 Royal Baby Name Is Classic and Boring  | The London bookmakers were spot on: The royal baby will be called George Alexander Louis.
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| Read More » The Color of the Ocean: New South American Satellite Joins Earth Observation Effort  | Remote sensing of ocean color is a currently well-established science that provides information about water composition and the depth of light penetration based on the ocean color, as seen from space. Ocean color satellites are part of an Earth observing system and, due to the importance of this system in understanding the state of the ocean and its evolution, the international scientific community has agreed to joint efforts to keep a constant constellation of ocean color satellites orbiting our planet. ...
| Read More » Artist Wants to Launch Meteorite Back Into Space  | An artist working with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite wants to send it back to space.
| Read More » Mars Rover Curiosity Spied from Space  | A new photo by a sharp-eyed NASA Mars orbiter shows the agency's Curiosity rover wrapping up work near its landing site on the Red Planet before beginning the long trek to a huge and mysterious mountain.
| Read More » Sex After a Heart Attack: Women Want Information  | Many women who've had heart attacks want more information about how to safely resume sex afterward, a new study suggests.
| Read More » Martian Meteorites May Be Younger Than Thought, Studies Suggest  | The riddle of the age of meteorites from Mars might now be solved, with researchers finding these rocks from the Red Planet might not be billions of years old as some studies have suggested.
| Read More » NASA Video: Watch US Heat Up by 2100  | The United States will be a much hotter place at the end of the 21st century, according to a new climate change visualization released by NASA this week.
| Read More » Not Impressed: Peahens Ignore Most of Peacocks' Flashy Displays  | A male hoping to attract a female's attention typically needs something to help him stand out from the crowd, and the inhabitants of the animal kingdom are no exception, with peacocks representing particularly showy lovers.
| Read More » New Space Capsule Lands With Two of Three Parachutes in NASA Flight Test  | NASA's Orion capsule, planned to be the space agency's next manned spaceship, safely landed during a flight test today (July 24) using just two of its three parachutes.
| Read More » Mercury Joins Mars and Jupiter in Night Sky Meetup This Week  | Most stargazers have never seen the planet Mercury because it never strays very far from the sun. This week is one of the rare opportunities to catch the tiny planet just before sunrise —and with two other planets nearby.
| Read More » Scientists warn of overwhelming costs of mental illness By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Health systems could be "overwhelmed" by the costs of coping with mental illnesses such as dementia, depression and addiction if nothing is done now to boost investment in research, leading neuroscientists said on Thursday. Publishing a study that put the estimated costs of brain disorders in Britain alone at more than 112 billion pounds ($172 billion) a year, they said mental illness research needed to attract the same funding levels as illnesses such as cancer and heart diseases to be able to reduce the burden. ... Read More » Scientists warn of overwhelming costs of mental illness  | By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Health systems could be "overwhelmed" by the costs of coping with mental illnesses such as dementia, depression and addiction if nothing is done now to boost investment in research, leading neuroscientists said on Thursday. Publishing a study that put the estimated costs of brain disorders in Britain alone at more than 112 billion pounds a year, they said mental illness research needed to attract the same funding levels as illnesses such as cancer and heart diseases to be able to reduce the burden. ...
| Read More » Coldhearted Psychopaths Feel Empathy Too  | Psychopaths may be capable of empathizing with others in some situations, a new study has found.
| Read More » Sjögren's Syndrome May Be Sparked by 'Killer' Immune Cells A rare condition called Sjögren's syndrome, which causes severely dry mouth and dry eyes, may stem from the improper function of immune cells called natural killer cells, a new study suggests. Read More » Pancreatic Cancer: Bacteria May Play a Role Bacterial infections may play a role in triggering pancreatic cancer, according to recent research. Read More » SpaceFest Celebrations Start in New York  | The second-annual SpaceFest kicks off in New York today (July 25) at the floating home of NASA's space shuttle prototype Enterprise.
| Read More » Depression Doubles Missed Work Days  | Full-time employees in the United States with depression miss nearly twice as many work days each year than their counterparts who have never been depressed, a new analysis from Gallup shows.
| Read More » Commercial Spaceflight Conference Launches in California Thursday  | SAN FRANCISCO - Legions of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are gathering in Silicon Valley this week to discuss the rise and impact of the commercial space industry.
| Read More » His Other Spaceship Was a Shuttle: Former Astronaut Helms Boeing Space Capsule  | HOUSTON — Two years after climbing out of the last ship to launch him into orbit, Chris Ferguson was back in a spacecraft on Monday (July 22).
| Read More » Facebook Hashtags Not Catching on With Consumers While using hashtags in Facebook posts might be a fun tactic for brands trying to engage consumers, it doesn't appear to be paying off, a new study finds. Research from social media analytics firm Simply Measured revealed that while 20 percent of Facebook posts among top brands now include hashtags (which give users a way to group messages of similar content), there is no evidence that hashtags are influencing engagement. Read More » Viking Jewelry Unearthed in Denmark  | Several pieces of Viking jewelry, some of which contain gold, have been uncovered at a farm site in Denmark that dates as far back as 1,300 years.
| Read More » Spanish Fort Built by Gold Hunters Discovered  | Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina.
| Read More » Baby Births: Risky Shortcuts, Bad Behavior Often Not Addressed Most doctors, midwives and nurses who help deliver babies have observed their colleagues taking shortcuts or engaging in behavior that could compromise patient safety, but few speak up about the issue, a new study says. Read More » The Secret Science of the Hubble Space Telescope's Amazing Images  | With the Hubble Space Telescope's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, on schedule to reach outer space in 2018, taking Hubble's place as NASA's premier eye in the sky, it seems appropriate to look back on what may become Hubble's most enduring legacy: its stunning images. Besides the huge amount of data Hubble has collected since its launch in 1990, the telescope will likely be remembered most for its gorgeous color shots of nebulas, galaxies and the early universe, iconic images that seemed tailor made for magazine covers and bedroom walls.
| Read More » Private Astronaut Taxi Development Entering Final Phase  | WASHINGTON — NASA on July 19 released a draft solicitation for the fourth and final development phase of its Commercial Crew Program, which is still expected to result in a crewed space launch to the International Space Station from U.S. soil by late 2017, according to the document.
| Read More » Bad Sleep? Blame the Moon  | The moon could be to blame for a bad night's sleep, researchers now say.
| Read More » Walrus Bones Found In Old London Burial Ground  | During a recent excavation beneath the streets of London, archaeologists found a total of 1,500 human bodies, many buried hastily in a wave of epidemics that struck the quickly expanding city more than 150 years ago.
| Read More » More Teen Girls Need HPV Shot, CDC Says Despite growing evidence that the human papillomavirus vaccine is effective at preventing not only HPV infections but also the cancers they can bring down the line, just one-third of teen girls complete the vaccination series, a new study finds. Read More » Women's Cancer Risk Increases with Height  | Postmenopausal women who are taller may be at greater risk for developing cancer, new research reveals.
| Read More » False Memories Implanted in Mice  | Tinkering with the brains of mice, scientists have given the rodents memories of events that never occurred.
| Read More » Crazy-Dense Neutron Stars Reveal Their Secrets  | Scientists have uncovered a new key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.
| Read More » How Electrons Are Supercharged in Earth's Radiation Belt  | Super swift electrons around Earth have been blamed for the premature deaths of satellites, and now scientists think they know how these particles gained their speed.
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