eo.st - Actualité et News en direct - L'actu en continu - 02/08/2008 - Sciences

'Put a stop to this'
The death toll in the Eastern Cape winter circumcision season has risen to eleven. ...

Doctors' strike blamed for deaths of babies
The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department has urged people to report striking doctors who ...

Why don't nurses care any more?
"It is true that nurses assault patients and many other terrible things. Some simply ...

HIV and Aids group to close shop
The Sunnyside support group for people living with HIV and Aids will close at the ...

KZN, Free State hospitals shut down
Some KwaZulu-Natal and Free State hospitals were shut down as doctors took to the ...

New 2012 Forum
Has over 3000 members, and is very busy, discussing many aspects of 2012 that I never ...

2012 News
Thanks to the kindness of the domain name's prior owner, I can introduce a news service ...

New Blog for 2012
Rather than remain at the whim of antville.org, most of my new posts will be at my ...

Alpha Omega 2012
Ok. I'm not a scientist in fact i'm not even sure if I spelled it right. However ...

2012 a hoax
2012 is a hoax somebody started it and the information just kept on getting added ...

"The Antichrist Version 666"
This book could possibly be a real live account of how the Antichrist grew up, and ...

2012, response to judge
Albert Gongelez is a fool. Majority of public lost confidence in him. Most feel same ...

Saturn moon may harbour life-giving ocean
Huge geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty sea below its surface, ...

Scientists find tiny new bat species
Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the ...

Cape Verde on alert after swine flu outbreak
Authorities in Cape Verde, a popular tourist destination with a large diaspora in ...

Swine flu hits Cambodia
Cambodia has confirmed its first case of swine flu, according to a joint statement ...

China to repair 'Peking Man's origin'
The cave outside Beijing where the so-called Peking Man was discovered in the 1920s ...

IOP Electronic Journals
The 2008 Impact Factors, just released by Thomson Reuters, show significant growth ...

Physics-Uspekhi authors win a Russian National Award
The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, recently presented the Russian National ...

Journal of Physics B Special Issue on Attosecond and X-ray Free Electron Laser Physics ...
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics is delighted to announce ...

Looking at a total solar eclipse: The value of ground-based scientific observations ...
On 22 July 2009 a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from a narrow corridor ...

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical special issue available online ...
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is delighted to announce the publication ...

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics - Free access to the Strangeness ...
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics is delighted to announce the online ...

FREE to access now! NRDA 2008 Proceedings in Classical & Quantum Gravity
Classical and Quantum Gravity is delighted to announce the online publication of ...

Breeding Cows That Burp Less
In an effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions, scientists in Canada are attempting ...

Locust Swarm Ethiopian Agriculture
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday that ...

Rare Ancient Elephant Skeleton Coming Together In Indonesia
Scientists are preparing to piece together a rare complete skeleton of a prehistoric ...

Workers Uncover Intact 4,000 Year-Old Tomb In Bethlehem
Image Caption: The Church of the Nativity. Courtesy Ian and Wendy Sewell - Wikipedia ...

Scientists Begin Further Studies On Himalayan Glacial Lakes
Researchers in Nepal are conducting the first ever field studies of Himalayan glacial ...

Food Storing Came Before Farming
A new study shows that people were storing grain before they even learned to domesticate ...

Early Primates Were Possibly Nocturnal
Image Caption: University of Florida vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch shows ...

Satellites Guide Relief to Earthquake Victims
In the aftermath of a recent, deadly earthquake, the NASA-led SERVIR program orchestrated ...

Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
Where have all the sunspots gone? Scientists studying a jet stream deep inside the ...

Running Out of This World
With NASA poised to launch the world's most famous treadmill (COLBERT) to the International ...

Return of the Mars Hoax
Just when you thought it was safe to check your email, the Mars Hoax is back!

Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
Researchers are about to subject a fake astronaut complete with blood cells and simulated ...

WEEK IN PHOTOS: Tiger Cub, Pancake Race, More
Pancake flippers, tornado survivors, a rare tiger cub, and St. ...

Curious Octopus Floods Aquarium
A dexterous octopus disassembled part of its tank on Thursday ...

Lefties Survive (Barely) Due to Element of Surprise?
A deadly element of surprise and other benefits may explain why ...

Ancient Camels Butchered in Colorado, Stone Tools Show?
Thirteen thousand years ago humans may have hunted down camels ...

VIDEO: "Psychedelic" Fish Hops on Seafloor
A newly discovered frogfishdubbed the psychedelic fish because ...

Extremely Rare Bongo Group Found in Kenya Forest
The shy bongo, once thought to be extinct, has been spotted in ...

VIDEO: Penguins (Cutely) Count Selves
Microchip-implanted penguins in Argentina are helping scientists ...

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Neglect, Not Looting, Threatens Iraqi Sites, Study Says

Neanderthals Didn't Mate With Modern Humans, Study Says

2,500-Year-Old Greek Ship Raised off Sicilian Coast

Iron Age Warrior with Roman Links Found in U.K.

Iron Age Warrior Unearthed in England

King Tut Tomb Fetuses May Reveal Pharaoh's Mother

arXiv.org

Two Metrics unsuitable for Black Holes embedded in Expanding Universe. (arXiv:0906.3783v1 ...

Dynamical-Screening and the Phantom-Like Effects in a DGP-Inspired $F(R,\phi)$ Model. ...

A Braneworld Dark Energy Model with Induced Gravity and the Gauss-Bonnet Effect. ...

Strongly Focused Gravitational Waves. (arXiv:0906.3812v1 [gr-qc])

Bel-Debever criteria for the classification of the Weyl tensors in higher dimensions. ...

Novel solution of Wheeler-DeWitt theory. (arXiv:0906.3825v1 [gr-qc])

Closed inflationary universe in Patch Cosmology. (arXiv:0906.3826v1 [gr-qc])

Thermodynamics of space quanta models quantum gravity. (arXiv:0906.3827v1 [gr-qc]) ...

Dimension Driven Accelerating Universe. (arXiv:0906.3847v1 [gr-qc])

Power-law cosmic expansion in f(R) gravity models. (arXiv:0906.3860v1 [gr-qc])

Geometrical dark energy in braneworlds. (arXiv:0906.3894v1 [gr-qc])

Interacting new generalized Chaplygin gas. (arXiv:0906.3913v1 [gr-qc])

Quantum gravity as sum over spacetimes. (arXiv:0906.3947v1 [gr-qc])

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
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A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander

At the Sun's Edge

Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X 1

The Eagle Rises

Aurora Persei

Chinese government shows no sign of backing down on spyware program
Even in the face of growing pressure from the West, the Chinese government said yesterday ...

Buzz Aldrin climbs behind the mic for a joint jam with Snoop Dogg
One small step for man, one giant leap for pop culture. In a recent interview ...

Reunited: The wild chase to track down a missing iPhone
At Apple's keynote two weeks ago, one notable announcement was the launch of the ...

A million new iPhones, $30 apologies, and two kinds of cracking
Let's talk numbers. 1,000,000: The number of iPhone 3G S sales Apple rang up ...

ThisMoment captures personal scenes with a social sheen
Vince Broady wanted to remember a special night out with his two pre-teen sons – ...

Netbook or notebook? A majority of consumers can’t tell the two apart.
And we can't exactly blame them. Maybe it's the matching suffixes, but those two ...

Dunkin’ Donuts makes an iPhone app. Here’s why you shouldn’t bother.
So let's say you really enjoy the taste of a good honey-glazed donut, but you can't ...

Trends & Numbers: Consumers and the Online Retailing BoomPresstime Magazine, VA& ...
uruknet.info, Italy -The last complete Iraq census in 1997 reported a total of 4050597 ...

Distinguished speaker delights faculty memberPurdue Exponent - 4 minutes ...
CNNMoney.com -Thus, CTC's focus on younger demographics, together with our programming ...

Social Explorer Gets Religion - Detailed Religious Spatial Data ...DirectionsMag.com ...
New Vision, Uganda -... legal factors like regulation, bureaucracy, taxes, political ...

Audubon Society slates annual bird surveyNewHampshire.com,&am p;nbsp;NH - ...
AZ Central.com, AZ -According to census estimates, the US population will be 24 percent ...

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Locations of high-risk coal ash sites kept secret.
The Obama administration has decided to keep secret the locations of nearly four ...

U.S. vows strict mountaintop mine oversight.
The Obama administration promised tougher oversight of strip mining in Appalachia ...

Chevron fights Ecuador pollution lawsuit.
About 916 pits used by Texaco Petroleum and PetroEcuador are at the centre of what ...

France to pay nuclear test compensation.
Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to ...

N.J. scientists urge state to adopt strictest levels for cancer-linked chromium. ...
New Jersey scientists are urging the state to adopt the strictest levels ever for ...

EPA chemical database rules are a political hazard, critics say.
Obama promised to end political meddling in scientific decisions, but some critics ...

CO2 levels may cause underwater catastrophe.
The science academies of 70 countries called on world leaders to explicitly recognise ...

Herschel: Herschel's sneak preview: PACS images of M51
On 14 June 2009, precisely one month after launch, Herschel opened its eyes as the ...

Cluster: Cluster & Double Star: 1000 publications
The Cluster and Double Star missions have reached the milestone of 1000 scientific ...

XMM-Newton: At last! After 10 years a new Soft Gamma Repeater is observed
Detailed observations of the first new Soft Gamma Repeater in 10 years strengthen ...

Hubble: Commissioning Hubble - preparing for science observations
The fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope may be over ...

Collaborative Missions: AKARI (ASTRO-F) Post-Helium Phase Announcement of Opportunity ...
Dear Colleague, I am pleased to invite you to respond to the "Announcement of Opportunity" ...

IXO/XEUS: IXO Call for Payload Study Consortia
On 28 April ESA issued a "Call for Declarations of Interest in Science Instrumentation" ...

Director's Desk: Call for White Papers for the Fundamental Physics Roadmap Advisory ...
ESA has convened an expert body, the Fundamental Physics Roadmap Advisory Team, with ...

Disappearing dolphins clamour for attention at whale summit
Small whales are disappearing from the world's oceans and waterways as they fall ...

Scientists block Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered ...

Prairie dogs: influencing the accumulation of metals in plants?
Elemental hyperaccumulation in plants is hypothesized to represent a plant defense ...

Morning people and night owls show different brain function: University of Alberta ...
Are you a "morning person" or a "night owl?"Scientists at the University of Alberta ...

Notre Dame study describes evidence of world's oldest known granaries
A new study co-authored by Ian Kuijt, associate professor of anthropology at the ...

Notre Dame study provides insights into how climate change might impact species' ...
A new study by a team of reseachers led by Jessica Hellmann, assistant professor ...

New therapy found to prevent heart failure
A landmark study has successfully demonstrated a 29 percent reduction in heart failure ...

A Joint Love Letter to Science
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s...-- ...

Can Science Reveal the Truth?
In St John's gospel, Jesus Christ tells Pilate that he has come into the world ...

Tardigrades: The World's Toughest Critters
The humble water bear has been the subject of some pretty nasty experiments lately. ...

Superbugs that Dine on Antibiotics
There's something lurking about your garden, weaving in and out of your vegetables ...

The Science of Skin Care
The age-old dream of keeping our skin looking young and healthy is starting to come ...

Fruit Flies Unravel Brain Mysteries
Scientists are investigating the genetic system of the Drosophila fruit fly to discover ...

Solar Sailing
The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing...-- ...

UK climate projections: a wake-up call on the need to urgently slash emissions
The UK climate impacts report published today is a wake up call on the urgent need ...

Meat-free Mondays welcomed but more must be done to fix the food chain
Friends of the Earth welcomed the Meat Free Mondays initiative launched today by ...

Government's carbon offsetting plans exposed as con
Dangerous climate change will be unavoidable if the UK, EU and USA succeed in increasing ...

New report casts doubt over biofuels 'wonder crop' jatropha
Biofuels produced from jatropha may be competing with food production for land and ...

New "responsible" soy standards will destroy forests and livelihoods, Friends of ...
A new initiative that will re-brand intensive GM soy and soy grown on deforested ...

Europe's biggest onshore wind farm officially opens
The official opening of Europe's biggest wind farm - in Scotland - has been welcomed ...

Government must support wind industry to save UK green jobs
Friends of the Earth and Unite are calling on the Government to step in to prevent ...

Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School
A simple scheduling switch -- moving recess before lunch -- may improve children's ...

In Labor, a Snack or a Sip?
A look at existing studies found the rule of not eating or drinking during delivery ...

Cases: An Ill Father, a Life-or-Death Decision
A father was sick, again, and a choice was suddenly thrust on his daughter.

Books: Abusing Not Only Children, but Also Science
In “The Trauma Myth,” the psychologist Susan A. Clancy documented interviews ...

A New Way to Look for Diseases’ Genetic Roots
Though scientists hit a wall in their search, a Duke geneticist has ideas on how ...

Vital Signs: Exercise: In Women, Training for a Sharper Mind
Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved ...

Patient Safety: Conversation to Curriculum
Despite the growing national discussion about medical errors, medical schools have ...

MPs say Icasa must get its act together
The structure of South Africa's telecoms regulator will have to be changed over time ...

Cell C plans licence challenge
A legal opinion submitted to Icasa by Cell C suggests that South Africa's smallest ...

Cash boost for Telkom networks in SA
Telkom is planning to invest at least 14 percent of its R34-billion capital expenditure ...

Online terrorism pushes countries to act
Cyberterrorism is a reality that world leaders and security firms are at last waking ...

MySpace axes jobs as recession bites
The social network giant MySpace has announced a second wave of job cuts.

How Writing Changed the World
Writing ushered in history as we know it.

Submersible Robot Runs on Sea's Heat
A "green" robotic glider runs on energy absorbed from the ocean.

Origin of Birds Debated
Scientists can't agree on when modern birds first appeared on Earth.

What Is Relativity?
Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory ...

Why We Love the Sweet Life
Love honey, sugar cane, molasses and corn syrup? Blame our primate heritage.

Marketing the Next President of the United States
Appearance and money impact election outcomes.

10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life
A peek at the real future.

New analysis by U of M Researcher challenges approach to oversight of new technologies ...

Nano vaccine for hepatitis B shows promise for third world: anoemulsion could save ...

BioSolar Reveals Secret of Less Costly Solar Power: Cotton and Castor Beans

Nanotechnology Particle Size Measurement Solutions

NanoStewardship

Northeastern Universitys Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing to Host 6th New ...

BeSang, National NanoFab Center, and Stanford University NanoFab Develop Breakthrough ...

Future Trends in Mechanical Engineering

BioForce Nanosciences Enters Into Licensing Agreement With Aspera Corp.

ZEOX Corporation: New Nanotechnology Breakthrough-Lipotrope®

Nature
Despite disagreement between governments about tackling climate change, initiatives ...

Ethics of therapeutic cloning
A moment of triumph for South Korean science appears to have been marred by doubts ...

Korea's stem-cell stars dogged by suspicion of ethical breach
SeoulWhen, in February, a South Korean team announced that it had derived stem cells ...

BioShield defence programme set to fund anthrax vaccine
WashingtonA US government programme to bolster public defences against bioterrorism ...

NASA opens its arms to robot options for saving telescope
WashingtonA plan to use robots instead of astronauts to rescue the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Feathered fossils cause a flap in museums
San DiegoThe mysterious background of Chinese dinosaur fossils in an exhibition is ...

Top job at NSF on hold until after US elections
WashingtonProspects are fading that a director for the US National Science Foundation ...

Elusive forms of water found?
Two long sought-after phases of ultra-cold water may have been trapped between crystals ...

Neuroscience centre thinks big
Eilon Vaadia on the drive to make an Israeli institute one of the top places for ...

Nature Signaling Update
Phagocytosed Mycobacterium tuberculosis produces a burst of cAMP in macrophages that ...

Selected Update: T cell differentiation: The TH1 two step
TH1 cell differentiation is mediated by activation of a T-cell receptor (TCR)-IFNgamma-T-bet ...

Selected Update: Prostate cancer: Resistance is (hopefully) futile
Three papers describe promising new ways in which the androgen receptor (AR) might ...

Selected Update: Neurodegenerative disease: NURR1 puts a dampener on inflammation ...
The nuclear receptor NURR1 can suppress potentially neurotoxic inflammatory gene ...

Research Library: Genes that mediate breast cancer metastasis to the brain

Research Library: The FANC pathway and BLM collaborate during mitosis to prevent ...

Research Library: Persistent signaling induced by FTY720-phosphate is mediated by ...

Nature Web Focus: Access to the literature: the debate continues
Can journals function if authors, instead of readers, carry the cost of publication? ...

The best business model for scholarly journals: an economist's perspective
The answer to the question 'What is the best business model for scholarly journals?' ...

A professional society's take on access to the scientific literature
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the flagship journal of the American Society ...

An evidence-based assessment of the 'author pays' model
Much discussion of author payments as a means to Open Access lacks consideration ...

PNAS and Open Access
As I announced in a recent Editorial, the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access
Of all the groups that want OA to scientific and scholarly research literature, only ...

Not so quiet on a Western front
In negotiations with Reed Elsevier, the University of California libraries recently ...

Nuclear science
The third meeting of the NEA Nuclear Science Committee Working Party on ...

Radioactive waste management
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) held its seventh workshop in ...

NEA Annual Report 2008
NEA Annual Report 2008 just published. Read more and download the report here.

Nuclear energy in the 21st century: safe, clean and affordable
At the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, ...

Meeting of the Expert Group on Nuclear Energy and Security of Supply
The Expert Group on Nuclear Energy and Security of Supply met on 4-5 December 2008. ...

New Nuclear Development Committee workshop
An NEA Workshop on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes is to be held ...

Nuclear safety and regulation
The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) held its 20th meeting ...

Physics Post
As intellectuals world over are harping on the clean usage of coal or how cleaner ...

Bodies The Exhibition
There are a number of different places that this particular exhibition has been and ...

Going Green
The world today has gotten to the point where it is practically impossible to open ...

CSI Forensic Science
Forensic Science is the use of science to solve crimes and is quickly becoming one ...

Online Degrees Bachelor Degree Online
An online degree program comes as a big boon for those people whose lifestyles just ...

Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is a disease that can affect anyone regardless of age gender race or ...

Nanotechnology
When you think about nanotechnology you need to think in terms of a number of disciplines ...

ASD Inc. Launches New Customer-focused Website
ASD Inc., the world-wide provider of high-performance spectroscopy solutions, ...

A Question for the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11: Apollo 11's "Giant Leap" or Apollo ...
When NASA and the media celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 ...

Toronto City Centre Airport First in North America to get Accipiter® Radars into ...
Accipiter Radar announced today another first for its Accipiter® line ...

New DuPont "Gen-3" OLED Displays Technology Achieves Record 1 Million Hours Lifetime ...
Performance Paves the Way for Commercial OLED Displays in TVs, Mobile ...

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Honors MTV Executive for Outstanding ...
Cathy Phiri, Social Responsibility Director for MTV Networks International, ...

19th Annual ISSSEEM Conference to Have Richard Bartlett to Discuss the Physics of ...
ISSSEEM or the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies ...

Black Superman the Acclaimed Book That Predicted and Explained Jamaica's Extraordinary ...
Black Superman: A Cultural and Biological History of the People Who Became ...

Iranian Activists Rally on Twitter
Popular messaging service used primarily by supporters of defeated presidential candidate ...

Shuttle Endeavour to Deliver Space Station Module
Crew of Endeavour is set for launch early Wednesday to deliver final piece of a Japanese ...

US Government Scientists Call For Urgent Action on Global Warming
Scientists release new report warning that effects of global warming will become ...

Leak Delays Shuttle Launch Until July
Hydrogen leak detected while crews filled shuttle's external fuel tanks - similar ...

New Model Predicts Mammal Extinction
Conservation researcher says Earth undergoing its 6th mass extinction, threatening ...

US Student Puts North Korea on Map With Google Earth
Program promises a more complex picture of daily life

NASA Mission to Survey Moon for Return of Astronauts
Lunar probes to identify safe sites for future human exploration, find potential ...

***Anti Aging ***
**AGING- At the time of Abraham it was recorded that humans lived for hundreds of ...

Antibiotic prescribing should be standardized across Europe to help tackle resistance ...
Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory illnesses should be standardised across Europe ...

300 billion weather forecasts used by Americans annually, survey finds
BOULDER--Close to 9 out of 10 adult Americans obtain weather forecasts regularly, ...

UT School of Public Health researchers develop game for HIV-positive youth
Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game ...

Underweight and extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight, study finds ...
Underweight people and those who are extremely obese die earlier than people of normal ...

New therapy found to prevent heart failure
A landmark study has successfully demonstrated a 29 percent reduction in heart failure ...

Notre Dame study describes evidence of world's oldest known granaries
A new study coauthored by Ian Kuijt, associate professor of anthropology at the ...

Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Pierre and Christiane Lebrun warmly welcome you to Shenval organic Bed & Breakfast ...

Einstein's Invisible Hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?

Web Extra: First Frog without Lungs

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All in the Family

Without Substance: ADHD meds don't up kids' drug abuse risk

Caught in the Act? Images may reveal planetary birth

Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear
New research demonstrates humans' right ear preference for listening. We humans prefer ...

Cancer Researchers Develop Model That May Help Identify Cancer Stem Cells
Researchers, on a quest to find lung cancer stem cells, have developed a unique model ...

Isolated Forest Patches Lose Species, Diversity
Failing to see the forest for the trees may be causing us to overlook the declining ...

Exercise Improves Functional And Psychological Ability And Reduces Steroid Need In ...
Undertaking a supervised exercise program can have beneficial effects on functional ...

New Research Unravels How Proteins Help Repair DNA
A person's DNA is often damaged by a number of different chemical contaminants, and ...

Heavy Women Have Lower Quality Relationships, But Same Is Not True For Men, Study ...
Associations between body mass index (BMI) and relationship quality and other partner/relationship ...

Geographic Profiling Works: Great White Sharks' Hunting Skills As Refined As Jack ...
What do great white sharks have in common with serial killers? Refined hunting skills, ...

Isolated Forest Patches Lose Species, Diversity
Failing to see the forest for the trees may be causing us to overlook the declining ...

Geographic Profiling Works: Great White Sharks' Hunting Skills As Refined As Jack ...
What do great white sharks have in common with serial killers? Refined hunting skills, ...

Pesticide Susceptibility In Children Lasts Longer Than Expected
Researchers recommend that the US EPA re-evaluate current standards for pesticide ...

Many Floors In U.S. Homes Have 'Measurable' Levels Of Pesticides
Insecticides used in and around homes -- including products voluntarily removed from ...

'Milking' Microscopic Algae Could Yield Massive Amounts Of Oil
Scientists are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis "milking" ...

How Aerosols Contribute To Climate Change
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens on the way there is a different ...

Alaskan Earthquake 'To Be Expected,' Says Researcher
As reports of a strong earthquake in Alaska continue to emerge (on June 22) a Baylor ...

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Need Hydrogen Storage? Think Poultry
Carbonized chicken feathers might be an effective--and cheap--way to stash hydrogen ...

Ancient Waves of (Wild) Grain
At a site in Jordan, inhabitants built granaries to protect their harvests

Tracking Killers of the Sea
Researchers borrow forensic geographic profiling methods to study how sharks hunt ...

Fish Throws Away Its Genes as It Grows
Lamprey sheds one-fifth of its genome, but no one's sure why

Team Detects High-Speed Hydrogen Atoms Coming From the Moon
Reflected solar particles can reveal details about the surfaces of other worlds

Tackling Anxiety With Less Angst
Early studies show fewer side effects for new antianxiety drug

Tempolimit Lichtgeschwindigkeit
Visualisierung und Veranschaulichung der Relativitätstheorie: Online-Artikel, Bilder, ...

South Pacific Travel Blog
An island travel blog with news and views from the South Pacific. NewsFeed: www.southpacific.orgCanada ...

Psyndex: Aktuelle Datensätze
PSYNDEX ist die psychologische Referenzdatenbank des Zentrums für psychologische ...

talentscotland.com
Talent Scotland provides information and professional job listings for Life Sciences. ...

World Heritage Alert
Threats to the worlds heritage places are listed here. NewsFeed: www.worldheritagealert.org ...

Campania PodCast
Campania, Italy, Art, Culture, Nature, podcast, video NewsFeed: www.campaniapodcast.itItal ...

Life Science Events
An Uptodate listing of Life science events. NewsFeed: www.lifescienceevents.comK ...

Can fMRI Really Tell if You're Lying?
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Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs

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What is sarcoidosis?

Hacking Memory to Break Drug Addiction

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The Science of Star Wars

Now climate-change scientists say ozone hole stops global warming
IT WAS once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats to the planet.

Furore over other global -warming 'truths' that have turned out to be less than ...
THE United Nations climate science panel is facing mounting criticism for "bogus" ...

Digital-age Earth's signal gets weaker for 'any ETs out there'
SATELLITE TV and the digital revolution is making humanity more and more invisible ...

Sea Launch files for Chapter 11
Commercial launch services company Sea Launch filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ...

LRO enters lunar orbit
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft entered orbit around the Moon ...

Land Launch places Malaysian satellite in orbit
Land Launch successfully launched a communications satellite for a Malaysian company ...

Ground broken for Spaceport America
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday for Spaceport America, a new commercial ...

House passes NASA budget bill
The US House of Representatives passed on Thursday an appropriations bill that retains ...

Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to Its New Mission
With its cryogen depleted, Spitzer telescope prepares for its warm mission.

The Weirdest Object in the Solar System?
Haumea has fastest spin, odd shape, and a trail of icy shards from a long-ago collision. ...

How to Spot Satellites
There are hundreds of satellites visible to the naked eye. Here's how you can ...

NASA Poised to Join Europe's Mars Rover Mission
The United States and Europe are moving closer toward a full-scale collaboration ...

SPACE.com Forums: Who is Your Favorite Apollo Astronaut?
Interesting articles in our Community forum.

Live From the Moon: NASA Probe Beams Home New Lunar Views
NASA's new lunar probe streamed back live video as it flew by the pockmarked ...

NASA Returns to Moon With Unmanned Probe
NASA's first unmanned lunar probe in more than a decade arrived at the moon ...

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&#39;Semi-Pro& amp;#39; Takes Box-Office Crown, But It&#39;s ...

New Amsterdam: Forensics with a Metaphysical Twist - eFluxMedia

Roethlisberger gets more than $36 million in guarantees in new ... - ESPN

Third-place Biffle feels he had best car at Las Vegas - Nascar

Report: Warrick Dunn asks Falcons for release - SportingNews.com

Magically delicious: breakfast keeps teens lean - Reuters

Reef 'could adapt to avoid doom'
THE prediction of a prominent marine biologist that climate change could render the ...

Spring rainfall at record low levels
MUCH of southeastern Australia has had the driest start to spring on record.

NASA gets a rocket for risk
ARES is meant to be the rocket that will launch a new era of lunar exploration. Instead, ...

Humans to blame for melting Antarctica
ANTARCTICA, which seemed to have largely escaped the global warming hotting up the ...

DNA shows Otzi the Iceman has kin
AS he lay dying high in the Tyrolean Alps, Otzi the Iceman would have been astonished ...

Expert warns on recycled sewage
A DISEASE expert has claimed there is no technology to prevent recycled sewage from ...

Flush then drink in the Sunshine State
AS Queensland gets ready to drink recycled sewage, some scientists are nervous.

Science
The Triassic-Jurassic extinction approximately 200 million years ago is one of the ...

Sensorin Reporter
Long-term memory and synaptic plasticity require changes in gene expression and yet ...

Star Gazing
Seismology of stars provides a unique insight into physical mechanisms taking place ...

Minimally Acidic
Acidity is usually construed in the context of a bulk liquid solvent: billions of ...

Reaping Gain from Decay
In photovoltaic devices, absorbed light excites electrons into a conduction band ...

Expanding Flatland
Since its discovery and isolation some 5 years ago, research on graphene has exploded. ...

A Change in the Air?
Between around 1.2 million and 500,000 years ago, Earth's glacial cycle changed from ...

Antiporter Antics
Bacteria that survive in the acidic environment of the stomach have mechanisms to ...

Controlling Chronic Viral Infections
Chronic viral infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C viruses are major public ...

Mysterious Merkel cells
Anatomists have known about the existence of Merkel cells in our skin for over a ...

Addition to the Right, Subtraction to the Left
High-level cognitive achievements, such as writing and mathematics, have appeared ...

2 Be or Not 2 Be?
The beryllium dimer is a rather simple-looking compound, bridging two atoms of the ...

Rapid Tree Building
Phylogenetic reconstruction is used to determine the relationships between organisms ...

Swine Flu Benchmark
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 29 April 2009, a level-5 pandemic ...

Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands ...
Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors ...

Media advisory: UW team takes off tomorrow for rocket competition
A team of graduate students and faculty advisors in the UW's aeronautics and astronautics ...

Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway, researchers say
A team of researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University have ...

Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
A new study validates the most surprising and controversial finding about the Implicit ...

Crustacean shell with polyester creates mixed-fiber material for nerve repair
Weaving chitosan, found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, with an industrial polyester ...

If the shoe flits, duck: A real-life example of humans' dual vision system
UW neuroscientists were delighted at the reactions of former President George W. ...

Renowned global health figure Dr. Paul Farmer speaks at UW June 18
Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Mountains Beyond Mountains" ...