AP - A helicopter carrying natural gas workers crashed off the northwest English coast Wednesday night, killing six people and leaving the only other person aboard missing, authorities said. Read more…
AP - Authorities were trying Tuesday to figure out how dozens of pieces of luggage belonging to air travelers ended up in a trash bin behind a Houston pet store. The store's owners discovered 60 to 70 pieces of luggage, which belonged to passengers of Continental Airlines, Lufthansa, British Airways and U.S. Airways, and contacted the Harris County Sheriff's Department, according to Houston television station KRIV. Read more…
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AP - A University of Idaho researcher is hoping to harness the power of tiny fungi to combat an invasive weed that ranchers blame for crowding out nutritious forage for their livestock. George Newcombe is busy inside a greenhouse on the school's Moscow campus working with so-called endophytes that live in spotted knapweed, considered one of the West's most-destructive noxious weeds. Read more…
AP - Wah, wow, hoo! Turns out humans aren't the only primates using songs to warn of life's dangers and travails. White-handed gibbons in Thailand's forests have been found to communicate threats from predators by singing — the first time the behavior has been discovered among non-human primates, researchers said Wednesday. Read more…
AP - Pale Male, the famed red-tailed hawk of Central Park, was perched on the 22nd floor of the swank Beresford apartment building on Wednesday when the national emblem of the United States soared past, carrying a large fish in its talons. Read more…
AP - The government has decided that food from cloned animals is safe to eat and does not require special labeling. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Source: Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council COROT space mission ready to search out new planets and map the The COROT mission is scheduled for launch on the 27th December 2006, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Source: Delphi Corporation NASA Grants Delphi Nearly $1 Million To Further Develop Its Welding Technology After receiving encouraging results, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Michigan Research Institute... Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Source: RSC Energia Delivery of three GLONASS system satellites via Upper Stage DM to a working orbit December 26, 2006. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Source: Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin Delivers Key Hardware For Third Advanced EHF Military Communications Satellite SUNNYVALE, Calif. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Source: Bigelow Aerospace Update From Bigelow Aerospace Ace Up Our Sleeve It's the workplace pastime for those taking a discreet break from work: Playing computer solitaire. Read more…
Antibiotics are routinely prescribed unnecessarily for acute bronchitis, according to Virginia Commonwealth University findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more…
Researchers have presented a high resolution genetic map for the mouse genome -- one of the most detailed genetic maps now available aside from that for humans. Read more…
A peptide known to play a role in anxiety is overly plentiful in a mouse model of the inherited neurological disorder Rett syndrome and appears to underlie the anxiety-like behavior in these mice. The finding could provide a clue to treatment for this symptom. Read more…
Agent 007 is a mighty versatile fellow, but he would have to take backseat to agents being trained at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers here are using wireless sensor networks that employ software agents that have been able to navigate a robot through a simulated fire and spot said fire by seeking out heat. Once the agent locates the fire, it clones itself creating a ring of software around the fire. Read more…
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found, in laboratory studies, that the experimental drug ABT-737 which has shown promise in some cancers, can destroy acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blast, progenitor and even stem cells that are often resistant to standard chemotherapy treatment. Read more…
Answering a question that has lingered for centuries, a team of scientists has proved that chemicals used to treat the wood used in Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are the reasons for the distinct sound produced by the world-famous instruments. Read more…
Penn researchers have announced details for a suspended-load ergonomic backpack that reduces the force of a backpack's load on the wearer by 86 percent, allowing wearers to run far more comfortably with heavy loads. The backpack was created with soldiers and emergency workers in mind and could prevent the sort of muscle and joint injuries associated with running while carrying heavy items. Read more…
As wildfires put more and more human lives and property at risk, people are looking to fire managers for protection. Read more…
Over the last several years angioplasty has exceeded coronary bypass surgery as the preferred way to treat coronary artery disease. The stents, narrow tubes inserted into the artery to facilitate blood flow, commonly used in the procedure are less invasive than open-heart surgery and offer greater convenience to the patient and the ability to perform more complex procedures. Read more…
Using advanced new microscopy techniques in concert with sophisticated transgenic technologies, scientists have for the first time created three-dimensional, time-lapse movies showing immune cells targeting cancer cells in live tumor tissues. Immune cells called T cells can be seen actively migrating though tissues, making direct contact with tumor cells, and killing them. Insights from this new view of the body's on-board defenses against cancer may open the way for improved immunotherapies to treat the disease. Read more…
Researchers report the discovery of a new protein within a sperm's tail that could prove a key target for male contraceptive drugs. Read more…
SPACE.com - NASA's Opportunity and Spirit Mars rovers are on the prowl. Science teams are plotting out new escapades for the twin robots--new destinations certain to reveal more secrets from the red planet. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, December 28, 2006 Source: Marshall Space Flight Center True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil Image: A speck of Moon dirt. Read more…
