Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

Nov 21, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (40) | 35

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...

Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

Physics / General Physics

Nov 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (18) | 23

(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 20, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (28) | 32

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...

Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena

Physics / General Physics

Nov 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying the patterns that emerge in natural and social phenomena is a popular area of research, although usually individual phenomena are studied separately from each other. In a recent study, ...

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (35) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

Vaccine being developed to help smokers quit

Medicine & Health / Medications

Nov 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently.

Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 17, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (19) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.

Nanoparticles used in common household items caused genetic damage in mice

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (24) | 11

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson ...

Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (25) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as ...

Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

Physics / General Physics

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (20) | 9

A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 22, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 1

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...

Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 18, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (23) | 9

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial ...

Pilot study relates phthalate exposure to less-masculine play by boys

Medicine & Health / Research

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 9

A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers' prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, ...

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 21, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 7

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

IBM makes Big Blue cloud

Technology / Software

Nov 16, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (8) | 9

IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.

Google's SPDY will speed up downloads

Technology / Internet

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (17) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...