There are a lot of ups and downs in tropical cyclone formation in the Pacific Ocean this week, and that's keeping NOAA's GOES-11 satellite busy. There are remnants of Maka and Tropical Depression 9E, a fizzled ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 13, 2009 3 / 5 (3) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water striders, the familiar semi-aquatic bugs gliding across the lake at the cottage, have a novel body form that allows them to walk on water. This was not always the case. Achieving the ...

Biology - Evolution

Aug 13, 2009 1 / 5 (1) 0

A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Aug 13, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies with female board members fare worse on the stock market, despite performing as well on all other measures as those with all-male boards. This is the finding of a new study by the ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Aug 13, 2009 3 / 5 (1) 4

(AP) -- Roku says its pioneering Internet video set-top box is adding its first live feed, from Major League Baseball.

Technology - Internet

Aug 13, 2009 not rated yet 0

Google on Wednesday added social-networking features to its customizable homepages by adding software "gadgets" that enable people to play and stay in tune with friends online.

Technology - Internet

Aug 13, 2009 not rated yet 0

Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 13, 2009 4.4 / 5 (9) 4

Robots in the sky and on the ground are transforming warfare, and the US military is rushing to recruit the new warriors that never sleep and never bleed.

Electronics - Robotics

Aug 13, 2009 4 / 5 (20) 46

Australian birds have shrunk over the past century because of global warming, scientists have found.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 13, 2009 1.7 / 5 (6) 3

(AP) -- American wildlife officials and ranchers are raising questions over a plan to release a rare North American gray wolf to its historic range in northern Mexico: Will it stay south of the border and ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 13, 2009 3 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday.

Technology - Internet

Aug 13, 2009 4 / 5 (2) 1

The team, in collaboration with University Hospital Aintree, the University of Warwick and researchers in Sweden, found that people classified as obese and those with pre-diabetes have raised levels of a protein called SPARC, ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 13, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 1

Scientists investigating the effects of cannabis on bone health have found that its impact varies dramatically with age.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Aug 13, 2009 4.9 / 5 (10) 1

Walking outdoors in the fall, the splendidly colorful leaves adorning the trees are a delight to the eye. In Europe these autumn leaves are mostly yellow, while the United States and East Asia boast lustrous ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 13, 2009 2.8 / 5 (9) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Aug 13, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 0