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Science Fresh News
- Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake
At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a ... - Lies We Tell Ourselves (preview)
In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar , a skeptical Judas Iscariot questions with ... - Brain Injury Rate 7 Times Greater among U.S. Prisoners
A car accident, a rough tackle, an unexpected tumble. The number of ways to bang up the brain are almost as numer ...
[Courtesy of Scientific American]
- New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag tic ... - Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onsi ... - NASA says Russian space woes no worry
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an emba ...
[Courtesy of AP Top Science News At 12:06 a.m. EST]
- A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams
Existing coherent ultraviolet light sources are power hungry, bulky and expensive. University of Michigan researche ... - Lava fingerprinting reveals differences between Hawaii's twin volcanoes
Hawaii's main volcano chains - the Loa and Kea trends - have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems ... - British butterfly is evolving to respond to climate change
As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to ...
[Courtesy of Science Centric | News]
- Where's the Snow?
Wondering where all the snow is? Is this normal? This short video from NASA Goddard will answer some of your questi ... - SpaceX tests turbo flamethrower ' or possibly a new rocket.
Why is that spaceship covered in flamethrowers?!: Oh. Maybe they're rockets.Courtesy SpaceXWith the closure of NASA ... - Addiction may be hardwired in the brain
Addict or non-addict brain?: A new study finds addicts and their siblings share the same brain abnormalities. This ...
[Courtesy of Science Buzz]
- AIBS names emerging public policy leaders
(American Institute of Biological Sciences) The American Institute of Biological Sciences has selected two graduate ... - UAHuntsville business faculty investigate research ethics; Results are published in Science magazine
(University of Alabama in Huntsville) Two UAHuntsville faculty members from the College of Business were published ... - Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds
(Brown University) According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitione ...
[Courtesy of EurekAlert! - Policy and Ethics]
- Podcast: Spider Webs, Ancient Plants, and the Science of Massage
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week - In the Eye of the Creationist Storm
Bruce Kendall says he's proud to call himself "a Jesus man." For the past... - ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World
Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth
[Courtesy of News - Up to the minute news and analysis from Sci ...]
- The Best Science Photos of the Week - Feb. 4, 2012
Check out these stunning science images. - Russian Scientists Poised to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake
They're tantalizingly close, but other groups may beat them. - Schoolgirls' Mystery Illness: Mass Hysteria or Environmental Toxin?
Schoolgirls in New York have developed a mysterious tic that seems contagious.
[Courtesy of LiveScience.com]
- [Report] Founder Effects Persist Despite Adaptive Differentiation: A Field Experiment with Lizards
- [Report] Pollinator-Mediated Selection on Flower Color Allele Drives Reinforcement
- [Report] ER Cargo Properties Specify a Requirement for COPII Coat Rigidity Mediated by Sec13p
[Courtesy of Science Express]
- Hackers take over law enforcement websites
Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enfo ... - Hackers: We intercepted FBI, Scotland Yard call
A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the very people they were trying to c ... - Space voyages shouldn't be politically incorrect
Why should politicians support trips beyond Earth orbit? It's good for jobs in the short term, and good for our sur ...
[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.]
- 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 ... - 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 ...
[Courtesy of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY]
Pod & Videocast
- Science Podcast, 03 February 2012
The consequences of climate change on coral growth; the complex relationship between brain structure and drug addic ... - Science Podcast, 27 January 2012
Observing coevolution in viruses; the relationship between livestock grazing, nitrogen and locusts; the next fronti ... - Science Podcast, 20 January 2012
Watching a comet evaporate in the Sun's atmosphere; manganese as protection against the Shiga toxin; experimental ...
[Courtesy of Science Magazine Podcast]
- Keeping Things in Focus - Part 2
Some of the simplest and most well-known curves parabolas and ellipses, which can be traced back to ancient Greece ... - Keeping Things in Focus - Part 1
Some of the simplest and most well-known curves parabolas and ellipses, which can be traced back to ancient Greece ... - Harnessing Wind Power - Part 2
Mathematics contributes in many ways to the process of converting wind power into usable energy. Large-scale weathe ...
[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]
- High-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields charted
Scientists have pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the ... - Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the ... - Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600-million-year drought, say scientists
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the plane ...
[Courtesy of ScienceDaily: Space & Time News]
Environment
- Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site
A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it do ... - How to watch the Super Bowl on your smartphone
Let the game begin'on your smartphone! The best way to experience the Super Bowl is right in the palm of your han ... - Citi hit in Brazilian hacker attack; bank says no data breach
A computer hacker group on Friday continued a wave of attacks against Brazilian financial websites, hampering the s ...
[Courtesy of FOXNews.com]
- Fessenheim Journal: Wishing Upon an Atom in a Tiny French Village
In the village of Fessenheim, an aging nuclear plant stirs both protests and support over the use of nuclear power ... - Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion, warning that if ... - Scientist at Work Blog: One Moose, Two Moose
Counting Isle Royale moose can be a tedious task that requires great dedication. But each moose has its own life st ...
[Courtesy of NYT > Science]
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]
- It's All About STEM, the Arts, the Electric Slide Dance, and Future Careers (Newswise)
More than 1,000 area students, families, teachers, and community organizations are expected at Rensselaer Polytechn ... - Carlo F. Barenghi and David C. Samuels- Self-consistent decay of superfluid turbulence (Scribd Feed)
PHYSICAL REVIEW B VOLUME 60, NUMBER 2 1 JULY 1999-II Self-consistent decay of superuid turbulence Carlo F. Baren ... - Judder-free videos on the smartphone (Science Daily)
Overloaded cellular networks can get annoying ' especially when you want to watch a video on your smartphone. An ...
[Courtesy of Wikio - Mathematics]