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ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2008) — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro Nambu, of the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 6, 2008) — Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off the coast of Southern California. The court is due to hear the case after its term begins...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2008) — Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. Atomic Force Microscope image of a square array of 15nm pores formed by the new technology. (Credit...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2008) — A team of physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA-Nanociencia) has created the “quantum stabilized atom mirror,” the smoothest surface ever, according to a recent article in...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2008) — It may be possible to dramatically reduce the radioactive waste isolation time -- from several million years to as little as 300 - 500 years. In order to decrease the isolation time for radioactive waste, first of all, the actinides - elements whose nuclei are...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2008) — Declining agricultural productivity and continued growing demand have brought the world food situation to a crossroads. Failure to act now through a wholesale reinvestment in agriculture—including research into improved technologies, infrastructure development, and...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2008) — In a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease, researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago showed that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development of Type I diabetes. Researchers...

By recording video at 250,000 frames per second, biologists have shot the first high-speed camera sequences of spores being ejected by fungi. The spores experience accelerations that may be the fastest of any particle known to biology, the researchers report online September 17 in PLoS ONE...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2008) — A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT leader in the field. Entangled photons...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2008) — INRA and CNRS French scientists and a UFZ German scientist found that the worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators, bees mainly, was €153 billion* in 2005 for the main crops that feed the world. According to the study...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 16, 2008) — What makes a memory? Single cells in the brain, for one thing. Artist's rendering of neuron activity. Researchers have recorded the activity of hundreds of individual neurons making memories. (Credit: iStockphoto/Sebastian Kaulitzki) For the first time...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 15, 2008) — Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities concerning this emerging technology...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2008) — A new type of drug could alleviate pain in a similar way to cannabis without affecting the brain, according to a new study. Marijuana plant. A new type of drug could alleviate pain in a similar way to cannabis without affecting the brain, according to a new...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — When the world's land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn't the forbiddingly icy place it is now. But paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator species that probably still made it less than...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — Scientists have developed nanometer-sized ‘cargo ships’ that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the necessary power and taking initial steps toward a non-nuclear technology demonstration...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — Female spiders are voracious predators and consume a wide range of prey, which sometimes includes their mates. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for why females eat males before or after mating. A female wolf spider, Hogna helluo, consuming a male...

The colour-code for members means nothing to me. I can't decipher it fast enough for it to make any sense. I can't tell who is a mod and who is a forum leader and who is what. Not that it matters a great deal, but if that's what the colour code was designed for it doesnt work very well.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2008) — Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no oxygen, and the amount of lethal radiation from stars is very high. This is why humans need to be carefully protected when they enter this...