The Gulf of Mexico oil spill couldn’t have occurred at a worse time for bluefin tuna: they had come to the area – a major spawning ground – to produce offspring. Satellites are helping assess the damage from ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2010
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Having long been sidelined as a "Cinderella subject" in schools, children's poetry is poised to reclaim the hearts and minds of a new generation of younger readers, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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You never know where you might find some intrepid scientists trying to unlock some of nature's mysteries. Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni came up with an idea that brings science to a most unlikely place -- prison!
Other
Oct 18, 2010
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NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is hurtling toward Comet Hartley 2 for a breathtaking 435-mile flyby on Nov. 4th. Mission scientists say all systems are go for a close encounter with one of the smallest yet most active ...
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2010
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A team of scientists from Singapore led by the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), two biomedical research institutes of Singapore's Agency of Science, Technology and ...
Biotechnology
Oct 18, 2010
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The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, archaeologists from the University ...
Archaeology
Oct 18, 2010
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The first nine months of 2010 tied with the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record. The global average land surface temperature for January-September was the second warmest ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2010
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The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself.
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2010
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Unless it leads to sex, adult male primates usually aren't very playful. Except if they’re Silky sifakas.
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2010
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Embryonic stem cells behave very differently outside the pull of Earth's gravity, researchers suggest.
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2010
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