Tony Pometto held up a laboratory flask swimming with little balls of mold. This, said the Iowa State University professor of food science and human nutrition, is the kind of fungus that Iowa State researchers have used to ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 1, 2006
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An international team of chemists has discovered a new and unexpected form of iron, a finding that adds to the fundamental understanding of an element that is among the most abundant on Earth and that, in nature, is an essential ...
Jun 1, 2006
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A long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed important new details of a neutron star that is spewing out a wake of high-energy particles as it races through space. The deduced location of the neutron ...
Astronomy
Jun 1, 2006
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A small, near-Earth asteroid named Itokawa is just a pile of floating rubble, probably created from the breakup of an ancient planet, according to a University of Michigan researcher was part of the Japanese space mission ...
Astronomy
Jun 1, 2006
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Given that cancer is a disease that results from gene mutations, the development of high-throughput schemes for detecting specific DNA sequences would have a dramatic effect on cancer research, cancer detection, and the monitoring ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 1, 2006
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Ancient Chinese warriors are yet again helping scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and their collaborators unravel some of the mysteries of the natural world.
General Physics
Jun 1, 2006
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A study finds U.S. "religious right" groups have negative attitudes toward similar religious groups on the right, making coalition forming more difficult.
Other
Jun 1, 2006
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Greek scientists using modern technology say they have decoded the text of the world's oldest literary papyrus.
Archaeology
Jun 1, 2006
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The Norwegian firm, Statkraft, has proposed creating underwater tide-harnessing machines to provide up to 3 percent of the European Union's electricity.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 1, 2006
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U.S. scientists say they have found magnetism and the onset of intense tropical rainfall share the same underlying physics.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2006
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