Sunday, June 21, 2009

Students 'Should Be Able To Take Brain Boosting Drugs'

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'Smart drugs' are increasingly being used by students to improve their exam grades From The Telegraph: Students should be able to ta...

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

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This is the view inside the doughnut-shaped JET reactor, the largest fusion device on Earth. During a reaction, nuclear fuels are held away ...

Wind Power Blues

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From The Toronto Sun: Toronto doctor warns that, if not properly controlled, the noise from wind turbines could make people sick -- literall...

Toward New Drugs That Turn Genes On And Off

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Scientists found a group of molecules that act like an "on-off switch" and could be used to develop medicines against various dise...

Sunday: The Longest Day of the Year

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Each year on June 20 or 21, the sun is as far north as it can get from the celestial equator, marking the solstice. Credit: Starry Night Sof...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Swine Flu 'Could Infect Up To Half The Population'

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A medical researcher working to produce a DNA test for swine flu, which is spreading more quickly in the UK. Photo AFP . From The Independen...

NASA's Mission To Bomb The Moon

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From Scientific American: NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Ca...

Solar Sleuths Tackle Mystery Of Quiet Sun

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Scientists have found that slow, eastward-moving "jet streams" (depicted in yellow) move about 7000 kilometres below the sun's...

Hands On Review: iPhone OS 3.0 Chock Full Of Changes

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From Ars Technica: iPhone OS 3.0 is out and it runs on all generations of iPhone and iPod touch. Ars reviews the OS and takes a look at what...

Big Particle Collider Restart Delayed Till October

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Large Hadron Collider From Yahoo News/AP GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher will likely be fired up again in October after scient...

US Couple To Have World's First Weightless Wedding

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The bride's wedding dress was designed to billow out in all directions as she tumbles and twirls about in zero gravity (Image: Bonnie Ve...

Ancient Ice Age, Once Regarded As Brief 'Blip' Found To Have Lasted For 30 Million Years

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (June 17, 2009) — Geologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regard...

Dads Are Key to Making Us Human

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From Live Science: Some 95 percent of male mammals have little to no interaction with their children. Homo sapiens are one of the most notab...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Out Of This World: New Mexico Poised To Break Ground In Construction Of Virgin Spaceport

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On it's way: This conceptual image shows how Spaceport America is expected to look at completion in 2010 From The Daily Mail: The tanta...

Bears And Other Predators Invade U.S. Neighborhoods

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From Popular Mechanics: As once-threatened animal populations including black bears, mountain lions and alligators rebound and people move i...

Herschel Space Telescope's First Images Give Promising Glimpse Of What's To Come

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Figure A: Herschel Composite : Herschel's test view of M51 ESA From PopSci.com: Test images show M51 galaxy in more detail than predec...

Remaining H1N1 Questions

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From Time: The H1N1 flu seems a far cry from the mass killer it was feared to be when it first emerged in Mexico in April. While it has sinc...

First Image Of Memories Being Made

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The increase in green fluorescence represents the imaging of local translation at synapses during long-term synaptic plasticity. (Credit: Sc...

'New' Brazilian Flu Strain Is A False Alarm

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From New Scientist: Take a jumpy media, throw in a statement hastily translated from Portuguese, and what have you got? A "new" an...

Mammoths Roamed Britain Until Just 14,000 Years Ago ... And We Didn't Kill Them Off

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Chilling end? A lone mammoth in the Ice Age as visualised on the BBC Walking With Beasts programme. But the new research shows the beasts ou...