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Ex-officers up in arms over medical aid subsidies
Some former members of the South African Police Service are embroiled in a legal ...

Swine flu 'silence unmasks SA failure'
It didn't take long before the cynicism set in. After all, who - or what - would ...

Swine flu patient on the mend
Susan Kok, South Africa's only suspected swine flu patient, waits in isolation at ...

Flu fear hits ConFed cup
The swine flu virus had spread to 13 countries across the world. Now countries are ...

Health care is in crisis - nurses
Staff shortages in the primary health-care system have plunged the sector into "crisis", ...

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 ...

New virus lacks genes of 1918 killer flu
The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ...

'What did Mexico City say to the swine flu?'
Amid the masks and mortality, Mexicans find humour in the swine flu.

Mercury flyby finds active inner planet
The US space probe's second fly-by of the planet Mercury has revealed the solar system's ...

Avoid swine flu - don't kiss, Lebanese told
Lebanon's Health Minister Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh reveals measures the country is ...

Plug the leaks, say experts
More water was disappearing each day in leaks in urban water systems than was needed ...

IOP Electronic Journals
Classical and Quantum Gravity is delighted to announce the online publication of ...

Review article on electrochemical techniques published in Metrologia
Review article on electrochemical techniques published in Metrologia

Announcing the 2008 Measurement Science and Technology Outstanding Paper Awards
Announcing the 2008 Measurement Science and Technology Outstanding Paper Awards ...

New Editorial Director for IOP Publishing
IOP Publishing has appointed Dr Nicola Gulley as Editorial Director.

IOP Journals Reception at the 2009 APS March Meeting
IOP Publishing recently hosted our 12th Annual Journals Reception at the APS March ...

Biofabrication articles are free to read in 2009
Biofabrication was launched in 2009 and focuses on using cells, proteins, biomaterials ...

850 free-to-read low-temperature physics papers from LT25 are now online
IOP Publishing is delighted to announce open-access publication of the proceedings ...

Wildlife Habitat Threatened By Grazing Cattle
According to conservationists, livestock grazing poses a threat to a variety of fish ...

Caves Close Due To Bat-Killing Fungus
A fungus, which has reportedly already killed an estimated 500,000 bats, is causing ...

Dolphins Able To Sleep While Awake
Dolphins have an uncanny ability to maintain a constant 24-hour vigilance without ...

Debate Continues Over US Power Grid Policies
A key lawmaker stated on Thursday that the U.S.

NSF Releases New Extensive Climate Change Report
In a new report from the National Science Foundation, researchers outline signs of ...

Botswana Birds At Risks Due To Pesticides
In Botswana, conservationists fear that the pesticide used by the government to prevent ...

Paleontologists Sequence Dinosaur Proteins
A paleontologist at North Carolina State University says she has discovered new evidence ...

Active Mercury
A NASA spacecraft gliding over the surface of Mercury has revealed that the planet's ...

New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance ...

Weekend Sky Show
On Sunday, April 26th, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will ...

NASA Puts the Right Stuff in the Right Hands
All research and no application makes data a dull toy. NASA's SPoRT program brings ...

Venus Disappears During Meteor Shower
A meteor shower. A crescent Moon. A disappearing planet. These three things will ...

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Geminids, Two-Faced Moon, More
A superbright meteor pierces the California sky, Hubble unveils ...

Dark Matter Detected for First Time?
With cautious optimism, physicists say they may have finally ...

Amazon Losing "Flying Rivers," Ability to Curb Warming
The Amazon's flying rivers"�humid air currents that deliver water ...

Winter Solstice Monday: Facts on First Day of Winter
Monday, the 2009 winter solstice, is the first day of winter. ...

1,200-Plus Venomous Catfish Species Uncovered
About half of all known catfish speciesmany more than expectedbear ...

Spectacular Sea Eruption Filmed -- Deepest Ever
See the recent "underwater Fourth of July" scientists believe ...

Sucker-Footed Bat Hangs Upright Via Sweat, Not Suction
Despite its name, the sucker-footed bat of Madagascarone of ...

ADV: Le PCC: Podcast de la Cabane au Canada
Le PCC vous emmène en balade dans Montréal et parfois un peu plus loin...

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

Questioning Newton's second law: What is the structure of equations of motion?. ...

Black Holes, Entropy Bound and Causality Violation. (arXiv:0904.4805v1 [gr-qc])

A Completely Regular Quantum Stress Tensor with $w < -1$. (arXiv:0904.4811v1 [gr-qc]) ...

How photon astronomy affects searches for continuous gravitational waves. (arXiv:0904.4848v1 ...

Line element in quantum gravity: the examples of DSR and noncommutative geometry. ...

An Improved Gauge Driver for the GH Einstein System. (arXiv:0904.4873v1 [gr-qc]) ...

Lorentzian spacetimes with constant curvature invariants in four dimensions. (arXiv:0904.4877v1 ...

General static black holes in matter. (arXiv:0904.4904v1 [gr-qc])

Search for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Bursts in the First Calendar Year of ...

Cosmological Topologically Massive Gravitons and Photons. (arXiv:0803.3998v4 [hep-th] ...

Quintom dark energy in DGP braneworld cosmology. (arXiv:0806.2418v2 [gr-qc] UPDATED) ...

Multi-fluid potential in the loop cosmology. (arXiv:0809.2469v3 [gr-qc] UPDATED) ...

Emergent Spacetime and The Origin of Gravity. (arXiv:0809.4728v3 [hep-th] UPDATED) ...

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
Le PCC vous emmène en balade dans Montréal et parfois un peu plus loin...

ADV: Le PCC: Podcast de la Cabane au Canada

A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander

At the Sun's Edge

Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X 1

The Eagle Rises

Aurora Persei

Horizon highlights – ‘It’s electric!’ edition
Our regular roundup of sci-tech stories from across the Web includes: Electronic ...

David Letterman, electric car evangelist?
Well, that was a shocking development. Jay Leno is usually the late-night host ...

Cellphone tracking services: Friend finder or Big Brother?
Where r u? That text message, says Sam Altman, was so common that he wanted to find ...

Facebook, under siege from a new virus, circles the wagons
A while back, I wrote about the Koobface virus attack. Now Facebook is under assault ...

For China, a reverse brain drain in science?
China has hung a “Help Wanted” sign for scientists and engineers, dangling big-bucks ...

Searching for the next Google
Just like in real life, things on the Web may not be as permanent as they seem. ...

Watching a video of a car crash? Let me offer you a new car.
Over at the NYTimes' Bits blog, Saul Hansell wonders how often targeted ads on Facebook ...

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 ...

M 3.7, Kodiak Island region, Alaska
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M 2.5, Greater Los Angeles area, California
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M 4.7, Tonga
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M 2.6, Central Alaska
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M 5.0, State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
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The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation ...
You may be contributing to the devastation of the wildlife-rich forests of Indonesia ...

EPA seeks rules for utilities' polluted runoff.
Faced with new evidence that utilities across the country are dumping toxic sludge ...

Big increase in ocean mercury found; study predicts more human threat from fish. ...
Mercury levels in the Pacific Ocean will rise by 50 percent within the next few decades ...

Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China
During the 1980s and 1990s, China showed a net carbon sink of 0.19â0.26 Pg carbon ...

Christmas Island bat 'months from extinction'
Australia's rarest mammal, the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, is months away from ...

Groups fear growing China can't be green.
Environmental groups in China are worried that the country's efforts to stave off ...

For Alaska's Inupiat, Climate Change and Culture Shock
For the Inupiat people of northern Alaska, whales are a way of life. These people ...

Hubble: Servicing Mission 4 - the fifth and final visit to Hubble [heic0907]
On 11 May 2009, Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit ...

Cluster: Monitoring the impact of extreme solar events
Combined observations with six spacecraft have allowed scientists to monitor in detail ...

Planck: Planck mated with the Ariane 5 ECA launcher
The Planck spacecraft has been mated with the Ariane 5 ECA launcher on 23 April 2009. ...

Herschel: Helium for the Herschel cryostat
One of the last activities to take place in S5B is the filling of the Herschel cryostat ...

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 ...

Cosmic Vision: EJSM/Laplace call for P/L Study Consortia

NIST super-sensors to measure 'signature' of inflationary universe
What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second ...

Women live longer, not better, largely because of obesity and arthritis
Obesity and arthritis that take root during early and middle age significantly contribute ...

Early detection of lung cancer: New data presented at multidisciplinary meeting
New data from several studies evaluating new techniques for early diagnosis and treatment ...

Landmark USGS study
A new landmark study published today documents for the first time the process in ...

Obstetrical unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital achieves dramatic improvement in patient ...
Maternal and newborn outcomes were greatly improved when doctors implemented a series ...

When cells reach out and touch
MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift ...

ISU researcher identifies key function in protein, cell transcription
An Iowa State University researcher has figured out a mechanism involved in marking ...

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... ...

A year of Boris Johnson - Mayor must do more to green London
Boris Johnson has failed to set out sufficient measures to keep his pledges to green ...

Â£700 million of public money spent on factory farming each year - new research
Families in England are paying more than Â£700 million each year to fund a factory ...

Miliband signals end of unabated coal
Miliband announces proposals for carbon capture and storage but Friends of the Earth ...

Darling blows historic opportunity to build low-carbon future
Alistair Darling has squandered a huge opportunity to create a low-carbon economy ...

Budget 2009 - Car scrappage scheme slammed
Government proposals for a car scrappage scheme an unnecessary subsidy to an industry ...

Budget 2009 - Government to set legally-binding short-term climate targets
Short-term legally-binding targets for tackling climate change will be unveiled by ...

Budget 2009 - green bank needed to boost low carbon recovery
The Government should establish a green investment bank and introduce Treasury-backed ...

Swine flu spam floods the Net
Opportunists seeking to exploit concerns over the outbreak of swine flu are tailoring ...

US puts 12 nations on piracy list
The US has targeted 12 countries - among them China and Canada - for failing to sufficiently ...

I want it all
Twisted sisters, preening presenters and that hairstyle Brian May borrowed from the ...

Artist David Hockney inspired by iPhone
British painter David Hockney has revealed his new medium - his iPhone, which has ...

Windows 7 set for public debut
Microsoft's nearly-final version of its next-generation Windows 7 operating system ...

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 ...

Nature Signaling Update
The protein Abrupt is a point of convergence for the ecdysone and JAK-STAT pathways ...

Selected Update: DNA damage response: Higher-order BRCA1 complexity
MERIT40 was identified as a novel component of a BRCA1-containing complex that is ...

Selected Update: Therapeutics: Two for one
A variant of the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) can bind two distinct ...

Selected Update: Neurodegenerative disease: Amyloid-beta and PrPC: it takes two
The cellular prion protein (PrPC) has been implicated in the pathological actions ...

Research Library: Orally delivered siRNA targeting macrophage Map4k4 suppresses systemic ...

Research Library: WIP1 phosphatase is a negative regulator of NF-kappaB signalling ...

Research Library: Molecular docking and ligand specificity in fragment-based inhibitor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nuclear safety and regulation
A workshop on reactor containment sump clogging issues organised on 4-5 December ...

Nuclear Energy Outlook in French
Perspectives de l'énergie nucléaire can now be ordered at the OECD Bookshop ...

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 ...

Children's National Experts Present at Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting ...
Topics range from study of urban health issues including HIV to best practices ...

Blumenthal Named Health Leader of the Year
The Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service ...

Does Jatropha Crude Oil Hold Promise Despite Economic Hurdles?
Has Jatropha the ability to save biodiesel industry facing daunting economics? ...

Town of Harmony, Florida Recognized by the International Dark Sky Association for ...
The International Dark-Sky Association proudly awarded the first ever ...

Accolades PR - Giving Cancer the Bird at Flamingo-a-Go-Go
Public Relations firm promotes Austin's Hippest Fundraising Soirée (PRWeb ...

UMass Boston Opens Venture Development Center to Expand R&D Activity
Facility to Foster Faculty and Student Research, Partnering with Industry ...

California AIDS Death rate Plummets 98 Percent
The California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, has released ...

Scientists Find New Planet Outside Solar System
Astronomers say exoplanet about twice size of earth and probably too hot for human ...

Neanderthal Women Had Difficult Childbirth, Study Shows
But wider pelvis made rotation of infant unnecessary

Americans Getting Bigger from Head to Foot
Especially foot

US Broadcasters Focus on Value, New Technology in Economic Downturn
Annual gathering of National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas ...

China Denies Hacking US Fighter-Jet Files
'Wall Street Journal' report says Chinese spies used Internet to break into computer ...

Researchers Reveal Complete Genetic Sequence of Cow
Scientists say better foods and medicines may result

Experts Probe Urban Growth, Climate Change Links in Africa
New project studies correlation between African urban sprawl and climate change to ...

NIST super-sensors to measure 'signature' of inflationary universe
What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second ...

Women live longer, not better, largely because of obesity and arthritis
CHICAGO - Obesity and arthritis that take root during early and middle age significantly ...

Early detection of lung cancer: New data presented at multidisciplinary meeting
New data from several studies evaluating new techniques for early diagnosis and treatment ...

Landmark USGS study
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new landmark study published today documents for the first time ...

Obstetrical unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital achieves dramatic improvement in patient ...
Maternal and newborn outcomes were greatly improved when doctors implemented a series ...

When cells reach out and touch
MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift ...

ISU researcher identifies key function in protein, cell transcription
AMES, Iowa -- When cells decide to make proteins, key building blocks of all organisms, ...

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

Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides
Astronomers have found hundreds of extrasolar planets in the last two decades, and ...

Chemical Found In Medical Devices Impairs Heart Function
A chemical commonly used in the production of such medical plastic devices as intravenous ...

Flu Vaccine Given In Microneedle Skin Patches Proves Effective In Mice
Flu vaccine delivered through skin patches containing microneedles has proven just ...

Anti-aging Cosmetic Reduced Wrinkles In Clinical Trial
Scientists testing a cosmetic anti-aging product sold commercially have shown it ...

How Mercury Emissions Reach Tuna And Other Seafood, And Why Mercury Contamination ...
A new study documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions ...

Oxytocin: Love Potion #1? Human Hormone Increases Positive Communication Between ...
Relationships are difficult and most of us probably think at some point that communicating ...

Dietary Fats Trigger Long-term Memory Formation
Having strong memories of that rich, delicious dessert you ate last night? If so, ...

How Mercury Emissions Reach Tuna And Other Seafood, And Why Mercury Contamination ...
A new study documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions ...

Date Palm Genome Drafted
Researchers have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of ...

Storing A Lightning Bolt In Glass For Portable Power
Materials researchers have reported the highest known breakdown strength for a bulk ...

Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found In Forest Fire Smoke
Researchers have detected common plant toxins that affect human health and ecosystems ...

New Southern California Beetle Killing Oaks
US Forest Service scientists have completed a study on a beetle that was first detected ...

Cave Activity Discouraged To Help Protect Bats From Deadly White-nose Syndrome
White-nose syndrome, a wildlife crisis of unprecedented proportions, has killed hundreds ...

Excessive Bycatch Of Cod Undermines Moratorium: Cod Bycatch Was At Least 70 Per Cent ...
Cod bycatch was at least 70 per cent higher than target levels on the southern Grand ...

Science
Microbiologist Celia Alpuche talks about how and when the epidemic was detected

Beware the Planet Eaters!
Sometimes stars consume their own

The Science of Self-Control
Having trouble sticking to your diet? Researchers may have fingered the brain region ...

Coal Plant Ban May Not Curb Climate Change
Price of natural gas would spike and only modest carbon dioxide emission reductions ...

That Bird Can Boogie
A pop-loving cockatoo sheds light on the neuroscience of dancing

Did Mars's Magnetic Field Die With a Whimper or a Bang?
Study suggests massive asteroids could have released enough heat to shut down the ...

Invisibility Cloak for Almost-Visible Light
Design might be scaled to work at wavelengths perceptible to the human eye

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?
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

ADV: Le PCC: Podcast de la Cabane au Canada

The Science of Star Wars

Gene scientists pinpoint 'Eden' near Kalahari
LOCATIONS for the Garden of Eden have been offered many times before, but seldom ...

Rolling out the green carpet for Scots carbon neutral ball
IF YOU were to have passed by the Glasgow Hilton last night you would be forgiven ...

Finally unearthing the secrets of our Neanderthal cousins
THE human genome sequence, published in 2003, is revealing a multitude of secrets. ...

Goodie, goodie! David's eco-gifts idea wins a wind turbine for his school
A FOURTEEN year-old pupil at Webster's High in Angus won a wind turbine for his ...

NASA gives formal approval for May 11 shuttle launch
NASA shuttle managers approved on Thursday plans to launch the space shuttle Atlantis ...

Russia launches military satellite
A Soyuz rocket placed what is believed to be a reconnaissance satellite into orbit ...

GRB sets new cosmic distance record
A gamma-ray burst last week is the most distant object ever observed, astronomers ...

Intelsat orders new satellite with defense payload
Communications satellite operator Intelsat announced Monday that it is ordering a ...

STS-125 launch may move up a day
NASA is considering moving up the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis next month ...

Glaring Rocket Launch Could Surprise East Coast Residents Tuesday Evening
A potentially spectacular sight might be visible across a wide swath of the U.S. ...

Video - Coming Soon: The Final Flight to Hubble
NASA's shuttle Atlantis will launch the final flight to Hubble in May 2009. ...

Huge Impact Crater Discovered on Planet Mercury
New observations from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft reveal about 30 percent of ...

NASA Begins Job Cuts for Shuttle Retirement
NASA on Friday began the first wave of layoffs for its space shuttle retirement. ...

Shuttle Flight to Save Hubble Telescope to Launch May 11
NASA is officially targeting a May 11 shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Space Debris Risk Refined for Hubble Repair Flight
NASA has taken steps to reduce the heightened risk of space debris to its Hubble-bound ...

New Missions Target Mars Moon Phobos

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

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
Human activities—mainly the application of fertilizers to farmland—have ...

MESSENGER from Mercury
The spacecraft MESSENGER passed by Mercury in October 2008, in what was the second ...

Vive La Différence
How closely do climate changes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres resemble ...

The Birds and the Dinosaurs
The extent to which primary tissues are preserved in ancient fossils remains controversial. ...

Glasslike Supersolid
Recent experiments with solid helium confined to the ring of a torsional oscillator ...

Tactical Target
Intramembrane proteolysis by the γ-secretase complex is important during development ...

Single-Cell Brain Switching
Different behavioral states of an animal are characterized by distinct patterns of ...

Dieter's Dilemma
The ability to exercise self-control is central to human success and well-being. ...

Hard Graft
In plants, it is not clear whether heritable changes can be induced by tissue grafting—for ...

Circadian Oscillations
The 24-hour day-night cycle plays an important role in mammalian physiology and behavior ...

Edited Information Flow
RNA is generally a faithful mirror of the information encoded in DNA. However, posttranscriptional ...

Gene Expression in Hybrids
A large proportion of genes differ in their expression patterns between closely related ...

Update on the Evolving Swine Influenza Outbreak with Leading Experts: Panel Discussion ...
Dr. David Fleming, director and health officer of Public Health – Seattle & King ...

Better diets more costly, enjoyed by the most educated
A study conducted at the University of Washington (UW) has revealed new connections ...

Finding a stereotype that is true: Mexicans more sociable than Americans
Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group. But ...

Contrary to recent hypothesis, 'chevrons' are not evidence of megatsunamis
A UW geologist is debunking the recent notion that 'chevrons,' large U- or V-shaped ...

Autism genes discovered; help shape connections among brain cells
A national research team including six present and former UW researchers has connected ...

Seaglider monitors waters from Arctic during record-breaking journey under ice
The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating ...

Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides
Astronomers have found hundreds of extrasolar planets in the last two decades, and ...