Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed, researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, UC Davis, and NASA's Johnson Space Center ...
Nov 21, 2007
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The emergence of flowering plants is regarded as a major botanical mystery. In today’s edition of the scientific magazine Nature, an international research team with participation from the Paul Scherrer Instit ...
Nov 21, 2007
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One gene for pea pod color generates green pods while a variant of that gene gives rise to the yellow-pod phenotype, a feature that helped Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Austrian priest and scientist, first ...
Nov 21, 2007
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The shrine where ancient Romans worshiped the she-wolf who nursed Rome's mythical founding twins, Romulus and Remus, may have been found, archaeologists said.
Nov 21, 2007
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The modern-day turkey on American tables and the extinct Tyrannosaurus rex have one thing in common: their wishbone.
Nov 21, 2007
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The Canadian government is investing in solar energy, awarding $1.1 million for projects promoting photovoltaic and solar thermal power technologies.
Nov 21, 2007
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Congo has established a rain-forest preserve to protect the bonobo from deforestation and poachers, government officials said.
Nov 21, 2007
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New research led by a University of St Andrews astronomer has found evidence for what might be the raw material for the beginning of shrunken versions of our solar system - miniature worlds in the making.
Nov 21, 2007
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Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.
Nov 21, 2007
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In an effort to find an answer to the problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California say a neutron scatter camera they are developing ...
Nov 21, 2007
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When termites are chewing on your home, your immediate thought probably isn't "I wonder how they digest that stuff?" But biologists have been gnawing on the question for more than a century. The key is not just the termite, ...
Nov 21, 2007
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Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.
Nov 21, 2007
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A new study of 25 years of data from a major college football poll challenges three strongly held beliefs of many coaches and fans.
Nov 21, 2007
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Injecting adult stem cells into a heart following a heart attack (infarction) improves the heart function and strengthens the heart wall.
Nov 21, 2007
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NASA has replaced a crew member assigned to space shuttle mission STS-126. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit will take the place of astronaut Joan E. Higginbotham, who has left NASA to accept a position in the private sector. The ...
Nov 21, 2007
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