Scientists

Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 hours ago
July 3: Australian Scientists hailed the countryâs most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong. The flesh-eating theropod â dubbed Australiaâs answer to the ...

Source: www.boingboing.net --- 20 hours ago
Tony sez, "Recently, a group of paleontologists were in town for the North American Paleontological Convention at the University of Cincinnati, and decided to take a field trip to the Creation Museum just across the river, in Kentucky. My aunt went to cover it for AFP, and I had the doubly good fortune of living just a stone's throw away, so I tagged along to see what these guys were up to. It was an eyeful, to say the least. Gorgeous facilities with amazingly engaging displays and animatronics, and at least a few hundred cubic cubits of bad science and misinformation. One young lady stood, furious, and grumbled, 'It's bullshit. Bullshit pretending to be science.' Anyone who finds themselves in the Cincinnati area with a few bucks, hours, and brain cells to burn should check it out, and see what the scientific community is up against in terms of informing the public." Arnie Miller, a palentologist at the University of Cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the Scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community... "And there was a feeling of unhappiness, too, about the extent to which mainstream Scientists and evolutionists are demonized -- that if you don't accept the Answers in Genesis vision of the history of Earth and life, you're contributing to the ills of society and of t ...

Source: digg.com --- 1 day ago
Foreign Scientists are speechless at the level of inanity proudly displayed. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
Researchers at Radboud University Medical Centre, together with UK Medical Research Council Scientists at Oxford University, have uncovered some of the central characteristics of genes underlying mental retardation. ...

Source: www.freshnews.in --- 17 hours ago
Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New Zealand. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Landcare Research in New Zealand have identified four different moa species after retrieving ancient DNA from moa feathers believed to be at least 2500 [...] ...

Source: www.rep-am.com --- 18 hours ago
NORTH HAVEN Connecticut Scientists called upon an unlikely champion in their war on invasive plants Thursday, releasing 1,000 tiny, weed-eating weevils in a section of Quinnipiac River State Park that is overrun by the destructive mile-a-minute vine. ...

Source: www.kpho.com --- 1 day ago
ASU Scientists are giving NASA folks a helping hand ...

Source: www.newspostonline.com --- 1 day ago
Scientists at Imperial College London say that blocking a signal molecule made by the human body, which triggers the immune system into action, may make it possible to develop more effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common autoimmune disease that causes painful and persistent swelling in the joints, which can result in [...] Related posts: Rheumatoid arthritis may double heart attack risk New rheumatoid arthritis drug offers modest benefit with some risk Anakinra good for rheumatoid arthritis but also risky, says study ...

Source: topnews.us --- 22 hours ago
Black.Hole_.jpg The first-ever medium-sized black hole - falling in the in-between category of the thus far discovered super-huge or small black holes - has been discovered by the researchers at the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in France. The ‘middling’ hole was detected by the French Scientists in a galaxy that is nearly 290 million light-years from Earth. read more ...

Source: www.biologynews.net --- 1 day ago
The salamander is a superhero of regeneration, able to replace lost limbs, damaged lungs, sliced spinal cord -- even bits of lopped-off brain. ...

Source: www.commondreams.org --- 1 day ago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 2, 2009 Union of Concerned Scientists A group of prominent Scientists today released a joint letter urging President Obama to issue a directive that the United States will not deploy any part of the proposed U.S. missile defense system in Europe before it is proven effective under real-world operating conditions. Proceeding with deployment would result in large security, political and financial costs, according to the Scientists, many of whom have served as government advisers on a range of military and security issues. read more ...

Source: blog.au.org --- 1 day ago
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Source: www.space.com --- 4 hours ago
The Air Force Space Command is "circling the wagons" to close some loopholes in the dissemination of potentially sensitive information. ...

Source: www.ipsnews.net --- 1 day ago
MEXICO CITY, Jul 2 (Tierramérica) - Mexico’s Pacific coast, one of the world's richest seaboards in terms of biodiversity, has been the focus of very few scientific studies. A new observatory aims to fill that void. ...

Source: www.herald.ie --- 1 day ago
A simple blood test could help women predict their chances of getting pregnant with fertility treatment, Irish Scientists have discovered. ...

Source: www.physorg.com --- 13 hours ago
Australian Scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong. ...

Source: www.littleabout.com --- 16 hours ago
Washington, July 3 - ANI: Scientists are making certain plants resistant to the Grapevine fanleaf virus GFLV by genetic engineering. ...

Source: www.physorg.com --- 1 day ago
A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part of their life under water. On the other hand, only a small part of their body can be seen when they surface, and this can even hardly be distinguished from the surrounding water. ...

Source: www.philstar.com --- 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON ( Xinhua ) -- The new A/H1N1 strain of flu has a form of surface protein that binds inefficiently to receptors found in the human respiratory tract, which make it spread from person to person less effectively than other flu viruses, Scientists said. ...