| Bomb found in car hired by Bihar Minister A bomb was found in a car hired by Bihar Science and Technology Minister Anil Kumar on Thursday. ccording to reports, the bomb was found hidden underneath a Scorpio car hired by Kumar from a local taxi... | |
| Einstein's General Theory of Relativity passes biggest cosmic test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the... |
| Pachauri welcomes review of IPCC Reports indicate that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chair, has welcomed the... |
| Vietnam's stelae declared Unesco World Heritage Site The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina... |
| Unesco to help restore Haitian cultural heritage The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean... |
| Club Space Offers Reward To Catch Model's Killer The murder of a model in South Florida, seen on airwaves across the nation on America's Most Wanted, is getting a boost in reward money.Club Space, the night club where 26-year-old Paula Sladewski... |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals Appoints William Kaelin Jr., M.d. To Scientific Advisory Board CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (Business Wire) Agios Pharmaceuticals, the leading biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel drugs in the rapidly emerging field of cancer metabolism,... |
| World Space Agencies Confirm Serviceability Of Iss Through 2020 Panoramic dome view observation station added to ISS There are no technical constraints to extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2020, top international... |
| Your Partner Has Herpes – Now The Good News The love of your life has genital herpes: do you sleep with them anyway? It's a dilemma that could vanish if a new approach to a herpes vaccine is... |
| 7.2 Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile Valparaiso, Chile - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked central Chile Thursday, including the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso where a new president was to be sworn in, authorities said. ... |
| Photos Taken By Serial Killer Released These are two of the hundreds of photos recovered during court-authorized searches of Alcala's Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle that were released Wednesday, March 10,... |
| New Quakes Shake Chile Inauguration Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera, right, accompanied by his wife Cecilia Morel, waves to the media prior to his inauguration. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Max Montecinos) SANTIAGO, Chile - The... |
| Harper Praises Canadians' Achievements Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands in the House of Commons as he gives his reply to the Speech from the Throne, on Parliament Hill Thursday March 11, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred... |
| Bill Change Could Mean Thousands Of 'new' Indians OTTAWA - Grandchildren of Indian women who married non-Indian men will soon be able to register for status under legislation tabled Thursday in the House of Commons. But while the government... |
| Loggerhead Turtles Facing Endangered Status Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:55 CST The loggerhead sea turtle should be classified as an endangered species, American wildlife agencies recommended on Wednesday, in a move that could... |
| Hawaiian Species Get Endangered Listing Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:47 CST Wildlife experts praised the Obama administration for its “holistic approach” to conversation in Hawaii, after it named 48 species to be added to... |
| Origin Of Animal Domestication Revealed Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:00 CST The domestication of animals and plants is the most important technological innovation during human history. This genetic transformation of wild... |
| Perceptions About Earth's Age Influence Acceptance Of Human Evolution Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 08:35 CST High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept... |
| Conquering The Modern Computer Chaos Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:25 CST Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto:... |
| Prehistoric Response To Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to... |
| Molecule Found That Tells Brain Cells To 'grow Up' Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 00:50 CST STANFORD, Calif. -- About four out of every 10 cells in the brain are so-called oligodendrocytes. These cells produce the all-important myelin that... |
| Scientists Learning Architecture Of Cancers Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:16 CST Drug delivery to solid tumors can be enhanced by transient breakdown of blood vessel wallsAfter making a diagnosis of cancer, clinicians have a number... |
| Plant Hormone Increases Cotton Yields Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:05 CST A naturally occurring class of plant hormones called cytokinins has been found to help increase cotton yields during drought conditions, according to... |
| Mind-reading Experiment Uses Brain Scans To Eavesdrop On Thoughts Volunteers lay in an MRI brain scanner as they recalled film clips at random. Photograph: David Levene Scientists have used brain scans to delve into people's minds and predict what films they are... |
| Hailing The Arrival Of Alien Predators Matthew Cock Europe is about to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed, and about time too, says scientist Dr Matthew... |
| "personal" Study Shows Gene Maps Can Spot Disease WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of... |
| Watermark To Show Off Store Space To Small Businesses The new owner of WaterMark Place will throw open its doors Thursday to showcase to small businesses its commercial possibilities. Anthony... |
| Shocking Recipe For Making Killer Electrons Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by... |
| New Alterations Found In Young Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A study at the Institute for... |
| Men, Not Ladies, First: We're Still Sexist In Writing Putting male names before female names in writing is a remnant of sexist thinking. This is the finding of a study published online March 15 2010, in... |
| Can We Detect Quantum Behavior In Viruses? The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect... |
| Compliant Systems: Flexible Yet Strong Materials Allow Aircraft Wings To Flex With Air Flow Flavio Campanile, head of a research group in Empa's Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation Laboratory, is convinced that aircraft can be made which move more elegantly and, above all, more... |
| Advance In Understanding Body’s Natural Defenses Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists at the University of Leicester have made a new advance in understanding how the body fights certain types of cancer and other disease such as Lupus... |
| Predicting Future Climate: Networking Initiative To Support Interdisciplinary Research Specialists from various Earth system science disciplines recently gathered to address a major question: what will our environment look like in the... |
| More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions researchers present a sophisticated new analysis of the effects of boosting use of maize-derived ethanol on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, conducted by Thomas W. Hertel of Purdue University and... |
| World's Oldest Rivers Mapped Under Huge Desert Dunes Simpson desert – famed for its dune fields – has been mapped in a new study. The map could lead the way to valuable minerals and water resources in this drying... |
| Solar Energy Could Provide 10% Of U.s. Power Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 07:22 CST By 2030, solar power could meet as much as 10-percent of the need for electricity in America, claims a new report from a leading environmental... |
| Archaeologists Discover Ancient Aboriginal Meeting Ground Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 07:30 CST A group of Australian archaeologists have discovered a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground that could be further south than any other ancient human... |
| Turtles Face Extinction On Malaysian Shores Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 06:35 CST Conservationists said on Wednesday that Malaysia's voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores.... |
| Deep Sea Robot Lost During Research Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 07:14 CST A deep-sea robot known as the "Autonomous Benthic Explorer" and made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of... |
| The Smell Of Salt Air, A Mile High And 900 Miles Inland Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 07:52 CST The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast. Wind and waves kick up spray, and bits of sodium chloride –... |
| The Mystery Of Half Male, Half Female Chickens Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 07:38 CST A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries – why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other – has been... |
| Trusting Science On Climate Change Then there was an admission from the Untied Nations' top climate body saying that it relied on some flawed numbers to predict a Himalayan glacier would soon melt. Add to this a few high-profile U.N.... |
| Astronomers Back Up Einstein An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the universe, at least within a distance of 3.5 billion light years of Earth, obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of... |
| Half-cock Chicken Mystery Solved BBC Scotland reporter Researchers say they've solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.About one in every 10,000 chickens is gynandromorphous, to use the... |
