Gas Giants Jump Into Planet Formation Early (January 9, 2007) -- Gas-giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn form soon after their stars do, according to new research. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that gas giants either form within the first ... > full story

Turning Green Gunk To Gold, Anti-cancer Gold (January 9, 2007) -- Combining synthetic chemistry techniques with a knowledge of the properties and actions of enzymes, scientists have been able to produce an exciting class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated ... > full story

How Fish Species Suffer As A Result Of Warmer Waters (January 9, 2007) -- In order to estimate future changes, it is essential to develop a deeper understanding of the effect of water temperature on the biology of organisms under question. A new investigation, just ... > full story

Overweight Girls At Risk For Cardiovascular Disease (January 9, 2007) -- Results from the NHLBI Growth and Health Study of more than 2,300 girls suggest that girls as young as age 9 who are overweight are at increased risk for short-term and long-term problems that ... > full story

Inhalation Of Golf Course Pesticides In Northeast Poses 'Minimal' Health Risk (January 9, 2007) -- When golfers in the northeastern United States dream of returning to those greens and fairways next spring, they can have some reassurance that inhaling pesticides applied to the turf does not pose a ... > full story

Fast Food As Family Meals Limits Healthy Food Intake, Increases Obesity Risk (January 9, 2007) -- Families whose meals frequently consist of fast food are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, poor access to healthy foods at home and a higher risk for obesity, according to researchers at ... > full story

Bizarre Pulsar Blasts In Crab Nebula: Is This A Third Magnetic Pole? (January 9, 2007) -- Astronomers and physicists using the Cornell-managed Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have discovered radio interpulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar that feature never-before-seen radio emission ... > full story

Women With Migraines More Likely To Have Depression (January 9, 2007) -- Women with chronic headache, especially migraines, are more likely to be depressed, feel tired, and have a host of other severe physical symptoms, according to a study published in the January 9, ... > full story

How Trees Manage Water In Arid Environments (January 9, 2007) -- Mountain-top forests in Arizona have survived a three-year period of extreme drought. These conifers have evolved the ability to "turn themselves on" whenever water is available, both in winter when ... > full story

Genetics And Lifestyle Interact To Increase Risk For Age-related Blindness (January 9, 2007) -- The interplay between genetic predisposition and exposure to modifiable risk factors can multiply the risk for age-related macular degeneration, according to a report in the January issue of Archives ... > full story

Metamaterials Found To Work For Visible Light (January 9, 2007) -- For the first time ever, researchers at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a material with a negative refractive index for visible light. Ames Laboratory senior physicist ... > full story

'Obesity Paradox' Evidence: Obese Patients Fair Better Than Lean Patients When Hospitalized For Acute Heart Failure (January 9, 2007) -- UCLA researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. The finding ... > full story

Superstrings Could Add Gravitational Cacophony To Universe's Chorus (January 9, 2007) -- Albert Einstein theorized that moving matter would warp the fabric of four-dimensional space-time, sending out ripples of gravity called gravitational waves. No one has observed such a phenomenon so ... > full story

'Red Tide Toxins' Leave Beachgoers Breathless (January 9, 2007) -- A new study in the January 2007 issue of the journal CHEST shows that the ecological phenomenon, known as Florida red tide, can be harmful for people with ... > full story

Dried Distiller's Grains Can Help Produce More Beef (January 9, 2007) -- Supplemental feeding of dried distiller's grains to cattle can help produce more beef in grazing programs, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher said. After a summer and fall feeding ... > full story

Drug Linked To Increase In Brain Hemorrhage Cases (January 9, 2007) -- The rate of brain hemorrhages associated with blood thinning drugs quintupled during the 1990s, according to a study published in the January 9, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of ... > full story

New Hybrid Imaging System Allows Pinpoint Locating Of Problems (January 9, 2007) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the first hospital in New England to offer a powerful hybrid imaging system that allows physicians to precisely pinpoint the location of tumors, fractures and ... > full story

Saving Endangered Whales At No Cost (January 9, 2007) -- By comparing the productivity of lobster fishing operations in American and Canadian waters of the Gulf of Maine, researchers have identified ways in which cost-saving alterations in fishing ... > full story

Eavesdropping On The Universe: New Radio Facility Could Detect Earth-like Civilizations Around 1,000 Nearest Stars (January 8, 2007) -- Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of ... > full story

Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-living Species (January 8, 2007) -- Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC-Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate ... > full story

Scientists Leverage Robotic Diagnostic Technology To Diagnose Plant Diseases (January 8, 2007) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist William Schneider has used, or is familiar with, just about every kind of method of identifying organisms that cause plant diseases, from light ... > full story

Study Will Test Antidepressant Patch That May Help Smokers Kick The Habit (January 8, 2007) -- Smokers trying to kick the habit face odds that only a bookie could love--just one in five succeeds in quitting. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers will test whether a new type of ... > full story

Homing Nanoparticles Pack Multiple Assault On Tumors (January 8, 2007) -- Researchers have developed nanoparticles that seek out tumors and bind to their blood vessels, and then attract more nanoparticles to the tumor target. Using this system they demonstrated that the ... > full story

Is Evidence-based Medicine Sufficient For Complementary And Alternative Medicine Research? (January 8, 2007) -- Evidence-based medicine is widely accepted among researchers as the "gold-standard" for scientific approaches. Over the years, EBM has both supported and denied the value of allopathic medicine ... > full story

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