By examining how proteins have evolved, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a set of simple "rules" that nature appears to use to design proteins, rules the scientists have now employed to create artificial ...
Sep 21, 2005
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For the first time, scientists have identified an ant species that produces its own natural herbicide to poison unwanted plants. Stanford University biologist Deborah M. Gordon and her co-workers describe the findings in ...
Sep 21, 2005
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A survey Wednesday said U.S. small businesses are somewhat slow in adopting high-speed broadband service.
Sep 21, 2005
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A computer programmer looking at Google Earth satellite images has reportedly discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa near Sorbelo, Italy.
Sep 21, 2005
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Silicon Valley's Covad Communications is offering broadband service of a sizzling 6.0 megabits per second and 768 kilobits per second for home-office use.
Sep 21, 2005
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Nigeria is reassuring the public that cell phones pose no verifiable health threat as cheap and second-hand units gain popularity.
Sep 21, 2005
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NASA announced Tuesday the selection of N. Wayne Hale Jr. as manager of the Space Shuttle Program. He has been deputy manager since July 2003 and succeeds Bill Parsons, who returned to NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ...
Sep 21, 2005
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Open University researchers have uncovered startling new evidence about an extreme period of a sudden, fatal dose of global warming some 180 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. The scientists' findings could ...
Sep 21, 2005
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About five to seven million years ago, when the lineage of humans and chimpanzees split, edible root plants similar to rutabagas and turnips may have been one of the reasons.
Sep 21, 2005
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The first survey of the entire northern Milky Way for forty years is shedding fresh light on the life-cycle of stars in our astronomical backyard.
Sep 21, 2005
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