A Russian rocket that broke up re-entering Earth's atmosphere over the United States had ferried a French telescope into orbit, U.S. military officials said.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 04, 2007 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

Nearly eight in 10 California voters favor employers either providing employees' health coverage or pay into a state fund that would, a poll said.

Medicine & Health - Other

Jan 04, 2007 1 / 5 (2) 0

A series of events in the human brain apparently stimulate hunger during periods of fasting, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine said.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jan 04, 2007 2.8 / 5 (5) 0

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a tiny piece of genetic code apparently goes where no bit of it has gone before, and it gets there under its own internal code.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Jan 04, 2007 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

Regulation set to take effect tomorrow, Jan. 5, 2007, is designed to reduce medication errors in California hospitals and free pharmacists for greater involvement in direct patient care rather than in non-discretionary (clerical) ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jan 04, 2007 2.3 / 5 (3) 0

If playing video games makes kids less active -- and contributes to obesity -- why not create more video games that require activity? That's the question prompted by a Mayo Clinic research study published in the current issue ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jan 04, 2007 1 / 5 (1) 0

Ames Laboratory researchers have found the first metamaterial known to work for visible light, announcing the discovery in the Jan. 5 issue of Science.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 04, 2007 4.3 / 5 (57) 0

SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 32-gigabyte (GB), 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD) as a drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. Initially aimed at enterprise users as the first ...

Electronics - Hardware

Jan 04, 2007 4.2 / 5 (21) 0

The highlight of January will be the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east around 8 p.m. local time at the start of the month and two hours earlier by month's end. The planet with the famous rings will ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 04, 2007 4.2 / 5 (5) 0

The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 04, 2007 4.5 / 5 (34) 0

Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. This applies also to fish populations. Previous studies demonstrating a link ...

Biology -

Jan 04, 2007 4 / 5 (10) 0

A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a method of making flexible, thin-film transistors (TFTs) that are not only inexpensive to produce, but also capable of high speeds — even microwave frequency, ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 04, 2007 4.6 / 5 (26) 0

It's not often that an engineer finds inspiration for their research at the ballet. But for University of Queensland graduate Aaron Tan, the theatre was the perfect place to start his search for smarter lighting design.

Technology - Engineering

Jan 04, 2007 2.5 / 5 (4) 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung's new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different ...

Electronics - Hardware

Jan 04, 2007 3.2 / 5 (10) 0

In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers have found that the inpatient length of stay for youth with mental illness fell more than sixty percent between 1990 and 2000, despite concurrent increases in illness ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jan 04, 2007 2 / 5 (1) 0