Telescope Innovator Shines His Genius On New Fields
You may not be familiar with the name Roger Angel, but if there were ever a scientist with a creative streak a mile wide, it would be he.Angel is an astronomer. He's famous for developing an entirely...
View ArticlePinky DNA Points To Clues About Ancient Humans
Scientists in Germany have been able to get enough DNA from a fossilized pinky to produce a high-quality DNA sequence of the pinky's owner."It's a really amazing-quality genome," says David Reich of...
View ArticleWho's Your Daddy?: Male Snail Carries Eggs As Cargo
A man is not a mollusk, and many men probably think that's a good thing. And it's not just because a mollusk is a squishy invertebrate with a shell. It's also because for at least one species of...
View ArticleVaccine For Dengue Fever Shows A Glimmer Of Hope
It's human nature to hope for positive results after spending months or even years conducting a research study. In well-designed studies, however, scientists identify in advance the criteria for...
View ArticleCould Genes For Stripes Help Kitty Fight Disease?
At this point it's just an interesting hypothesis, but it's possible that understanding cat coloration could help scientists understand resistance to infectious diseases.Here's the connection.
View ArticleKorean Eunuchs Lived Long And Prospered
Tell people you're doing a story about the life spans of Korean eunuchs, the typical reaction is a giggle or a cringe.But if you can overcome your visceral response to the topic, a study scientists in...
View ArticleFun With Physics: How To Make Tiny Medicine Nanoballs
For the past decade, scientists have been toying with the notion of encapsulating medicine in microscopic balls.These so-called nanospheres could travel inside the body to hard-to-reach places, like...
View Article100 Years Ago, Maillard Taught Us Why Our Food Tastes Better Cooked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhLZ2_KTqf4
View ArticleSpray Lights Up The Chemical That Causes Poison Ivy Rash
You'd think that someone who is a science correspondent and is as allergic to poison ivy as I am would have heard of urushiol, but no. I didn't recognize the word when I saw it a week or so ago.
View ArticleIn Flooded New Jersey, No Oversight For Levees
Residents of Moonachie and Little Ferry, N.J., are beginning to clear the damage after their communities were inundated by floodwaters. The flooding occurred when a system of levees and berms was...
View ArticleLevee Rebuilding Questioned After Sandy Breach
Every time a storm brings flooding to a large metropolitan area, there are calls to improve the levee systems that are designed to prevent flooding.But there's a major problem with doing that. "We...
View ArticleBig News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem.They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to...
View ArticleSpace Probe Finds Ice In Mercury's Craters
Mercury is not the first planet to come to mind if you were searching for ice in the solar system. After all, the surface temperature across most of the planet is hot enough to melt lead.But at the...
View ArticleSigns Of Life On Mars? Not Exactly
The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said last week that preliminary data showed the possibility that the agency's Mars Science Laboratory – the six-wheeled rover that landed on Mars in...
View ArticleNASA Scientists 'Very Careful' With New Mars Data
NASA is finally receiving data on Martian soil samples from Curiosity, its rover currently traversing the red planet. The results from the soil samples hint at something exciting, but rover scientists...
View ArticleBuilding A Rover Of The Edible Kind
The folks at the California Institute of Technology have built another Mars rover, but this one will never get to leave Earth. Not surprising, really, since it's made of gingerbread.I first learned...
View ArticleComputers May Someday Beat Chefs At Creating Flavors We Crave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNz23XXLa1E
View ArticleThe Quest For The Perfect Toothbrush
There are some consumer products where every year brings new innovations. Computers get faster, cellphones get lighter, cars get new bells and whistles.It's easy to imagine why inventors are drawn to...
View ArticleDrug Fulfills Promise Of Research Into Cystic Fibrosis Gene
The promise of genetic medicine is beginning to be fulfilled, but it's been a long, hard slog.Take the story of Kalydeco. It's designed to treat people with a lung disease called cystic fibrosis. While...
View ArticleSmall Meals, Big Payoff: Keeping Hunger And Calories In Check
When presented with a tempting buffet of French food, not overeating can be a challenge. But a new study by researchers in Lyon suggests there are strategies that will help people resist...
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