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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Scientists to drill FIVE miles down: First journey to below the Earth's crust will go deeper than ever before

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1370724/First-journey-Earths-mantle-scientists-drill-deeper-before.html

The health benefits of saffron

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8411830/The-health-benefits-of-saffron.html

First Practical Nanogenerator Produces Electricity With Pinch of the Fingers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134115.htm

To Better Detect Heart Transplant Rejections, Scientists Test for Traces of Donor's Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151728.htm

Study Illuminates the 'Pain' of Social Rejection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151726.htm

Thyroid Hormone Controls the Eye‘s Visual Pigments Throughout Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329172251.htm

Frequency of Fat Talk Associated With Increased Body Dissatisfaction, Regardless of Waistline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329172355.htm

Household Bleach Can Decontaminate Food Prep Surfaces in Ricin Bioterrorist Attack

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329172234.htm

Like Products, Plants Wait for Optimal Configuration Before Market Success

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134343.htm

Scientists Devise Targeted Therapy Strategy for Rare Form of Childhood Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134123.htm

Heavy Metals Open Path to High Temperature Nanomagnets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328101324.htm

Bariatric Surgery Highly Cost-Effective Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in the Obese, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329172359.htm

Imaging the Paintings Under the Paintings of the Old Masters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329151450.htm

Exposure to Chemicals in Environment Associated With Onset of Early Menopause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323103912.htm

Poor Behavior Doesn't Always Lead to Poor Academics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329172357.htm

Deciphering Hidden Code Reveals Brain Activity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328131302.htm

New Cancer Drug Heads to Clinical Trials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134302.htm

New Insight Into How 'Tidying Up' Enzymes Work

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151732.htm

Key Plant Traits Yield More Sugar for Biofuels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329095444.htm

Ambulatory Monitoring Reveals Many Patients Have 'White Coat' Hypertension

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328161842.htm

Stepchildren Relate to Stepparents Based on Perceived Benefits, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329141554.htm

Treadmill Tests for Poison Frogs Show Toxic Species Are More Physically Fit

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134250.htm

Mother's Obesity May Lead to Infertility in the Next Generation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323103915.htm

Some Ingredients in 'Green' Products Come from Petroleum Rather Than Natural Sources

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329095733.htm

Weight Loss Surgery Can Significantly Improve Migraines, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328161846.htm

New 'Nanodrug' Breaks Down Barriers to Attack Breast Cancer Cells from the Inside out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329151502.htm

Researchers Make First Perovskite-Based Superlens for the Infrared

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134248.htm

New Device Uses Submarine Technology to Diagnose Stroke Quickly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329095434.htm

Women's Body Image Based More on Others' Opinions Than Their Own Weight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329141559.htm

Potential New Medicines Show Promise for Treating Colon Cancer, Asthma

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328161836.htm

Chemists' Biosensor May Improve Food, Water Safety and Cancer Detection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329134345.htm

Researchers Close in on Technology for Making Renewable Petroleum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135635.htm

Negative Attitudes Toward Fat Bodies Going Global, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328171226.htm

Evolution: Not Only the Fittest Survive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191044.htm

First Identification of Nicotine as Main Culprit in Diabetes Complications Among Smokers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191036.htm

Avoiding Health Risks Could Prevent More Than Half of All Cases of Atrial Fibrillation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328161844.htm

Tiger Numbers Increase in India

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328131310.htm

Digital Versus Analog Control Over Cortical Inhibition in the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322172217.htm

Childhood Psychological Problems Have Long-Term Economic and Social Impact, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151724.htm

GPS Study Shows Wolves More Reliant on a Cattle Diet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328131304.htm

Marijuana Use May Hurt Intellectual Skills in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328161840.htm

Next-Generation Chemical Mapping on the Nanoscale

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329095739.htm

From Crankcase to Gas Tank: New Microwave Method Converts Used Motor Oil Into Fuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110329095735.htm

Matter Spotted a Millisecond from Black Hole -- But Is It Really Doomed?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153753.htm

Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Endangered Mountain Gorillas; Finding Confirms That Serious Diseases Can Pass to Gorillas from People

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151738.htm

Viral Replicase Points to Potential Cancer Therapy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328092506.htm

No Longer Pining for Organic Molecules to Make Particles in the Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110124151708.htm

No Two of Us Are Alike -- Even Identical Twins: Pinpointing Genetic Determinants of Schizophrenia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151740.htm

How Do Plants Fight Disease? Breakthrough Research Offers a Clue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328154303.htm

Scientists Trace Violent Death of Iron Age Man

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328101108.htm

Twinkle, Twinkle, Quantum Dot: New Particles Can Change Colors and Tag Molecules

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328131312.htm

New Trash-to-Treasure Process Turns Landfill Nuisance Into Plastic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328092501.htm

Genetic Link to Attempted Suicide Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328131258.htm

Deep-Sea Volcanoes Don't Just Produce Lava Flows, They Also Explode

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328151734.htm

Why Some Children Are Harmed by Mother's Alcohol, but Others Aren't

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140249.htm

'Green' Cars Could Be Made from Pineapples and Bananas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328092459.htm

From Cotton Candy to Rock: New Evidence About Beginnings of the Solar System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191159.htm

Remarkable Fossil Sea Creature -- 525 Million Years Old -- Shows Soft Parts of Body Including Tentacles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153024.htm

How Bees Learn Which Odors to Follow

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110228090613.htm

Babies Who Sleep With Smoker Parents Exhibit High Nicotine Levels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328115822.htm

Scientists Link DNA 'End-Caps' Length to Diabetes Risk; New Role for Short Telomeres

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324103604.htm

Outcomes Improved by Longer Delays Between Heart Attacks and Elective Surgeries, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324103126.htm

When You Cough Up Green or Yellow Phlegm You Need to Be Prescribed Antibiotics, Right?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324103137.htm

Taming the Flame: Electrical Wave 'Blaster' Could Provide New Way to Extinguish Fires

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191034.htm

Advanced Technology Reveals Activity of Single Neurons During Seizures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191048.htm

Walnuts Are Top Nut for Heart-Healthy Antioxidants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191040.htm

Taking Blood Pressure to New Lows -- With Lasting Results

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110328092406.htm

Blood Pressure Control System Found in Kidney's Structural Units

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110114164519.htm

Eye Movement Differs in British and Chinese Populations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324103133.htm

Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369595/Jacob-Barnett-12-higher-IQ-Einstein-develops-theory-relativity.html

The BioPirates of Science: Genetic Engineering – Science or Hoax?

http://farmwars.info/?p=5648

DARPA Creates Interactive 3-D Holographic Map Table

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/darpa-creates-interactive-3d-holographic-table-help-military-planners

Plastic Beads Fight Cancer By Cutting Blood Flow

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/plastic-beads-fight-cancer-cutting-blood-flow

To Protect Patented Genes, DARPA Wants a Security System that Records Genomic Changes

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/086728-2011-03-29-to-protect-patented-genes-darpa-wants-a-security-system-that.htm

China 'to overtake US on science' in two years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271

First Ever Photos of Mercury

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5162

Aircrafts' Vapor Trails Trap Heat

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5164

Space Travel Psychology

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5160

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

23 Charts On The Amazing History Of Human Progress

http://www.businessinsider.com/human-progress-charts-2011-3

Digital Music's Legality In Question

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5159

'Virus-eater' discovered in Antarctic lake First of the parasitic parasites to be discovered in a natural environment points to hidden diversity.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110328/full/news.2011.188.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110329

DNA mismatch reveals organ rejection A test that spots donor DNA in a transplant recipient's bloodstream could replace invasive biopsies.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110328/full/news.2011.189.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110329

Melanoma drug wins US approval Therapy is the first to extend lifespan in advanced cases.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110328/full/471561a.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110329

Frightened birds grow longer wings Offspring of predator-stressed mothers grow their wings more quickly than chicks from predator-free females.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110325/full/news.2011.187.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110329

Sitting in the Dark - Daniel Greenfield

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/03/sitting-in-dark.html

Monday, March 28, 2011

Structure of DNA Repair Complex Reveals Workings of Powerful Cell Motor

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110327191201.htm

People at Risk of Alzheimer's May Now Be Able to Delay the Onset of Their First Symptoms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323104733.htm

New Drug Approved for Treating Most Common Type of Lupus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310093758.htm

'Can You Hear Me Now?' How Neurons Decide How to Transmit Information

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325111859.htm

When the Body Attacks Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324104412.htm

Great Depression Did Not Significantly Improve Life Expectancy in United States, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324202055.htm

Black Hole Found in Binary Star System: More Than Five Times Greater in Mass Than Our Sun

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325082725.htm

Stem Cell Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Moves a Step Closer to Reality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324103123.htm

Multiplexing in the Visual Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324104408.htm

New Taser can strike suspect 100 feet away Weapon shoots cartridge that delivers shock

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/27/new-taser-can-strike-suspect-100-feet-away.html

Turmeric Could Be Used to Detect Explosives, Researchers Say

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/curry-spice-could-be-used-detect-explosives-researchers-say

MIT Lab Creates the World's First Feasible 'Artificial Leaf'

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-03/mit-lab-creates-worlds-first-practical-artificial-leaf

Water-powered spaceship could make Mars trip on the cheap

http://www.space.com/11230-water-powered-spaceship-mars-solar-system.html

Sunday, March 27, 2011

New Instrument Keeps an 'Eye' on Nanoparticles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110306141659.htm

Living at High Altitude Reduces Risk of Dying from Heart Disease: Low Oxygen May Spur Genes to Create Blood Vessels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325151643.htm

Tourettes Brains Are Structured for Greater, Not Lesser, Cognitive Motor Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153016.htm

Algae, Bacteria Hogged Oxygen After Ancient Mass Extinction, Slowed Marine Life Recovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153016.htm

Neuroscientists Decode Crucial Component in Brain Signal Processing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325152152.htm

Inclusive Fitness Theory Defended

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102153.htm

'Simulated' Needles Just as Effective as Real Acupuncture in Treating Nausea in Cancer Patients, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324104406.htm

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Religious Young Adults Become Obese by Middle Age: Cause May Be Unhealthy Food at Religious Activities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324104145.htm

Eskimo Study Suggests High Consumption of Omega-3s in Fish-Rich Diet Reduces Obesity-Related Disease Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153712.htm

In Vivo Systems Biology: Using Computer Models, Systems Biologists Can Predict Complicated Behavior of Cells in Living Animals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323183819.htm

Conch Shell Gives Nano Insights Into Composite Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322110026.htm

Universal Property of Music Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm

New Colon Cancer Marker Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325164222.htm

Robots Who Battle Genetic Disease

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5122

Geneticists create living human-animal chimeras

http://www.helium.com/items/2123899-geneticists-create-living-human-animal-chimeras

New Carnivore in Madagascar

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-carnivore-in-madagascar.html

New Treatment May Prevent Deadly Radiation Sickness

http://innovationnewsdaily.com/nuclear-radiation-sickness-treatment-1829/

UT Student-Built Spacecraft Separate and Communicate

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/24/233245

DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/24/2312250

Brain-Computer Interface Still Going After 1,000 Days

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/25/1352218

Superconductor Research Points To New Phase of Matter

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/25/1439212

The First Plastic Computer Processor

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37126/?p1=A2

OMG! Online abbreviations make the OED

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icdk-t2peXs8wYiTo7vitJAsCcmA?docId=c145b5ce20f64bfabf0209bf0328dace

Breaking Into the Super Collider

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/25/2028234

Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites?

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/25/2148252

Are Saturated Fats Really The Enemy? Beyond the new obsession with "good fats," what does fat do for our bodies and more specifically, who's to blame for America's obesity epidemic? - Sara Novak

http://www.alternet.org/story/150278/are_saturated_fats_really_the_enemy

Friday, March 25, 2011

Acupuncture for Pain No Better Than Placebo -- And Not Without Harm, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324104147.htm

Mini-Stroke Doubles Risk of Heart Attack

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324162231.htm

Losing a Parent Can Be Fatal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323105313.htm

Crucial Hour to Prevent Fatal Bleeding

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323214400.htm

Cutting Carbon Dioxide Could Help Prevent Droughts, New Research Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153504.htm

Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324171100.htm

Statins Make Radiation More Effective at Curing Prostate Cancer, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323104727.htm

Mouse Cancer Genome Unveils Genetic Errors in Human Cancers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135625.htm

High Levels of Dietary Nitrate Might in Part Explain the Vascular Benefits of Diets Rich in Leafy Greens

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135631.htm

New Model Predicts the Optical Properties of Nano-Structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153751.htm

Novel Immune Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153009.htm

Contented Citizens Vote Against Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323105205.htm

Sticking Power: New Adhesive Could Find Place in Space

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323104735.htm

Loss of Plant Diversity Threatens Earth's Life-Support Systems, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303153116.htm

In Adolescence, the Power to Resist Blooms in the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309125147.htm

Molecular Muscle: Small Parts of a Big Protein Play Key Roles in Building Tissues

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140152.htm

Chemist Develops Technique to Use Light to Predict Molecular Crystal Structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140142.htm

Robot-Assisted Prostate Surgery Is Safe, Long-Term Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140138.htm

Glimpse of How the 'Code' of Life May Have Emerged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140243.htm

Suggesting Genes' Friends, Facebook-Style

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307065541.htm

The Evolution of Brain Wiring: Navigating to the Neocortex

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135629.htm

Arthritis Drug Could Help Beat Melanoma Skin Cancer, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323141838.htm

Physical Activity Decreases Salt's Effect on Blood Pressure, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323183801.htm

'Junk Food' Moms Have 'Junk Food' Babies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323105200.htm

Coldest Known Star: Brown Dwarf About as Hot as a Cup of Tea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323103909.htm

New Insight Into How Environmental Enrichment Enhances Memory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135627.htm

Sign Language Users Read Words and See Signs Simultaneously

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322105438.htm

Plant Oil May Hold Key to Reducing Obesity-Related Medical Issues, Researcher Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140144.htm

Prostate Cancer Spreads to Bones by Overtaking the Home of Blood Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140237.htm

Similarities Found in Brain Activity for Both Habits and Goals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135618.htm

Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/eythor_bender_demos_human_exoskeletons.html

Test tube sperm grown in lab could cure male infertility Sperm has been grown in a test tube for the first time in a "small but important step" towards curing male infertility, a study claims.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8400927/Test-tube-sperm-grown-in-lab-could-cure-male-infertility.html

Why Physics Beats Rock

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5119

The Politics Of Patent Reform

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5113

Inventor creates incredible flying motorcycle

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/086435-2011-03-24-inventor-creates-incredible-flying-motorcycle.htm

An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress

http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/24/1157201

Texas Site Pushes Back Known Settlement Date For North America

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/24/197240

Improving Productivity (With Science)

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/24/1555256

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Killer Within: A Novel Bacterial Suicide Mechanism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322172215.htm

Webb Telescope Sunshield Is Like an Umbrella on the Shores of the Universe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162018.htm

Only the Weak Survive? Self-Healing Materials Strengthened by Adding More 'Give'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151306.htm

Cheap Catalyst Made Easy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151252.htm

Forensics: Overweight People Really Are Big-Boned

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322105300.htm

Is That 911 Call a Real Emergency? Emotion Detector Made for Call Centers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321093845.htm

Engineers Make Breakthrough in Ultra-Sensitive Sensor Technology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134621.htm

How the Lily Blooms: Ruffling at the Edge of Each Petal Drives the Delicate Flower to Open

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321161918.htm

Seeing in Stereo: Engineers Invent Lens for 3-D Microscope

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134625.htm

Alternatives Have Begun in Bid to Hear from NASA's Spirit Mars Rover

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321101647.htm

Simulating Tomorrow's Accelerators at Near the Speed of Light

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322114831.htm

Carbon Capture and Storage: Carbon Dioxide Pressure Dissipates in Underground Reservoirs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322115230.htm

The Importance of Clarifying Language in Mathematics Education

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321183013.htm

Self-Strengthening Nanocomposite Created

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323141854.htm

Even Mild Stress Is Linked to Long-Term Disability, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323192953.htm

Researchers Collect 'Signals Intelligence' on Insect Pests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323104725.htm

New Computer-Based Method to Detect Epileptic Seizures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140241.htm

Rapid Etching X-Rayed: Physicists Unveil Processes During Fast Chemical Dissolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322105953.htm

Drug Prevents Type 2 Diabetes in Majority of High-Risk Individuals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323183808.htm

Long-Term Methadone Treatment Can Affect the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323104719.htm

Scientists Find a Key to Maintaining Our DNA: Provides New Clues in Quest to Slow Aging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318111925.htm

Psychologists Find the Meaning of Aggression: 'Monty Python' Scene Helps Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323105202.htm

Scientists Grow Personalized Collections of Intestinal Microbes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162001.htm

Lung Cancer Study Finds Mentholated Cigarettes No More Harmful Than Regular Cigarettes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323183806.htm

New Method for Preparation of High-Energy Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323141848.htm

Does Belief in Free Will Lead to Action?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323140233.htm

Anaerobic Digestion on Farms Could Turn Agriculture Green

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110304091456.htm

Time Lived With Obesity Linked With Mortality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134453.htm

New Imaging Technique Provides Rapid, High-Definition Chemistry

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110320164218.htm

Youth at Risk for Obesity Show Greater Brain Activity in Response to Food

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322172223.htm

Tree Resin Captures Key Evidence of Current and Ancient Insect Invasions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322224325.htm

First Image of Protein Residue in 50-Million-Year-Old Reptile Skin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322224314.htm

Spinal Cord Processes Information Just as Areas of Brain Do, Research Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151308.htm

Good-Bye, Blind Spot: Always Keeping Robots and Humans in View in Industrial Settings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151300.htm

New Technique Could Help Solve Mystery of Vanishing Bees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321201649.htm

New Scientific Field Will Study Ecological Importance of Sounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301122154.htm

Load Up on Fiber Now, Avoid Heart Disease Later

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322172225.htm

In the Race of Life, Better an Adaptable Tortoise Than a Fit Hae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322105304.htm

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162005.htm

Think You'll Ace That Test? Think Again, Then Start Studying

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151410.htm

Good News for Meat Lovers: Most Ready-to-Eat Meat Products Contain Very Few Cancerous Compounds, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322105436.htm

The New York Times' $50 Million Paywall Crumbles With Simple Code Exploit

http://www.alternet.org/story/150349/the_new_york_times%27_%2450_million_paywall_crumbles_with_simple_code_exploit?akid=6719.151402._7We7f

New York Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall-Evading Account

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382467,00.asp

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Rebuilding America for the 21st Century Global Roundtable, The Future of Economic Competition (video)

http://bigthink.com/series/66

Pakistani Nuclear Physicist Says Pakistan Can't Handle a Fukushima-Like Crisis, Argues: 'It is Time to Down-Size Pakistan's Nuclear Fission Power Production'

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5124.htm

How Important Is Earth's Magnetic Field?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5092

Faculty Q&A: Brian Greene

http://news.columbia.edu/record/2355

Laser Space Telescope Could Test for Vanishing Dimensions

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/vanishing-dimensions/

There is a possibility that we live in a universe dominated by antimatter - Alasdair Wilkins

http://io9.com/#!5784323/there-is-a-possibility-that-we-live-in-a-universe-dominated-by-antimatter

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html

Paperback rider: The technology that enables a computer to print off a full-working bicycle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1368113/Go-print-bike-The-technology-enables-run-working-cycle.html

Geologists warn another earthquake could tear Tokyo in two after weakening of fault line below capital

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368405/Geologists-warn-powerful-earthquake-strike-Tokyo-disaster-weakened-fault-line-near-capital.html

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Breakthrough in Niemann-Pick Type C Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162014.htm

A 'Fossil Seismograph' for Ancient Earthquakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314111224.htm

Streptococcus Enzyme Could Compete With Toothbrushes, Dental Floss

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321203139.htm

Canadian Avalanche Victims Die Significantly Quicker Than Swiss Counterparts, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134451.htm

Basking in the Sun: How Large Mammals Survive Winter in the Mountains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201083936.htm

A Better Test for Human Papillomavirus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321203217.htm

Templated Growth Technique Produces Graphene Nanoribbons With Metallic Properties

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321161916.htm

Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162007.htm

Cigarette Smoking Associated With Increased Risk of Developing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214162935.htm

Fault-Finding Coral Reefs Can Predict the Site of Coming Earthquakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134615.htm

Overfertilizing Corn Undermines Ethanol: Researchers Find Feeding Crops Too Heavily Bad for Biofuel, Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110225164709.htm

Huge Ocean 'Frisbees' Spin Off Brazil's Coast

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162003.htm

A Dose of Safflower Oil Each Day Might Help Keep Heart Disease at Bay

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134629.htm

Trauma Patients Protected from Worse Outcomes Associated With So-Called 'Weekend Effect'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162012.htm

Primordial Soup Gets Spicier: 'Lost' Samples from Famous Origin of Life Researcher Shed New Light on Earth's First Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321161904.htm

Treatment Breakthrough for Rare Disease Linked to Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315192817.htm

Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321101101.htm

The Drive Toward Hydrogen Vehicles Just Got Shorter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321093701.htm

Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_behncke_evolution_s_gift_of_play_from_bonobo_apes_to_humans.html

Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html

How to launch something into space for $150 Once the sole domain of military pilots and rocket scientists, low-earth orbit can now be attained by ordinary citizens with inexpensive hardware. A Q&A with Spacehack founder and do-it-yourselfer Ariel Waldman.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0322/How-to-launch-something-into-space-for-150

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODIC TABLE

http://wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/perhist.htm

I-Team: Bigelow Aerospace May Get Module on Space Station

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/13974654/i-team-bigelow-aerospace-may-get-module-on-space-station

After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet Humanity may have millennia to find a new home in the universe--or just a few years By Ben Austen

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/after-earth-why-where-how-and-when-we-might-leave-our-home-planet

Quake shakes Japan's science Natural disaster leaves researchers struggling with broken equipment and a crippled infrastructure

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110321/full/471420a.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110322

Monday, March 21, 2011

Miniature Lasers Could Help Launch New Age of the Internet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093033.htm

Scientists Use Light to Move Molecules Within Living Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316122512.htm

New Insight Into the Brain's Ability to Reorganize Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091014.htm

How Inherited Genes Contribute to a Common, Incurable Neurodegenerative Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310151208.htm

Making Viruses Pass for 'Safe'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308141053.htm

The Case for a Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308141115.htm

Can Bees Color Maps Better Than Ants?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310093756.htm

Mutant Prions Help Cells Foil Harmful Protein Misfolding

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110320164222.htm

Masked Fears: Are Fears That Are Seemingly Overcome Only Hidden?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318112018.htm

Important Structure in the Transmission of Light Signals Deciphered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310093820.htm

Economics and Evolution Help Scientists Identify New Strategy to Control Antibiotic Resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318153325.htm

Spintronics: Enhancing the Magnetism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318153322.htm

Americans Like Their Drinks 'Sickeningly Sweet' but New Labeling May Make a Difference

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318174604.htm

Is Space Like a Chessboard?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110319085514.htm

'Pruned' Microchips Are Faster, Smaller, More Energy-Efficient

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316161916.htm

Modified mRNA Is the Key to Novel Anti-Cancer Therapy, Experts Offer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317115355.htm

Tests on Century-Old Equipment Show How Far X-Rays Have Come

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084405.htm

U.S. Death Rate Falls for 10th Straight Year

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110319091220.htm

Fairy Wrens Are Accountants of the Animal Kingdom, Not Altruistic as Previously Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318102252.htm

Magnetic Stripes Behind Mysterious Hourglass Magnetic Spectrum of High Temperature Superconductors?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093440.htm

World Penis Size Map

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/03/world-penis-size-map/

Magnetic pole shift may drive animals and humans mad

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/086088-2011-03-20-magnetic-pole-shift-may-drive-animals-and-humans-mad.htm

An On-Off Switch for Anxiety

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/086103-2011-03-20-an-on-off-switch-for-anxiety.htm

10 Must-Have Free Downloads Setting a high bar for PC software shouldn't hurt the bottom line. From system utilities to media tools to productivity boosters, these freebies will make your life easier.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/221971/10_musthave_free_downloads.html

4G Wireless Speed Tests: Which Is Really the Fastest? AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon: PCWorld’s exclusive performance tests reveal which 4G network delivers the fastest data speeds.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/221931/article.html

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Female hormone could be key to male contraceptive Progesterone-sensing molecule that guides sperm to egg offers fertility solution.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110316/full/news.2011.163.html

Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/shockwave-generating-wave-discs-could-replace-cars-internal-combustion-engines

Iran builds a flying saucer

http://www.helium.com/items/2119868-iran-builds-a-flying-saucer

Electricity Sparks Interest in New Technologies and Cosmeceuticals for Aging Skin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318204438.htm

An Icy Gaze Into the Big Bang: Quantum Physicists Investigate New States of Matter in Ultracold Atom Mixtures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091144.htm

Chemical-Free Pest Management Cuts Rice Waste

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093349.htm

Secrets of Plague Revealed Through Super-Resolution Microscopy Technique

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308124744.htm

More Efficient Means of Creating, Arranging Carbon Nanofibers Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317102554.htm

Enzyme Can Steer Cells or Possibly Stop Them in Their Tracks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091019.htm

New Insight Into the Brain's Ability to Reorganize Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091014.htm

'Star Wars' and science: an exhibit with galactic potential

http://crosscut.com/2011/03/20/diversions/20737/-Star-Wars--and-science:-an-exhibit-with-galactic-potential/

Sunlight can influence the breakdown of medicines in the body

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10905&Section=VITAMINS&source=DHB_110319

Does Neuroscience Explain Art?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5061

The Music in the Mind

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5063

Quitting the Cult of Happiness

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5060

Over Half a Decade, China Closed 130,000 Internet Cafes

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/19/0322209

Geologists Say California May Be Next

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/19/039209

Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/19/1329254

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Green Sludge Can Protect Groundwater from Radioactive Contamination, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317115450.htm

Graphene Cloak Protects Bacteria, Leading to Better Images

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315130043.htm

World First: Localized Delivery of an Anti-Cancer Drug by Remote-Controlled Microcarriers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084417.htm

New Technologies to Crack Down on Counterfeit Whisky

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084913.htm

Quantum Pen for Single Atoms Is a Big Step Toward Large-Scale Quantum Computing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093347.htm

New Blood Analysis Chip Could Lead to Disease Diagnosis in Minutes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318102243.htm

Japanese Tsunami Underscores Need for Elder Disaster Preparedness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318153331.htm

Scientists Take a Look at Systems Biology and Cellular Networking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141436.htm

New Study Adds Weight to Diabetes Drug Link to Heart Problems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317210317.htm

Hospital Infections: Unique Antibody from Llamas Provide Weapon Against Clostridium Difficile

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318111927.htm

Sad Dads Spank More, Read Less, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318121905.htm

Ecologists Use 70-Year-Old Pressed Plants to Chart City's Vanishing Native Flora

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091012.htm

Epilepsy and Coordination Disorders: Important Role for the Cerebellum

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318102250.htm

Human Gender Roles Influence Research on Animals, Swedish Biologists Argue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318112022.htm

'Bilingual' Neurons May Reveal the Secrets of Brain Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091017.htm

Human Prejudice Has Ancient Evolutionary Roots

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317102552.htm

East Africa - The Last Great Frontier in the Hunt for Hydrocarbons

http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/article/east-africa-the-last-great-frontier-in-the-hunt-for-hydrocarbons-tlw.l-apc-eni/23032

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085979-2011-03-18-larry-page-wants-to-return-google-to-its-startup-roots.htm

Week in weird science: Zombie ants, time travel and laser beams A roundup of strange, exciting and perplexing stories from the world of science and technology BY ADAM CLARK ESTES

http://www.salon.com/news/science/index.html?story=/tech/feature/2011/03/18/zombie_ants_time_travel_whale_names

Medical Breakthroughs Are a Ruse

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5052

The Birth of Biological Machines

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5051

Will the Supermoon Affect You?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5050

US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/1747218

Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/1716212

Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/1428251

MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/1256206

Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/0032245

US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/023239

Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/18/1228227

Friday, March 18, 2011

Peer-to-Peer Visa Payments Coming to the U.S.

http://www.openmarket.org/2011/03/18/peer-to-peer-visa-payments-coming-to-the-u-s/

MSNBC: Bible a ‘work of fiction’

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/18/msnbc-bible-a-work-of-fiction/

Scientists say quartz is key to understanding quakes

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-earthquakes-quartz-idUSTRE72F87D20110316

Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/rsa-hacked/

Urine: Waste Product or Future Power Source?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100727082658.htm

Survival Matching Should Be Used to Allocate Donated Kidneys to Transplant Recipients, Experts Urge

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317152433.htm

A New Evolutionary History of Primates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317172047.htm

Tying the Knot With Computer-Generated Holograms: Winding Optical Path Moves Matter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315130136.htm

Life Expectancy Rising in UK and Europe Despite Obesity Epidemic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317210315.htm

Does Your Name Dictate Your Life Choices?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316171236.htm

Gardening Linked to Increased Vegetable Consumption in Older Adults

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141428.htm

Vitamin A Plays Key Role in the Human Body, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317131038.htm

How Breast Cell Communities Organize Into Breast Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311153545.htm

New Treatment for Thrombosis?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093354.htm

Experimental Philosophy Opens New Avenues Into Old Questions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317163634.htm

3-D Printing Method Advances Electrically Small Antenna Design

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316113047.htm

Why Are the Elderly So Vulnerable to Pneunomia?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314091647.htm

Heart Damage Improves, Reverses After Stem Cell Injections in a Preliminary Human Trial

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317163626.htm

E. Coli Engineered to Produce Record-Setting Amounts of Alternative Fuel

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317102603.htm

Scientists Control Light Scattering in Graphene

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316142622.htm

Breaking the Mucus Barrier Unveils Cancer Cell Secrets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316142630.htm

Breastfed Children Do Better at School, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141143.htm

Fossils Record Reveals Ancient Migrations, Trilobite Mass Matings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316152939.htm

Newborn Stars Wreak Havoc in Their Nursery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084411.htm

Quantum Cryptography? Physicists Move Closer to Efficient Single-Photon Sources

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316161914.htm

Comparison of Wiping Away Bacteria With Disinfectant Wipes or a Tissue Moistened With Saline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316152937.htm

New Laser Technique Opens Doors for Drug Discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315130140.htm

Marathon Runners Can Suffer Allergic Reactions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093438.htm

Not So Eagle Eyed: New Study Reveals Why Birds Collide With Human-Made Objects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316222022.htm

Pfizer brings new chewy Viagra to Mexico

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/17/pfizer-viagra-idUSN1616870320110317

Leipzig Book Fair eyes record attendance rate

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110314-33695.html

Human egg gives sperm a ‘navigation system’

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110318-33809.html

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential By Andrea Kuszewski

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-increase-your-intelligence-2011-03-07

Absorbing chlorinated water 'a cancer risk' Swimming too much - or even taking too many baths or showers - could increase the risk of developing bladder cancer, warn environmental health experts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8383696/Absorbing-chlorinated-water-a-cancer-risk.html

Fraudulent Medical Research Could Affect Your Diagnosis - Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-sherri-tenpenny/fraud-an-examination-of-m_b_835771.html

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The James Webb Space Telescope - coming in 2012

http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/

What Lies Beyond the Observable Hubble Universe?

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/03/what-lies-beyond-the-edge-of-the-observable-hubble-universe-todays-most-popular.html

High-Tech Concrete Technology Has a Famous Past

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316152951.htm

Naval Sonar Exercises Linked to Whale Strandings, According to New Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316153133.htm

Construction of a Record-Breaking Laser Gets Off the Ground

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084915.htm

Some Blind People 'See' With Their Ears, Neuropsychologists Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104123.htm

Zooming in on the Weapons of Salmonella

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110304115001.htm

'Ivory Wave' May Be New Legal High After 'Miaow Miaow' (Mephedrone) Ban

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314184712.htm

Pig Model of Cystic Fibrosis Improves Understanding of Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316152947.htm

Why Some Microbial Genes Are More Promiscuous Than Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316161918.htm

New 'Dissolvable Tobacco' Products May Increase Risk of Mouth Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316113042.htm

Parental Monitoring of Opposite-Gender Child May Decrease Problem Drinking in Young Adults

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093021.htm

First Permanent Anti-Fog Coating Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104117.htm

Large Hadron Collider Could Be World's First Time Machine, Researchers' Theory Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163330.htm

A Good Sense of Smell Is More a Product of Training Than Good Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093830.htm

Prevalence of Heavy Smokers in US Decreases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163209.htm

Does Selenium Prevent Cancer? It May Depend on Which Form People Take

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316113049.htm

Room-Temperature Spintronic Computers Coming Soon? Silicon Spin Transistors Heat Up and Spins Last Longer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093041.htm

New Device Holds Promise of Making Blood Glucose Testing Easier for Patients With Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163219.htm

Integrity of the Brain's Reward System Is Linked to Relapse Following Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163207.htm

Inflammation Behind Heart Valve Disease, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093705.htm

How Chickens Keep Their Cool: Mutation Explains Odd Look of Transylvanian Naked Neck Chicken

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315192815.htm

An Early Age at First Drink Combined With Stressful Life Events Can Lead to Heavy Drinking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163205.htm

The Risks of Cloud Computing

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5031

Raising Digitally Native Children

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5032

Future U.S. Nuclear Reactors

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5030

Can Technology Cure Health Care?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/5033

Ex-Rad, the U.S. Military's Radiation Wonder Drug Van D. Hipp

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9003/pub_detail.asp

Antibiotics may make fighting flu harder Drugs hit beneficial bacteria that keep immune system alert

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/71187/title/Antibiotics_may_make_fighting_flu_harder

NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/16/1738214

Physicists Develop Quantum Public Key Encryption

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/16/143229

Light Painting Wi-Fi

http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/16/1753228

Obama Calls For New Privacy Bill of Rights

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/16/2038226

Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/16/2138214

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Branded Data: Visualizing the Internet's Future Dominic Basulto

http://bigthink.com/ideas/31612

Why Cancers Recur Despite Treatment (video)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/31344

How to Program a Quantum Computer - MICHIO KAKU (video)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/26651

How To Protect Yourself From Radiation Exposure

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/481/863/How_To_Protect_Yourself_From_Radiation_Exposure.html

Geologist: Alarming magnetic field changes signal major quake for West Coast

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085776-2011-03-15-geologist-alarming-magnetic-field-changes-signal-major-quake-for-west.htm

Hitchhiking to Space on a Soyuz Gets More Expensive As NASA Signs New Deal with Russia

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085792-2011-03-15-hitchhiking-to-space-on-a-soyuz-gets-more-expensive-as.htm

My Visit to An American Rare Earth Metals Mine The electronic future is buried under the ground in Missouri

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/rare-earth-mine

Hubble Snaps Close-Up of Tarantula Nebula

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093026.htm

Malaria Drug Slows Pancreatic Cancer Growth in Mouse Models

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315141234.htm

Unprecedented View of Protein Folding May Help Develop Brain Disease Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163217.htm

New Microscope Decodes Complex Eye Circuitry

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309132013.htm

Genetic Analysis Reveals History, Evolution of an Ancient Delicacy -- Morels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303120855.htm

Mini Disks for Data Storage: Slanted Edges Favor Tiny Magnetic Vortices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314111226.htm

Ferroelectric Materials Discovery Could Lead to Better Memory Chips

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315132444.htm

Better Batteries for Electric Cars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314092001.htm

New Understanding of Male Puberty

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314100827.htm

Describing Humor With an Equation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093851.htm

Japan Quake May Have Slightly Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis, Theoretical Calculations Suggest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314210442.htm

Impact of a Bad Job on Mental Health as Harmful as No Job at All

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314184714.htm

Combining Two Peptide Inhibitors Might Block Tumor Growth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314172324.htm

Seedless Cherimoya, the Next Banana?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314152912.htm

Enzymes from Garden Compost Could Favour Bioethanol Production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308075519.htm

White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/085765-2011-03-15-white-house-wants-new-copyright-law-crackdown.htm

Assange: The Internet Could Create a "Totalitarian Spying Regime"

http://www.alternet.org/story/150265/assange%3A_the_internet_could_create_a_%22totalitarian_spying_regime%22

What You've Been Told About Sweets May Be Wrong Many nutritionists claim that table sugar -- a molecule composed of one part fructose to one part glucose -- is no better than food-grade high fructose corn syrup.

http://www.alternet.org/story/150257/what_you%27ve_been_told_about_sweets_may_be_wrong

The Science of Stout Beer

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/15/165223

GNU Free Call Announced, SIP-based VoIP

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/15/1552216

Encrypted VoIP Meets Traffic Analysis

Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream'

http://mobile.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/15/0432226

Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/15/0253257

DHS Chief Wants Better Algorithms For Analyzing Intelligence Data

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/15/001250

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/14/2345258/3TB-Hard-Drives-Square-Off-Against-Everything-Else

Odd Form of 'Love' Hormone Found in Some Monkeys

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110316/sc_livescience/oddformoflovehormonefoundinsomemonkeys

Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you just as soon as Betelgeuse explodes

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tatooines-twin-suns-coming-to-a-planet-near-you-just-as-soon-as-betelgeuse-explodes/story-fn5fsgyc-1225991009247

Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/janna_levin_the_sound_the_universe_makes.html

David Brooks: The social animal (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_social_animal.html

Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_harmon_how_the_market_can_keep_streams_flowing.html

Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314152917.htm

Vitamin D Insufficiency High Among Patients With Early Parkinson Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314163437.htm

Extent and Speed of Lionfish Spread Unprecedented; Invasive Marine Fish May Stress Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314141606.htm

Use of $4 Generic Drug Programs Could Save Society Billions of Dollars, U.S. Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314163443.htm

New Desalination Process Developed Using Carbon Nanotubes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314140632.htm

How the Slime Mold Gets Organized

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314172317.htm

Heavy Drinking Associated With Increased Risk of Death from Pancreatic Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314163433.htm

Key Mutations Act Cooperatively to Fuel Aggressive Brain Tumor

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314132343.htm

New Method Could Improve Economics of Sweetening Natural Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311122027.htm

Gender Stereotypes About Math Develop as Early as Second Grade

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314091642.htm

NASA's Hubble Rules out One Alternative to Dark Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314174924.htm

Statistics Can Help Us Avoid Counterfeit Goods on the Internet, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314091640.htm

Arctic on the Verge of Record Ozone Loss

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314100835.htm

Why People Read Magazines Featuring Envy-Inspiring Models

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314163557.htm

Workplace Noise-Related Hearing Loss Affects Sleep Quality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110125091822.htm

Antioxidants in Pregnancy Prevent Obesity in Animal Offspring

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314143450.htm

Nanorods Could Greatly Improve Visual Display of Information

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314140630.htm

Marangoni Convection in Space: Observing Wine-Glass Phenomenon in a Gravity-Free Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110313125522.htm

Couples Sometimes Communicate No Better Than Strangers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110120090954.htm

Materials Identified That May Deliver More 'Bounce'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309131940.htm

Multiple Taste Cell Sensors Contribute to Detecting Sugars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307151909.htm

Thrill-Seeking Females Work Hard for Their Next Fix, Rat Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311122119.htm

Shape Memory Polymers Shed Light on How Cells Respond to Physical Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310121021.htm

Computer Model Shows Importance of Feet, Toes in Body Balance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310131051.htm

Better Brain Wiring Linked to Family Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303111423.htm

Interactive graphic: Japan's deadly seismic history

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/interactive-graphic-japans-dea.html

Hydrogen fuel for cars comes a step nearer An oil shock is a real possibility and Britain needs to decrease its dependence on the fuel as soon as possible, Energy Secretary Chris Huhne claimed earlier this month.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8379357/Hydrogen-fuel-for-cars-comes-a-step-nearer.html

Early Europeans unwarmed by fire The first hominins to migrate into Europe may have done so without fire.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110314/full/news.2011.158.html

US free-speech law offers protection — at a price Some fear that law to aid whistle-blowers will expose researchers to smear campaigns.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110314/full/471276a.html

European Court of Justice rejects stem-cell patents Researchers surprised by judge's conservative stance.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110310/full/news.2011.152.html

Virology: Fighting for a cause When Judy Mikovits found links between chronic fatigue syndrome and a virus, the world took notice. Now, she's caught between the patients who believe her work and the researchers who don't.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110314/full/471282a.html

Friendly bacteria fight the flu Microbes trigger immune response that suppresses infections.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110314/full/news.2011.159.html

Do gut bacteria worsen malnourishment? Human microbiota could be behind why deficient diets leave only some children seriously ill.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110310/full/news.2011.151.html

Rats wake up for behavioural research Tiny imaging device allows scans of animals while they are awake. Tiffany O'Callaghan

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110313/full/news.2011.155.html

First lupus drug in half a century approved A therapeutic antibody is the first success in a wave of experimental therapies aimed at tackling the autoimmune disease.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110310/full/news.2011.150.html

Hidden toll of embryo ethics war Federal funds continue to be withheld for stem cells derived without destroying embryos.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110314/full/471279a.html

Gates' Future of Education Straight Out of '60s

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/14/177240

40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/14/227248

Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/14/2110229

Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online?

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/14/1919238

The Life of a Cybercrime Investigator

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/14/1720208

Effect of daily aspirin on long-term risk of death due to cancer: analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21144578

Monday, March 14, 2011

Nanopore sequencing Towards the 15-minute genome Genetics: Pulling strands of DNA through tiny holes, called nanopores, could dramatically speed up the sequencing of human genomes

http://www.economist.com/node/18304268?story_id=18304268

HAARP caused Japan Earthquake: Benjamin Fulford

http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2011/03/japan-earthquake-tsunami-haarp.html

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Video: DIY Cyborgify-Your-Own Cockroach Kit Lets You Steer Real Live Bugs Around

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2011-03/diy-cyborg-cockroach-kit-lets-you-put-your-pets-work

Meet Japan's Earthquake Search-and-Rescue Robots

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/six-robots-could-shape-future-earthquake-search-and-rescue

Internet will soon be top choice to get news in America as it overtakes newspapers for first time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366052/Internet-popular-news-platform-use-smartphones-electronic-tablets-grows.html

SXSW Interactive: What Comes After the Information Age? By Steven James Snyder

http://techland.time.com/2011/03/14/sxsw-interactive-what-comes-after-the-information-age/

Testosterone Linked to Men's Ability to 'Woo' Potential Mates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311122123.htm

Atlantis Found? Film Highlights Professor’s Efforts to Locate Fabled Lost City

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110312135018.htm

Smart Materials for High-Tech Products: Hard, Viscous or Watery at the Touch of a Button

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311121836.htm

Color View from Orbit Shows Mars Rover Beside Crater

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311140302.htm

Scientists Reveal Role of Light Sensor in Temperature Sensation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310141425.htm

Chilly Times for Chinese Dinosaurs: Abundance of Feathered Dinosaurs During Temperate Climate With Harsh Winters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311173104.htm

Extra Iron Doesn't Help Many Pregnant Women, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311121840.htm

New York man faces five years in jail for ‘linking’ to online videos

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/10/new-york-man-faces-five-years-in-jail-for-linking-to-online-videos/

A Game Played In the URL Bar

http://idle.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/13/1537230

Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/13/1550234

Ebooks are making me recall the history of mass-market publishing

http://www.idealog.com/blog/ebooks-are-making-me-recall-the-history-of-mass-market-publishing

Jack Dorsey Tweets A Fascinating Twitter History Lesson, 5 Years After Work On "Twttr" Began

http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-twttr-history-2011-3

The Most Distant Mature Galaxy Cluster: Young, but Surprisingly Grown-Up

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309073719.htm

Sunday, March 13, 2011

What did the Romans ever do for us (if they didn't build our roads)? Dig unearths highway built before Emperor Claudius invaded By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us-if-they-didnt-build-our-roads-2238592.html

Congo Impact Crater Confirmed

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/03/congo-impact-crater-confirmed.html

Extreme Galaxies

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/03/extreme-galaxies.html

Speed Demon Star Creates a Shock

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311131624.htm

Snails' Complex Muscle Movements, Rather Than Mucus, Key to Locomotion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307101442.htm

New Method for Studying Molecule Reactions a Breakthrough in Organic Chemistry

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310151215.htm

Keys to Long Life? Not What You Might Expect

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311153541.htm

Low Cost Solar Cells: New European Record in Efficiency

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311131734.htm

Pregnancy Anemia Linked to Childhood Wheezing and Asthma

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310210412.htm

Not Actually Bad at Math or Auto Repair? Women Fear Being Stereotyped by Male Service Providers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214163104.htm

Giftedness Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Testosterone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311153549.htm

Nanoscale Whiskers from Sea Creatures Could Grow Human Muscle Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110311121844.htm

Why Low Birth Weight Is Linked to Obesity Later in Life: Study Provides Explanation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310070311.htm

Surgery Without External Scars Is Gaining Traction: Organ Removal Through Body’s Orifices Is Minimally Invasive Approach to Surgery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310151212.htm

Consumer Beware: Rejecting an Option May Make You More Likely to Choose It Later

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214163106.htm

Does the Brain Explain Your Mind?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/4991

Are We Forgetting How to Remember?

http://bigthink.com/idea_feed_items/4993