|
 The Large Hadron Collider built by the European Organization for Nuclear research (CERN) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex. The machine intends to collide opposing beams of protons charged with nearly 7 TeV of energy. The main purpose for which the LHC was built is to explore the validity and...
 |
|
|
 This week, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presented its list of activities for the next two years. A total of no less than ten shuttle missions will be carried out before September 30, 2010, when the fleet is scheduled for retirement. May 31, 2010 was set to be the date for the final mission; the four month...
|
|
|
 A recent study reveals that a substance compound in red
wine, grapes and nuts can apparently put a stop to age-related decline.
The substance, known as resveratrol, protects people against
many of the negative health effects linked with the passing of time. Among the
benefic consequences, as an example stand healthier hearts,...
|
|
|
Scientists in Florida returned 142 loggerhead sea turtles to the Atlantic Ocean Monday after two years in captivity.
Ben Higgins, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the turtles were captured in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina. They were raised in Texas and then brought back to Florida to participate...
|
|
|
NASA said that veteran U.S. astronaut James Reilly, who flew on three space shuttle missions to two space stations, has left NASA to accept a position in the private sector.
"Jim Reilly performed superbly as an astronaut over the course of his career at NASA," Astronaut Office Chief Steve Lindsey said. "His technical,...
|
|
|
 A cancer therapy that proved effective in
treating several mice with cancer disease will be tested on humans. Clinical
tests begin this week at Wake
Forest University.
The therapy is based on the transfusion of white blood cells from cancer-resistant
donors into cancer patients. The idea is to use these white blood cells in...
|
|
|
The Mediterranean Sea shark population fell 97 percent in the past two centuries and 19 shark species face extinction, researchers have concluded.
Graduate student Francesco Ferretti, two colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an Italian researcher collected data from university and other archival sources, as well as...
|
|
|
The Phoenix Lander operated the first-ever wet chemistry experiments on the Martian surface. NASA scientists said that the ice and minerals in the Martian soil harvested with a robotic arm seemed to contain the essentials to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it. The nutrients are among a few positive signs they...
|
|
|
 On Thursday, scientists working on the Phoenix project revealed new information with
regard to the on-site ongoing procedures.
After having stirred up a Martian soil sample, the spacecraft’s
robotic laboratory managed to identify certain chemicals that are currently
being used by plants and microbes on Earth.
The Phoenix...
|
|
|
Even before facing daylight, baby crocodiles make a strange,
yet interesting noise.
The sounds the infant reptiles produce more than a week
before hatching may have two significant purposes, according to scientists:
firstly, they serve as a clue to their siblings in the clutch that it is time
to escape from their shells. On...
|
|
