| 03/11/2010
02:30 PM Brain Scan Can Read Your Thoughts
New insights into brain activity could explain how memories are formed and how they change over time. |
| 03/11/2010
01:10 PM 'Miracle' Elephant Baby Beats the Odds
Zookeepers thought that "Mr. Shuffles" had died during labor, but the calf pulled through. |
| 03/11/2010
11:01 AM Chicken Have Sexual Identity Issues
Birds that appear to be half-hen, half-rooster aren't quite as mixed up on the cellular level. |
| 03/11/2010
10:22 AM Friday News Feedbag for March 5, 2010!
If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ... |
| 03/11/2010
07:33 AM Parents Pass on Fewer Bad Genes Than Thought
The genetic code of an entire family reveals mutations aren't passed on to children as commonly as thought. |
| 03/11/2010
07:00 AM English Sets High Hurdles to Learning ABCs
Given the inherent complexity of English, reading to young children is critical to developing their language skills. |
| 03/11/2010
05:23 AM Copernicus Invented Geology, Study Claims
The field of geology goes back further in history and deserves more respect, claim (you guessed it) geologists. |
| 03/11/2010
03:47 AM How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear
If you want to grow a truly massive earthquake, you've got to give it space. Scientists have known this basic fact for years -- more powerful earthquakes ramp up the shaking by breaking along huge stretches of faults. The magnitude ... |
| 03/11/2010
02:45 AM Dark Asteroids Found Near Earth
A new infrared telescope has found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close to Earth. |
| 03/11/2010
02:41 AM Moon Room With a View
If you think the newly installed panoramic view cupola on the International Space Station is cool, I’ve got a room for you on the moon -- with a view. It's definitely a fixer-upper but well worth the effort. NASA's Lunar ... |
| 03/11/2010
12:26 AM Mann Bites Dog
What did the "Climategate" scandal really expose -- a problem with climate science, or the modern media echo chamber? A special article from the pages of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. |
| 03/10/2010
04:23 PM What is the LHC Trying to Accomplish?
As the Internet goes crazy about the LHC shutdown in 2011 (a shutdown that is actually in the LHC schedule rather than anything sudden), what's the plan for the world's largest particle accelerator? |
| 03/10/2010
03:15 PM Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia
The 40,000-year-old site may hold the world's southernmost traces of early human life. |
| 03/10/2010
03:14 PM China Eyes Combustible Ice for Energy
Combustible ice sounds like it belongs in Star Trek--and from the photos it looks that way, too. While the reality isn't that extreme, this energy source does involve high-seas adventure, phase changes, and environmental quandaries. Recently I saw a Xinhua ... |
| 03/10/2010
03:01 PM Ultraviolet Light Uncovers Real Giotto
The original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence’s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto’s faded paintings, discovering lush details and tridimensional scenes that have been hidden ... |
| 03/10/2010
01:30 PM Minority Births Set to Eclipse Whites in U.S.
2010 could be the "tipping point" where the number of babies born to minorities outnumber white babies. |
| 03/10/2010
12:30 PM Ancient Norse Settlements Hit Cold Spell
A long cooling period may have led to famine in Greenland and Iceland more than 1,000 years ago. |
| 03/10/2010
11:47 AM Crocodile Ate Our Human Ancestors
New evidence suggests that our human ancestors 2 million years ago were eaten by a large crocodile that lurked at the water's edge before closing its jaws on victims and drawing them under to their death. (Early hominids, possibly belonging ... |
| 03/10/2010
10:43 AM International Space Station in New Light
No, this is not a new model Jedi TIE Fighter -- it's the very real International Space Station passing across the field-of-view of a German Earth-watching satellite known as TerraSar-X . This radar image, taken last March, shows how smooth ... |
| 03/10/2010
10:25 AM Real-Life 'Hurt Locker' Bomb Suit
I saw the movie, Hurt Locker, and wondered how that bomb suit could protect someone from death. Dvice has a great piece up that explains just that. The so-called explosive ordinance disposal suit has two layers, one rigid, one soft ... |
