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5,011 articles from ScienceNOW

• THURSDAY 9. JUNE, 2011
• 23:10 House Panel Slams Obama's Decision to Shut Yucca Mountain

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  Republicans on the House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee allege that the...  

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• 22:30 Magnets Keep Blood Flowing

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  Researchers show that magnetic fields can reduce blood viscosity, a leading cause of heart attack and strokes  

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• 22:23 Germany's Withdrawal of Funding Threatens Plan to Save Ecuador Forest

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  The Ecuadorian government's plan to keep oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park...  

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• 21:01 Why Smokers Are Skinny

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  Study reveals how cigarettes suppress hunger  

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• 21:00 Drying Rockies Could Bring More Water Woes to Western U.S.

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  Climate change helping melt mountain range's snowpack  

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• 07:30 Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung

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  A water spider's "diving bell" is a gill that lets it live beneath the surface  

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• 00:17 HHS Gives Congress More Info on NIH Translational Center

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  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week gave Congress more budget...  

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• 00:17 Video: Rosetta Probe Gets First Glimpse of Its Ultimate Target

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  Probe will drop a lander on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014  

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• WEDNESDAY 8. JUNE, 2011
• 23:11 New Vaccine Research Effort Launched as Advocate Steps Down

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  The vaccine world's revolving door took a fast spin today as the head of...  

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• 21:23 Clues to Autism Emerge in Protein Network

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  Different types of the disorder may share a common pathway accessible to drugs  

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• 19:24 Researchers Coax Hearts to Heal Themselves

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  Mice given experimental compound form new heart muscle after simulated heart attack  

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• 01:23 ScienceShot: An Infectious Personality

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  Ducks change their preferences when they think they have a parasitic infection  

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• TUESDAY 7. JUNE, 2011
• 23:41 Live Chat: The Search for Alien Life Within Our Solar System

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  Experts answer your questions about searching for life on Mars, Europa, and other worlds  

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• 23:24 The Most Extreme Migration on Earth?

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  Geese soar over Himalayas unaided by tailwinds  

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• 23:05 Ancient Farmers Started the First 'Green Revolution'

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  Early humans harnessed a gene that boosted rice yields  

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• 18:56 Million Dollar Prizes to Go to Astrophysicists, Immunologists, and Geometricians

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  Pinpointing the origins of gamma-ray bursts, determining the workings of innate immunity, and extending...  

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• 02:00 U.K. Cystic Fibrosis Researchers Short of Cash for Gene Therapy Trial

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  Yesterday the U.K. press was full of the news that a gene therapy trial...  

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• 00:23 Sprouts So Far Innocent of E. Coli Outbreak; Bacterium Strikes Brain Oddly

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  The source of a deadly outbreak of Escherichia coli bacteria in Germany remains elusive...  

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• 00:23 Will Universities Suffer From Stanford's Patent Defeat?

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  The U.S. Supreme Court today ended a long patent battle over rights to a...  

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• 00:00 Nobelist Steven Weinberg Calls for Bigger Science, More Taxes

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  Physicist wants a new linear accelerator, fewer gadgets  

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• MONDAY 6. JUNE, 2011
• 22:01 Bat Hibernation Keeps Rabies Going

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  Mathematical model helps researchers understand how virus spreads  

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• 22:00 ScienceShot: How Jellyfish Poop Fouls Up the Food Chain

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  Organic waste from jellyfish "blooms" may harm ocean carbon cycles  

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• 20:24 ScienceShot: Mount Rainier Has Lost One-Seventh of Its Ice and Snow

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  All but two of the 28 glaciers and snowfields have thinned and shortened at their lower edges  

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• SUNDAY 5. JUNE, 2011
• 20:00 Antiatoms, All Out of Energy and Ready for Work

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  Reaching least-energetic state is a milestone in efforts to compare antimatter and matter  

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• SATURDAY 4. JUNE, 2011
• 21:23 Melanoma Drug Combo Shows Promise in Early Trial

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  A widely hailed new drug for melanoma, which was tested in combination with another...  

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