Science News

Free Top Stock Picks Alerts - Sponsored Link

Ad - Over The Top Stock Gains, Topping Charts Well Over 200%! Free E-mail Alerts
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:34:00 GMT

Film Review: "Hubble 3D' launches viewers on grand trek

Extract not available.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:34:00 GMT

DNA nanotechnology breakthrough offers promising applications in medicine

ers create DNA nanotubes able to carry and selectively release materials19 Mar 2010 - A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:33:00 GMT

News: Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

Big Bang machine scientists say next step is high-speed crash of two proton beams Sharon Gaudin (Computerworld (US)) Tags | science | large hadron collider | Big Bang Theory Share this article facebook facebook slashdot slashdot digg digg Reddit Reddit
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:37:00 GMT

Seventeen Indonesia Volcanoes On Alert

Seventeen of 18 volcanoes in Indonesia are on alert status and emitting toxic gas, a federal monitoring agency said. The mountains are safe to visit as long as tourists stay at least a half-mile away from the gas-producing craters, Indonesia's
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:27:00 GMT

A three-dimensional model of the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle

Most of the pre-mRNAs in the eukaryotic cell are comprised of protein-coding exons and non-protein-coding introns. The introns are removed and the exons are ligated together, or spliced, by a large, macromolecular complex known as the spliceosome. This
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:48:00 GMT

News: Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that its has accelerated proton beams 3.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV), the top speed ever for an atom smasher machine. Late last
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:43:00 GMT

Hubble and shuttle in IMAX 3-D

(CNN) -- There's one word astronaut Michael Massimino uses over and over to describe the view from the : 'Beautiful.' 'I tell folks ... if you're in heaven, this is what you would see,' said Massimino, a space walker on a repair mission to Hubble. 'This
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:28:00 GMT

Atom smasher cranks up to record energy levels: CERN

GENEVA: The world's most powerful atom smasher has been brought up to a record energy level, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday, in readiness for collisions that could generate new discoveries in particle physics. 'At just after
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:20:00 GMT

Winners of the Intel Science Talent Search Announced

credit: Akhil Mathew At an awards ceremony on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Intel Corp. and the Society for Science & the Public announced the winners of the most prestigious U.S. high school science competition, Intel's Science Talent Search. A
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:20:00 GMT

Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that its has accelerated proton beams 3.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV), the top speed ever for an atom smasher machine. Late last
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:19:00 GMT

Science Matters: Budget time offers a glimpse into the future - but how far?

David Suzuki With Faisal Moola, David Suzuki Foundation, THE CANADIAN PRESS It's budget time. How refreshing it was, then, to hear these words: 'We cannot continue to ignore the clean energy challenge and stand still while other countries move forward
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:39:00 GMT

LHC sets new record

Geneva - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe. The European Organisation for Nuclear
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:13:00 GMT

Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that its has accelerated proton beams 3.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV), the top speed ever for an atom smasher machine. Late last
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:11:00 GMT

Kaboom! Large Hadron Collider triples its own world record

The only thing better than claiming a world record is utterly smashing it, and that's exactly what the Large Hadron Collider did this morning in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC previously managed to reach an energy of 1.18 TeV. I guess I should be
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:47:00 GMT

Large Hadron Collider smashes record for achieving highest energy

The Large Hadron Collider has broken the record for the highest energy achieved in a particle accelerator. It circulated two beams of protons at 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) early yesterday, breaking the record set in December of just over a
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:28:00 GMT

Parasites and deleterious mutations: interactions influencing the evolutionary maintenance of sex

The restrictive assumptions associated with purely genetic and purely ecological mechanisms suggest that neither of the two forces, in isolation, can offer a general explanation for the evolutionary maintenance of sex. Consequently, attention has turned
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:27:00 GMT

LHC Atom Smasher Smashes Energy Record

(March 19) -- From broken down to record breaking, the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest, most expensive particle accelerator -- just achieved yet another milestone on the quest to discover the secrets of the physical universe. Today,
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:22:00 GMT

Solar sails take shape

Extract not available.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:09:00 GMT

Large Hadron Collider smashes another speed record

The world's largest atom smasher has broken yet another record. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that its Large Hadron Collider has accelerated proton beams 3.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV), the top speed ever for an atom smasher
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:00 GMT

LHC serves fresh notices over plea against Taseer

LAHORE: A five-member full bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday again served notices on the attorney general of Pakistan and the Punjab advocate general over a petition seeking Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's disqualification on charges of 'holding
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:42:00 GMT

Atom smasher cranks up to record energy levels: CERN

by Staff Writers Geneva (AFP) March 19, 2010 The world's most powerful atom smasher has been brought up to a record energy level, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday, in readiness for collisions that could generate new discoveries
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:17:00 GMT

Atom smasher cranks up to record energy levels: CERN

GENEVA: The world's most powerful atom smasher has been brought up to a record energy level, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday, in readiness for collisions that could generate new discoveries in particle physics. 'At just after
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:16:00 GMT

WNEC Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

The Western New England College Department of Biomedical Engineering will soon feature a state-of-the-art biomaterials research laboratory, thanks to a $293,450 National Science Foundation grant. The funding was made possible through the American
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Giving Plastic Solar Cells an Energy Boost

Solarmer Energy, based in El Monte, CA, is on target to reach 10 percent efficiency by the end of this year, says Yue Wu, the company's managing director and director of research and development. Organic cells will likely need at least that efficiency
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Cosmic Log: Solar sails take shape

Extract not available.
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:31:00 GMT

Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D (w/ Video)

This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:09:00 GMT

Water Plus Sunlight Equals Clean Energy For Mars?

Unlike its big terrestrial sister (aka Earth), Mars is sorely lacking in the energy department. While future Martian cities may eventually be powered by algae, solar steam or even geothermal power plants, colonists are going to need an energy source
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:08:00 GMT

The Science Behind Repo Men's Artificial Organ Market

While driving around a bleak city of the future, Remy (Jude Law), the protagonist in the film Repo Men, casually explains the nature of his grisly profession. "Can't pay for your house? The bank takes it back. Can't pay for your car? The bank takes it
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:07:00 GMT

LHC surpasses its own record as the world's most powerful particle accelerator

The Large Hadron Collider , the so-called big bang machine outside Geneva, has eclipsed its own world record as the highest-energy particle accelerator in history. The collider, commonly known as the LHC, accelerated its twin proton beams to 3.5
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:06:00 GMT

Hubble 3D in IMAX: View of the Heavens in a Theater That’s Almost That Big

Launch up from your couch and voyage to the final frontier this weekend with Hubble 3D, a hi-tech piece of visual wizardry from Warner Bros, IMAX, and NASA. The movie tracks the efforts of the astronauts on board mission STS-125, who blasted off aboard
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:04:00 GMT