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IOP Electronic Journals
Inverse Problems is delighted to announce a special issue of review articles and ...

Journal of Physics A: Special Issue on Entanglement Entropy
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is delighted to announce the publication ...

physicsworld.com video exclusive: Laser fusion and the future of energy
Over the next decade, a new generation of multibillion-euro "super lasers" will give ...

Measurement Science and Technology: special feature to honour the 65th birthday of ...
Professor Peter Hauptmann, editor-in-chief of Measurement Science and Technology, ...

Nuclear Fusion Award 2009
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2009 Nuclear Fusion award is ...

Progress in Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedicine, Cluster Review ...
A landmark selection of review articles published this month in Journal of Physics ...

Spin doctors caught on film
The next instalment of the physicsworld.com video series focuses on spintronics, ...

Mayon Volcano May Be Ready To Blow
Despite the growing infrequency of tremors in the Philippines’ active Mayon volcano, ...

Another Oil Spill In Prince William Sound
Image Caption: The tug Pathfinder anchors south of Busby Island in Prince William ...

Norwegian Salmon Affected By Lice
Image Caption: Gravid female Lepeophtheiris salmonis on Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. ...

Glacier Melt Adds To Marine Buffet
Image 1: Researchers measured the nutrient content of subglacial outflow from the ...

Fake Snowflakes Under Attack!
Yet another holiday season is here and what would Christmas be without the critique ...

Coastal Trees Poor Protection Against Tsunamis
Image 1: Lhoknga and Lampuuk from North, December 2005. All coastal vegetation was ...

Ladder-Walking Locusts
Image Caption: Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) laying eggs during the 1994 ...

Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery
The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should ...

A Flash of Light from Titan
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off ...

Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light
A continent-wide network of all-sky cameras has photographed a never-before-seen ...

"Climate One Stop" Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen
This week, researchers attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...

The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower
The Geminid meteor shower has been intensifying in recent years, and researchers ...

PICTURES: Wild Europe Exposed by Giant Photo Project
From "fairytale" landscapes to gonad-eating wolffish, little-seen ...

"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Re-created
Aerospace engineers have re-created Hitler's "stealth" fighter ...

PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female
An archaeologist overturns assumptions about who may have decorated ...

PIRANHA PICTURES: Yard-long "Megapiranha" Fossil Found
Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth ...

PICTURES: Hand Stencils Through Time
Scientists unravel the mysteries of handprints, a universal form ...

IRAN PICTURES: 1978-79 Revolution Echoes Protests Today
David Burnett's historic pictures of the Iranian revolution look ...

Egypt Mummy Has Sex Changed
Lady Hor, an ancient Egyptian mummy at New York's Brooklyn Museum, ...

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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

Holographic Dark Energy from a Modified GBIG Scenario. (arXiv:0912.4802v1 [gr-qc]) ...

Gravitational coupling of theories with higher order derivative. (arXiv:0912.4816v1 ...

First laws of thermodynamics in IR Modified H\v{o}rava-Lifshitz gravity. (arXiv:0912.4832v1 ...

Towards the Unification of Gravity and other Interactions: What has been Missed?. ...

Brane Universe: Global Geometry. (arXiv:0912.4838v1 [gr-qc])

Lorentz violation with an antisymmetric tensor. (arXiv:0912.4852v1 [gr-qc])

Multidimensional world, inflation and modern acceleration. (arXiv:0912.4862v1 [gr-qc]) ...

Testing Doppler type shift for an accelerated source and determination of the universal ...

Experimental demonstration of a Displacement noise Free Interferometry (DFI) scheme ...

Constraining the braneworld with gravitational wave observations. (arXiv:0912.4744v1 ...

Quantum gravity asymptotics from the SU(2) 15j symbol. (arXiv:0912.4907v1 [gr-qc]) ...

The consistency of codimension-2 braneworlds and their cosmology. (arXiv:0907.1640v2 ...

Initial time singularities and admissible initial states for a system of coupled ...

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

Santa tracker? NORAD and Google Maps show the way
Online Santa trackers get fancy this year with 3D animations, video, and live interactive ...

Google Nexus One gets unwrapped before Christmas
Google's Nexus One smartphone is slowly getting unveiled ahead of its release as ...

HP's 'racist' webcam: harbinger of motion-tracking troubles?
A YouTube video appears to show the company's built-in face-tracking software failing ...

Ford: WiFi on wheels coming with SYNC system upgrade
Ford on Monday announced that the next generation of its Microsoft-developed SYNC ...

As 'Operation Chokehold' nears, second thoughts abound
A protest aimed at bringing down AT&T's network saw support and then a rush of ...

Could home recording doom professional music studios?
Inexpensive home recording equipment helps artists rise from outside the mainstream ...

SkyGrabber: Is hacking military drones too easy?
Insurgents in Iraq used SkyGrabber – cheap Windows software – to hack unmanned Predator ...

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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A fortune in natural gas lies under Upstate New York forest.
Environmental advocates worry the calm there soon will be shattered by high-volume ...

Thousands march in Copenhagen, calling for action.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators from around the globe took to the streets in Copenhagen ...

Obama Calls for Climate Deal, U.S. Target Under Fire
President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate ...

Pollution soon to render Dong Nai River unusable.
The Dong Nai River supplies water to some 15 million people in southern Vietnam, ...

Starving Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism
New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalize each other as global ...

Dutch defense against climate disaster: Adapt to the change.
As sea levels swell and storms intensify, the Dutch are spending billions of euros ...

Chicago Canal Poisoned to Keep Invasive Carp Out of Great Lakes
State and Federal agencies have begun poisoning a nearly 6-mile stretch of the Chicago ...

Small changes in protein chemistry play large role in Huntington's disease
Investigators studying the toxic protein at the root of Huntington's disease have ...

'Self-seeding' of cancer cells may play a critical role in tumor progression
Cancer progression is commonly thought of as a process involving the growth of a ...

Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren't always best
Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather ...

UCLA scientists find molecular switch to prevent Huntington's disease in mice
UCLA scientists have identified a molecular switch that prevents Huntington's disease ...

New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net' ...
Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying ...

Molecular anchor links the 2 inheritable diseases Fanconi anemia and Bloom's syndrome ...
A new study establishes a molecular link that bridges two rare inherited disorders ...

How does a locust walk a ladder? A lot like you
When a person walks a ladder or perhaps a series of stepping stones, they rely on ...

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 ...

Brokenhagen - climate summit ends in failure
The world's wealthiest nations, led by the US, are using strong-arm tactics to try ...

Weak agreement reached in Copenhagen - rich countries failed to show real leadership ...
A weak agreement has been reached at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen that will ...

Obama speech in Copenhagen
Friends of the Earth has commented on the speech of the US President Barack Obama ...

Brown speaks at UN climate talks - he must now show leadership in negotiations
Gordon Brown has rightly warned of the need for urgent action to tackle climate change ...

US backs $100bn climate fund
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has announced support for a $100bn climate fund. ...

Friends of the Earth backs Feeding the 5,000 event
Friends of the Earth is supporting the Feeding the 5,000 event which is raising awareness ...

Friends of the Earth suspended from UN climate talks
Friends of the Earth representatives have been barred from the UN climate talks in ...

Months to Live: Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation
Inducing sleep with drugs near the end of life is a widely used treatment even as ...

States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill
States that have already broadened health care coverage say that the Senate overhaul ...

Health Care Changes Wouldn’t Have Big Effect for Many
For the roughly 160 million people who get insurance through an employer, the result ...

Catholic Group Supports Senate on Abortion Aid
Catholic hospitals have apparently split with bishops on an abortion-financing compromise ...

Political Memo: Debate Shows Obama Plays by Washington’s Rules
Howard Dean’s sharp words over the health care compromise illustrate the roots ...

Months to Live: Weighing Medical Costs of End-of-Life Care
A medical center’s experience shows the difficulty of knowing which critically ...

Patient Money: Resolution: Get a Deal on a Gym Membership
As health clubs ratchet up promotions during their busy season for new memberships, ...

A decade of digital technology
It got off to a rocky start with the over-hyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, but the ...

Efficient design will shrink netbooks
Intel plans to shrink netbooks even further with its latest range of Atom processors. ...

Twitter, Facebook came of age in 2009
Twitter soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace ...

The SMS is more popular than ever
The number of text messages sent in the United States has increased more than 52 ...

TV sucks, so try free podcasts
Is it just me or are our already bad TV broadcasts getting even worse?

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 ...

Researchers claim most distant galaxies yet
Deep-field image from Hubble triggers competing reports.

Whatever happened to ...?
Nature looks back on a selection of last year's news stories to find out what happened ...

Why it's hot in the city
Heat wave in Baltimore made worse by hot air from Washington DC.

News briefing: 24/31 December 2009
The week in science

Tsunami watch
Five years after the Indian Ocean disaster, the technology is in place, but local ...

Microbial encyclopaedia guided by evolution
Sequencing project reveals microbial cache of protein families.

Fish tanks 'threaten Sunshine State sea creatures'
Florida invertebrate fishery could be heading for collapse, scientists warn.

Nature Signaling Update
The heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoproteins PTB, hnRNPA1 and hnRNPA2 differentially ...

Selected Update: Gene expression: Regulators hidden in human proteome
A search for DNA-protein interactions has uncovered over 300 human proteins - including ...

Selected Update: Development: Initiation of a new connection
Thrombospondin (TSP) binding to the neuronal alpha2delta-1 receptor initiates the ...

Selected Update: Microarrays: Looking for a reaction
Chemical microarrays capture a comprehensive snapshot of the various enzymatic activities ...

Research Library: The SUMO modification pathway is involved in the BRCA1 response ...

Research Library: The EMT-activator ZEB1 promotes tumorigenicity by repressing stemness-inhibiting ...

Research Library: Prostaglandin F2alpha receptor signaling facilitates bleomycin-induced ...

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: NEA News Volume 27, No. 2

Just published: CSNI Technical Opinion Papers - No. 12
Research to address the topics described in this paper will provide the technical ...

Nuclear energy and addressing climate change
The need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an effort to tackle climate change ...

Just published: The Financing of Nuclear Power Plants
Many countries have recognised that greater use of nuclear power could play a valuable ...

Just published: Research and Test Facilities Required in Nuclear Science and Technology ...
Experimental facilities are essential research tools both for the development of ...

Just published: Approaches and Challenges for the Use of Geological Information in ...
Third AMIGO Workshop Proceedings, Nancy, France, 15-17 April 2008

Just published: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Synergies and Regional Scenarios for Europe
Regional strategies can provide a useful framework for implementing innovative ...

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 ...

Physical Therapists around the World use Manual Therapy as First Line of Care
Manual Physical Therapy gains ground amongst Physical Therapists and becomes ...

On the move: Jalesia McQueen Gadberry Establishes McQueen Gadberry LLC
Jalesia F. McQueen Gadberry (Jasha) is owner and attorney of the St. Louis-based ...

Spicy Coffee Beans Can Repair Wrinkles, Crows Feet, Eye Bags and UV Damage
Caffeine is known for its ability to wake up your mind, but it can also ...

NextGen Awarded Patent for Technology Used to Detect and Identify Roadside Bombs, ...
NextGen, Inc. is awarded unrestricted patent for its ground-breaking Orbitron ...

iPhone Dating Users Ready to Hook-up for the Holidays, and Half of Them Will be Successful ...
Half of iPhone Dating Users met a sweetheart using a Location Based Dating ...

Boats, Homes and Rice - Tsunami 'Practical Action' Helps More Than 120,000
Five years ago, the tsunami struck on Boxing Day, devastating lives and ...

Students Dream Big with TETRIX
TETRIX" by Pitsco, designed to advance the robotics experience, is a revolutionary ...

Getting Food to the World's Hungriest
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization says more than one billion ...

Left in the Cold at Copenhagen, Farmers Look to Future
As the dust settles in the Danish capital, a look at what changes could be in store ...

New Iron-Fortified Rice Reduces Anemia
Researchers are testing a new way to prevent the world's most common nutritional ...

Our World — 26 December 2009
VOA's weekly science and technology magazine

Discovery of Pre-Human Fossil Cited as Breakthrough of the Year
Others include water on the Moon, gene therapy

Russian Capsule Docks to Space Station
Russia's Soyuz has arrives with its new crew for a 5-month stay at the International ...

Bird-like Dinosaur Used Venom Against Prey
VOA's weekly science and technology magazine

NOV-002 mentioned on Research Knowledgebase - Dr Alberto Montero Oncologist
Dr. Montero's primary interest is in development of effective immunotherapeutic strategies ...

How does a locust walk a ladder? A lot like you
When a person walks a ladder or perhaps a series of stepping stones, they rely on ...

Molecular anchor links the 2 inheritable diseases Fanconi anemia and Bloom's syndrome ...
A new study establishes a molecular link that bridges two rare inherited disorders ...

New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net' ...
Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying ...

UCLA scientists find molecular switch to prevent Huntington's disease in mice
UCLA scientists have identified a molecular switch that prevents Huntington's disease ...

'Self-seeding' of cancer cells may play a critical role in tumor progression
Cancer progression is commonly thought of as a process involving the growth of a ...

Small changes in protein chemistry play large role in Huntington's disease
In Huntington's disease, a mutated protein in the body becomes toxic to brain cells. ...

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

Synesthetic experiences, such as seeing a certain color associated with a number, ...
For as many as 1 in 20 people, everyday experiences can elicit extra-ordinary associated ...

Secrets of the Brain: Researchers decipher parts of the neuronal code
The human brain works at a far higher level of complexity than previously thought. ...

Helping vegetable plants make a less stressful transition from the greenhouse to ...
Plant physiologists have been investigating ways to help vegetable plants make a ...

Targeted therapy prolongs life in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer
Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending ...

Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing
Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics ...

Happy Flies Look For A Place Like Home
A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according ...

Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet
Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems ...

Happy Flies Look For A Place Like Home
A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according ...

Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet
Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems ...

Tourists in Antarctica cause of major concern
The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse ...

The past matters to plants
It's commonly known that plants interact with each other on an everyday basis: they ...

Low-cost temperature sensors: Tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack
Dime-sized temperature sensors, first built for the refrigerated food industry, have ...

Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault
When the sun and moon are aligned with the San Andreas Fault they tug on it enough ...

Microscopic flower petal ridges flash to attract pollinating insects; scientists ...
Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing ...

Science
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Slideshow: Deep-sea Spiders Have a Snack
Robot submersible captures rare creatures in the act of devouring sea anemones [Read ...

Cavity Causer Goes Under the Microscope
Sequence of bacterium's genome reveals why it is such a pain in the tooth [Read more] ...

Revoking Flu's Enemy-With-Benefits Status
Understanding how human cells help influenza thrive could be the way to stop it [Read ...

How Some Stars Stay Young
Old stars are rejuvenated by consuming their neighbors [Read more]

Italian Scientists Protest Job Cuts, a Libel Lawsuit Over an MRI Drug
Teaser here [Read more]

When Fire Approaches, Chimps Keep Their Cool
Primates clear an important hurdle in humanlike mastery of fire [Read more]

Can fMRI Really Tell if You're Lying?
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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

Mobile broadband startup orders satellite
A Swedish startup company that plans to provide mobile broadband services via satellite ...

Soyuz docks with ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new crew members docked with the International ...

Avanti secures financing for second satellite
New British satellite operator Avanti announced Monday that it had secured a combination ...

Soyuz launched to the ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft with three new crew members for the International Space Station ...

Ariane launches French reconnaissance satellite
An Ariane 5 launched a French reconnaissance satellite on Friday after two previous ...

Star Remnants Retain 'Memory' of Explosions
The leftovers from stellar explosions are like fingerprints that could provide information ...

Stars Find Fountain of Youth Via Vampirism and Collisions
Some stars rely on vampirism to suck the life out of a companion star, while others ...

White Christmas: The Coldest Places in the Solar System
From snowfalls on Mars, to the polar craters of the moon, take a tour of the solar ...

Astronauts Get Two Christmases in Space
Christmas comes twice to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

New Crew Arrives at Space Station
A Russian spacecraft docked at the International Space Station Tuesday, boosting ...

Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved
Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't ...

Doorstep Astronomy: Tour the 7-day-old Moon
With the moon at first quarter, a tour of the lunar terminator reveals lunar landscapes ...

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
Inward rectifier potassium channels conduct K+ ions into the cell at internal negative ...

Degrees of Darkness
Fruit flies in Africa have a tendency to be darker, the higher the altitude at which ...

Watery Worlds
Water vapor has been detected in the protoplanetary disks of a variety of stars. ...

Home Is Where the Hearth Is
One aspect of human intelligence is the ability to organize our living and working ...

Seed for Food
The seeds of grain-producing plants are more difficult to harvest than nuts or fruits ...

Moving Boundaries
Classical models of fine-grained metals view grain boundaries as static objects, ...

A Glimpse of Wet Carbonic Acid
Both carbon dioxide and bicarbonate play extraordinarily widespread roles in biochemical ...

Fanconi Cross-Links
Fanconi anemia is a rare genetic disease characterized by bone marrow failure, developmental ...

Growing on You
The human gut and skin harbor diverse microbial communities that are known to vary ...

Cheaper Cooperation
In the context of public goods games in which optimal benefit is achieved when all ...

Local Selection of Magic Traits
Ecological interactions can favor specialization, and sexual selection can induce ...

Silent Hate
A great deal of information can be communicated nonverbally. Weisbuch et al. (p. ...

More Is Different, Few Is Exotic
As powerful as theoretical physics can be, when it comes to describing the dynamics ...

Solving Pseudokinases
Mutations of the protein kinase LKB1 are associated with cancer in humans. Many kinases ...

University of Washington’s Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, recipient of 1992 Nobel Prize for ...
Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ...

Air bags not a risk to pregnant women in motor vehicle crashes, study finds
A new ground-breaking study from University of Washington researchers has found that ...

UW raises a record $2 million in Combined Fund Drive donations
The University of Washington faculty and staff have contributed more than $2 million ...

Scientists witness for first time magma streaming from volcano in deep ocean
For the first time scientists have seen molten lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor ...

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain: Climate Wizard makes large databases ...
A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes ...

Several novel genetic links to lung function in large-scale, multi-institutional ...
An analysis of data from more than 20,000 people has uncovered several DNA sequence ...

Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
UW scientists have discovered more small seismic tremor events lasting one to 70 ...