Saturday, November 22, 2008

"Screaming Mummy" Is Murderous Son of Ramses III?

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An Egyptian mummy preserved with a pained facial expression (above) could be Prince Pentewere, suspected of plotting the murder of his fathe...

Forgotten But Not Gone: How The Brain Re-learns

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Store room for future learning: nerve cells retain many of their newly created connections and if necessary, inactivate only transmission of...

The Reality of Mysterious Medical Maladies

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From Live Science: A recent governmental panel composed of scientists and veterans concluded that Gulf War Syndrome is real, the symptoms li...

Material Slicker Than Teflon Discovered By Accident

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A piece of steel (left) coated with a thin layer of the super-slippery material just 2 to 3 micrometers thick - such coatings provide a kind...

Extraordinary Speaker Addresses High School Students

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When you want to complain, watch this video
Friday, November 21, 2008

The Physics Of Teardrops

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Teardrop physics involve viscosity, surface tension and gravity. Now researchers have learned that tear fluid can move across the center of ...

Mysterious Fireball Lights Up Western Canadian Sky

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CTV Edmonton security cameras caught the meteor approach and then create a massive flash in the skyline on Thursday evening, Nov. 20, 2008. ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

New Strain Of Deadly Ebola Virus Discovered

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A Medecins Sans Frontieres team takes a blood sample from a man suspected of carrying the Ebola virus in Bundibugyo following an Ebola outbr...

Regenerating A Mammoth For $10 Million

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An intact skeleton of a woolly mammoth that is on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. S. C. Schuster From The ...

How To Save And Purify The World's Water Supply: Experts Weigh In

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From Popular Mechanics: Clean water is one thing that most Americans take for granted. But with aging infrastructure, climate change and an ...
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Scientists Take A Step Closer To An Elixir Of Youth

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From the Anti-Aging Blog From The Telegraph: A naturally occuring substance that can create "immortal cells" could be the key ...

Evidence Of Vast Frozen Water Reserves On Mars: Scientists

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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released in 2005 shows Mars. NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of froze...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Power Of The Future: A Timeline To Energy Independence

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From Live Science: President-elect Barack Obama has plans to invest $150 billion in clean energy technology over the next 10 years. With sim...

Life’s Amazing Photo Archive On View At Google

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The “Migrant Mother,” Florence Thompson. (Credit: Dorothea Lange/LIFE) From Gadgetwise/New York Times: For those looking to feed their idle ...

Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science

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From Science News: A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new r...

Clump Of Dark Matter May Loom Near Solar System

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This handout picture shows scientists launching a balloon from Williams Field in Antarctica in December 2005 that is carrying a scientific i...

'Oh Great': Astronaut Loses Tool Bag During Spacewalk

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In this image from NASA TV, a tool kit bag, center, as seen through the helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, floats away...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Indian Space Agency Isro To Roll Out A Rival To Google Earth

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Bhuvan will use a network of satellites to create a high-resolution, bird's-eye view of India ? and later, possibly, the rest of the wor...

Hi-Tech Weaponry Battles Piracy On The High Seas

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This Saudi Arabian oil tanker, the Sirius Star, was captured by pirates on 16 November 2008, off the coast of Somalia (Image: Caters News / ...

British Doctors Help Perform World's First Transplant Of A Whole Organ Grown In Lab

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Claudia Castillo underwent an operation to replace her windpipe with a bioengineered replacement after tuberculosis had left her with a coll...