AP - In a Dec. 27 story about NASA's efforts to appeal to young people, The Associated Press erroneously reported the space agency's target for returning astronauts to the moon. It is 2020, not 2017. Read more…
AP - Even though he goes to college in the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center, Adam Humphries can't name any of the astronauts who just returned home on space shuttle Discovery. Read more…
Many readers will wonder what great spiritual masters had to say regarding UFOs. Did Christ, Buddha or Mohammad mention anything about this phenomenon? We find nothing mentioned about this in the Bible, Koran or Diamond Sutra. Read more…
Reuters - Slamming the West for its "environmentally wasteful lifestyle", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Wednesday for industrialised nations to look at alternative energy sources to save the environment. Read more…
AFP - With a record 34 giant pandas born by way of artificial insemination in 2006, Chinese experts are now focusing on releasing the endangered animals back into natural habitats, state press said. Read more…
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AP - ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in an effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday. Read more…
AP - Japan is allowing researchers to study 11 royal tombs, the graves of ancient emperors, sealed centuries ago, in a move that may shed light on the myth-shrouded origins of Japan's imperial family, according to a news report. Read more…
AP - Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January. Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are going through a remarkably warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places. Read more…
AP - The twin Mars rovers are getting wiser with age. Engineers have transmitted new flight software to the rovers' onboard computers, just in time for the third anniversary of their landings. The software is aimed at boosting their intelligence and independence so that they can roll around the Red Planet with less help from humans. Read more…
AP - Italian scientists believe they have uncovered a 400-year-old murder. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife Bianca Cappello did not die of malaria but were poisoned — probably by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who was vying for the title. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Source: Raytheon Company Raytheon Delivers VIIRS Sensor Engineering Development Unit The National Polar- orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) achieved a major milestone with the delivery of an advanced sensor... Read more…
Researchers say their discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites sheds new light on whether the ancient Essene community was home to the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Read more…
Conventional laser approaches to treating a common eye ailment can feel like getting poked in the eye with a sharp soldering iron. New technology aims to make treatment less painful and faster. Read more…
A rare North Atlantic right whale was lacerated multiple times and killed by a ship off the Georgia coast, causing scientists to again sound the alarm on these endangered creatures. Read more…
ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday. Read more…
At the University of Minnesota, a team led by Andreas Stein has developed a new process for the production of nanoscopic cubes and spheres of silicon dioxide. The researchers report their trick in the journal Angewandte Chemie -- Instead of building their particles from smaller units, they used the controlled disassembly of larger, lattice-like structures. Read more…
Stefanos A. Zenios, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, renowned for his application of Operations Research to tackle some of modern medicine's thorniest problems, has completed new research that could revolutionize kidney allocation for transplant waiting list candidates. The paper, "Recipient Choice Can Address the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off in Kidney Transplantation: A Mechanism Design Model," was recently published in the journal Management Science. Read more…
Satellite imagery meshed with video-game technology is allowing University of Colorado at Boulder and NASA researchers to virtually "fly" along footpaths used by Central Americans 2,000 years ago on spiritual pilgrimages to ancestral cemeteries. Read more…
The first human trial of a DNA vaccine designed to prevent H5N1 avian influenza infection began on December 21, 2006, when the vaccine was administered to the first volunteer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Scientists from the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the NIH Institutes, designed the vaccine. The vaccine does not contain any infectious material from the influenza virus. Read more…
Cornell researchers studied a virus related to the avian influenza virus to see whether a hypothetical mutated form of H5N1 could infect people through drinking and wastewater systems. Read more…
Class-action lawsuits can significantly slow or halt science's ability to establish links between neurological illness and environmental factors produced by industry, a team of scientists and lawyers warn in the journal Neurology. Read more…
Growers may soon have the option of planting a non-transgenically modified soybean variety that improves recovery of nitrogen from land-applied animal waste. That's thanks to a newly released soybean germplasm that removes large amounts of nitrogen applied to soil. If developed into a new cultivar, it could become an ideal candidate for animal producers managing waste generated by their operations. Read more…
Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) are more likely to have hepatic steatosis, or fat in the liver, compared to African-American patients. However, steatosis is not associated with HCV treatment response. Read more…
