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Team Selected For The Proposed Design Of The Deep Underground Science And Engineering Laboratory
July 22, 2007 The National Science Foundation recently announced selection of a University of California-Berkeley proposal to produce a technical design for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at ... > full story -
Probing The Microbial Universe The Easy Way
July 19, 2007 Microbiologists have coaxed less than one percent of the bacterial species that inhabit natural environments into growing in culture. But a new microfluidics device -- an intricate system of ... > full story -
Proteins' Internal Motion Found To Affect Their Function: Implications For Drug Design
July 19, 2007 Penn investigators are the first to observe and measure the internal motion inside proteins, revealing how this affects their function. This overturns the standard view of protein structure-function ... > full story -
New NASA Office Will Study Strange Cosmic Phenomena
July 5, 2007 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will house the agency's new Einstein Probes Office, created to study the universe's exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background ... > full story -
Consumption Of Small Amounts Of Dark Chocolate Associated With Reduction In Blood Pressure
July 3, 2007 Eating about 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure, without weight gain or other adverse effects, according to a study in the July 4 issue of ... > full story -
NASA Establishes New Office To Study Cosmic Phenomena
June 27, 2007 NASA has created a new office to study in more detail some of the universe's most exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation. The new Einstein Probes Office ... > full story -
Weird Physics Theory: Unparticle Stuff
June 14, 2007 At some level, all types of matter that we usually deal with have at least one thing in common - they're made of particles. The solids, liquids, gases and plasmas that surround us are built of atoms, ... > full story -
NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception
May 31, 2007 Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy. By taking advantage of the unique position of NASA's Spitzer's Space ... > full story -
Old Idea Spawns New Way To Study Dark Matter
May 30, 2007 Astronomers have examined dark matter in the outer reaches of our galaxy in a new way. For the first time, they were able to employ triangulation -- a method rooted in ancient Greek geometry -- to ... > full story -
'Olympian Galaxy' Near Andromeda Gives Clues To How Galaxies Form
May 29, 2007 A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history, according to ... > full story
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