|  Secret to Bad-Smelling Wine Revealed A buttery flavor with notes of raspberries, chocolate and … wet dog? Read More » The Roots of Creativity Found in the Brain  | The ability of humans to create art, think rationally or invent new tools has long interested scientists, and a new study reveals how the brain achieves these imaginative feats.
| Read More » China says aims to train astronauts from other countries  | BEIJING (Reuters) - China aims to train astronauts from other countries who will conduct missions with their Chinese counterparts, state news agency Xinhua cited a senior official as saying on Monday. China will also share the technological achievements of its manned space program with other countries, especially with developing ones, Xinhua quoted Wang Zhaoyao, head of the country's manned space program office, as saying. "Cooperation should be either bilateral or multilateral, with diversified and flexible models based on peace and a win-win cooperation," he said. ...
| Read More » Comet Crashes Can Spawn the Ingredients of Life  | The explosive collisions of icy comets with planets and moons generated the vital building blocks of life, spreading these necessary ingredients throughout the solar system, researchers say.
| Read More » Asteroid Will Buzz Earth This Week Inside the Moon's Orbit  | A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to people, scientists say.
| Read More » Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections Down Significantly  | MRSA, or methicillin-resistant , is a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that is difficult to treat, and can be spread around hospitals and nursing homes by doctors, nurses and other staff.
| Read More » Some Women Undergo Unnecessary Double Mastectomies "If Angelina Jolie did it, shouldn't I do the same?" This is a question breast-cancer doctors and surgeons are increasingly encountering in their practice, in the wake of Jolie's revelation earlier this year that she chose to have both her breasts removed due to her high risk of developing breast cancer. Read More » NASA clears Orbital Sciences for test flight to space station  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Monday cleared a second commercial company to launch a cargo ship to the International Space Station, with blastoff slated this week from a Virginia spaceport. If successful, Orbital Sciences Corp. would join privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, in flying supplies to the space station, a $100 billion research complex that orbits about 250 miles above Earth. Orbital Sciences' two-stage Antares rocket, which made a successful debut flight in April, is scheduled to lift off at 10:50 a.m. ...
| Read More » Biblical-Era Town Discovered Along Sea of Galilee  | A town dating back more than 2,000 years has been discovered on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel's Ginosar valley.
| Read More » Alarming Rate of 'Extreme Binge Drinking' Seen in High Schoolers Binge drinking is common among high school seniors, with an alarming number of students engaging in extreme binge drinking of 15 or more drinks, a new study finds. Read More » Food Allergies Cost US Families Billions Per Year  | Children's food allergies cost the United States about $25 billion a year, new research suggests.
| Read More » Lifestyle Change May Reverse Ageing in Cells Lifestyle changes may turn back the biological clock, and reverse ageing on a cellular level, new evidence shows. Read More » How the Strange Star Delta Cephei Is a Universe Mile-Marker  | Standing high in the northern part of the sky this week at around 11 p.m. local time is a spire-like figure of five stars pointing northward.
| Read More » Extreme Space Weather Storms Spark Satellite Failures, Study Suggests  | High-speed eruptions of charged particles from the sun may be to blame for recent failures of satellites that people rely on to watch TV and use the Internet, scientists say.
| Read More » Exomoons Around Alien Planets May Be Too Small for Life  | Alien moons around distant worlds may not possess magnetic fields strong enough to protect extraterrestrial life from radiation that may blast it from deep space and nearby stars, researchers say.
| Read More » Gigantic Galaxy Cluster Blazes in Amazing New Hubble Photo  | A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail.
| Read More » Lifestyle Change May Reverse Aging in Cells Lifestyle changes may turn back the biological clock, and reverse aging on a cellular level, new evidence shows. Read More » The Sea Change in Science Education: Corporate Stakeholders Step Up.  | The Sea Change in Science Education: Corporate Stakeholders Step Up.
| Read More » Cygnus vs. Dragon: How 2 Private Spaceships Stack Up  | An unmanned private spacecraft is set to launch from Virginia Wednesday (Sept. 18) on its maiden trip to the International Space Station.
| Read More » British cosmologist Hawking backs right to assisted suicide  | LONDON (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has backed the right for people who are terminally ill to choose to end their lives and to receive help to do so as long as safeguards are in place. The wheelchair-bound Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21 and told he had two to three years to live. Now 71, he is one of the world's leading scientists, known especially for his work on black holes and as author of the international bestseller "A Brief History of Time". ...
| Read More » Cloud Seeding Not to Blame for Colorado Flooding  | Colorado's recent massive flooding, which has left hundreds of people unaccounted for, has been called an anomalous 100- or even 1,000-year event by the scientific community. Such floods have a 1 percent and 0.1 percent chance of occurring, respectively, during any given year. While those odds make them rare events, they are the result of natural larger-scale weather and climate patterns, with perhaps an assist from climate change.
| Read More » Science Is Key to Earth's Future, Says Astrophysicist Martin Rees  | Science has captivated people for centuries, but public understanding of science is more important now than ever, says cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees.
| Read More » Evolution of a Predator: How Big Cats Became Carnivores  | The biggest and perhaps most fearsome of the world's big cats, the tiger shares 95.6 percent of its DNA with humans' cute and furry companions, domestic cats.
| Read More » Melt from Below Helping Shrink Antarctic Glaciers  | The ice that Antarctica is losing as chunks break off the continent's many glaciers may be only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists now find much of the ice Antarctica loses is due to melting from the undersides of ice shelves.
| Read More » Amazing Roll Cloud Tumbles Over DC Area  | A rare tube-shaped cloud created a spectacle in northern Virginia yesterday (Sept. 16) as it crept across the sky.
| Read More » What the World Dreams About: Mind-Bending App to Find Out  | The bizarre tales that flow through the sleeping mind vanish, as though they never happened, soon after a person awakes. But a new app aims to keep dreams alive — helping people remember, document and share their dreams — while building a large and growing database of snooze stories from around the world and through time.
| Read More » Private Launches Bring Boom to Virginia Spaceport  | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, nestled on a quaint stretch of Virginia's rural coastline, has an active autumn launch schedule this year, one sign a nearly $150 million investment by state and federal governments is starting to pay off.
| Read More » Richard Garriott, 2nd-Gen Space Traveler, Auctions Historic Rocket Model  | The first American to follow in his father's footsteps by flying in space is auctioning some of his memorabilia, including a rare rocket ship model based on a design by Russia's "father of space travel."
| Read More » Pandemic Flu Plan Predicts 30% of US Could Fall Ill A recently declassified U.S. government plan for how to react in the face of a pandemic flu has some scary, but realistic predictions. Read More » | |
