In a new study, scientists have explained how a planet-sized version of an electric toaster heats up some exoplanets to puff up to gigantic...

The massive cement expanses that dot the flat Florida landscape have been launching pads for history: the first US astronauts blasted into orbit, the Apollo missions to the moon and nearly 30 years of space shuttle flights. But human space travel from Kennedy Space Centre will soon come to a...

W ith space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the government is willing to keep paying $200 million a month. ...

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - March 9, 2010) - Leading strategy and management consulting firm, The Avascent Group, announced today that it has deepened its capabilities in the space, telecom and...

CHENNAI: Enrique Salem, President and Chief Executive Officer of California-based Symantec Corporation, has warned the countries of the world against a cold war of an unusual kind. In an interaction...

(AP Photo/John Raoux)The crew of space shuttle Discovery, from left, pilot James Dutton, mission specialist Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki,...

have been awarded the contract to manage construction of the new 250,000-square-foot Miami Science Museum at Bicentennial Park. The $275 million facility will include a 35,000-square-foot aquarium,...

Arizona Science Center is kicking off construction on a new entrance and lobby that will make the downtown Phoenix venue more accessible. The construction, financed by a 2006 city of Phoenix bond...

— Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated...

— They are considered to be the most important model organism for research into human biology: mice may look totally different, but they are in many ways similar to Homo sapiens on a fundamental...

— A single session of heat therapy using the ThermoMed™ device appears to be as effective as a 10-day intravenous course of sodium stibogluconate (Pentostam) for the treatment...

— Admission to a hospital when most of the beds are already full can be deadly for patients, according to a new University of Michigan Health System study showing high occupancy increases the...

— A mathematical model developed at Purdue University can predict complex signaling patterns that could help scientists determine how stem cells in an embryo later become specific tissues,...

— The surge of funds for bioterrorism preparedness over the past decade does not appear to be improving local public health resources in general, according to research from Purdue...

, people who engage in regular sexual activity gain several health benefits, such as longer lives, healthier hearts, lower blood pressure, and lower risk of breast cancer. However, approximately 33...

— For decades, the traditional practice in animal testing has been standardization, but a study involving Purdue University has shown that adding as few as two controlled environmental variables...

— With pitchers and catchers having recently reported to spring training, once again Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor at NJIT, has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of...

mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists...

Washington - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit. Thanks to satellites, scientists at Ohio State University...

Berlin - A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. The Constitutional...

Don't text while you drive. Don't shave while you drive. And definitely don't shave your privates while you drive. That's the lesson learned by a Florida woman who was charged in a crash that police...

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 10:15 CST Researchers at IBM said they have discovered a way to make biodegradable plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based plastics and other...

Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have investigated another navigational skill of desert ants. These ants are already well-known for their remarkable visual...

The extremely strong earthquake in Chile on February 27 this year was a complicated rupture process, as scientists from the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences found out. Quakes with such...

Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 10:32 CST Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit. Thanks to GPS, scientists at Ohio...

BERLIN - A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. ...

Space shuttle Discovery is seen after completing its 3.4 mile trip from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on March 3, 2010 in preparation for an April 5 launch on NASA's STS-131...

Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic company is footing the bill on development of the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo space launch system. Credit: Virgin...

Are you sure you have time for this, darling? British men have been found to have an average of 32 minutes a day more leisure time than women. Photograph: R.W. Jones/Warren Morgan/Corbis A survey...

— We have known for several years that Hepatitis C, a common cause of liver cirrhosis and cancer, also makes people three to four times more likely to develop Type 2...

Dolores Takemoto, a Kansas State University professor of biochemistry who was researching protein kinase C gamma in the lens of the human eye, found her work taking a fascinating turn when she...

to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against...

— The interaction of a ligand (Neurotrophin-3) and its dependence receptor (TrkC) constitutes a novel mechanism for tumor control in pediatric cancers such as neuroblastoma, and may also be...

— A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic...

— A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them --increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities....

— Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery. The operation...

The persisting problem of displaying information on the small screens of mobile devices is pushing both display development as, well as that of non-visual interaction channels such as gestures,...

— Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have investigated another navigational skill of desert ants. These ants are already well-known for their remarkable visual...

— Researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have demonstrated, using a map of the potential...

— Universities around the country are struggling with shrinking budgets, even as they need to cater to the needs of an increasing number of students. New research from North Carolina State...

— The sooner people with diabetes start taking metformin, the longer the drug remains effective, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the March issue...

— A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety. This improvement resembles that...

— A new questionnaire and outcomes measurement scale developed by the department of psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital has proven to be a reliable and valid measure of anxiety. The scale can...

— A husband and wife research team has found a way to use the sleeve-like cover on bone to heal serious bone injuries faster and more simply than current methods. And they've developed an...

— The recently observed reduction in air pollution implies that more solar radiation reaches the Earth's surface. This could lead to a far more rapid increase in the Earth's temperature in the...

— Changes in patients' self-rated quality of life after treatment for esophago-gastric cancer can predict the chances for long-term...

— The extremely strong earthquake that struck Chile Feb. 27 was a complicated rupture process, as scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found out. Quakes with such...