The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has discovered a rare periodic comet. SOHO has already discovered more than 1,350 comets during its mission, but this is the first time one of its discoveries officially has been ...
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2007
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For thousands of years, people all over the world have gazed at the night sky and wondered just how far they would have to travel to reach the stars.
Astronomy
Sep 27, 2007
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Springtails, mites, worms and plant life could help solve the mystery of Antarctica’s glacial history according to new research published in the journal Science this week.
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2007
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Two multinational teams of scientists, including four researchers from Arizona State University, are reporting that traces of oxygen appeared in Earth’s atmosphere 50 to 100 million years before the “Great Oxidation Event.” ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2007
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Giardia lamblia, one of the most common human parasites in the United States, causes more than 20,000 intestinal infections a year, often through contact with contaminated drinking or swimming water. In the September 28 issue ...
Sep 27, 2007
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Stephan C. Schuster and Webb Miller of Penn State University, working with Thomas Gilbert from Copenhagen and a large international consortium, discovered that hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA -- a better ...
Sep 27, 2007
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Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2007
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In its ability to learn, the cockroach is a moron in the morning and a genius in the evening. Dramatic daily variations in the cockroach’s learning ability were discovered by a new study performed by Vanderbilt University ...
Sep 27, 2007
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Adding even a small amount of carbon nanotubes can go a long way toward enhancing the strength, integrity, and safety of plastic materials widely used in engineering applications, according to a new study.
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2007
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A novel device, developed by a team led by University at Buffalo engineers, simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major obstacles that have prevented progress ...
General Physics
Sep 27, 2007
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