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Asteroid Impact in 2182?Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "T...

Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's ViewIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust...

Unraveling the Matrix to Improve Signal-processing Applications and Data-compression SchemesAmong the most common tools in electrical engineering and computer science are rectangular grids of ...

Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, says Stanford researcherSoot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than...

Sea snail saliva may become new treatment for most severe painScientists have developed a new version of a medication, first isolated from the saliva of sea snail...

Quantum fractals at the border of magnetismU.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-t...

Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitar...

Super-sizing a cancer drug minimizes side effects: A new way to package cisplatinResearchers design a new version of cisplatin that spares the kidneys, letting doctors use higher do...

More accurate than Heisenberg allows? Uncertainty in the presence of a quantum memoryA quantum particle is hard to grasp, because one cannot determine all its properties precisely at th...

Findings show promise for nuclear fusion test reactorsResearchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces faci...

Oil dispersants used in Gulf of Mexico unlikely to be endocrine disrupters and have low toxicityGovernment scientists are reporting that eight of the most commonly used oil dispersants used to fig...

Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon MineralsThat dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although...

Muscle gene may provide new treatments for obesity and diabetesSkeletal muscle enables us to walk, run or play a musical instrument, but it also plays a crucial ro...

Children with brain injuries have problems with story-telling, research suggestsChildren with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other langu...

First results from Large Hadron Collider announcedA group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, an...

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