| Hubble observations of supernova reveal composition of 'star guts' pouring out A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has revealed that observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of 'star guts' being ejected into space following the... | |
| Fuel-free space tethers to manoeuvre spacecraft in orbit A team at NASA is testing a chemical-free propulsion system that will use Earth's magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in... |
| Adults Sending More And More Text Messages Posted on: Saturday, 4 September 2010, 08:13 CDT A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that even though more and more US adults are texting, they are not sending as many messages a day... |
| Eyewitness: The Surface of Mars This image, provided by NASA, shows volcanic cones on Mars that are similar in size and shape to cones found in Iceland where hot lava has run over wet ground. The heat from the lava boils the water... |
| Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key to Origin of Life One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides -- have arisen... |
| A conversation with Stephen Hawking, aged five years old | Mark Vernon Stephen Hawking is reincarnated, and this time round his father is a philosopher. One day, when little Stephen is about five years old, they're sitting in the summer house with Fido, their pet dog.... |
| As a Hurricane, Earl Looked Like 'Magnificent Chaos' From Space Astronaut Douglas Wheelock snapped this shot of Hurricane Earl on Sept. 3, as the International Space Station flew just to the east of the storm. Wheelock described Earl as "magnificent chaos."... |
| Kapil to sail into shipping logistic space Former ace cricketer Kapil Dev is sailing into unchartered waters literally--boarding the shipping and logistics space by picking up a 30 per cent stake in Hamburg, Germany-based global shipping... |
| Did Viking Mars Landers Find Life's Building Blocks? Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Puzzle Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building... |
| New Mission to Skim the Sun: NASA Selects Science Investigations for Solar Probe Plus NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than... |
| How animals evolved personalities consistently aggressive or meek , or flipped between the two. They were pitted against each other in repeated contests designed to be representative of many seen in the real world - for instance... |
| God did not create the universe, says Hawking LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking... |
| Bank robbed to pay for house, court told Stacy Campbell is accused of a TD Canada Trust Bank in Barrie, Ontario. (Tracy McLaughlin, QMI Agency) BARRIE, Ont. - Stacy Campbell was "desperate" to come up with the downpayment on her dream... |
| Sex judge accuser's past legal fights Alex Chapman filed a lawsuit against city police nine years ago. (Ross Romaniuk, QMI Agency) WINNIPEG - The man who sparked a media frenzy involving a high-ranking judge and pornographic pictures... |
| Wind power's health debate rages Two London-area doctors have become lightning rods for the raging Ontario debate about wind power's health effects. (QMI Agency file photo) LONDON, Ont. - They're in a fight that could shape wind... |
| Drunk driver ran over friend EDMONTON - An Edmonton man has admitted he was driving drunk after leaving a party when he ran over his good friend and pinned him under the wheels of his car. Srdjan Babic, 24, pleaded guilty to... |
| OxyContin theft alarms police Marliss Taylor, head of the Streetworks health outreach program, said Friday drugs on Edmonton streets are a "huge issue." (Jordan Verlage, QMI Agency) EDMONTON - Deadly doses of OxyContin may be... |
| Expelled student wasn't having sex CALGARY - The family of a girl expelled from Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School amid allegations she had sex with her boyfriend in the washroom during a dance has won their lawsuit against the prestigious... |
| E-mail sorrow for racist taunt EDMONTON - An Edmonton woman who admitted in court to taunting an African immigrant with racial slurs at a 7-Eleven store and then blasting him with bear spray has spoken out. In an e-mail Friday to... |
| Jail drug bust nets psychopath Teskey EDMONTON - Notorious psychopath Leo Teskey has been busted for allegedly having a wide selection of illicit drugs in his jail cell at the downtown Edmonton Remand Centre. The Aug. 2 bust happened... |
| A Scientific Breakthrough On How HIV Takes Control Of Cell Division AIDS (acquired autoimmune deficiency syndrome). "We previously identified that HIV, when infecting target cells, blocks cell division and induces cell death," says Dr. Cohen. "We then discovered... |
| Amazon may be heading for bad drought Lima - Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American... |
| Boozing Brits no longer drinking "These figures will confound many pundits, as yet again they confirm that as a nation, we are not drinking more. Those who suggest otherwise need to focus on the hard facts," BBPA chief executive... |
| Paris metro body heat to help warm building By Mathide Cru Paris - The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city centre, the capital's largest owner of social housing said on... |
| GMP Synthesis Chemistry Services CRO, Onyx Scientific, Reports Increased Small Scale Production for Phase I and II Clinical Studies TYNE AND WEAR, ENGLAND, September 04, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Internationally renowned, contract research organisation Onyx Scientific, is pleased to announce the continued growth of its... |
| Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs BP's Deepwater Horizon field in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil from the Hirokawa Maru is a drop in the ocean. But this is not an isolated case of one ship blackening the shores of one Pacific island.... |
| How calculus will beat the zombies INTEGRATION and differentiation may just have leapt out of the mathematics class. In The Calculus Diaries, Jennifer Ouellette ably demonstrates how challenges such as buying a house, setting up your... |
| Market for Space-Based Internet Service Heats Up for ViaSat Originally published September 4, 2010 at midnight, updated August 16, 2010 at 8:29 p.m. It appears that the competition to provide satellite-based Internet service is heating up for ViaSat, the... |
| The Week in Space Supernova 1987A, the nearest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova of 1604, was originally tracked by NASA in 1987. In 2004, however, the Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Just a small snippet of hair may hold the key to predicting a person's risk of heart attack months in advance, according to a new Canadian... |
| Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads to Breakthrough in Cancer Research A multidisciplinary research group at UCLA has now teamed up to not only visualize a virus but to use the results to adapt the virus so that it can deliver medication instead of disease. In a paper... |
| Functional Motor Neuron Subtypes Generated from Embryonic Stem Cells Scientists have devised a method for coaxing mouse embryonic stem cells into forming a highly specific motor neuron subtype. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of... |
| Why Fish Oils Work Swimmingly Against Inflammation and Diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the molecular mechanism that makes omega-3 fatty acids so effective in reducing chronic inflammation... |
| New Animal Model for Hemophilia A Developed Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a new animal model for studying hemophilia A, with the goal of eventually treating people with the disorder. Hemophilia A, a hereditary... |
| Verbal Snippets Offer Insights on Well-Being Amid Separation, Divorce A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things -- not so much by what they say but how they say... |
| The Christian Science Monitor: Apple Ping network slammed with spam launched a platform called Ping, which is built into the latest iteration of iTunes. Ping is a sort of Facebook or MySpace for iTunes people: You can use the service to share your favorite songs and... |
| UCLA Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record With High-Speed Graphene Transistors Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:19 CDT Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and... |
| Verbal Snippets Offer Insights On Well-Being Amid Separation, Divorce Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:17 CDT New data from a UA study reveals how romantically separated people give spoken clues to how they 're coping.A new study from the University of... |
| Science's Policy Clout Diminished, But Oil Risk Looms Large Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:10 CDT More people are likely to believe scientific studies claiming that oil drilling is riskier, not safer, than was previously thought, according to a... |
| Serendipity Contributes To MRSA Susceptibility Findings Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 18:06 CDT Duke University Medical Center researchers have found two genes in mice which might help identify why some people are more susceptible than others to... |
| Amazon may be headed for another bad drought LIMA — Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American... |
| Google celebrates 25 years of the 'buckyball' The Buckminsterfullerine molecule was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice university, Texas, and named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, noted for... |
| MPs don't use Twitter effectively: Expert Do you follow any politicians on Twitter? Yes, they keep me informed No, they're a waste of time What's... |
| Stephen Foley: The new space race can give desert state economic lift-off US Outlook: It is approaching truth or consequences time for space tourism. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has some big milestones coming up in its effort to put paying passengers... |
| Julian Baggini: If science has not actually killed God, it has rendered Him unrecognisable In an age when even some bishops are near atheists, "man doesn't believe in God" is hardly headline news. Unless, it seems, that man is Professor Stephen Hawking. It seems that every subject has its... |
| The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor | Book review ). Now, Timothy Taylor, reader in archaeology at the University of Bradford, makes a claim for technology in general and, in particular, the invention of the baby sling – not, as you may have... |
| What I see in the mirror: Marcus Du Sautoy When I look in the mirror, I see a 10cm scar across my brow. It's new and I'm still getting used to it. Very conveniently, it runs the length of my left eyebrow but, to my eyes, it makes my face look... |
