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The ageing-related protein Sir1 was first found in yeast, and has now been found to serve a similar role in mice. This fluorescent micrograp...

This September 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1225 GMT. The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a clo...

From The International Herald Tribune: Cancer researchers have known for years that it was possible in rare cases for some cancers to go awa...

Ministers took the view that hi-tech investments would help the economy From The BBC: Member states of the European space agency (Esa) have ...

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway (Photo from Simply Moving ) From MSNBC: Three-acre property boasts wind turbine, solar panels and Segways...

Eastern wild turkeys. Credit: Maslowski/National Wild Turkey Federation From Live Science: Some 271 million turkeys will be raised in the Un...

From Popular Science: In the first video we see footage of a fireball generated by a large meteor recently sighted careening over the skies ...

(Photo from NASA ) From AP News: WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one...

Savanna fires occur almost every year in northern Australia, leaving behind black carbon that remains in soil for thousands of years. (Credi...

The new fabric strongly repels water thanks to nanoscale filaments with a spiky structure (Image: University of Zurich/Wiley Vch) From New S...

Peptide nucleic acid (gold) readily enters DNA's major groove to form triple-stranded and other structures with DNA, allowing it to modi...

From Wired News: Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your gran...

All in a days work: Shane Kimbrough seen on during his space walk as he carries out construction and maintenance on the International Space ...

Venus and Jupiter appear close together in the sky over Pasadena, California, on February 12, 2008. The two bright planets will slowly conve...

From E! Science News: The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluste...

These images of three galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo (top) and STAGES surveys (bottom) show examples of how the newly discovered population of...

From Live Science: We all came from hermaphrodites, organisms with both male and female reproductive organs. And though the origin traces ba...

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: A new toilet. A second refrigerator. A new water recycling system. Philadelphia-born astronaut Christopher F...

From ABC News: 250 Million Years Ago, Rising Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Off Catastrophic Changes In 1980, scientists Luis Alvarez and his son...

From Discover: IBM has won a $4.9 million government grant from DARPA to begin the first phase of research on “cognitive computing”– essenti...