Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 07, 2007 3.3 / 5 (23) 0

U.S. researchers say women who take aspirin may have a lower risk of dying from cancer and heart disease.

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Jun 07, 2007 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of Ferrari Chocolates because of undeclared peanuts and possible fungi contamination.

Medicine & Health - Health

Jun 07, 2007 3 / 5 (2) 0

In a way, nanotubes are nature's smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 07, 2007 4.4 / 5 (19) 0

Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (111) 0

NASA managers officially are targeting Sept. 10, 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During the 11-day flight, Atlantis' seven astronauts will repair ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 07, 2007 3 / 5 (2) 0

On Wednesday, NASA and IBM announced the agency has selected an IBM System p575+ supercomputer for evaluating next-generation technology to meet the agency's future supercomputing requirements. Supercomputers play a critical ...

Electronics - Hardware

Jun 07, 2007 4.4 / 5 (5) 0

Endocannabinoids seem to play an important role in regulating inflammation processes. Scientists from the University of Bonn have discovered this in experiments on mice. Their results will be published in the distinguished ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 07, 2007 4.7 / 5 (26) 0

The ion channel activated by menthol also detects a wide range of cold temperatures and relays the information to the brain, according to a study in Nature by Yale School of Medicine, the University of California at San Fr ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new technique ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jun 07, 2007 3.8 / 5 (10) 0

Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 07, 2007 4.4 / 5 (339) 0

The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the picture revealed by recently ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Jun 07, 2007 3.1 / 5 (9) 0

The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 07, 2007 4.4 / 5 (42) 0

A University of Western Sydney economist says there is no doubt who benefits from any increase in petrol prices - especially when it comes to long weekends.

Other Sciences - Other

Jun 07, 2007 3.8 / 5 (9) 0

"Have I been here before?" In today's fast-moving world of look-alike hotel rooms and comparable corridors, it can take a bit of thinking to answer this simple question. University of Bristol neuroscientists ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 07, 2007 3.8 / 5 (6) 0