Thursday, August 11, 2011

Jodie Foster Helps Revive SETI Search

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A look at the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek Observatory about 290 miles northeast of San Francisco, Calif. CREDIT:...

U.S. Science Funding Will Soon Be Cut Because Of The Debt Deal

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U.S. Debt Deal Could Dramatically Slash Science Funding In 2013 -- Scientific American US science agencies avoid immediate pain but coul...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Mars Rover Nears End Of Road

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An artist's impression of one of the two Mars rovers, which have been studying geological samples on the planet. Reuters Eight Years...

Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare In Five Years

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Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare In Five Years, Sending 10Billion Ton Storm Cloud Hurtling Through Space At 5Million MPH -- Daily Mail ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

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Image : The antiprotons lie sandwiched between the inner and outer Van Allen belts (in red) around the Earth. Antimatter Belt Around Ear...

How Wine Pollutes

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Vineyards in Napa Valley, Calif. Many winemakers use sulfur on their vines and the chemical poses environmental problems. Getty Images How...

Three Solar Flares Spark Power Grid Concerns

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Solar Flare Aug. 4 This still from a video shows the CME lifting off from sunspot 1261. NASA/SDO Video: Three Solar Flares Spark Power Gri...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Are Office Environment's Bad For Your Brain?

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Working in an office is bad for your brain researchers say Photo: ALAMY Working In An Office Is Bad For Your Brain -- The Telegraph Working ...

World Wide Web Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

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Basic: Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first web site was simply a page of links to allow scientists to share data and news Many Happy Returns! Wo...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Is Music A Powerful Antidepressant?

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Making Music Proves To Be Powerful Antidepressant -- Live Science Making music might help lift more depressed people out of the dumps than c...

Nigeria's Oil Pollution Will Take Decades To Clean-Up

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Nigeria Ogoniland Oil Clean-Up 'Could Take 30 Years -- BBC Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the ...

Where Did Man Learn To Walk

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Giraffes roam in a wooded grassland savanna in Kenya's Nakuru National Park. The savanna grades into the woodland in the background. Cre...

The U.S. Military Wants To Reach The Stars

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Space Travel: Finding The Technology To Traverse The Stars -- L.A. Times The research-and-development arm of the U.S. military is launching ...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Juno Explorer Launches On Five-Year Journey To Jupiter

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NASA's Juno Explorer Launches On Five-Year Journey To Jupiter -- L.A. Times The Juno spacecraft, which NASA hopes will unlock key myster...

How The Brain Remembers What Happens And When

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Neuroscientists Identify How the Brain Remembers What Happens and When -- Science Daily ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2011) — New York University ne...

Next Generation of Computer Chips

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Caltech engineers have developed a new way to isolate light on a photonic chip, allowing light to travel in only one direction. This finding...

Warfare Started With The Creation Of Man's First Nation States

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PLUNDER Ruins at Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico. A wave of new research holds that early states arose from warring chiefdoms as populations g...

Atlantic Cod Recovering

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Photo: Cod and similar species on the Scotian Shelf have been eight to 18 per cent more massive for their age between 2006 and 2010 compare...

A New Type Of Airship

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New Type Of Flying Vehicle In Development -- Voice Of America A California company is developing a new type of airship for transport...

Human Body Vulnerable To Cyberattack

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Credit: Dreamstime Human Body Vulnerable To Cyberattack -- Live Science LAS VEGAS — The next frontier of cybercrime could be the human body,...