Inhibiting a molecular process cells use to direct proteins to their proper destinations causes more than 90 percent of affected mosquitoes to die within 48 hours of blood feeding, a UA team of biochemists ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jul 18, 2011 4.3 / 5 (6) 5 |

Pentecostalism — a religious movement that began in a warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906 — has emerged as a fast-growing minority religion in the developing world, gaining popularity ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jul 18, 2011 1.3 / 5 (4) 3

Yes! That's the answer scientists from OI Analytical and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory got from their experiments to see if the new IonCCDTM can detect negative ions and large ions. Furthermore, employing ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 18, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Hundreds of physicists from around the world are making plans to shoot the world's most intense beam of neutrinos from Illinois, underground through Iowa, all the way to a former gold mine in South Dakota. ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 18, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0

The most distant objects in the universe are also the oldest -- or at least that is how they appear to us, because their light has had to travel for billions of years to get here. They are also extraordinarily ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jul 18, 2011 4.7 / 5 (20) 204 |

(AP) -- NASA's orbiting astronauts detached a huge storage bin full of trash from the International Space Station on Monday and loaded it aboard Atlantis for the last shuttle ride back to Earth.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0

China will introduce a pilot scheme for carbon emissions trading and gradually develop a national market as the world's largest polluter seeks to reduce emissions and save energy, state media said.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 18, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 3

The lively morning calls of a rare species of gibbon has led to the discovery of the only known "viable" community of the talkative primates in remote Vietnamese forests, conservationists said Monday.

Biology - Ecology

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Russia on Monday launched into space its Spektr-R radio telescope planned to be the most powerful ever, the first deep space observatory sent up by Moscow in a quarter of a century.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2011 5 / 5 (11) 4

The Atlantis roars back to Earth this week ending America's vaunted space shuttle program and frustrating a generation of astronauts who see their chance to soar into the cosmos sharply limited.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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A scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and colleague at Emory University are seeking to persuade the National Science Foundation to reevaluate its decision to cancel a program that has placed 10,000 science graduate ...

Other Sciences - Other

Jul 18, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Until now, scientists were uncertain about how much and where in the world terrestrial carbon is being stored. In the July 14 issue of Science Express, scientists report that, between 1990 and 2007, the world's forests stored ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 18, 2011 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Physicists Moti Fridman and colleagues at Cornell University have successfully demonstrated a so-called time cloaking device that is able to “hide” time for 15 trillionths of a second. In a paper published on arXiv, the re ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 18, 2011 4.2 / 5 (11) 7 |

(AP) -- If the weather cooperates, Atlantis will close out the space shuttle era with wheels down in Florida. Shuttle homecomings didn't always end this way.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2011 not rated yet 2

(AP) -- Erik Andrus considers himself a beer and bread man, but he's had limited success growing high quality grains on his sometimes soggy swath of Vermont farmland. This spring, in an effort to turn a liability ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 18, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0