam site. (Credit: Image courtesy of University College London) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 1...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

New Evidence Provides An Alternative Route 'Out Of Africa' For Early Humans

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A generalized map of the Sahara shows the location of the sample sites and the fossilized river courses. (Credit: Anne Osborne) From Science...

Why Women Have Bad Teeth

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Anthropologist John Lukacs shows a 250,000-year-old "Kabwe skull" from Africa. The sex is unknown, but this specimen has 15 teeth ...

NASA To Start Long Distance Repairs On Hubble

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Hubble Space Telescope is seen with ground view in this picture taken from Space Shuttle in March 2002. (NASA/Handout/Reuters) From Yahoo Ne...

Chimps 90 Percent Gone In A "Final Stronghold"

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A young chimpanzee is shown in Côte d'Ivoire's Taï National Park in an undated photo. (Photo from National Geographic ) From The Nat...

Men Who Never Smoke Live Longer, Better Lives Than Heavy Smokers

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From E! Science News: Health-related quality of life appears to deteriorate as the number of cigarettes smoked per day increases, even in in...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Roman Mystery

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Archeologist Roger Wilson pulls out the clay amphora from its 1,500 year hiding place. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Roger Wilson from Science ...

Home Lighting Could Be Wireless Network

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An illustration shows an office where LED lighting provides both illumination and wireless communication. Credit: Boston University From Liv...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Step Aside, Chicken Soup: Eight Cold Elixirs

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From ABC News: Spanning the Globe in Search of Alternative Home Remedies for the Common Cold No matter where you live or what language you s...