Climate change is leading some British botanists to conclude that winter is disappearing as a distinct season in the United Kingdom.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 08, 2008 3.9 / 5 (11) 0

Safeguarding sensitive information - no matter how sophisticated the IT system - can never be foolproof, according to research published this week by Leeds University Business School.

Other Sciences - Other

Feb 08, 2008 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

Gazing into your lover’s eyes isn’t only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 08, 2008 4.6 / 5 (27) 0

Sometimes simpler is better. Engineering researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a new way to produce ultra-thin electricity-conducting wire that is simpler and faster than existing processes.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Feb 08, 2008 4.5 / 5 (26) 0

A new study co-authored by NSIDC Research Scientist Ted Scambos and published in Volume 54 of the Journal of Glaciology sheds light on the 2002 collapse of a massive Antarctic ice shelf.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 08, 2008 3.9 / 5 (11) 0

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 08, 2008 4.8 / 5 (22) 3

Preventing Alzheimer's disease is a goal of Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at the Washington University School of Medicine. The moss plant Physcomitrella patens studied ...

Biology -

Feb 08, 2008 4.4 / 5 (15) 2

The Earth's orbital behaviors are responsible for more than just presenting us with a leap year every four years. According to Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 08, 2008 4.6 / 5 (35) 3

It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and pastries they eat?

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 08, 2008 4.5 / 5 (20) 1

The tornadoes that swept across the mid-South on Tuesday and Wednesday illustrate in tragic fashion the findings of a recently published study by Northern Illinois University meteorologist Walker Ashley.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 08, 2008 4.8 / 5 (12) 2

Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU Gravitational and Relativity ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 08, 2008 4.1 / 5 (18) 1

A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on ...

Biology -

Feb 08, 2008 4.6 / 5 (36) 0

Tanks, soldiers, snipers, mortars and bombers fanned out rapidly over unfamiliar undulating terrain, searching for their enemy counterparts and trying to seize control of battle towers. Some armies swarmed ...

Technology - Software

Feb 08, 2008 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

European researchers are developing a range of novel technologies and end-to-end solutions for indoor and outdoor geo-location scenarios encountered by the likes of utility companies, emergency services and ...

Technology - Engineering

Feb 08, 2008 4 / 5 (2) 0

In the science world, in the media, and recently, in our daily lives, the debate continues over how carbon in the atmosphere is affecting global climate change. Studying just how carbon cycles throughout the Earth is an enormous ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 08, 2008 4.2 / 5 (5) 1