- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Psych Central News
Emerging evidence suggests expanded insights into the nature of depression may be forthcoming. The optimism accompanies the discovery that the illness is associated with metabolic or cellular changes. As reported […]
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from LiveScience.comMen with male pattern baldness may be at increased risk of dying from prostate cancer, a new study suggests.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals NewsAn extraordinarily rare ocean discovery of an inches-long 'pocket shark' has been made. Sharks come in all shapes and sizes and are best known as a dominant predator in the marine food web. Understanding their movements, behaviors and an...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesKyocera is in the news this month. Two floating solar power plants in two reservoirs in Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, are complete. This is a joint venture. The two players are Kyocera and Century Tokyo Leasing, which is in the bus...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsMillions of people work abroad as maids, construction workers and other low-wage laborers. The money they send back home is essential to their families, helping them start businesses, send children to school and buy homes.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from ScienceJohn Hopton for redOrbit.com - @Johnfinitum In Part I , we talked about how tetrapods, a group of animals including whales, dolphins, seals and sea turtles, returned to the sea having once survived on land. Other creatures such as snakes...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesA new study of the complex interplay between organisms and their environment shows that biodiversity—the variety of organisms living on Earth—is even more important to the healthy functioning of ecosystems than previously thought.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SPACE.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsOnce-daily oral grazoprevir/elbasvir combination therapy, taken without interferon or ribavirin for 12 weeks, demonstrated high sustained virologic response rates for treatment-naïve patients with cirrhotic or non-cirrhotic chronic hepat...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsIn the study, published by The Royal Statistical Society's journal, Significance, the Oxford University researchers tracked the views of 22,300 people across the UK, surveying them first in February 2014 and then in the autumn of the sam...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study presented today at The International Liver Congress™ 2015 has demonstrated that ledipasvir in combination with sofosbuvir achieves sustained virologic response rates 12 weeks after treatment (SVR12; primary endpoint), of 93 p...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SPACE.comWhile Hubble is healthy now, the telescope is not immortal. Serious problems could conceivably crop up in a number of different Hubble systems.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from SPACE.comThe challenge is to tell them, through the medium of video, image or story, about an 'invention or innovation' that you've encountered. Find out more about it at xprizechallenge.org.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsHarvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an imageable mouse model of brain-metastatic breast cancer and shown the potential of a stem-cell-based therapy to eliminate metastatic cells from t...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SPACE.comTop astronomers to handpick the Hubble Space Telescope image that has the most scientific relevance to them.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsThink Jaws meets a kangaroo, with maybe a touch of cute kitten, and you've got the aptly named pocket shark—the newest and rarest species found off the U.S. coast.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsBees are attracted to nectar containing common pesticides, scientists have discovered. This could increase their chances of exposure to high levels of pesticides.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsThis insignificant patch of sky in the fairly obscure constellation of Fornax is the setting for one of the most remarkable images ever captured. Although only a fraction of the full moon in size, this image traces thousands of distant g...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from LiveScience.comFor many of us, spring has arrived when the songbirds return.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsWhy do animals fight with members of other species? A nine-year study by biologists says the reason often has to do with 'obtaining priority access to females' in the area.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsSignificant strides in science have been made to better understand potential ground shaking from induced earthquakes, which are earthquakes triggered by human practices. Earthquake activity has sharply increased since 2009 in the central...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResults from a large population-based cohort of almost a million people in the UK found that the chances of dying from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, over a 14-year period, was approximately 50 percent higher than for those with non-alco...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Discovery NewsWhile we're waiting around for a giant earthquake to rip the Golden State from the mainland, we thought we'd take a look at what the United States would lose without California.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResults announced today at The International Liver CongressTM 2015 show that cancer rates in patients with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) were significantly increased compared to the non-HCV cohort. The researchers suggest an extrahepatic m...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe probability that an individual accepts negative feedback is dependent on construal level and perceived changeability of the feedback domain, according to new research.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesA hydrogen-fueled vehicle will lead the field at a NASCAR race for the first time when a 2016 Toyota Mirai serves as the official pace car Saturday night at Richmond.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from LiveScience.comThe Forerunner 620 tracks advanced metrics that serious runners will certainly find useful.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Psych Central News
Emerging research suggests a therapy technique that blocks the consolidation of traumatic memories could protect against the long-term psychological and physiological effects of trauma. In a new study, UK researchers […] - Friday, April 24, 2015 from Psych Central NewsWhile most of the nation views California as an open-minded state, residents with mental health issues perceive a significantly different environment. This belief was uncovered in a new RAND Corporation […]
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Discovery NewsDoctors discovered she had a teratoma, a type of tumor that can contain all three of the major cell types that are found in an early stage human embryo.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from SPACE.com
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Discovery NewsAstronomers have discovered 11 entire galaxies that have undergone some unpleasant gravitational turbulence and flung from their home clusters, marooned in intercluster space.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesThe largest magmatic events on Earth are caused by massive melting of ascending large volumes of hot material from the Earth's interior.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsAstronomers celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope by reflecting on its diversity and looking ahead to the future.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsResearchers from the University of Bologna, Italy, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analysed two deciduous teeth from the prehistoric sites of Grotta di Fumane and Riparo Bombrini in Norther...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsFindings were presented today at The International Liver CongressTM 2015 on a novel therapeutic candidate for a genomically defined subset of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with an aberrant fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (F...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe largest magmatic events on Earth are caused by massive melting of ascending large volumes of hot material from the Earth's interior.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsCarbon, held in frozen permafrost soils for tens of thousands of years, is being released as Arctic regions of the Earth warm and is further fueling global climate change, according to a Florida State University researcher. read more
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SPACE.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from ScienceShayne Jacopian for redOrbit.com - @ShayneJacopian Hold onto your butts: An international team of researchers has finally sequenced the complete genome of the woolly mammoth. Some of the researchers involved view this as a giant leap tow...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from LiveScience.comAn Indiana woman's brain tumor that turned out to contain hair bone and teeth has been dubbed an "embryonic twin," but experts say that such tumors are not really twins, nor embryos.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Psych Central News
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) tend to suffer similar deterioration of their psychiatric and physical health as those with bipolar disorder, according to new research published in the British Journal […] - Friday, April 24, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsA very small and rare species of shark is swimming its way through scientific literature. But don't worry, the chances of this inches-long vertebrate biting through your swimsuit is extremely slim, because if you ever spotted one you'd b...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SPACE.comA study of Yellowstone's hot springs has revealed new clues about how organic materials might get preserved in similar environments on the Red Planet, bettering our chances of finding possible signs of life.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsA commonly used term to describe nutritional needs and energy expenditure in humans – basal metabolic rate – could also be used to give insight into brain size of ocean fish, according to new research by Dr Teresa Iglesias and Dr Dan War...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Discover Top StoriesA helicopter parent is a figurative term used to describe a parent who is so wrapped up in their children’s lives, they seem to hover over their existence like a helicopter. Well, one man from Tennessee may have become the world’s first ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsThe best scoring peer-reviewed grants are associated with more papers and patents, a new study finds. But whether peer review is the best system is another question entirely.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent Articles
Astronomers have discovered 195 compact elliptical galaxies, upping the known number of these weird galaxies sixfold. The post Runaway Compact Galaxies? appeared first on Sky & Telescope . - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesIn an effort that reaches back to the 19th-century laboratories of Europe, a discovery by University of Georgia chemistry researchers establishes new research possibilities for silicon chemistry and the semiconductor industry.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsNew research shows that many parents notice signs of autism spectrum disorder in their infant children far before an official diagnosis. The study concludes that parental concerns for their children starting as early as six months of age...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working on a potential vaccine in response to the current outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu that has cost turkey and chicken producers more than 6.7 million birds since early...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from National Geographic NewsThe president chooses the nation’s most vulnerable state to talk about impacts of climate change and rising sea levels.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceDENVER (AP) — Noble Energy has agreed to a settlement over air-pollution violations near Denver, a deal federal officials say could cost the major oil and gas company up to $73.5 million.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park, one of the world's most dynamic volcanic systems, lies an enormous, previously unknown reservoir of hot, partly molten rock big enough to fill up the Grand Canyon 11 times, s...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceLife finds away — as ferns thrive in a discarded bottle on Earth Day.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Physics NewsReal or counterfeit? Northwestern University scientists have invented sophisticated fluorescent inks that one day could be used as multicolored barcodes for consumers to authenticate products ...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from National Geographic NewsEco-friendly buildings can be both affordable and beautiful, say the jurors of an annual architecture award.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NSF NewsOn Earth Day, a study of disease dynamics in a California grassland has revealed fundamental principles underlying the spread of pathogens, or disease-causing microbes, among species. The results, announced today in the journal Nature , ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Inside ScienceGamma rays could improve screening for nuclear and other hazardous materials.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceTwo new studies published in the journal Nature point to a connection between a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids and a decline in bee health. What's bad for bees is bad for crops, too.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentFor the first time, brain signals relating to the constant ringing noise of tinnitus have been mapped across a wide area inside a patient's brain.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — What better way to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's quarter-century in orbit than with cosmic fireworks?
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceFriction between close business partners is the reason many startups fail. But increasingly in Silicon Valley, co-founders of companies are turning to therapists before things go south.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from National Geographic NewsA combination of reflections gave birth to the four rainbows captured in a picture by a woman in Long Island.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentBBC Newsnight gets rare access to one of the most important cave art sites in the world - and visits its vast replica, which is about to open in France.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday marked the silver anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with fireworks, of a celestial kind, conveyed by the orbiting observatory itself.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAn experiment long dreaded by many researchers, with the goal of eradicating disease genes, failed in the ways that had been feared.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe world's largest ant colony stretches over 3,700 miles. It succeeds, biologist Deborah Gordon says, because no one is in charge. They communicate with algorithmic patterns to survive and thrive.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe telescope began as a “technoturkey” that did not work properly. It has endured to become an icon of space exploration and science.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
One section in materialist Edward Slingerland's book is titled "We Are Robots Designed Not to Believe That We Are Robots." - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceIn Michigan's orchard country, extreme heat and cold can mean disaster for fruit growers. Now some are using a new twist on old technology to fool trees when sudden, unexpected weather changes occur.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceBy editing the genes in embryos in the lab, Chinese scientists showed that it's possible to change hereditary traits that cause a blood disorder. But the work also created unintended mutations.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from Physics News3-D printers are great, as long as all you want to do is print Action Man out of one material, in one color. Multi-color machines exist, but they're a far cry from the cheap, simple desktop ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceNPR has this tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope — a parody of Iggy Azalea's "Trouble."
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceDoctors, it turns out, often don't follow evidence-based guidelines in their practice of medicine. Scientists who study this contrariness think they know why.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most complete genetic information assembled on woolly mammoths is providing insight into their demise, revealing they suffered two population crashes before a final, severely inbred group succumbed on an Arctic...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe trip was also intended to sharpen a political contrast with Republicans in ways that will help the Democratic Party in the 2016 presidential race.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Physics NewsABOUT TIME: Physicists have fine-tuned an atomic clock to the point where it won't lose or gain a second in 15 billion years - longer than the universe has existed.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceUtility companies say that blackouts may be generated as they try to remake the electrical power system.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentClimate scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NSF NewsA team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano--enough to fill the 1000 cubic-mile-Grand Canyon more than 11 times. The pool is ov...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Evolution News & Views
Luskin continues his series discussing the top ten problems with biological and chemical evolution. - Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > ScienceResearchers say that stopping leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is a major untapped opportunity for combating climate change.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The deaths of 389 fish at the Texas State Aquarium are being blamed on a mislabeled chemical container.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NYT > ScienceA patient allowed researchers to record his brain activity while he experienced a ringing in his ears, and they were able to suppress it.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from National Geographic NewsA floating oil rig just delivered to Italian and Norwegian oil companies will soon be operating farther north than any other.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceA classified replica of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Tennessee is but one part of an extensive crash program within nine U.S. atomic laboratories to block Tehran’s nuclear progress.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceResearchers set hungry mosquitoes loose on identical and fraternal twins. They found that inherited genes do play a role in making you a mosquito magnet.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from National Geographic NewsA flickering quasar may be signaling that the most colossal of cosmic smashups could be just a few years away.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceNEW YORK (AP) — New York City is set to mark Earth Day by announcing the ambitious goal of reducing its waste output by more than 3 million tons by 2030.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Inside ScienceLooking in to the complex animal life and how it has evolved over time.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAs the climate changes and populations grow, resource managers and environmental advocates warn that scarcity of either water or power could mean shortages and rising costs of both.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - Oklahoma geologists have documented strong links between increased seismic activity in the state and the injection into the ground of wastewater from oil and gas production, a state agency said on Tuesday.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Hubble, it's your turn to smile for the cameras!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceRecycling at sports stadiums isn’t just for cans and bottles anymore. A growing number of teams are asking fans to also toss leftover food and biodegradable trays and cups, in recycling bins.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from NYT > ScienceIn the study reported on Wednesday, three monkeys that got the drug TKM-Ebola-Makona survived, while three untreated monkeys died.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NYT > ScienceBees apparently preferred to consume sugar that contained a type of pesticide because the nicotine-like substance affected their brains.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NYT > ScienceSo-called endogenous retroviruses may help guide embryonic development and defend young cells from infections by other viruses.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from National Geographic NewsThe president says “we’re committed to a low-carbon future” but wants a “balanced approach.” And he vows to provide more help to drought-stricken California.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is cutting spending on its space program by more than a third over the next 10 years because of the country's economic crisis, forcing it to scrap plans to develop a super-heavy launch rocket.
