A group of London researchers learned additional details concerning how anesthetics work on the human body by analyzing a snail's nervous system.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jul 20, 2007 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

The University of Central Florida has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and camera phones, ...

Technology - Other

Jul 20, 2007 4 / 5 (5) 0

A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy ...

Biology -

Jul 20, 2007 4.5 / 5 (12) 0

The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 20, 2007 4.5 / 5 (16) 0

Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 20, 2007 3.9 / 5 (10) 0

Thanks to the work of a team of physicists at SLAC, a technique used for years in physics experiments such as BaBar will soon help researchers monitor the performance of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 20, 2007 3.6 / 5 (5) 0

Imagine an electric car with the same acceleration capability as a gas-powered sports car, or ultrafast rechargeable “batteries” that can be recharged a thousand times more than existing conventional batteries. According ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jul 20, 2007 4.6 / 5 (140) 0

The pentimento of a flying fist, just visible beneath layers of paint, triggered an investigation of N.C. Wyeth's "Family Portrait" at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. A simple X-ray revealed ...

Other Sciences - Other

Jul 20, 2007 3 / 5 (2) 0

Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jul 20, 2007 4.2 / 5 (18) 0

A California executive appeared before a Congressional committee in Washington to defend his unusual carbon dioxide reduction plans.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 20, 2007 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy have ordered an in-depth environmental review of California's Santa Susana Field Lab.

Space & Earth - Environment

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A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.

Technology - Telecom

Jul 20, 2007 4.4 / 5 (8) 0

Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars.

Electronics - Robotics

Jul 20, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 20, 2007 4.7 / 5 (20) 0

MIT physicists have developed a spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to inspect the world of electrons confined to a two-dimensional plane more clearly than ever before.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 20, 2007 4.9 / 5 (53) 0