Opening a can of worms: Serendipitous discovery reveals earthworms more diverse than first thought 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Scientists have found that the UK's common or garden earthworms are far more diverse than previously thought, a discovery with important consequences for agriculture. | |
Indo-Australian study identifies genetic region involved in schizophrenia risk 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A study involving an Indian population has led to an important discovery in schizophrenia genetics. | |
 Palm oil clearing swathes of forest in Indonesia's Papua: Greenpeace 43 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Palm oil companies are clearing massive swathes of untouched forest in Indonesia's remote easternmost Papua region, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday. | |
Researchers Study Coastal Hazards of Increasing Wave Heights, Rising Sea Levels 1 hour ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- While hurricanes Gustav and Ike were pummeling the Gulf Coast with rains and record flooding, researchers at Oregon State University were studying why wave heights in the Pacific Ocean have been increasing ... | |
 Fujitsu Develops World's First GaN HEMT Able to Cut Power in Standby Mode and Achieve High Output 1 hour ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Fujitsu today announced the development of a new type of gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that features a new structure ideal for use in amplifiers for microwave and millimeter-wave ... | |
 Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission 1 hour ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets. | |
Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and ... | |
Pregnancy not turning minds to mush: Study 6 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University. | |
 On the trail of a targeted therapy for blood cancers 2 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Investigators from the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine are focusing on a family of blood proteins that they hope holds a key to decreasing the toxic ... | |
Want a mammogram? Get in line 2 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Doctors usually recommend that women older than 40 get yearly mammograms. But if you're planning on calling Northwestern Memorial Hospital's state-of-the-art breast imaging center, grab next year's calendar: The next opening ... | |
ASU Mars instrument gets new lease on life as NASA extends Mars Odyssey mission 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
TEMPE, Ariz. – A six-minute rocket firing on Sept. 30 has put NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the mission, will give an ASU-operated ... | |
Dutch pub owners rebel against smoking law 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Dutch pub owners have launched a coordinated resistance against a smoking ban introduced in June, taking their ashtrays out of short-lived storage and pooling cash to pay the resultant fines. | |
Facebook rekindling long-lost friendships 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
It was the first message Marlee Wallingford ever received on Facebook. And it was a simple one: "Did you go to Salisbury Central School in 1968?" | |
Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial? 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign. | |
Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year—four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together—but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim ... | |
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