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Early Sunday morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the 'Lake of Excellence' region. The planned impact concluded a successful mission that, in addition to testing innovative space technology, had ... > full story
New research shows fast-warming climate appears to be triggering genetic changes in a species of fruit fly that is native to Europe and was introduced into North and South America about 25 years ... > full story
In a paper published in the U.S. by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (July 31, online early edition), scientists reveal marine microbial diversity may be some 10 to 100 times more than expected, and the vast majority are previously unknown, low-abundance organisms ... > full story
An international team of scientists has published the first two genome sequences from a destructive group of plant pathogens called Phytophthora -- a name that literally means "plant destroyer." The more than 80 species of fungus-like Phytophthora attack a broad range of plants and together ... > full story
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Scientists have succeeded in erasing memory in animal models. These findings may be useful for the treatment of disorders characterized by the pathological over-strengthening of synaptic connections, ... > read more![](https://web.archive.org/web/20060904085023im_/http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2006/09/060901163044-thumb.jpg) A NASA-sponsored study shows that by using a new technique, scientists can determine what limits the growth of ocean algae, or phytoplankton, and how this affects Earth's ... > read moreFor mothers at low risk, infant and neonatal mortality rates are higher among infants delivered by cesarean section than for those delivered vaginally in the United States, according to recent ... > read moreStatisticians at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have developed a new technique that allows researchers to statistically analyze results of clinical ... > read moreCarnegie Mellon University Cylab researchers have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect users from online transactions at fraudulent Web ... > read more
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Updated Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 09/03/06 10:45 P EDT
University of Florida researchers suspect the metabolic disturbances caused by obesity could be taking a toll on young brains, which are still developing and not fully ... > read more![](https://web.archive.org/web/20060904085023im_/http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2006/09/060901190453-thumb.jpg) While still a senior in high school, a Baltimore teenager toiled 10 hours a week in a Johns Hopkins University engineering lab, helping to develop a new drug delivery system that could someday reduce ... > read moreModern three-dimensional radiation therapy has been proven to be more successful at curing lung cancer than older two-dimensional radiation therapy for some patients with early stage lung cancer, ... > read moreTo make education more accessible, a professor in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is spearheading an effort to produce free online textbooks using a modified version of the Wiki ... > read moreCalifornia scientists fighting a war on the West Nile Virus are collecting dead birds in the crow family, Corvidae, which include American crows, Yellow-billed Magpies and Western Scrub-Jays. They ... > read more
Updated Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 09/03/06 4:45 P EDT
Men with increased body mass index (BMI) were significantly more likely to be infertile than normal-weight men, according to research conducted at the National Institute of Environmental Health ... > read more![](https://web.archive.org/web/20060904085023im_/http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2006/09/060901164053-thumb.jpg) Scientists from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station will help forest managers in the Southeast quickly measure fuel loads across extensive areas of hurricane-damaged forests, ... > read moreResearchers have shown that carbon monoxide may prevent the placental cell death caused by oxidative stress injury, possibly averting the risks of pre-eclampsia. The report by Bainbridge et al., ... > read moreProbing a class of enzymes routinely used to synthesizing some of nature's most potent drugs, a team of Wisconsin scientists has found a new way to expand on nature's chemical creativity to make ... > read moreResearch on communication typically focuses on how individuals use signals to influence the behavior of receivers, thus primarily focusing on pairs of individuals. However, the role communication ... > read more
Updated Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 09/03/06 10:45 P EDT
Nerve cells in the retinas of elderly mice show an unexpected and purposeful burst of growth late in life, according to researchers at UC ... > read more![](https://web.archive.org/web/20060904085023im_/http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2006/09/060901190042-thumb.jpg) A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. The white dot near the center of Uranus' ... > read moreSymptoms of extreme jet lag may result from the body overshooting as it tries to adjust to particularly large leaps forward in time, suggests new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst ... > read moreA new family of molecules used to detect hydrogen peroxide and other reactive chemicals in living cells could be a useful addition to anti-terrorist arsenals, says the University of California, ... > read moreGenomic technologies may have the potential to alleviate food insecurity and food shortages around the ... > read more
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A California biotech firm says it's found a way to develop new stem cells -- and potential... > watch video
Scientists develop a new screening test to detect genetic disorders in embryos. > watch video
Doctors perform the UK's first beating heart transplant and say they hope the procedure will... > watch video
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is once again putting on a show. > watch video
A local zoo showcases baby leopards, the first to be born in a South Korean zoo. > watch video
A new report finds that in the Northern Hemisphere, average global surface temperatures climbed... > watch video
Lockheed Martin won the contract a new multi-billion dollar space vehicles called Orion. > watch video
Lockheed Martin won the contract a new multi-billion dollar space vehicles called Orion. > watch video
Five hours after starting space shuttle Atlantis on a slow crawl toward its hangar, NASA changed... > watch video
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
List Price: $25.95 Our Price: $12.99 Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid ... > read more
YOU: The Owner's Manual : An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $15.67 If there ever was a pair of docs who can make the small intestine seem truly intriguing, here they are. Dr. Mehmet Oz is an alternative-medicine maverick and a cardiologist known to implement acupuncture during open-heart surgery. Dr. Michael ... > read more
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $5.91 Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters ... > read more
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $7.70 Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to ... > read more
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
List Price: $16.95 Our Price: $10.70 Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. ... > read more
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
List Price: $17.00 Our Price: $9.12 Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human ... > read more
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