Early quake alerts
Six thousand seismic sensors, 200 volunteers and a University of Delaware researcher all have one thing in common – helping scientists study earthquakes.
Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2011
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Dawn exceeds wildest expectations as first ever spacecraft to orbit a protoplanet - Vesta
NASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the first ever spacecraft from Planet Earth to achieve orbit around a Protoplanet – Vesta – on July ...
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2011
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Immigration and the resources boom
New research from Monash University has found that Australia’s population circumstances demand an immigration program which addresses problems of sustainability, particularly as they affect the quality of urban life ...
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2011
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Crickets show path to chirpier sperm
New research suggests that men are what they eat, at least when it comes to reproductive health.
Ecology
Jul 18, 2011
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Being a dominant breeder is costly for female banded mongooses
There's a subtle hierarchy among the women in banded mongoose societies: only older females get to breed, while younger ones have to wait their turn. If a young female mongoose decides to buck this trend, she risks the wrath ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2011
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Making blood-sucking deadly for mosquitoes
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 found.
Biochemistry
Jul 18, 2011
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Understanding Pentecostalism's global impact
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 in the Southern ...
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2011
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Getting positive results with negative ions
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 instruments ...
General Physics
Jul 18, 2011
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Iowa State physicist to test next-generation neutrino detector for major experiment
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. And Iowa State ...
General Physics
Jul 18, 2011
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Possibly the most distant object known
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 faint since ...
Astronomy
Jul 18, 2011
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