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Loss of bats will hurt agriculture
As a study shows that insect-eating bats in North America save farmers at least $3.7 billion yearly in pest-control costs, concern grows over a disease affecting bats.
May 4, 2011
Norwegian scientists fabricating radiation sensors for CERN particle collider
These 3D radiation sensors will be needed when the CERN 30-km particle ring in Switzerland is upgraded to run at higher energies in 2017.
May 3, 2011
Mercury waltzes with bright planets at dawn May 2011
As Mercury reemerges as a morning object in May 2011, the solar system’s innermost planet will join up with the planets Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the eastern sky at dawn.
May 3, 2011
Dieters, don’t let that salad word fool you
Are you dieting? Dieters are more likely to take the word "salad" to mean, well, salad, while non-dieters look past the language to what's on the plate.
May 2, 2011
How peppermint may cool that irritable bowel syndrome
Peppermint can help ease irritable bowel syndrome, and Australian researchers may have figured out how such cooling substances help soothe the agony.
May 2, 2011
14,000 quasars shine a light on the distant universe
Quasars illuminate ghostly clouds of intergalactic hydrogen, providing view of universe 11 billion years ago.
May 2, 2011
Happy people eat candy, hopeful people eat fruit
Candy urge? Switch your focus from the happy things of your past to the positive glow of your future, and you might reach for fruit instead, say these researchers.
May 2, 2011
Voyagers push toward interstellar space, carrying a record of love
Voyagers carries a golden record with greetings from Earth in 55 languages, music, and an EEG showing the brain waves of a woman in love.
May 1, 2011
More barrier islands on Earth than previously thought
A new survey of barrier islands has identified 657 more islands that had gone undetected in a similar study 10 years ago.
May 1, 2011
Earth as seen from space 500 million years ago
An animation from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory shows Earth during the Cambrian Period, when land masses clustered in the southern hemisphere.
May 1, 2011
