Wednesday, November 12, 2008

What Happens If You Eat Dog Food?

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From Live Science: If you just eat a little bit of dog food, probably nothing will happen. But you don't really know that for sure becau...

Nanotechnology Sparks Fears For The Future

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From Times Online: Nanomaterials are likely to kill people in the future just as asbestos did unless extensive safety checks are put in plac...

Lebanon Finds 2,900 Year Old Phoenician Remains

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Archaeologists work on earthenware potteries found at an excavation site in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon November 12, 2008. (Haid...

Sunlight Has More Powerful Influence On Ocean Circulation And Climate Than North American Ice Sheets

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From Watts Up With That? From Physorg.com: A study reported in today’s issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets inf...

Telescope Views Glowing Stellar Nurseries

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Colour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding ...

Origin Of Bad Hair Discovered

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Those wiry extensions scattered about our bodies and concentrated on the head evolved from our reptilian and avian ancestors. Credit: dreams...

Southern Ocean Close To Acid Tipping Point

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Researchers are concerned that the Southern Ocean could become too acidic by 2030 (Source: iStockphoto) From ABC News (Australia): Australi...

A Look Inside Virgin Galactic's Flight Training

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From Popsci: Would-be astronauts train for the world’s first suborbital space tourism flight As early as next year, if you are one of a luck...

Chinese Menus, Medicine Threatening Wildlife

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Pictured is one of three lion cubs born in captivity at the zoo in Cali. November 6, 2008. Reuters Jaime Saldarriaga (Colombia) From Yahoo N...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

NASA Begins Countdown For Space Shuttle Launch

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Crew members of the space shuttle Endeavour on Mission STS-126 arrive to prepare for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, F...

Search Engine With Roots In Genomics Unlocks Deep Web

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From Wired/Epicenter: A research-focused search engine founded by Human Genome Project scientists is claiming to go where even Google doesn...

Quarter Of Atlantic Sharks And Rays Face Extinction

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The spiny dogfish is highly prized for its meat. Photograph: Getty From The Guardian: New figures show 26% of all sharks, rays and related s...

Darwin's Beagle To Sail Again

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Vessel of knowledge: The original HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin sailed. A replica is being built to research the effects of plankton on...

Why Veins Could Replace Fingerprints And Retinas As Most Secure Form Of ID

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Hitachi's finger vein authentication system represents a decade's worth of development and improvement and the technology has alread...

Will the Opening of the Northwest Passage Transform Global Shipping Anytime Soon?

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Photo From The Washington Post From National Geographic: With the melting of Arctic Ocean ice, the fabled waterway between Europe and Asia h...

Where Do Science Supermachines Go When They Die?

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From The New Scientist: LIKE a man hoping to find a second-hand sports car at a knockdown price, Lon Morgan used to regularly peruse the for...

Fast Food Made Up Mostly of Corn

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If you are what you eat, most Americans are an ear of corn (above), a November 2008 study suggests. A chemical analysis of popular fast food...

Now: The Rest Of The Genome

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Thomas R. Gingeras of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a leader of Encode, an effort to determine the function of every piece of DNA in ...

If You Love Wind Power (And Solar Power), You’d Better At Least Like Transmission.

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Sales bookings last year for Bob Chew and his company SolarWrights were $5.9 million, more than double the year before. He expects to hit $2...

An Atomic Solution To The Energy Crisis

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Image from Clean Technica From Fabius Maximus: Great progress has been made over the decades since America built its last atomic power plant...