Single-Cell Smackdown: The Battle for Earth's Early Oceans  | Stromatolites ruled the fossil record for 2 billion years. The squishy, sticky mounds of communal-living microbes dominated shallow-water environments everywhere on Earth during life's early days. Then, long before algae-munching animals appeared 550 million years ago, stromatolites mysteriously plummeted in number.
| Read More »  Why Oklahoma's Deadly Twister Was Widest Ever  | The tornado that struck near the Oklahoma City suburb of El Reno last Friday (May 31) has been upgraded to an EF5 strength — the strongest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. National Weather Service (NWS) storm surveyors also put the tornado's path at a whopping 2.6 miles (4 kilometers) across at its widest point, making it the widest tornado on record.
| Read More » Scientists: do outreach or your science dies  | Scientists: do outreach or your science dies
| Read More » Kansas wheat farmer sues Monsanto over rogue wheat release By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - A U.S. wheat farmer has sued Monsanto Co, accusing the biotech seed giant of gross negligence for not containing an experimental genetically modified wheat discovered in an Oregon field that has put U.S. wheat export sales at risk. Farmer Ernest Barnes, who grows wheat in Morton County in the southwest corner of Kansas, filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that he and other wheat farmers have been hurt financially by the discovery of the unapproved biotech wheat that Monsanto said it stopped testing and shelved nine years ago. ... Read More » Donated Spy Satellite Would Suit NASA Dark Energy Mission, Report Finds  | INDIANAPOLIS — NASA could use a donated spy satellite to carry out a high-priority mission that would hunt for alien planets and mysterious dark energy, a new report found.
| Read More » NASA to Launch New Sun-Watching Satellite This Month  | A new NASA spacecraft is weeks away from launching into orbit to study a region of the sun that will help scientists better understand how the solar atmosphere works, scientists said today (June 4).
| Read More » Seminal Study: Hungry Female Squid Snack on Sperm  | Sometimes, gifts get put to surprising uses.
| Read More » Some Evolution May Not Depend on Genes Epigenetic changes, or chemical markers on DNA that can turn genes on or off, may play a role in natural selection, a new paper argues. Read More » Real-Life 'Lizard King' Named for Doors' Jim Morrison  | A lizard the size of a German shepherd once roamed Myanmar, a new fossil analysis reveals.
| Read More » Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts  | You may have had remote controlled airplanes growing up, but they probably weren't as cool as the quadcopter. This tiny helicopter looks a lot like a toy, but it's really a high-tech robot controlled exclusively by human thought.
| Read More » Genomics and particle physics top the scientific charts  | By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Genomics and particle physics - offering different perspectives on the fundamental nature of life and the cosmos - are the two hottest areas of scientific research. Eight of the 21 most closely followed scientists in 2012 studied genes and their functions, while the single most-cited paper last year covered the hunt for the long-sought Higgs boson particle, according to a Thomson Reuters survey on Wednesday. ...
| Read More » Nobel contender sees multiple cosmic mysteries  | By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Francois Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain's Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe. And he predicted that new signs of the real makeup of the cosmos, and what might lie beyond, should emerge from 2015 when the world's most powerful research machine - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN - goes back into operation. ...
| Read More » Genomics and particle physics top the scientific charts  | By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Genomics and particle physics - offering different perspectives on the fundamental nature of life and the cosmos - are the two hottest areas of scientific research. Eight of the 21 most closely followed scientists in 2012 studied genes and their functions, while the single most-cited paper last year covered the hunt for the long-sought Higgs boson particle, according to a Thomson Reuters survey on Wednesday. ...
| Read More » 10 Celebrities Who Are Hiring Now Want to be able to say you work for someone famous? No need to put yourself through the 24/7 schedule and crazy demands that come with being a personal assistant. Plenty of celebs are entrepreneurs on the side and have founded or become part owners of thriving corporate ventures. We've rounded up a list of 10 celebrities who are hiring right now. While you may not actually rub elbows with these stars in the office every day, at least you'll be able to brag about who your boss is! Read More » Do Good Looking People Make More Money? Does being good looking help your career? If the real estate industry is any indication, it sure does. Read More » Hubble Telescope Spies Huge Explosion on Faraway Star  | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a rare look at an enormous stellar eruption, allowing them to map out the aftermath of such blasts in unprecedented detail.
| Read More » Male Guppies Father Offspring After Death  | Death doesn't stop some animals from becoming parents, research reveals.
| Read More » Buzz on Energy Drinks: No Better Than Caffeine Despite the "special blend" of ingredients, energy drinks work no better than ordinary caffeine at helping us pay attention, a new study suggests. Read More » Women Have Lower Infection Risk in Hospitals, Study Finds Women are less likely than men to contract infections at hospitals, possibly because of differences between the sexes in skin bacteria, a new study suggests. Read More » Naked Continent: See Antarctica De-Iced  | The hidden face of Antarctica, concealed for more than 30 million years beneath thick ice, is revealed in a new map and video of the continent's rocky surface, released today by NASA.
| Read More » Why Your DNA May Not Be Your Destiny NEW YORK — Ten years ago, when researchers completed the first map of all the genes of human beings, the immense undertaking promised to revolutionize the field of molecular medicine. It did, but something was still missing. Read More » Why Women May Be Better at Remembering Faces  | Compared with men, women seem to have a knack for fixating on the eyes, nose and mouth of someone they've just met, a new study suggests. That tendency might make women better at remembering faces, researchers say.
| Read More » Space Weather on Par With Tornado Threat, NASA Chief Says  | Severe space weather could be as devastating to the planet as serious tornadoes and other natural disasters, NASA chief Charles Bolden said in a public address Tuesday (June 4).
| Read More » New Satellite Image Shows Moore Tornado Scar  | The numerous photos and videos taken on the ground after a massive EF5 tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on May 20 showed the individual scale of the destruction. A new satellite image shows the full scale of the disaster, with the trail of damage the tornado left visible as a scar across the landscape.
| Read More » The Sun May Have Grown in Fits and Starts  | INDIANAPOLIS — The sun was probably an active, "feisty" star in the early days of its evolution, scientists suspect.
| Read More » Ancient Primate Skeleton Hints at Monkey and Human Origins  | The oldest well-preserved skeleton of a primate, a 55-million-year-old specimen found in China, has been discovered, researchers report.
| Read More » New Invisibility Cloak Creates Holes in Time A new invisibility cloak for data can make information vanish by creating holes in time, new research suggests. Read More » Wow! New Technique Peers Inside Individual Molecules  | Ultra-powerful microscopy can now peer inside individual molecules, revealing the vibrations of bonds between atoms.
| Read More » Is Genetically Modified Wheat Safe? Genetically modified wheat has mysteriously turned up in an Oregon field, and while there's no evidence that the crop is in the food supply, experts say it would be safe to consume. Read More » Spot Elusive Mercury in Evening Sky Now  | Now is a great time to spot the planet Mercury, which is usually difficult to observe despite being one of the brightest objects in the sky.
| Read More » Fabled 19th-Century Shipwreck May Hold Gold Treasure  | The wreck of a fabled 19th-century gunrunner that may also contain a treasure in gold has been identified off the coast of South Carolina.
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