NASA fueling space shuttle for 2nd launch attempt
(AP) -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Discovery again for an early morning launch.
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2009
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LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces ...
Nanophysics
Aug 25, 2009
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YouTube's new sales pitch: join our ad program
(AP) -- YouTube hopes to convert more amateur videographers into capitalists as it strives to show more advertising on its Web site and reverse years of uninterrupted losses.
Internet
Aug 25, 2009
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Retrofitted Historic Building Survives Strong Simulated Jolts During UCSD Test (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When a series of rigorous simulated earthquakes - measuring up to a 7.5 magnitude - jolted the three-story, 1920s era reinforced concrete structure, UC San Diego engineers were not quite sure what would happen. ...
Engineering
Aug 25, 2009
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Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 25, 2009
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Bridging the political divide across the Gulf of Aqaba
Scientists from Stanford University have teamed up with Israeli and Jordanian researchers to protect the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic waterway whose fragile marine ecosystem is vital to both Israel and Jordan. Participants ...
Environment
Aug 25, 2009
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Taking the juice for granted: Powering American cities in the new century
Barring the occasional thunderstorm, most Americans take the electric current behind their power buttons for granted, and assume the juice will be there when they're ready to fire up an appliance or favorite tech toy. Little ...
Engineering
Aug 25, 2009
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Deadly heat waves are becoming more frequent in California
From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually high humidity levels for this typically arid region led to the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2009
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Has PAMELA Already Seen Dark Matter?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2006, PAMELA (a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) was launched with the purpose of detecting cosmic radiation and looking for clues pointing to dark matter. ...
Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan
A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David Rubin. The paper, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2009
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