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Science Fresh News
- New U.S. Climate Strategy Coming within Weeks: Obama Adviser
By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will target carbon emissions from power plants as ... - New Indictments for Ex-BP Executive, Engineer over Gulf Spill
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal indictments on Wednesday against a former ... - What Is a Field?
Contributing editor George Musser explains how physicists think about the universe using the fundamental concept of ...
[Courtesy of Scientific American]
- Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the ... - Airborne laser reveals hidden city in Cambodia
SYDNEY (AP) -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustlin ... - Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) -- The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an o ...
[Courtesy of AP Top Science News At 9 p.m. EDT]
- New species of dinosaur from Alberta
Acrotholus audeti, a new species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, was identified from recently discovered and histor ... - New device can extract human DNA very fast
Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA in a simpler and more efficient way than conventional me ... - New species of small theropod discovered in China
A new species of small fossil theropod have been discovered in northwestern China by a team of international resear ...
[Courtesy of Science Centric | News]
- 20 years later, a scorecard on 'Jurassic Park' hits and misses
Jurassic Park: Logo of the film.Courtesy Tkgd2007The first "Jurassic Park" movie debuted 20 years ago this month. H ... - High heels: Look at an X-ray and reconsider wearing them
Foot problems waiting to happen: High-heeled shoes can make a dramatic fashion statement, but can also lead to dram ... - The eyes have it: new layer in human cornea discovered!
The human eye: a new layer of tissue has been discovered in the cornea.Courtesy Mark RyanRemember when your cornea- ...
[Courtesy of Science Buzz]
- PETA International Science Consortium disappointed in denial of Dow appeal
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) The PETA International Science Consortium is extremely disappointed t ... - CAMH policy study outlines ways to reduce alcohol harms
(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has released a summary report o ... - Sexual minority youth need specialized treatment from therapists
(University of Missouri-Columbia) Despite advances in civil rights, sexual minority youth are still at greater risk ...
[Courtesy of EurekAlert! - Policy and Ethics]
- World Food Prize Honors Ag Biotech Pioneers
Three scientists lauded for helping to usher in the era of genetically modified crops - Prominent Turkish Academic Attempts Suicide in Jail
Former Council of Higher Education President Kemal Grz has been detained for almost a year - ScienceShot: Stone Age Snails
Stone Age humans may have carried snails to Ireland from the Pyrenees
[Courtesy of News - Up to the minute news and analysis from Sci ...]
- Supreme Court Rulings May Raise New Questions for Gay Couples
- Paleozoic Era: Facts & Information
The Paleozoic Era ushered in an explosion of life on Earth. - Sexual Images Sway Conservative Guys Toward Risk
Findings may explain why the sexually cautious play fast and loose with protection.
[Courtesy of LiveScience.com]
- [Report] Ice Shelf Melting Around Antarctica
- [Report] Crystal Structure of NLRC4 Reveals Its Autoinhibition Mechanism
- [Report] Fossil Musculature of the Most Primitive Jawed Vertebrates
[Courtesy of Science Express]
- Battery tests show Apple's new MacBook Air beats competitors by a mile
If the new MacBook Air looks identical to its predecessor, then why is everyone making such a big deal about it? Be ... - How the PlayStation 4's hardware will bring a new realism to video games
- House GOP: Don't grab an asteroid ' let's put bases on moon and Mars
House Republican leaders want to push for outposts on the moon and Mars ' and they want to push NASA's plan to sn ...
[Courtesy of feeds/tech+feeds/techvideo]
- 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.]
- Dr. John Mattick ' Noncoding RNAs
Click the icon to play the podcast John Mattick is Professor of Molecular Biology and ARC Federation Fellow ... - Dr. Terry Collins ' Green Chemistry
Click the icon to play the podcast Terrence J. Collins, Ph.D., is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemi ... - SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Listed as Top Podcast
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY has just been honored by Online Degrees as one of the Top 20 podcasts for science lovers. We ar ...
[Courtesy of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY]
Pod & Videocast
- Science Podcast - Ancient leprosy, GRACE, Earthscope, and more (14 June 2013)
- Science Policy Podcast - Marcia McNutt, new Editor-in-Chief (7 June 2013)
- Science Podcast - Lab-grown guts, development mysteries, Pacific paleoclimate, and more (7 June 2013)
[Courtesy of Science Magazine Podcast]
- Finding Friends: Part 1
Facebook has over 700 million users with almost 70 billion connections. The hard part isn't people making friends ... - Finding Friends: Part 2
Facebook has over 700 million users with almost 70 billion connections. The hard part isn't people making friends ... - Catching and Releasing: Part 1
There's more mathematics involved in juggling than just trying to make sure that the number of balls (or chainsaw ...
[Courtesy of Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematica ...]
Space - Astronomy Fresh News
- Greenhouses for Mars
When humans go to the Moon or Mars, they'll probably take plants with them. NASA-supported researchers are learning ... - Electric Border Collie
Using electric fields, NASA-supported researchers are learning to herd microbes for the benefit of astronauts and H ... - The Hidden Life of Thunderstorms
Scientists are sending unmanned aircraft into electrical storms to learn more about their mysterious inner workings ...
[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]
- Trailing the Canaries
Sunglint reveals the wind and wave patterns in the wake of the Canary Islands. - Carstens Fire, California
On June 17, 2013, NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the Carstens fire burning southwest of California ... - Wildfires in southwestern Alaska
Wildfires burned in a remote part of southwestern Alaska on June 16, 2013.
[Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory]
- Metamorphosis of moon's water ice explained
Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery f ... - Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago
Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-ri ... - Was prehistoric rock art strategically placed to reveal a cosmological puzzle?
Recently, the discoveries of prehistoric rock art have become more common. With these discoveries, according to one ...
[Courtesy of ScienceDaily: Space & Time News]
Environment
- NASA presents an astonishing billion-pixel tour of Mars
A stunning panoramic image from NASA's Curiosity rover offers an incredibly detailed look at the dusty, lonely land ... - Why is Africa ripping apart? Seismic scan may tell
Arrays of sensors stretching across more than 1,500 miles in Africa are now probing the giant crack in the Earth lo ... - Biologists race to solve mysterious mass animal deaths in Florida lagoon
At least 111 manatees, 300 pelicans, and 46 dolphins ' emaciated to the point of skin and bones ' were all foun ...
[Courtesy of FOX News]
- Obama Readying Emissions Limits on Power Plants
The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges ... - Matter: A Homely Rodent May Hold Cancer-Fighting Clues
Naked mole rats produce a compound that appears to render them immune to cancer, and researchers say the discovery ... - NASA's New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
The eight recruits were selected from 6,300 applicants and will start training at the Johnson Space Center in Houst ...
[Courtesy of NYT > Science]
Math & Fun Fresh News
- 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]
- Why is Mathematics Possible: Tim Gowers's Take on the Matter (Combinatorics and more)
In a previous post I mentioned the question of why is mathematics possible. Among the interesting comments to the p ... - Margaret Cheney to deliver the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture (Eurekalert)
( Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ) The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Ind ... - Tyrone Duncan to be awarded SIAM's W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize (Eurekalert)
( Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ) The W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics, first awarded in ...
[Courtesy of Wikio - Mathematics]