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Science Fresh News
- How Can You Control Your Dreams?
Some dreams feel so revelatory--if only returning to sleep would take us back there. It turns out, however, that ou ... - Dopamine Determines Impulsive Behavior
Binge-shoppers and serial daters might perpetually be living at the whim of their latest impulse, and now researc ... - EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Envi ...
[Courtesy of Scientific American]
- Scientists say global warming is continuing
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID 2010-07-28T18:24:12Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists from around the world are pr ... - Plankton, base of ocean food web, in big decline
By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-07-28T17:01:21Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite their tiny size, plant plankton fo ... - New Titanic expedition will create 3D map of wreck
By STEVE SZKOTAK 2010-07-27T16:28:49Z RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A team of scientists will launch an exped ...
[Courtesy of AP Top Science News At 7:16 a.m. EDT]
- Pinning atoms into order
In an international first, physicists of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantu ... - Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them
Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by mon ... - Teachers can close gender gap in classroom leadership during medical school
Half of U.S. first-year medical students are female, yet a new UCLA study shows that they volunteer for leadership ...
[Courtesy of Science Centric | News]
- Cleaning Up Heavy Metal
Not this kind of Heavy Metal: This kind of Heavy Metal is not Poison. Poison is an American Glam Metal band led by ... - This is depressing
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, now there's an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Enbridge, ... - Time-lapse global warming
The Extreme Ice Survey is a really fascinating project that documents melting glaciers using time-lapse photography ...
[Courtesy of Science Buzz]
- AMP responds to Genetic Test Registry request for information
(Association for Molecular Pathology) Today, the Association for Molecular Pathology submitted written comments in ... - Chances of hurricane hitting Texas discussed at UH conference
(University of Houston) University of Houston researchers are doing things a little differently with a new model th ... - Braddock Mayor John Fetterman to receive the ESA's Regional Policy Award
(Ecological Society of America) The Ecological Society of America will present its third annual Regional Policy Awa ...
[Courtesy of EurekAlert! - Policy and Ethics]
- EPA to Virginia: What Climate Conspiracy?
A group of critics of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision to regulate greenhouse... - Deadly Viruses Have Been Part of Us for Millions of Years
Humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates host "viral fossils" in their DNA - Island Monkeys Give Clues to Origins of HIV's Ancestor
Virus passed from monkeys to chimps about 22,000 years ago
[Courtesy of News - Up to the minute news and analysis from Sci ...]
- Galapagos Islands Kicked Off International Endangered List
Conservationists call the move premature, saying the delicate ecosystem is still in peril. - Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern
A detector designed to search for neutrino particles instead found an intriguing signal from cosmic rays flying in ... - Giant Sand Dunes on Titan Shaped by Backward Winds
Gusty winds that blow in reverse of prevailing weather on Saturn's largest moon Titan appear to shape some of the m ...
[Courtesy of Livescience.com]
- [Research Article] PTIP Promotes Chromatin Changes Critical for Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination
- [Report] Quantum Oscillations and Hall Anomaly of Surface States in the Topological Insulator Bi2Te3
- [Report] Planar Cell Polarity Acts Through Septins to Control Collective Cell Movement and Ciliogenesis
[Courtesy of Science Express]
- Another ugly reminder to check your Facebook settings — NOW!
If we take any lesson from this latest Facebook privacy brouhaha, it's one we should have already learned: Facebook ... - Cosmic Log: $1.4 million for oil cleanup ideas
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Kevin Costner, here's your chance. Sparked by the disaster in the Gulf, a well- ... - Google says search cut off from mainland China
Google said Thursday that its search engine and other services were abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising m ...
[Courtesy of msnbc.com: Technology & Science]
- Colossal Storage Corp. - The "Atomic Switch" A Worlds First !
Colossal Storage Corporation is a California research and development company focused on Atomic Holographic Optic ... - Programmable Refracting OLED Lens
For hundreds of years light amplification has been done thru glass refracting lenses of various curvatures, length ... - OLED TV
Today’s TV is being replaced by a device having billions of times smaller optical densities that can be const ...
[Courtesy of Colossal Storage Corp.]
- Multifunctional nanoparticle enables new type of biological imaging
By combining a nanoparticle's magnetic and thermal properties, researchers have created a new type of medical imagi ... - Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring
UW engineers have built an insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs. Compared to other such robots, the UW model ... - Genome comparison tools found to be susceptible to slip-ups
A UW study finds the tools used to align genomes from different species have quality-control issues.
[Courtesy of uwnews.org | RSS | Technology news releases | Univ ...]
- Douglas Preston – IMPACT, Pendergast, and The Relic
Click the icon to play the podcast Douglas Preston is the New York Times best-selling author of the newly r ... - Dr. Louis Lanzerotti – Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini, and NASA
Click the icon to play the podcast Dr. Louis Lanzerotti is Distinguished Research Professor of Physics, Ne ... - Marjorie Liu – Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Click the icon to play the podcast Marjorie Liu is a New York Times bestselling author of novels, short st ...
[Courtesy of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY]
Pod & Videocast
- Science Podcast, 30 July 2010
Highly impulsive individuals have fewer dopamine receptors in a key brain area; pharma starts limiting development ... - Science Podcast, 23 July 2010
First demonstration of a safe, effective vaginal gel for preventing sexual transmission of HIV; a plan to dam Patag ... - Science Podcast, 19 July 2010 -- Special: HIV Prevention Progress
New research establishes the efficacy of vaginal gels containing anti-retroviral drugs in inhibiting sexual transmi ...
[Courtesy of Science Magazine Podcast]
- Yellow Bird, A Lullaby
We’re born with a sense of wonder. As infants, we delight in many things. We’re naturally curious. But inevitab ... - Birds That Say Their Own Names
Some birds, such as the Northern Bobwhite, take their names from their songs or vocalizations: “Bobwhite! Bobwhit ... - A crossbill's beak does the job
A close look at this Red Crossbill reveals a curious adaptation. The long tips of the upper and lower bill don’t ...
[Courtesy of BirdNote Podcast RSS Feed]
- Resisting the Spread of Disease - Part 2
One of the most useful tools in analyzing the spread of disease is a system of evolutionary equations that reflects ... - Resisting the Spread of Disease - Part 1
One of the most useful tools in analyzing the spread of disease is a system of evolutionary equations that reflects ... - Predicting Climate - Part 2
What’s in store for our climate and us? It’s an extraordinarily complex question whose answer requires physic ...
[Courtesy of Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematica ...]
Space - Astronomy Fresh News
- Mercury Transits Sun
Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, November 8, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun. - Houston, We Have a Solution
New research aboard the space station aims to adapt a tried-and-true repair tool to weightlessness. - Membranes on Mars
New membranes developed by NASA-funded researchers could help people go to Mars--and clean the air here on Earth.
[Courtesy of Science@NASA RSS Feed]
- Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been de ... - Shuttle lands at California air base
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor w ... - iReporters watch planets, moon align
[Courtesy of CNN.com - Science & Space]
- Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico
Acquired July 28, 2010, this natural-color image shows possible oil patches near the Mississippi Delta. - Bull Fire in California’s Sequoia National Forest
Outlined in red in this true-color image from July 27, 2010, the Bull Fire produced thick plumes of smoke as it bur ... - Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico
Acquired July 28, 2010, this natural-color image shows possible oil patches near the Mississippi Delta.
[Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory]
- Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood
A spectacular new image shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colorful surroundings. WR 22 is a very h ... - Planets found in unusually intimate dance around dying star
Astronomers have found two extrasolar planetary systems with gas giant planets locked in an orbital embrace. In one ... - NASA simulates space exploration at remote Arctic crater site
NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for ...
[Courtesy of ScienceDaily: Space & Time News]
Environment
- Google Says China Blocks Access, Again
Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine and other services were abruptly cut off from mainland China, rais ... - Motorists May Be Winning Against Big Brother's Speed Cameras
If you’ve ever been busted for speeding by an inanimate camera, you probably hate the things. So here's some good ... - SpaceShots: The Best New Photos of Our Universe
The best space images of the week, putting you in touch with the most distant parts of the heavens.
[Courtesy of FOXNews.com]
- Trapped water puts Alps valley in jeopardy
A pocket of water big enough to fill 20 Olympic pools is trapped inside a glacier on Mont Blanc and could burst at ... - Galapagos decision premature, say researchers
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has criticised the removal of the Galapagos islands from the ... - Water supply halted after chemical spill
A flood has washed thousands of barrels of a dangerous chemical into a river near the Chinese city of Jilin, prompt ...
[Courtesy of IOL: SciTech Environment]
- U.S. Nuclear Forensics Skill Is Declining, Report Says
A lack of resources and organizational problems are hampering America’s ability to identify nuclear weapons used ... - Regulators Warned Enbridge About Monitoring of Pipeline Corrosion
A million gallons of oil may have spilled into the Kalamazoo River, significantly more than first estimated. - Scientists Produce First Cloned Fighting Bull
The team says that its dark brown calf, named Got, is the only representative of a lineage that goes back 300 years ...
[Courtesy of NYT > Science]
- Built-up areas, road network and population increases, selected EEA countries
- Changing household consumption patterns in EU-10 and EU-15
- Modelled number of tropical nights over Europe during summer (June–August) 1961–1990 and 2071–2100
[Courtesy of 10 latest maps/graphs from EEA Dataservice]
Math & Fun Fresh News
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Yoga Galaxy
Come spend a few evenings listening to stories, discussing Patanjali s wise aphorisms, and meditating on what it al ... - Mathematics, Music, and Sanskrit
Of all the discoveries that have occurred and developed in the course of human history, language is the most signif ... - The Age of Patanjali
Patanjali, the author of the Mahabhashya, was born at Gonarda, tract of country in cashmere, and his mothers name w ...
[Courtesy of HRIH Net]
- Puzzle 160: Absolute maximum
The absolute value of a real number is defined as its numerical value without regard for sign. So, for example, abs ... - Puzzle 159: Eight odd squares
Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem states that every positive integer can be written as the sum of at most four squares ... - Puzzle 158: Fermat squares
By Fermat's Little Theorem, the number x = (2^(p-1) - 1)/p is always an integer if p is an odd prime. For what valu ...
[Courtesy of Nick's Mathematical Puzzles]
- Russell's Paradox, Quine's Argument and the Empirical Refutation of the Law of Non-Contradiction (The Russell's Paradox Series, Part II of IV) ((Blog&~Blog))
... an indispensability argument representing numbers, to use that example, as entities that ‘total science’ ca ... - Intensive chemotherapy may be harmful to most older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (Science Daily)
The prognosis for nearly three-quarters of elderly patients on intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia is ... - Quantum fractals at the border of magnetism (Science Daily)
Physicists are reporting new results from experiments on the perplexing class of materials that includes high-tempe ...
[Courtesy of Wikio - Mathematics]