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ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? The Atlas experiment under construction at the LHC site, deep beneath the Alps. The large tubes that surround the empty space are magnets used to...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab in Illinois. Scientists based at Fermilab...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) — Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting. Substances in marijuana show...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2008) — Large flightless birds of the southern continents – African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi – do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed. Male ostrich in Nairobi National Park, Kenya...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics—bisphenol A (BPA)—as a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and its consequences. Polycarbonate plastic bottles like these contain bisphenol A. (Credit...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2008) — Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2008) — Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful exercise increased the...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2008) — Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). Once produced, the decay of the Omega-sub-b (Ωb) proceeds like fireworks. The...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2008) — What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that...

ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2008) — Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a UBC study published today in Science Express. Lateral plate morphs in marine stickleback. Complete morph (top)...

Nuggler requested something about bugglybugs, so here goes: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly, including flies in the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the...

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2008) — In a feat of biological prestidigitation likely to turn the field of regenerative medicine on its head, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) co-director Doug Melton and post doctoral fellow Qiao "Joe" Zhou report having achieved what has long been a dream and...

My work requires me to round my students' grades to the nearest 5. Excel didn't seem to have a function which could do this, so I set out to do it for myself. After an hour or so of experimenting, I came up with this function...

I've read that if you edit your registry you can remove unwanted processes from running in the background. I am sure there are many unwanted processes set to run in the background on my computer but I don't know how to know which ones they are, or which ones will destroy my computer if i remove...

I want a new CD/DVD-RW/DVD+RW drive. What should I be looking for in a decent reliable but fairly cheap drive?

I've found a new periodic table, and to some extent, I am converted. To refresh your memory, the standard IUPAC periodic table looks like this: Now this one's just fine for most purposes, but it gets a bit confusing when you're dealing with electronic configurations of elements. for the...

Today a man named tony filbin, who lives on third street in sheffield, missouri and has a hexagonal window on the front door, which could easily be broken down with a crowbar, and a nice white fence which would be perfect for graphitti-ing "pervert" on, was arrested on charges of sexual assault...

This is a topic i've always been interested in, but also always a littl ignorant of it, but the time seems to be right for us to watch this space. The heaviest elements found in nature are uranium, neptunium and plutonium. But these aren't the heaviest elements found. What defines an...

Now i'm not sure how many posts CC gets per day, but I noticed today that we're into the 900,000's, which means there's a milepost looming. One day, sometime fairly soon, someone will make the 1,000,000th post. What will the prize be?

I got the offer today. I'm to become a chemistry instructor in newfoundland. It's a permanant faculty position. I couldn't have dreamed for anything better. I'm over the moon. It does mean moving to the other end of Canada by monday week, though :0) fun times