Canadian to command space station in 2013
Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:04 +0200
Amazon at lowest level in over 40 years in Peru: experts
The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:08:50 +0200
Biomedical research policy needed for therapies, economic growth, education and security
Bold and coordinated leadership at the federal level is essential to create secure, long-term, sustainable biomedical research funding policies based on strategic priorities, say the authors of a commentary about America's fledgling biomedical research framework published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:01 +0200
Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown
(AP) -- India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:40:01 +0200
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York U researcher finds new bee in downtown Toronto
A York University doctoral student who discovered a new species of bee on his way to the lab one morning has completed a study that examines 84 species of sweat bees in Canada. Nineteen of these species - including the one Jason Gibbs found in downtown Toronto − are new to science because they have never been identified or described before. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:26:00 +0200
Goodbye to cold nights
Given the impact of climatic extremes on agriculture and health in Spain, researchers at the University of Salamanca (USAL) have analysed the two factors most representative of these thermal extremes between 1950 and 2006 - warm days and cold nights. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:26:00 +0200
Why Americans believe Obama is a Muslim
There's something beyond plain old ignorance that motivates Americans to believe President Obama is a Muslim, according to a first-of-its-kind study of smear campaigns led by a Michigan State University psychologist. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:26:00 +0200
Initial Hepatitis C drug trial complete
The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by Hepatitis C virus have been successfully completed. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:11:06 EST
Start-up company aims to harness the full potential of producing electricity from waste heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Scullin co-founded Alphabet Energy just one year ago, but already the CEO has ambitions of turning the San Francisco-based start-up company into the "Intel of waste heat." By harnessing the waste heat emitted by power plants, industrial furnaces, and cars, Alphabet Energy envisions that it could provide inexpensive electricity to the US grid by recycling waste heat on a much larger scale than currently exists. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:10:01 EST
Eclectic enzymes: Easily modified building blocks for drug design
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the pursuit of biologically active compounds, it is often necessary to be able to control the stereochemistry at predefined positions in a molecular skeleton. The search for ways to prepare chiral building blocks with known configuration that also show structural differentiation is important. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:36:59 EST
Delving into the world of the ultra-cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Swinburne University's 'cold molecules lab', where temperatures one millionth of a degree above absolute zero are routinely achieved, researchers are making significant advances in understanding the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:34:07 EST
Ad campaign will show off Xerox's service business
(AP) -- Xerox Corp. has this message for you: For the last time, we're not just about making copies. To hammer that home, the company is launching its biggest media blitz in decades, starting next week. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:10:02 EST
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Climate change implicated in decline of horseshoe crabs
A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EDT
Evolution rewritten, again and again
Palaeontologists are forever claiming that their latest fossil discovery will "rewrite evolutionary history." Is this just boasting or does our "knowledge" of evolution radically change every time we find a new fossil? Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EDT
Getting a tail up on conservation? New method for measuring lizard weight from size
A researcher in Israel has developed an improved tool for translating lizard body lengths to weights. The new equations calculate this valuable morphological feature to estimate the weight of a lizard species in a variety of different ecosystems. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
Carnivore species shrank during global warming event
A new study indicates extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago. The study describes a new species that evolved to half the size of its ancestors during this period of global warming. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EDT
Acidifying oceans spell bleak marine biological future 'by end of century', Mediterranean research finds
A unique 'natural laboratory' in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the past. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EDT
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NASA Selects University Finalists for Inflatable Loft Competition
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected university teams from Maryland, Oklahoma and Wisconsin as finalists in a competition to design, manufacture, assemble and test an inflatable loft. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications for the 2011 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 17, 2011. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
Future International Space Station Crew Holds News Conference
A multinational crew that will live and work on the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT
NASA and ATK Successfully Test Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor
With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT
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Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form. A team at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, watched zebra fish and fruit flie embryos develop under the scope for as long as 58 hours, charting the location of every cell as it danced around the embryo. This experiment would have been impossible a mere two years ago before a recent spate of innovations in advanced microscopy years into the future.
When it comes to watching the inner workings of cells , fluorescence microscopy is second to none. In this technique, scientists attach fluorescent tags to cellular proteins and, by shining a laser on the cells, cause them to light up.
The ancient scourge smallpox was relegated to biowaste bin of history more than 30 years ago, the result of the world's first and only successful disease eradication programs. Since then, however, cases of monkeypox--a serious, although less severe smallpoxlike illness--have substantially increased in central Africa, according to a study published August 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors stress that better surveillance and a thorough assessment of the public health threat posed by this once-rare viral infection are needed.
"I'm concerned about monkeypox," says Don Burke director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh, who wasn't involved in the study. "It isn't going to emerge as pandemic tomorrow, but could at any time start to increase its transmission. It's worrisome. This is the type of warning siren we need to take very seriously."
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report from the group working on global warming's impacts contained at least one error. "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate," the report notes. [More]
Nature certainly has a way of one-upping the fruits of human ingenuity. Extreme astrophysical objects have long been known to accelerate the particles that make up cosmic rays to whopping energies that make the Large Hadron Collider look like a child's slingshot. The mammoth collider near Geneva, Switzerland, which resumed service in 2009 after an aborted start-up the year before, will ultimately boost protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts. Cosmic-ray protons, in comparison, have been clocked striking Earth with tens of million times as much energy; a single proton can pack as much punch as a baseball hurled at 60 miles per hour. (For the technically inclined, some cosmic rays have energies exceeding 10 20 electron volts.) [More]
Realistic stem cell therapies to replace diseased or damaged tissue may still be years away, but researchers have uncovered a promising new use for these undifferentiated cells: they can be programmed to become patient-specific laboratory models of inherited liver disease. These new tools could be useful for teasing out disease mechanisms and testing new drug therapies.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge's Institute for Medical Research obtained skin cells from 10 patients--seven who had various forms of inherited liver disease, and three healthy controls. They reprogrammed the skin cells, rejuvenating them into an embryolike state (using the four-gene approach described in 2007). The researchers then cultured these so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) in a mixture of chemical factors that triggered their conversion into liver cells, which had the appearance and functional properties of native liver cells.
Delving into the world of the ultra-cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Swinburne University's 'cold molecules lab', where temperatures one millionth of a degree above absolute zero are routinely achieved, researchers are making significant advances in understanding the weird and wonderful world of quantum mechanics. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:34:07 EST
Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists
Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal - from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory - ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fluke. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:01:28 EST
Glasperlenspiel: Scientists propose new test for gravity
A new experiment proposed* by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances -- a scale at which exotic new details of gravity's behavior may be detectable. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:30:01 EST
A model system for group behavior of nanomachines
For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formation and the manifold motion patterns of such flocks raise numerous questions fundamental to the understanding of complex systems. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:42:59 EST
New material may reveal inner workings of hi-temp superconductors
Measurements taken* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound exhibits properties never before seen in a superconductor and could be a step toward solving part of the mystery. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:53 EST
Greatest free-kick 'was no fluke'
Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:15:06 GMT
Ants protect trees from elephants
A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:34:46 GMT
Creation was Godless says Hawking
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking concludes in a new book. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:18:26 GMT
Weather clash causes snowy winter
The collision of two major weather events can explain unusually large snowfall in the US and Northern Europe, researchers say. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:34:00 GMT
Ancient reef uncovered in Pacific
An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:58:41 GMT
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