Future Male Birth Control May Zap Sperm with Sound Waves
Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer FOLLOW US SHARE The testis is composed of many tubes called ?seminiferous tubules.? The seminiferous tubule on the left is from a testis that was not treated with ultrasound while the tubule on the right ismore
Firstscience Science Fact of the Day - 30 Jan 2012
Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains (4 line long poems) in his lifetime which he organised into centuries. Many people believe that he could predict the future and that these poems contain cryptic information about future events. -- Delivered by Feed43more
Week in Review: Child Porn and Attempted Robbery Arrests, Hubble Answers and Anti-Bullying
Grant Could Fund Signage, Maps for Wheaton's Bike Routes Wheaton City Council will vote next month on a long-term bike plan which would be a template for future improvements to the city's biking system. City staff could start implementing the planmore
Astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Physics, the team shows thatmore
Gene breakthrough to help farmers hit by tsunami
Scientists in Britain and Japan have unveiled a fast-track way toward breeding crops with higher yields or resistance to climate change. Early beneficiaries should be Japanese farmers who need salt-loving rice plants after their fields were submerged inmore
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UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In a paper published Jan. 29 in the advance online edition of the journalmore
Astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt
Researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft.more
Pneumococcal genome sequencing tracks a vaccine escape variant formed through a multi-fragment recombination event
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Genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci influencing human serum metabolite levels
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Chromosome-scale selective sweeps shape Caenorhabditis elegans genomic diversity
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NDM-1: The Bacterial Gene That's Resistant to 15 Different Antibiotics [Science]
There are few new drugs in development to treat the microbes that NDM-1 plagues. In Western hospitals, "gram-positive" bacteria, which are structurally vulnerable to antibiotics and disinfectants, tend to dominate. In hospitals in India and othermore
Cosmology in a petri dish
Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning from long-ranged cosmological-stylemore
New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science
Source: Case Western Reserve press release Origin & Evolution of Life Summary: A new theory asserts that the Earth is alive - including purportedly inanimate, non-living objects like water, proteins and DNA. The Earth is alive, asserts a new scientificmore
Senate elections challenged in LHC
LAHORE: A constitutional writ petition has been moved to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday against forthcoming Senate elections in March Syed Feroz Shah Gilani advocate filed this petition and submitted that it had been provd beyond doubt that themore
I?ve got your missing links right here (29 January 2012)
Top picks . This post is excellent. Carl Zimmer has the best angle on the new story about Archaeopteryx?s colours: A secret group of Parisian artists break into museums & restore neglected artworks X-Ray Laser Turns Up the Heat to . That?s hottermore
UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons
Findings further efforts to better predict geomagnetic storms in space UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In amore
Stars Over the Coast astronomy column Jan. 29-Feb. 4 Mars tags along with bright zodiac constellation Leo
PLANETS TO VIEW: Venus continues to shine brightly in the southwest after dusk, with Jupiter high in the south as twilight fades. Mars is low in the east by 9 p.m. and nicely placed in two hours.Saturn is low in the east just after midnight, and Mercurymore
Astronomers solve mystery of vanishing energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Physics, the team shows thatmore
I?ve got your missing links right here (29 January 2012) | Not Exactly Rocket Science
Top picks Cancer is hard . This post is excellent. Carl Zimmer has the best angle on the new story about Archaeopteryx?s colours: an embargoed tattoo A secret group of Parisian artists break into museums & restore neglected artworks X-Raymore
Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism
I know I?ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to ? and you?re gonna like it. I was fooling around with helioviewer.org, watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA?s Solar Dynamics observatory,more
House Mice Serenade Mates with 'Bird' Song
Male mice serenade potential mates with distinct songs, much like many bird species do. CREDIT: Emilia Stasiak | Shutterstock Most people are familiar with the telltale squeak of a mouse scurrying out of their pantry, but scientists have long known thatmore
Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism
I know I?ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to yesterday?s cool video of the big solar flare ? and you?re gonna like it. I was fooling around with helioviewer.org , watching the flare in differentmore
Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism | Bad Astronomy
I know I?ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to yesterday?s cool video of the big solar flare ? and you?re gonna like it. I was fooling around with helioviewer.org , watching the flare in differentmore
Science fair draws hundreds of Akron students
Seventh-grader Angelica Carrero wondered what kind of soda would dissolve a penny. The answer: Pepsi. Fifth-grader Alyssa Snyder questioned what country's currency would produce the most electricity in a battery. The answer: Mexico. And seventh-gradermore
Science projects tackle practical questions
Kimberly Latigo, a 13-year-old at Lucio Middle School, was racing her brother around their home. They got tired and she needed something to drink. Her father told her orange juice would help her rehydrate and regain energy. Thus, a science fairmore
Superheroes physics
When James Kakalios sits through a Spider-Man movie, he doesn't just watch the comic-book hero swing across New York on a strand of "webbing." While we munch our popcorn, Kakalios is calculating. If Spider-Man swings on a line that's 200 feet long at amore