eo.st - Actualité et News en direct - L'actu en continu - 07/09/2009 - Sciences

Medical staff refuse to perform abortions
Provincial state hospitals and clinics performing abortions are battling to attract ...

No shortage of condoms, says province
The provincial Health Department has denied there is a shortage of condoms in the ...

What, no condoms?
If you want free condoms in Cape Town, you might be out of luck.

Baby Laila - hospital denies negligence
The nurse who attended to baby Laila Subramoney is still on duty at the Life Wilgeheuwel ...

Polokwane fights cholera
The Capricorn District municipality in Polokwane has budgeted R30-million to install ...

New 2012 Forum
Has over 3000 members, and is very busy, discussing many aspects of 2012 that I never ...

2012 News
Thanks to the kindness of the domain name's prior owner, I can introduce a news service ...

New Blog for 2012
Rather than remain at the whim of antville.org, most of my new posts will be at my ...

Alpha Omega 2012
Ok. I'm not a scientist in fact i'm not even sure if I spelled it right. However ...

2012 a hoax
2012 is a hoax somebody started it and the information just kept on getting added ...

"The Antichrist Version 666"
This book could possibly be a real live account of how the Antichrist grew up, and ...

2012, response to judge
Albert Gongelez is a fool. Majority of public lost confidence in him. Most feel same ...

Australia's carbon deal faces hurdles
Forging a political deal on Australia's carbon trade laws will be difficult after ...

Obama calls for good faith in climate talks
United States President Barack Obama says he will travel to Copenhagen next month ...

Lab-grown penis helps rabbit mate again
Scientists have engineered artificial penises in rabbits using cells from the animals ...

Bird downs atom smasher
A bird carrying a piece of bread has briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest ...

Medics tackle dengue outbreak in Cape Verde
International medical teams have landed in Cape Verde to fight a dengue fever epidemic ...

IOP Electronic Journals
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to present ...

Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters rates SMS as one of the most influential ...
Smart Materials and Structures is proud to announce its status as one of the most ...

NEW Top paper from the NINJA project available now in Classical and Quantum Gravity ...
NEW Top paper from the NINJA project available now in Classical and Quantum Gravity ...

Brightrecruits is the new jobs website from IOP Publishing
Whether you're a recent graduate with a physics or engineering degree, or an industry ...

CERN Courier celebrates 50th anniversary
CERN Courier, the international magazine on high energy physics published for CERN ...

Nanoscale metrology special issue published in Measurement Science and Technology ...
This special issue of Measurement Science and Technology, led by Guest Editors G ...

Physics-Uspekhi authors win a Russian National Award
The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, recently presented the Russian National ...

Why Are Native Ladybugs Disappearing?
Researchers in New York are breeding colonies of ladybugs from those found by scientists ...

US, Germany Engaged In Pricing War For Solar Panels
The US and Germany could be soon engaged in a pricing war over the booming industry ...

Australian Scientists Introduce Reef And Beef Project
Scientists in Australia have launched a new project that will give new meaning to ...

Google Algorithm Detects Critical Species
Google's algorithm for ranking web-pages can be used to determine which species are ...

Alternative Growing Media Shows Potential
Peat, or semi-decayed vegetation matter, has been used by commercial growers and ...

Riser Drilling Operations In Seismogenic Zone Complete
Scientists return from first ever riser drilling operations in seismogenic zoneThe ...

DNA Barcodes Of Bushmeat Published
A new tool proved for tracking the global trade in wildlifeLeather handbags and chunks ...

Are Sunspots Disappearing?
The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in a century. Weeks and sometimes ...

Honey, I Blew Up the Tokamak
NASA is planning a daring new mission to investigate the Universe's favorite way ...

NASA Heads Out to Sea
The agency best known for exploring the vast reaches of space has been exploring ...

Chandra Turns 10
Astronomers are celebrating 10 years of discovery by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. ...

In Search of Antimatter Galaxies
Next year, a powerful cosmic ray detector will be installed on the International ...

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Neglect, Not Looting, Threatens Iraqi Sites, Study Says

Neanderthals Didn't Mate With Modern Humans, Study Says

2,500-Year-Old Greek Ship Raised off Sicilian Coast

Iron Age Warrior with Roman Links Found in U.K.

Iron Age Warrior Unearthed in England

King Tut Tomb Fetuses May Reveal Pharaoh's Mother

arXiv.org

Time functions as utilities. (arXiv:0909.0890v1 [gr-qc])

Gravitomagnetic corrections on gravitational waves. (arXiv:0909.0895v1 [gr-qc])

On the compatibility of a proposed explanation of the Pioneer anomaly with the cartography ...

Spin-Foams for All Loop Quantum Gravity. (arXiv:0909.0939v1 [gr-qc])

Numerical black hole initial data with low eccentricity based on post-Newtonian orbital ...

Renormalized spin coefficients in the accumulated orbital phase for unequal mass ...

Disordered Locality as an Explanation for the Dark Energy. (arXiv:0903.5303v3 [hep-th] ...

Lorentzian wormholes generalizes thermodynamics still further. (arXiv:0904.0099v2 ...

Properties of kinematic singularities. (arXiv:0907.1620v2 [gr-qc] UPDATED)

Primordial Non-Gaussianity in Models with Dark Matter Isocurvature Fluctuations. ...

General Relativity With An Auxiliary Dimension. (arXiv:0908.1112v2 [hep-th] UPDATED) ...

Antigravitation, Dark Energy, Dark Matter - Alternative Solution. (arXiv:0908.2180v3 ...

A Non-thermal WIMP Miracle. (arXiv:0908.2430v2 [astro-ph.CO] UPDATED)

NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
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A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander

At the Sun's Edge

Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X 1

The Eagle Rises

Aurora Persei

LeGarrette Blount’s punch heard around the Web
Video of Oregon tailback LeGarrette Blount punching Boise State defensive end Byron ...

Hey, global warming skeptics, take your heads out of the sand
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has seen the meltdown of the Arctic for himself. ...

Internet addiction center opens in US
Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game “World of Warcraft.” ...

Marketing company sells clients Facebook friends
On Facebook, most people make friends the old-fashioned way — by sending a request ...

Will Snow Leopard be Apple’s Windows Vista?
Shortly after Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system came out this weekend, fellow ...

YouTube rental challenge: getting off the desk, onto the couch
The site known for its "check out this clip" ubiquity could soon become the scene ...

Why the tablet PC may finally be a big deal
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has long been an evangelist for tablet PCs, laptops ...

Trends & Numbers: Consumers and the Online Retailing BoomPresstime Magazine, VA& ...
uruknet.info, Italy -The last complete Iraq census in 1997 reported a total of 4050597 ...

Distinguished speaker delights faculty memberPurdue Exponent - 4 minutes ...
CNNMoney.com -Thus, CTC's focus on younger demographics, together with our programming ...

Social Explorer Gets Religion - Detailed Religious Spatial Data ...DirectionsMag.com ...
New Vision, Uganda -... legal factors like regulation, bureaucracy, taxes, political ...

Audubon Society slates annual bird surveyNewHampshire.com,&am p;nbsp;NH - ...
AZ Central.com, AZ -According to census estimates, the US population will be 24 percent ...

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U.S. finds water polluted near gas-drilling sites.
U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in ...

Voyage confirms plastic pollution.
Scientists have confirmed that there are millions of tonnes of plastic floating in ...

Hijacked by climate change?
Species are going extinct at perhaps 1,000 times the normal rate. Aquifers are being ...

Mammal database identifies species destined for trouble
What would happen to polar bears if people built towns in the deep Arctic? Or to ...

Watch out! Disaster looming for Kenya.
Politicians cared little about the burning of East Africa's largest forest â until ...

Blocked rivers threaten livelihood of Brazilian tribes.
Once they were threatened by gold-miners and a measles epidemic that slashed their ...

Lead poisoning haunts Chinese smelter communities.
Chinese provinces have begun shutting lead smelters for environmental checks, after ...

XMM-Newton:XMM-Newton weighs up a rare white dwarf and finds it to be a heavyweight ...
XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray pulsator RX J0648.0-4418, timed to also ...

Mars Express:Reconciling methane variations on Mars
Since the discovery of its presence in the Martian atmosphere, methane has ...

Gaia:The Gaia torus is complete
At the end of June the Gaia mission passed a significant milestone when the ...

Hubble:Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision [heic0909]
The checkout and calibration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been ...

Astrophysics:Suzaku 5th Announcement of Opportunity
The Fifth European Announcement for observations to be performed with Suzaku ...

Director's Desk:Fundamental Physics Roadmap Workshop
The Fundamental Physics Roadmap Advisory Team is organising a workshop, 21-22 ...

XMM-Newton:XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO9)
Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the ...

Analysis confirms that nano-related research has strong multidisciplinary roots
Research reported in the September issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology finds ...

Recession? What recession? Unionization up on state, local levels
Against all odds, organized labor managed to make new inroads during the economic ...

Cancer drug may improve memory in Alzheimer's patients
A drug now used to treat cancer may also be able to restore memory deficits in patients ...

Piece from childhood virus may save soldiers' lives
A harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological ...

Researchers find 2 more genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
An international team of scientists has identified two more genetic risk factors ...

Diabetes advance: Researchers find gene that causes resistance to insulin
A breakthrough by an international team of researchers in Canada, France, the UK ...

Scientists discover new genetic variation that contributes to diabetes
Scientists have identified a genetic variation in people with type 2 diabetes that ...

Launch of 10:10 campaign highlights need for urgent action on climate change
Friends of the Earth welcomed the 10:10 climate campaign which was launched today ...

Fuel tax increase is right, but green alternatives to driving needed
Friends of the Earth welcomed today's rise in fuel duty but said the Government should ...

Geoengineering is no silver bullet
The Royal Society today published a report on the feasibility and potential risks ...

Prescott slams wind turbine NIMBYs
As Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott slams NIMBY councils that turn down ...

Network Rail announce plans for high-speed rail
Friends of the Earth today welcomed with caution Network Rail's plans for new high-speed ...

Waste firm in court batle to keep disposal contract secret from residents
A multi-national waste company is going to the High Court today to try and prevent ...

Bonn climate talks end with no progress made
As UN climate talks in Bonn come to an end, Friends of the Earth believes no progress ...

3 Genetic Variants Are Found to Be Linked to Alzheimer’s
The variants discovered by European scientists account for some 20 percent of the ...

Drilling Down: Social Snacking Next to a Size Zero
A paper soon to be published explores the way that food choices are affected by the ...

Recipes for Health: Lunches for Picky Children
The school year returns, and with it a perpetual conundrum: what to pack in that ...

New Fee on Health Insurance Companies Is Proposed to Help Expand Coverage
The proposal, circulated by Senator Max Baucus, does not include a government-run ...

Obama Faces a Critical Moment for His Presidency
With the White House on the defensive, President Obama will seek to reassert command ...

Vital Signs: Awareness: Clinical Trial Rule Is Widely Ignored
Many researchers are ignoring a requirement that they register proposed clinical ...

2,000 Washington State Students Report Signs of Swine Flu
So far, the cases at the university have been mild, stemming from a late-August outbreak. ...

Walking on the dark side of cyber life
Britons are prone to bouts of cyber stalking and spend nearly 10 minutes a day spying ...

Amazon makes it case against Google deal
Amazon.com is warning a federal judge that Google will be able to stifle competition ...

Millions in Australia lose Internet link
Australian Internet provider Telstra says it lost contact with the rest of the world ...

T-Mobile launches first prepaid Android phone
T-Mobile is launching a new Google Android smartphone made by Huawei and selling ...

Fun died when TV's human factor vanished
Technical hitches - meaning a human dimension - are the chief but rare pleasure of ...

How Writing Changed the World
Writing ushered in history as we know it.

Submersible Robot Runs on Sea's Heat
A "green" robotic glider runs on energy absorbed from the ocean.

Origin of Birds Debated
Scientists can't agree on when modern birds first appeared on Earth.

What Is Relativity?
Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory ...

Why We Love the Sweet Life
Love honey, sugar cane, molasses and corn syrup? Blame our primate heritage.

Marketing the Next President of the United States
Appearance and money impact election outcomes.

10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life
A peek at the real future.

New analysis by U of M Researcher challenges approach to oversight of new technologies ...

Nano vaccine for hepatitis B shows promise for third world: anoemulsion could save ...

BioSolar Reveals Secret of Less Costly Solar Power: Cotton and Castor Beans

Nanotechnology Particle Size Measurement Solutions

NanoStewardship

Northeastern Universitys Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing to Host 6th New ...

BeSang, National NanoFab Center, and Stanford University NanoFab Develop Breakthrough ...

Future Trends in Mechanical Engineering

BioForce Nanosciences Enters Into Licensing Agreement With Aspera Corp.

ZEOX Corporation: New Nanotechnology Breakthrough-Lipotrope®

Nature
Despite disagreement between governments about tackling climate change, initiatives ...

Ethics of therapeutic cloning
A moment of triumph for South Korean science appears to have been marred by doubts ...

Korea's stem-cell stars dogged by suspicion of ethical breach
SeoulWhen, in February, a South Korean team announced that it had derived stem cells ...

BioShield defence programme set to fund anthrax vaccine
WashingtonA US government programme to bolster public defences against bioterrorism ...

NASA opens its arms to robot options for saving telescope
WashingtonA plan to use robots instead of astronauts to rescue the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Feathered fossils cause a flap in museums
San DiegoThe mysterious background of Chinese dinosaur fossils in an exhibition is ...

Top job at NSF on hold until after US elections
WashingtonProspects are fading that a director for the US National Science Foundation ...

Nature Signaling Update
The use of 'computational multiplexing' and a photoactivatable version of Rac1 has ...

Selected Update: Small RNAs: p53 makes microRNAs mature
Wild-type p53 increases the post-transcriptional maturation of microRNAs (miRNAs) ...

Selected Update: Neurodegenerative disease: Avoiding bad complement in Alzheimer's ...
Inhibition of the receptor for the pro-inflammatory complement factor C5a (C5aR) ...

Selected Update: Obesity: A two-pronged attack
A single peptide that targets the glucagon receptor and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor ...

Research Library: Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by ...

Research Library: Mutations in INPP5E, encoding inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatas ...

Research Library: Cabin 1 restrains p53 activity on chromatin

Nature Web Focus: Access to the literature: the debate continues
Can journals function if authors, instead of readers, carry the cost of publication? ...

The best business model for scholarly journals: an economist's perspective
The answer to the question 'What is the best business model for scholarly journals?' ...

A professional society's take on access to the scientific literature
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the flagship journal of the American Society ...

An evidence-based assessment of the 'author pays' model
Much discussion of author payments as a means to Open Access lacks consideration ...

PNAS and Open Access
As I announced in a recent Editorial, the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access
Of all the groups that want OA to scientific and scholarly research literature, only ...

Not so quiet on a Western front
In negotiations with Reed Elsevier, the University of California libraries recently ...

Just published: Nuclear Energy Data 2009/Données sur l'énergie nucléaire 2009 ...

Just published: Nuclear Law Bulletin No. 83 (June 2009)
Discussion of New ICRP Recommendations, 4th Asian Regional Conference, Tokyo, Japan, ...

Just published: Inter-code Comparison Exercise for Criticality Excursion Analysis ...
Most experts worldwide agree that disposal of spent nuclear fuel in appropriate ...

Just published: Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection

Mobile Fission and Activation Products in Nuclear Waste Disposal

NEA News Volume 27 now available

Physics Post
As intellectuals world over are harping on the clean usage of coal or how cleaner ...

Bodies The Exhibition
There are a number of different places that this particular exhibition has been and ...

Going Green
The world today has gotten to the point where it is practically impossible to open ...

CSI Forensic Science
Forensic Science is the use of science to solve crimes and is quickly becoming one ...

Online Degrees Bachelor Degree Online
An online degree program comes as a big boon for those people whose lifestyles just ...

Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is a disease that can affect anyone regardless of age gender race or ...

Nanotechnology
When you think about nanotechnology you need to think in terms of a number of disciplines ...

Recordnet.com is Providing Residents of Stockton, Calif. with Comprehensive Coverage ...
Jose Hernandez took the pride and dreams of the community with him when ...

Groundbreaking Sept. 9 on Country's First Net Zero Solar to Hydrogen Fuel Cell House ...
AIKEN, SC --- A team of experts who have assembled the technology to build ...

Azusa Pacific University Acquires Five Dead Sea Scroll Fragments and Rare Biblical ...
Azusa Pacific University Acquires Five Dead Sea Scroll Fragments and Rare ...

Beloved Father of Hang Gliding Dies at 97
Francis Rogallo a NASA scientist who invented the flexible air-foil, passed ...

Enabling microRNA Discoveries - LC Sciences Tops 100th Customer Publication
LC Sciences announced today the publication of the 100th peer-reviewed ...

One of America's Top Physicians, Dr. Michael Roizen, to Discuss How to Be Healthy ...
Award-winning author, media personality and Chief Wellness Officer at ...

Nutra Pharmaceutical's U.S. distributor, XenaCare Holdings Announces National Print ...
Nutra Pharmaceutical's U.S. distributor, XenaCare Holdings announced that ...

Shuttle Discovery Delivering Science Tools to Space Station
Midnight launch a success after two delays earlier in the week

US Shuttle Docks at International Space Station
Mission involves bringing 8,000 kilograms of new equipment for space station, including ...

Shuttle Crew on Mission's First Spacewalk
Astronauts are removing a massive ammonia tank to replace it with a new one

High-Powered X-Rays Reveal Painting Beneath a Painting
An N.C. Wyeth illustration not seen since the 1920s, revealed by powerful new X-ray ...

Discovery Astronauts Complete Spacewalk
Spacewalking astronauts remove old ammonia tank and will install new coolant tank ...

Biolab's Mentoring Program Promotes Scientific Study
Aspiring science students - and others - keep coming back to the Biolab

NASA: Approaching 'Junk' No Threat to Spacewalk
Engineers expect debris to pass within three kilometers of International Space Station ...

Recession? What recession? Unionization up on state, local levels
Against all odds, organized labor managed to make new inroads during the economic ...

How manuka honey helps fight infection
Manuka honey may kill bacteria by destroying key bacterial proteins. Dr Rowena Jenkins ...

Building better bone replacements with bacteria
Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more ...

Using waste to recover waste uranium
Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material ...

Novel bacterial strains clear algal toxins from drinking water
Novel bacterial strains capable of neutralizing toxins produced by blue-green algae ...

Making bacteria make useful proteins
By adapting a single protein on the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, ...

Making more efficient fuel cells
Bacteria that generate significant amounts of electricity could be used in microbial ...

Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Pierre and Christiane Lebrun warmly welcome you to Shenval organic Bed & Breakfast ...

Einstein's Invisible Hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?

Web Extra: First Frog without Lungs

ADV: Shenval Bed & Breakfast

All in the Family

Without Substance: ADHD meds don't up kids' drug abuse risk

Caught in the Act? Images may reveal planetary birth

Hydrogen Storage Gets New Hope
A new method for "recycling" hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door ...

Scientists Move Closer To A Safer Anthrax Vaccine
Researchers have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into ...

Termites Eavesdrop On Competitors To Survive
The drywood termite, Cryptotermes secundus, eavesdrops on its more aggressive subterranean ...

Pancreatic Cancer Affects Blacks At Higher Rates
Regardless of risk factors linked to pancreatic cancer, such as smoking and body ...

Organic Electronics A Two-way Street, Thanks To New Plastic Semiconductor
A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. ...

Why Cry? Evolutionary Biologists Show Crying Can Strengthen Relationships
Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now an ...

Molecular Decay Of Enamel-specific Gene In Toothless Mammals Supports Theory Of Evolution ...
Biologists report new evidence for evolutionary change recorded in both the fossil ...

Targeted Investments In Climate Science Could Present Enormous Economic Savings Across ...
Targeted investments in climate science could lead to major benefits in reducing ...

Humans Causing Erosion Comparable To Worlds Largest Rivers And Glaciers, Study Finds ...
A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface ...

Climate Change Influences The Size Of Marine Organisms: Big Advantage For The Small ...
The ice is melting, the sea level is rising and species are conquering new habitats. ...

Satellites And Submarines Give The Skinny On Sea Ice Thickness
This summer, a group of scientists and students -- as well as a Canadian senator, ...

US Energy Use Drops In 2008
Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did ...

Economists Measure GDP Growth From Outer Space
Measurements of economic growth often fall short for developing countries, particularly ...

Greening University Classrooms: Adding Plants Increases Student Satisfaction
In today's frenetic world, many urban dwellers spend more than 80 percent of the ...

Science
Ripples in solid materials act like the bizarre particles long sought by scientists ...

Watch the Clock to Lose Weight
New research suggests that meal timing and an immune system gene could help people ...

Dogs: Kids in Fur Coats?
Canines share similarities with toddlers, with one important difference

Evolution's Little Helper: Xeroxed Genes
Duplicated genes may make much of life's diversity possible

Experimental Drug Shows Promise for Several Cancers
Compound shrinks tumors by targeting critical genetic pathway

Pigeon Wings Sound the Alarm
Special feathers create warning noises when startled birds take off

Puzzling Mosquito May Complicate Malaria Control
Newly identified insect looks just like malaria carrier but may not harbor disease ...

Tempolimit Lichtgeschwindigkeit
Visualisierung und Veranschaulichung der Relativitätstheorie: Online-Artikel, Bilder, ...

South Pacific Travel Blog
An island travel blog with news and views from the South Pacific. NewsFeed: www.southpacific.orgCanada ...

Psyndex: Aktuelle Datensätze
PSYNDEX ist die psychologische Referenzdatenbank des Zentrums für psychologische ...

talentscotland.com
Talent Scotland provides information and professional job listings for Life Sciences. ...

World Heritage Alert
Threats to the worlds heritage places are listed here. NewsFeed: www.worldheritagealert.org ...

Campania PodCast
Campania, Italy, Art, Culture, Nature, podcast, video NewsFeed: www.campaniapodcast.itItal ...

Life Science Events
An Uptodate listing of Life science events. NewsFeed: www.lifescienceevents.comK ...

Can fMRI Really Tell if You're Lying?
Le PCC vous emmène en balade dans Montréal et parfois un peu plus loin...

Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs

Reviews: "The Universe in a Nutshell"

What is sarcoidosis?

Hacking Memory to Break Drug Addiction

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The Science of Star Wars

Battle lines redrawn: war games 'boost intelligence'
VIDEO war games are banned by many parents for their violence, and Facebook is prohibited ...

Nano-tech hushed up in Bristol basement
A SCIENCE laboratory dubbed "the quietest in the world", and which provides the perfect ...

Spacewalkers complete final STS-128 EVA
Two astronauts completed nearly all of their planned tasks outside the International ...

SpaceX wins ORBCOMM launch contract
SpaceX announced this week that it has won a contract to launch a new constellation... ...

New ammonia tank bolted to station
Two astronauts installed a new ammonia coolant tank outside the International Space ...

Space tourist plans global entertainment event
The Canadian performance artist who will be flying to the ISS at the end of...

Orion passes PDR
NASA's Orion spacecraft, a key element in the agency's current exploration plans, ...

Shuttle Astronauts in Homestretch of Space Mission
Shuttle Discovery astronauts entered the homestretch of their busy space station ...

Laser-Propelled Spaceships Could Transform Transportation
Beamed Energy Propulsion is a powerful enabling technology that will radically transform ...

Kepler Telescope Could Find Habitable Moons
Models show Kepler technology capable of detecting moons orbiting exoplanets.

MISSION UPDATE: Astronauts Move Station Arm, Take a Break

Astronauts Outfit Space Station in Mission's Last Spacewalk
Spacewalkers upgraded the International Space Station Saturday despite a wayward ...

Japan's First Space Cargo Ship Ready to Fly
Japan's first-ever space cargo ship is ready for a Sept. 10 launch toward the ...

Space Sights and Smells Surprise Rookie Astronauts
The sights and smells of real spaceflight can be surprising for rookie astronauts. ...

Hell’s Angels Plotted to Kill Mick Jagger, Agent Says - New York Times

&#39;Semi-Pro& amp;#39; Takes Box-Office Crown, But It&#39;s ...

New Amsterdam: Forensics with a Metaphysical Twist - eFluxMedia

Roethlisberger gets more than $36 million in guarantees in new ... - ESPN

Third-place Biffle feels he had best car at Las Vegas - Nascar

Report: Warrick Dunn asks Falcons for release - SportingNews.com

Magically delicious: breakfast keeps teens lean - Reuters

Reef 'could adapt to avoid doom'
THE prediction of a prominent marine biologist that climate change could render the ...

Spring rainfall at record low levels
MUCH of southeastern Australia has had the driest start to spring on record.

NASA gets a rocket for risk
ARES is meant to be the rocket that will launch a new era of lunar exploration. Instead, ...

Humans to blame for melting Antarctica
ANTARCTICA, which seemed to have largely escaped the global warming hotting up the ...

DNA shows Otzi the Iceman has kin
AS he lay dying high in the Tyrolean Alps, Otzi the Iceman would have been astonished ...

Expert warns on recycled sewage
A DISEASE expert has claimed there is no technology to prevent recycled sewage from ...

Flush then drink in the Sunshine State
AS Queensland gets ready to drink recycled sewage, some scientists are nervous.

Science
The climate and environment of the Arctic have changed drastically over the short ...

Stability Through Confinement
With the ability to vary experimental parameters—includin g particle density, ...

Massive White Dwarf
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like the Sun, which blow their outer layers ...

Inside Oort
Long-period comets are thought to come from the outermost region of the solar system, ...

Epigenetic Signals
The lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a signaling molecule that binds to receptors ...

Adult Fears
Why are fear memories almost impossible to get rid of—even with extensive ...

Adaptive Limits
Species adapt to a changing environment as a result of selection acting on current ...

Preparation for Cell Wars
When T cells encounter an infection, they proliferate to create a larger army to ...

Fascin-Actin Rab Bristles
Rab proteins have diverse functions in directing intracellular traffic and may also ...

Boxing Clever?
Piaget showed that 10-month-old infants will persist in looking for a toy in box ...

Carrots Are Better Than Sticks
The challenge of dealing with freeloaders—who benefit from a common good but ...

Coats, COPS, and GTPases
Within cells, vesicles coated with specific proteins, such as clathrin and adaptor ...

Hi Fi Quantum Computing
In quantum information processing, one goal is to control the entangled states of ...

Toughing It Out in Membranes
The formation of crosslinks in the triple-helical structure of collagen is crucial ...

Fact sheet: UW receives largest-ever federal award to construct ocean observatory ...
The University of Washington is slated to receive approximately $126 million – of ...

UW’s new tools for iPhones, mobile devices launched today
The University of Washington now offers campus maps, course calendars, news, events, ...

University of Washington to dedicate Medal of Honor monument
With eight Medal recipients, the UW has more such alumni than any other public university ...

UW report shows increasing support for domestic partnership rights
Support comes from across the state and a wide variety of groups.

Parents play key role in whether teen tobacco use becomes daily habit
Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether ...

Counting duplicated genome segments now possible
A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies ...

The cost of being self-sufficient continues to rise throughout Washington
It’s getting more expensive for families to just get by in Washington. A single ...