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posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA piece of research news went practically unnoticed recently, except to the scientists in the field who saw it for what it is: an exciting development that could lead to sci-fi-like biosensors and ultra-ef...
*From Brazil come Egyptian sounds*. When you have seen Prof. Ribeiro's website, the Internet won't be the same again for you. So is listening to his music. Hope you enjoy it and more of it is here. Url mov...
posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe international ban on trading ivory could soon be lifted, if a new proposal goes through.
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe eastern North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans set up a see-saw of weather conditions that affect how hurricanes form in both regions.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoCan whales change color due to age, illness and/or stress? Marine biologist and noted whale expert Carrie Newell suspects they might. Since 1992, Newell has been documenting the comings and goings of gray ...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoArt experts find what they believe is the earliest signature of the master Raphael, hidden within a painting's arabesque decorations.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe world's largest atom smasher has just broken its own record, and it's just getting started.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 17 hours ago
... the first new recalibrated government filibuster got underway. . The Foreign Affairs committee had one hour before Question Period to schedule a witness list for their investigation into the Rights and...
posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoA technique to keep turbulence down in pipes could save money and could even be used to make vessels more fuel efficient and keep arteries clear.
posted by Clark Boyd at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoA few days ago, I was saddened by the news that we had lost ABE, the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, off the coast of Chile. For 15 years, ABE had plumbed the depths, literally and figuratively, for the Woods...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoTap an icon on the phone's screen to record city eyesores and then keep track of when fixes are made.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoCat fur could be effectively used as forensic evidence to solve criminal cases.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoA huge quantity of water has been discovered in craters at the north lunar pole, enough water to supply a large US city for three years. Also, there also appears to be evidence for a lunar "hydrosphere".
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMonitoring the periodic twitches in North America's most dangerous fault has got to be a nerve-wracking occupation.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA proposed global ban on trading the fish failed today, leaving their future in jeopardy.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will no longer be able to prorogue parliament unless he first gets approval from the majority of MPs, thats the new motion that was made today by the NDP and passed a...
*Ever wondered how we see reality?* I do that daily. How do our eyes and brains simulate the outside world? Are we looking at a 3-dimensional 'hologram' or do we see with both eyes a fairly 'flat' world t...
posted by Kasey-Dee Gardner at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe flooding in North Dakota brings back one reporter's memories of a community determined to hold back the high waters.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe magical cloak featured in the Harry Potter series just took one step closer to reality.
posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBlasting humans into the unforgiving vacuum of space is cool and all, but do you really expect us to buy into it without snazzy poster art? NASA's thinking exactly.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNon-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, and now researchers have proven that this die-off didn't happen over a long period of time. A detailed look at dinosaur bones, tracks and eggs locat...
posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 2010 prognosis for honey bees doesn't look good, according to Jeff Pettis, Research Leader at the USDA Bee Lab. Although hard data won't be available until April, preliminary surveys of our nation's be...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWild horses appear to possess an instinctual response to Native American drumming, as evidenced by a recent event at Red Horse Nation.
posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson is proposing a massive subway expansion, something Toronto dearly needs despite its shortage of funds to pay for the expansion. The solution is rather dari...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA U.N. wildlife meeting has rejected two proposals that would stop poaching and trade of these endangered species.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you get a message in Facebook saying that your password needs to be reset, don't do it. Virus-tainted spam targeting 400 million Facebook has run amok. You could be at risk for giving out personal infor...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf male Gulf pipefish like the mother of their brood, they develop her eggs. If not, the dads abort.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAnne Frank was a gifted storyteller, even while enduring the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, according to a new book.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoBack in 2007 the Cons claimed that all the Geneva Conventions do not apply in Afghanistan because we are not officially at war with Afghanistan. Yesterday in the Afghan parliamentary committee, Con MP Jim...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAhoy there! NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russia's Maxim Suraev landed in blustery Kazakhstan this morning, wrapping up a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Winds were so high, the c...
posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a laboratory buried underground and measuring several football fields in length, scientists are conducting experiments that could change the future of medicine.
posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe mountain-dwelling pika, which many predicted might be one of climate change's first casualties, is thriving in the Sierra Nevada.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA structure, possibly another universe beyond the horizon of our own, appears to be pulling at our world.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn the very edge of our observable universe live two quasars. Both contain active and growing primordial black holes, but where's all the dust?
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWith a degree in chemical engineering, Capra anticipated one of the most important issues of our generation -- global warming -- by several decades.
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoRecently I got a glimpse at energy-related research in the works at MIT during an afternoon at the MIT Energy Initiative, an interdisciplinary program pursuing sustainable energy solutions. Among the mind-...
posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoReligion and science are of similar minds when it comes to dealing with natural disasters.
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 2 days agoAccording to an AP story, the Vatican has begun an investigation into miracles and appearances of the Virgin Mary at the famous Medjugorje shrine in Bosnia. “An international commission of inquiry headed b...
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atFondos para tu computadora - 2 days ago[image: Paisajes Naturales de California (12 fotografías)]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* Esta es una inigualable *colección de wallpapers* basados exclus...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe exoplanet could be the Rosetta Stone in the search for worlds beyond our own.
posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHow to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the United States: Cover yourself in green (bonus points for shamrocks), put a smiling leprechaun cut-out on your front door, head to your local "Irish Pub" after work...
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIt giggles and then it cries. It coos and then it wails. Ah yes. The wild swing of emotions from babies is now replicated in robots. Engineering students from Tsukuba University north of Tokyo in Japan hav...
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has picked out the final resting place of the Soviet Lunokhod 2 rover after a Canadian researcher followed the 37 year old tire tracks captured in recently released moon...
posted by Josh Clark at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoActive fathers may have been a key factor in why our early ancestors were able to have many children, a study suggests.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLance Mackey is the first musher to win the 1,000-mile race four years in a row.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA British soldier left blind by a grenade in Iraq says his life has been transformed by a new device that allows him to "see" with his tongue.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWith a financial push from the Obama administration (and even Bill Gates), nuclear energy is out in front as an alternative to generating electricity with fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants –- and there ar...
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientist Charles Moore has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the insidious plastic soup swirling in the North Pacific, but he has said that cleaning it up is impossible. A scientific mission is u...
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhen it comes to bacteria, there's the good, the bad, and the ugh. Fortunately, scientists around the world are working on ways to enlist bacterial help in green technology. A crew from University College ...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHorses not only remember people who have treated them well, they also understand words better than expected, research shows.
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFour tablespoons worth of real estate from a nearby asteroid could help to explain how life began.
posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days agoSo y'all recall the hype ... Steve! Live and interactive and unrehearsed! It's *your* interview with Steve! Ask him your questions and vote 'em up on youtube! Steve *will have no idea beforehand* what wi...
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