The U.S. hurricane season is under way and for many people in areas hit hard by 2005's hurricanes, it's going to be an uneasy summer.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 06, 2006 3 / 5 (2) 0

A group of telecom companies urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject the merger of AT&T with BellSouth.

Technology - Telecom

Jun 06, 2006 3.8 / 5 (5) 0

A University of Adelaide PhD physiology researcher has discovered a world first: a diving insect that can regulate its buoyancy in water, just like a scuba diver.

Biology -

Jun 06, 2006 4.5 / 5 (8) 0

Like a celebrity living on mineral water, the glassy-winged sharpshooter consumes only the dilute sap of woody plants—including grapevines in California, which is feverishly working to prevent the insect’s flight into ...

Biology -

Jun 06, 2006 3.3 / 5 (3) 0

Based on current trends for both air and water temperatures, by 2100 the body temperatures of California mussels – found along thousands of miles of coast in the northeast Pacific Ocean and not just in California – could ...

Biology -

Jun 06, 2006 5 / 5 (1) 0

Astronomers have found the largest number of the most distant, youngest galaxy clusters yet, a feat that will help them observe the developing universe when it was less than half its current age and still in its formative ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jun 06, 2006 4.7 / 5 (7) 0

Scientists have solved a question about the nature of plutonium that had remained a mystery since the Manhattan Project.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jun 06, 2006 3.8 / 5 (57) 0

One of the youngest supernova remnants known, a glowing red ball of dust created by the explosion 1,000 years ago of a supermassive star in a nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, exhibits the same problem as exploding ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jun 06, 2006 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

A new understanding of how glass is formed may assist with our understanding of everything from the design of golf club heads to the structure of the early universe.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jun 06, 2006 3.1 / 5 (22) 0

It may sound like Saturday cartoons: a strong-boned rat that can't be broken. But a couple of Texas researchers say the real hero is citrus juice.

Medicine & Health -

Jun 06, 2006 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Kent State University researchers are leading a team of scientists from eight institutions, who have been awarded a $5.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) from the Air Force Office of Scientific ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jun 06, 2006 4.4 / 5 (29) 0

Our Sun has its explosive flares and spots and high speed wind, but it is a placid star compared to some. Stars that are much more massive live fast and die young, with blue-white, intensely hot surfaces that ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jun 06, 2006 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

It has been 2.3 billion years since Earth's atmosphere became infused with enough oxygen to support life as we know it. About the same time, the planet became encased in ice that some scientists speculate was more than a ...

Biology -

Jun 06, 2006 4.8 / 5 (14) 0

First discovered 150 years ago, Neanderthals have been studied more widely than any other form of human. Thanks to a new interactive inventory and online catalogue developed in Europe, scientists worldwide ...

Technology - Software

Jun 06, 2006 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

Scientists in the joint study group of Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Berlin’s Humboldt University have generated ball-lightning in the laboratory - or, to be more precise, ball-lightning-like ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 06, 2006 4.5 / 5 (138) 0