eo.st - Actualité et News en direct - L'actu en continu - 03/08/2008 - Sciences

Durban moves to lead fight against cancer
Durban is planning to become the first city in the country to set up its own environmental ...

Hospital building crumbles as talks drag on
The future of the former Addington Children's Hospital looks bleak while negotiations ...

Official pays pittance for state house
The Gauteng Health Department usually allocates its subsidised houses to doctors ...

Fears of hospital cuts 'exaggerated'
The Cape provincial health department has vehemently denied suggestions that there ...

Teen's spinal surgery goes well
A 17-year-old boy whose foster parents went to court to get the permission needed ...

New 2012 Forum
Has over 1000 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 ...

Circumcision can reduce HIV risk - scientists
Male circumcision definitely reduces the risk of HIV infection, according to researchers ...

Alarming sea levels 'possible this century'
A study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages - ...

Australians live to work
Australians delight in telling foreigners about their beaches, braais and wonderful ...

A greenhouse on the Moon?
The meals consumed by astronauts have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders ...

Colbert lost in space
Nasa has denied television comedian Stephen Colbert's attempt to get the new Node ...

IOP Electronic Journals
IOP Publishings open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters, is pleased ...

Most Highly Cited Paper Awards 2009
The award recognises papers which have made a significant, long-term contribution ...

Russian Chemical Reviews: a special issue on the reviews of the international symposium ...
February 2009 marked the 175th birthday of the great Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev ...

Astronomer Royal tackles space, politics and scientific advice in physicsworld.com ...
The Royal Society is celebrating its 350th anniversary this year. Over the years, ...

New Subject Section for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
We are pleased to announce a change to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical ...

January 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Turpion Ltd
January 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Turpion Ltd and many significant milestones ...

Inverse Problems: 25th Year Special Issue
Inverse Problems is delighted to announce a special issue of review articles and ...

Recent Cold Spells Haven’t Hindered Global Warming
Climate scientists said on Thursday that the pace of global warming continues unabated, ...

Australia Desires End To Scientific Whaling
Australia wants to phase out harpooning of whales in the Southern Ocean over the ...

Researcher Tracks Water Use
Studying how US industry uses scarce water resourcesJust think, every time you feed ...

How Sea Turtle Hatchlings Move Quickly On Sand
Image Caption: Georgia Tech researchers conducted the first field study showing how ...

Scientists Studying Giant Underwater Waves
Waves impact offshore structures, submarine navigation, moreScientists at the University ...

Tree-Dwelling Mammals Live Longer
The squirrels littering your lawn with acorns as they bound overhead will live to ...

Microbe Controlling Ocean Nitrogen Shares The Throne
Novel species found to be more widely distributed in world's seasMarine scientists ...

Spirit's Journey to the Center of Mars
NASA's venerable Mars rover Spirit is starting a second career as an explorer of ...

Cool Movie: SDO Destroys a Sundog
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a ...

3D Sun for the iPhone
Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone ...

Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers?
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same ...

Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality ...

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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

Quantum Non-Gravity. (arXiv:1002.4651v1 [gr-qc])

Dark Energy Stars, AdS/CFT, and High Tc. (arXiv:1002.4654v1 [gr-qc])

Spacetime Averaged Null Energy Condition. (arXiv:1002.4689v1 [gr-qc])

Isolated horizons in numerical relativity: constructing the excised Kerr spacetime ...

Non-Minimally Gravity-Coupled Inflationary Models. (arXiv:1002.4765v1 [astro-ph.CO]) ...

Modelling cosmological singularity with compactified Milne space. (arXiv:1002.4769v1 ...

Defrosting the Big Freeze quantum mechanically?. (arXiv:1002.4783v1 [gr-qc])

Generalization of the Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism to higher dimensions. (arXiv:1002.4826v1 ...

Noncommutative effects in astrophysical objects: a survey. (arXiv:1002.4861v1 [gr-qc]) ...

Recent progress on the notion of global hyperbolicity. (arXiv:0712.1933v2 [gr-qc] ...

Nonlinear Gravitational Waves: Their Form and Effects. (arXiv:0809.2911v2 [gr-qc] ...

Nonsingular and accelerated expanding universe from effective Yang-Mills theory. ...

Large-scale peculiar motions and cosmic acceleration. (arXiv:0902.3232v2 [astro-ph.CO] ...

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

Longtime holdout Conan O'Brien finally joins Twitter
Back in the day, Conan O'Brien got some laughs by making fun of Twitter. Now, after ...

Why tons of Facebook pages will wind up in Google search
Google is setting loose its army of crawlers on Facebook Pages, a public section ...

Can the iPad tablet be as successful as the Apple iPhone?
The iPhone and iPod Touch are the fastest-adopted gadgets in consumer-tech history. ...

YouTube college essays: The best Tufts application videos
To better evaluate young minds, Tufts application videos asks prospective college ...

iPad will be sold at Best Buy
The Apple iPad launch will be modeled on the roll-out of the Apple iPhone. Included ...

Why Twitter is cuddling up to Yahoo
Twitter already has a deal in place with Google. Now Yahoo will set its crawlers ...

Heavy Rain review roundup
As Heavy Rain reviews trickle in, gamers wonder if they're looking at the future ...

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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Rare Rhinos Relocated from Czech Republic to Kenya
This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launched an audacious ...

Brazil Announces National Policy on Climate Change
Brazil's President introduced national legislation that will guide efforts to reduce ...

Arctic pipeline conditionally approved
The C$16.2 billion ($15.4 billion) Mackenzie pipeline in Canada's Arctic should be ...

Scientists begin testing mussels for pollutants.
California scientists hope studying 180 black mussels pried from algae-covered rocks ...

FDA to miss third deadline on BPA ruling.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will miss its third self-imposed deadline on ...

Almost 10,000 people submit comments on New York's proposed hydrofracking regulations. ...
Gov. David Paterson and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are being ...

State oil and gas regulators are spread too thin to do their jobs.
Regulators in West Virginia and other states are overwhelmed as they try to keep ...

Mars Express:Mars Express to make closest ever approach to Phobos
On 3 March 2010 Mars Express will make its closest ever approach to Phobos, ...

Mars Express:Two windows on ozone: extending our view of the Martian atmosphere
New measurements of ozone in the atmosphere of Mars are being obtained in ...

Hubble:Saturn's aurorae offer stunning double show [heic1003]
Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage ...

LAPLACE/EJSM:Europa Jupiter System Mission: Presentations from third instrument workshop ...
The third instrument workshop for the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM), ...

Director's Desk:Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team Workshop: A Roadmap for Exoplanets ...
The Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team invites interested parties from the scientific ...

Robotic Exploration:Announcement of Opportunity for ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Instruments ...
ESA and NASA have today issued an announcement of opportunity soliciting ...

Home page:ISSI Call for Proposals 2010 for International Teams in Space Science (incl. ...
Announcement The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, ...

Twice as many women to be diagnosed with gestational diabetes
Two to three times more pregnant women may soon be diagnosed and treated for gestational ...

Tackling the challenges of survival in a changing world
It is almost impossible to ignore the effects of global climate change on the planet ...

Cancer patients find relief in integrative medicine services
The integrative oncology services that recently launched at Northwestern aim to address ...

HIV drug that protects a fetus should be avoided for one year after childbirth, researchers ...
A new study found that while nevirapine works well to prevent mother-to-child HIV ...

New University of Colorado paper shows novel way to study human inflammatory disease ...
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows mice infected with the bacteria ...

Effective prostate cancer treatment discovery
Monash University biomedical scientists have identified a new way to treat castrate ...

Why symptoms of schizophrenia emerge in young adulthood
In reports of two new studies, researchers led by Johns Hopkins say they have identified ...

Solving the dilemma of gender imbalance
What would have been unimaginable in many European countries only a few decades ago ...

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 ...

Meat labelling code only addresses part of a bigger problem
The meat labelling scheme announced today by Environmental Secretary Hilary Benn ...

Yvo de Boer resigns as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Yvo de Boer has resigned as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework ...

Gordon Brown to co-chair climate change funding panel
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will co-chair the United Nations High Level Advisory ...

World heading towards peak oil - energy crunch on par with financial crisis
The UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) has warned that ...

India puts moratorium on GM crop
India's environment minister has halted the commercial cultivation of a genetically ...

Environmental Audit Committee report 'nail in the coffin' for carbon trading
Friends of the Earth says that the Environmental Audit Committee's report on carbon ...

Supermarket supply code of practice needs tough enforcement
A Grocery Supply Code of Practice which comes into force today (Thursday, 4 February ...

Obama Stresses Areas of Agreement at Health Session
At his much-anticipated health care forum on Thursday, President Obama used his opening ...

Preparing for Health Debate, and Its TV Audience
From the seating to the camera positions to the buffet lunch, Thursday’s session ...

Health Executive Defends Premiums
The president of WellPoint told a House panel that the increase was justified by ...

Doctor and Patient: A Surgeon Learns of the Choking Game
A doctor knew nothing about a strangulation game in which youths try to achieve a ...

Vital Signs: Pregnancy: Some Depression Relief, Without Drugs
A study found that acupuncture designed specifically for depressive symptoms seemed ...

Vital Signs: Prevention: Older Women Are Not Likely to Benefit From Cervical Cancer ...
The vaccine for HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer, is used to prevent new ...

Transplants That Do Their Job, Then Fade Away
Thanks to the liver’s ability to regenerate, a small number of children in ...

Facebook memorial pages defaced
Cyber attacks on Facebook pages set up to pay tribute to two murdered Australian ...

Google to be probed on anti-trust complaints
The European Union's executive has confirmed that it had received three anti-trust ...

Watching the Games? Switch on your cellphone
Cellphones and the Internet are muscling in on more traditional media as ways to ...

Nasa lacks a goal, say US senators
Sceptical US senators are telling Nasa's chief that the space agency lacks a goal ...

Rock on while being good to the environment
We take a look at the latest gadgets available on the local market to feed your mind ...

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 ...

Haiti earthquake produced deadly tsunami
Waves up to three metres high hit sections of the nation's coastline.

Concessions over science advice principles
Proposal that advisors should seek 'shared position' with government abandoned.

Underwater robot automates ocean testing
'Lab in a can' eliminates the middleman between sample site and lab.

Bacteria buzzing in the seabed
Nanowires growing from bacteria might link up distant chemical reactions in sediments. ...

News briefing: 25 February 2010
The week in science.

A land without Google?
A survey reveals how Chinese scientists could be affected by the stand-off between ...

Earth science: The climate machine
A new generation of sophisticated Earth models is gearing up for its first major ...

Nature Signaling Update
Radically different active sites are used for the two steps of SUMO E1's catalysis. ...

Selected Update: Signaling: Sensing a change
Three papers present evidence that signaling pathways respond to fold-changes in ...

Selected Update: Axon guidance: A developmental switch
The switch from attraction to repulsion downstream of cAMP depends on a switch from ...

Selected Update: Proteases: Unraveling the therapeutic activity of activated protein ...
Two new studies shed further light on the beneficial roles and mechanisms of action ...

Research Library: Systems analysis of EGF receptor signaling dynamics with microwestern ...

Research Library: Role of STAT5 in controlling cell survival and immunoglobulin gene ...

Research Library: Evidence for a protein tether involved in somatic touch

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 ...

Just published - en français - Le financement des centrales nucléaires

Just published: Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation
For the successful deployment of the advanced fuel cycle, it is important ...

Just published in French (en français) - Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 84 - Bulletin de ...

Just published: Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 84

Just published: Experimental Facilities for Gas-cooled Reactor Safety Studies
Research to address the topics described in this paper will provide the technical ...

Just published: Independent Evaluation of the MYRRHA Project
The need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an effort to tackle climate change ...

Just published - Vient de paraître : AEN Infos, Volume 27. 2 en français

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 ...

My1Stop.com Expands Into Medical Wristbands Market with Patented LaserBand® Printable ...
www.My1Stop.com enters the printable medical wristbands market with line ...

Robot Adventures With Robosapien" & Friends- Educational DVD Series Releases Online ...
Vision One Pictures has released Robot Adventures With Robosapien" & ...

A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Climate Change -- Build a New Home!
By choosing the right materials builders, architects and home owners can ...

QB3 Adds Zcube As Limited Partner In Mission Bay Capital Fund
Mission Bay Capital, LLC, has added a new limited partner to its first ...

DuPont Named Among World's Most Innovative Companies by MIT Technology Review
he Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review magazine ...

Cincinnati Zoos Manatee Returned to the Wild
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens 1,400 pound Florida manatee, Slip, ...

New Cancer-Fighting Strategy Focuses On Signaling Molecules
Cancer researchers studying the immune system have identified a previously ...

Wallaby-Like Dinosaur Uncovered in Australia
Dig unearths what is believed to be the remains of small plant-eating dinosaur shaped ...

Hollywood Honors Technical Innovators at Academy SciTech Awards
Scientific and Technical Awards mark intersection of high technology and Hollywood ...

E-Health Gains Traction in Developing Countries
Richer countries learn from innovations in Africa, South America

E-Waste Creates Economic, Environmental Problem for Developing Nations
UN report warns of a dangerous rise in amount of electronic waste, which is often ...

Saving the World, One Laptop at a Time
Nicholas Negroponte plans to provide laptops children around the globe, especially ...

Getting Mileage Out of Manure
Cow power to horsepower: Cows from two large dairies could fuel all public buses ...

Thailand Looks at Nuclear Power as Part of Alternative Energy Plans
Thailand's goal, set out in new power development plan, is to almost double energy ...

Twice as many women to be diagnosed with gestational diabetes
CHICAGO --- Two to three times more pregnant women may soon be diagnosed and treated ...

New University of Colorado paper shows novel way to study human inflammatory disease ...
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows mice infected with the bacteria ...

Why Would a Trained Orca Kill A Human?
Despite their endearing trained performances for human audiences, killer whales ( ...

Cancer patients find relief in integrative medicine services
CHICAGO- The very instant Penny Kukovec was diagnosed with breast cancer her world ...

HIV drug that protects a fetus should be avoided for one year after childbirth, researchers ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Women given the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention ...

Gene-based stem cell therapy specifically removes cell receptor that attracts HIV ...
UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 -- a cell receptor to ...

How can policymakers cope with ambiguity?
How might policymakers make reasonable decisions when they have limited information? ...

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

ADV: Shenval Bed & Breakfast

All in the Family

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

Caught in the Act? Images may reveal planetary birth

Ancient DNA reveals caribou history linked to volcanic eruption
DNA recovered from ancient caribou bones reveals a possible link between several ...

Does promiscuity prevent extinction?
Promiscuous females may be the key to a species' survival, according to new research. ...

Going green in the hospital: Recycling medical equipment saves money, reduces waste ...
Wider adoption of the practice of recycling medical equipment -- including laparoscopic ...

Long-reigning microbe controlling ocean nitrogen shares the throne
Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of ...

Road transportation emerges as key driver of warming in new analysis from NASA
For decades, climatologists have studied the gases and particles that have potential ...

Computer models show how skyborne seawater particles change cloud brightness, temperature, ...
Ships blowing off steam are helping researchers understand how human-made particles ...

Interactions between species: Powerful driving force behind evolution?
Scientists in the UK have provided the first experimental evidence that shows that ...

Roundup 2/25: Appeal to Higher Authority Edition
The chief scientist in Israel's education ministry has sparked a controversy by ...

NIH Director Ruffles Feathers Again With New Religion Book
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins is again riling some scientists ...

Live Geoengineering Coverage From the American Enterprise Institute on Twitter
ScienceInsider's Eli Kintisch is tweeting at a meeting on geoengineering and policy ...

Podcast: Origin of Small Dogs, Bacterial Power Grids, and More
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from the week [Read more]

A New Route to Grassoline
Novel process efficiently converts a plant derivative into gasoline and jet fuel ...

Roundup 2/24: Beyond Belief Edition
Texas A&M and a company have received a $40 million grant from DARPA to... [Read ...

Do Ocean-Bottom Bacteria Make Their Own Power Grids?
Subsea microbes may keep each other alive by exchanging energy [Read more]

Can fMRI Really Tell if You're Lying?
Le PCC vous emmène en balade dans Montréal et parfois un peu plus loin...

Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs

Reviews: "The Universe in a Nutshell"

What is sarcoidosis?

Hacking Memory to Break Drug Addiction

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The Science of Star Wars

Women who have multiple sex partners 'preserve humanity'
PROMISCUOUS women who have children by different men could help prevent humanity ...

Autism may be caused by breakdown of sense of smell, say Scots scientists
NEW research into how animals bond with each other could shed light on the causes ...

Scientists sniff out smells find
A BREAKTHROUGH by scientists at Edinburgh University on animal scents could help ...

Endeavour lands at KSC
The space shuttle Endeavour landed in Florida Sunday night, completing a mission ...

Shuttle undocks from ISS
The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station Friday ...

Orbital reports profitable 2009
Orbital Sciences Corporation reported a profit in the fourth quarter of 2009 and ...

CryoSat launch delayed
A technical problem with its Dnepr rocket has delayed the launch of ESA's CryoSat-... ...

Station's cupola opened
Spacewalkers removed covers and unlocked shutters that allowed astronauts on the ...

Elusive Dark Matter May Be Hidden on Earth
Scientists are hot on the tail of one of nature's most elusive substances, the ...

Search for Water on Other Planets Takes Giant Leap Forward
A new technique is being developed to detect water in the protoplanetary disks of ...

This Week in Space: What's Next for NASA?
The space shuttle program gets closer and some are surprised the Orion capsule did ...

NASA's New Space Plan a 'Radical Change,' Lawmakers Say
Congress is urging caution for NASA's new space exploration plan and criticized ...

Obama's Science Advisor Grilled by Congress on NASA Plan
White House science adviser John Holdren was grilled by House appropriators about ...

New View of Comet Formation Forged in Study of Tiny Particle
Particle from comet suggests when and where some comet material formed.

Still No Signal from Frozen Mars Lander
A second attempt to listen for signs of life from Phoenix Mars lander finds none. ...

Hell’s Angels Plotted to Kill Mick Jagger, Agent Says - New York Times

&#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

Science
In tropical forests, as in the ocean plankton, thousands of species may compete for ...

Critical Mediators
Helper T cells are the immune system's ringmasters, having a multiplicity of functions ...

Slip, Tripped, and Faulted
Earthquake risk assessment can be improved if we were able to quantify the recurrence ...

Lactic Fuels
In the quest to find sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals, a small cyclic ester, ...

Cations in the Veins
Major events in Earth's history, from climate change to tectonic activity, can be ...

Spin into Control
Spintronics—the use of the spin direction of subatomic particles to control ...

Recombinant Infectious Prions
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

Tripartite Toxin
Luminescent bacterial symbionts of nematode worms that attack insects have long stirred ...

Legume Symbiosome
Leguminous plants (peas and beans) are major players in global nitrogen cycling by ...

Bursty, Infrequent Noise
In gene regulatory networks, positive feedback loops can give rise to bistability ...

Inflexible Timing for Flexibility
During critical periods in early life, sensory experience molds circuits in the brain. ...

Supernova Remnant Observations
The sources of the cosmic rays that bombard Earth have been mysterious, but more ...

Limiting Inflammatory Signaling
Dysregulation of the transcription factor NF-κB causes chronic inflammation, ...

Media Advisory: UW hosts student entrepreneurs in global competition to address issues ...
The 6th annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, March 2 to 4, has student ...

Common Language Project practicing new, hybrid journalism
Project originators teach the journalism they practice: independent, multimedia, ...

Earthquake engineers release report on damage in Haiti
A team of experts led by a UW civil engineer traveled to Haiti to evaluate the impact ...

Local social dynamics key to success of tropical marine conservation areas
As biologists and ecologists propose ever-larger conservation areas in the tropics, ...

UW’s Dennis Lettenmaier elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dennis Lettenmaier, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University ...

Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout
Electrodes attached to the surface of the human brain show that imagining movements ...

Obama to appoint artist and UW grad Chuck Close to presidential arts committee
Close is one of six nominees and holder of the UW's highest award for graduates