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Alcohol 'protects men's hearts'
Regularly drinking alcohol dramatically cuts the risk of coronary heart disease in men, a major study suggests.Where Is Water on Moon From - Volcanoes, Sun or Earth?
Earlier this year, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft detected possible chemical traces of lunar water. And just last week NASA announced that their LCROSS moo..Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, .."Death Star" Responsible for Mass Extinction on Earth
First detected by spy satellites, then reported as evidence of alien warfare and now held responsible for a mass extinction on Earth. What exactly are gamma-ray bursts?Harvesting electrical power from wasted heat
In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a t..2 piranha found in Florida pond. Solution? Kill all the fish
State wildlife biologists Tuesday will apply a poison to a pond near West Palm Beach where two piranhas were found last month.Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise
Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research. The pines near treeline have wider a..Time-traveling browsers navigate the web's past
Finding old versions of web pages could become far simpler thanks to a "time-traveling" web browsing technology being pioneered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.Privacy fears as DNA testing firm deCODE Genetics goes bust
A leading genetics company that has pioneered personal DNA testing in health assessments went bust today, raising privacy concerns about the sensitive data it holds.APOD: 2009 November 17 - Dawn Before Nova
Will this dawn bring another nova? Such dilemmas might be pondered one day by future humans living on a planet orbiting a cataclysmic variable binary star system. Cataclysmic variables involve gas ..Can a Sodium Fast Reactor Cleanly Burn Nuclear Waste?
Eric Loewen is the evangelist of the sodium fast reactor, which burns nuclear waste, emits no CO2, and might just save the world.Scientists Create Bacteria that Lights Up Around Landmines
Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by landmines every year. But an unexpected solution may be on the way--scientists have developed a special kind of bacteria that actually begins to..
Clean It Up (Stop Motion Video)
A cute stop-motion video featuring animated lips that clean up a rundown home.Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time
A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.APOD: 2009 November 15 - M57: The Ring Nebula
It looks like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the Ring Nebula...APOD November 13th 2009 Young Stars in Rho Ophiuchi Cloud
Cosmic dust clouds and embedded newborn stars glow at infrared wavelengths in this tantalizing false-color view from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Pictured is of one of the closest star forming regi..Giant Iceberg Spotted Off Australia
A giant iceberg the length of seven football pitches has been spotted floating off Australia.Man-made (but very tiny) Black Holes possible
Did you hear the one about the particle accelerator that created a micro-black hole? You know, the one where this black hole exponentially grows into an Earth-eating behemoth, destroying all life a..Climate change 'sceptic' Ian Plimer argues CO2 is not causin
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanoes and is not responsible for climate change, a scientist has claimed.Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living
Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals...NASA - LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
Got Water? Yes and a Whole Lot More!The Gut Response To What We Eat
A new study of human gut microbes put into mice has found that when mice eat a high-fat, high-sugar diet, abrupt changes result in the population of microbes. Scientists believe this research coul..LHC to Resume Search for 'God Particle' -
It's all-systems-go for the Large Hadron Collider, just a week after a bird threatened to gum up the proceedings with a piece of bread.Fair play: Monkeys share our sense of injustice
Our instinctive reaction to displays of greed and conspicuous consumption has its origins in the primate world, says Frans de WaalNew Milky Way Image Shows Best of All Spectra
A new multi-telescope image has revealed the beauty of the center of the Milky Way across the electromagnetic spectrum. The Hubble and Spitzer SpaceBreast Reconstruction Breakthrough
Scientists discover way to re-grow breast tissue.Islam's Darwin problem
Weeks ago, a team of scientists in Ethiopia unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who predated Lucy, the fossilized Australopithecus afarensis by 1.2 million years. If..Carbon Nanotube Sponge Absorbs 180x Its Own Weight in Toxins
Scientists from the Peking University and Tsinghua University have created a sponge like no other. It is made of carbon nanotubes - regular carbon atoms arranged in a specific cylindrical shape - a..The deep-sea crab that eats trees
Deep under the ocean, a species of crab survives by eating wood that has sunk to the sea floor, scientists discover.
