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Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers
June 7, 2013 Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. The destination, called ... > full story -
Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon
June 7, 2013 Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The ... > full story -
Magpies Make Decisions Faster When Humans Look at Them
June 7, 2013 Researchers have found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looking at ... > full story -
Making Sense of Patterns in the Twitterverse
June 7, 2013 If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by seven billion -- and you'll have a sense of what Court ... > full story -
Common Genetic Disease Linked to Father's Age
June 7, 2013 Scientists have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan syndrome are so common; a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's ... > full story -
Stranded Orcas Hold Critical Clues for Scientists
June 7, 2013 The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the complete data from killer-whale strandings from two percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent ... > full story -
Findings on Onset of Uterine Fibroids Provide Potential for Novel Treatments
June 7, 2013 Uterine leiomyomata, or fibroids, are benign tumors that nevertheless affect the health of millions of women. They may cause, for instance, pain, bleeding and infertility. Fibroids are also the most ... > full story -
Clinical Sequencing Technology Identifies New Targets in Diverse Cancers
June 7, 2013 Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may ... > full story -
How Do Immune Cells Detect Infections?
June 7, 2013 Researchers are using computer simulations to shed light on how immune cells may identify foreign ... > full story -
Vaccinating Children Against HPV?
June 7, 2013 The Human papillomavirus, or HPV, and its link to certain cancers has been in the headlines recently, reigniting the debate whether it is appropriate to vaccinate children against the ... > full story
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