Almost every worker has done it: gotten in a little Facebook updating, personal e-mailing, YouTube watching and friend calling while on the clock.

Technology - Other

Mar 21, 2010 3.8 / 5 (8) 5

(AP) -- A volcano in southern Iceland has erupted for the first time in almost 200 years, raising concerns that it could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at a volatile volcano nearby.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 21, 2010 4.8 / 5 (9) 0

(AP) -- The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 21, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Potable water is often in high demand and short supply following a natural disaster like the Haiti earthquake or Hurricane Katrina. In both of those instances, the disaster zones were near ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 21, 2010 4.6 / 5 (24) 6 |

(AP) -- In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living.

Technology - Internet

Mar 21, 2010 not rated yet 0

The brains of males and females, and how they use them, may be far more different then previously thought, at least in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Mar 21, 2010 4.6 / 5 (5) 1 |

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified a new growth factor that stimulates the expansion and regeneration of hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells in culture and in laboratory animals. The discovery, ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 21, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a massive galaxy in the early Universe creating stars like our sun up to 100 times faster than the modern-day Milky Way.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 21, 2010 4.7 / 5 (10) 3 |

Like a film director cutting out extraneous footage to create a blockbuster, the cellular machine called the spliceosome snips out unwanted stretches of genetic material and joins the remaining pieces to fashion a template ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year. ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 21, 2010 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

A California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-led team of researchers and clinicians has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle -- used as an experimental therapeutic and injected directly ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 21, 2010 4.5 / 5 (10) 1

A potential new energy source so controversial that people once regarded it as junk science is moving closer to acceptance by the mainstream scientific community. That's the conclusion of the organizer of ...

Chemistry - Other

Mar 21, 2010 3.9 / 5 (61) 207

US President Barack Obama's quest for health care reform comes to a head on Sunday when the House of Representatives votes on legislation to extend health insurance to virtually all Americans.

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 21, 2010 4.7 / 5 (3) 4

A volcano in the area of the Eyjafallajoekull glacier in southern Iceland erupted early Sunday, forcing more than 500 people in its vicinity to evacuate their homes, authorities said.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 21, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

A Russian Proton-M rocket launched a US EchoStar 14 telecommunications into orbit Sunday, the Khrunichev space centre announced.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 21, 2010 3.5 / 5 (2) 0