Has The Mystery Of The Antarctic Ice Sheet Been Solved?

A team of scientists from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery surrounding the appearance of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Ice sheet formation in the Antarctic is one of the most [...]

Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered

An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry “handedness” in a larger number than previously thought.
Pizzarello, [...]

UA findings dispute Martian ‘water’ discovery

Steep Martian gullies thought to have carried liquid water in the past decade were more likely the site of an avalanche of sand and gravel, according to a UA analysis of new images taken from Mars’ orbit.
The findings dispute a 2006 study that argued liquid water flowing on Mars created bright streaks visible in pictures [...]

Man saves father and son - 20 years apart

A Chinese man has rescued a seven-year-old boy from a pond - 20 years after rescuing the boy’s father from the same place.
A Chinese man has rescued a seven-year-old boy from a pond - 20 years after rescuing the boy’s father from the same place.

Wang Weiqing, 58, of Beicheng village, Danyang city, is being [...]

Largest Clam Known to Man

The geoduck or gooyduck is the largest species of clams on the face of the earth. The clam itself is 15 to 20 cm long, which is pretty big but the really impressive part is its long siphon that often reaches one meter in length. it weighs between 0.5 and 1.5 kilograms, but there have [...]

Electronic tattoo display runs on blood

Jim Mielke’s wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
The basis of the 2×4-inch [...]

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

 Cool. Let’s try it here.
High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until age 7. Yet [...]

Sprint Reports Huge Loss; Warns Of More Difficulties

The depth of the challenge facing new Sprint Nextel chief executive Dan Hesse was laid bare today when the wireless carrier announced a $29.5 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2007 and warned of ongoing troubles.
Sprint eliminated its dividend and wrote down the full value of Nextel Communications on its balance sheet. Sprint merged [...]

Today is Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday. Did he steal plans that made his telephone work?

When science journalist Seth Shulman began a year of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Dibner Institute, his goal was to compare the lives of inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – [...]

U.S. study shows why winter is “flu season”

 
Influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and protects them in colder temperatures — a finding that could explain why winter is the flu season, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
This butter-like coating melts in the respiratory tract, allowing the virus to infect cells, the team at the National Institutes of Health found.
“Like an [...]