Newswise - Scinews

Monday th 26th of April 2010

Social Networking Helps Hermit Crabs Find Homes - 16:00

A New Device Helps Monitor Low-Level Physical Activity With a Cell Phone - 14:31

Physicists Locate Long Lost Soviet Reflector on Moon - 13:30

Cellular Mechanical Forces May Initiate Angiogenesis - 12:31

Is It Safe to Breathe Yet? - 12:31

Lessons from the Brain: Toward an Intelligent Molecular Computer - 12:31

Harvard Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology Earns Walter B. Cannon Award from the American Physiological Society - 12:02

Genetics Society of America Announces Poster Award Recipients at the 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference - 10:51

Ohio State University Professor Receives American Physiological Society's Bowditch Award - 08:31

Rare Flower -- "Corpse Flower" -- Set to Bloom - 08:30

Periwinkle Plants Provide Ammunition in the War on Citrus Greening - 08:30

How Grass Buffers Keep Agricultural Herbicides at Bay - 01:00

Sunday th 25th of April 2010

Worm Genes KO'd: First Mice and Fruit Flies, Now Nematodes - 13:40

Sorting Protons Faster to Improve Hydrogen Fuel Cells - 12:50

Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast - 12:50

Friday th 23rd of April 2010

Causes and Consequences of the Helium-3 Supply Crisis - 21:30

College Students Create New Auction Technology -- Helps Kiwanis Raise Record Funds for Charity - 21:30

Purple Pokeberries Hold Secret to Affordable Solar Power Worldwide - 12:00

Cancer Research Award to Johns Hopkins Basic Scientist - 11:02

Project Fruit Fly: What Accounts for Insect Taste? - 11:02

Thursday th 22nd of April 2010

Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery - 21:50

Catch-and-Release of Feral Cats: Humane Treatment Or Environmental Threat? - 20:50

Scientists Create Stem Cells from Eggs of Aging Mice - 15:31

Pressure-Cooking Algae Into a Better Biofuel - 15:31

Microfluidic Integrated Circuit Could Help Enable Home Diagnostic Tests - 15:31

Oil Spill Expert Available on Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Leak - 15:31

Crystal Defect Shown to be Key to Making Hollow Nanotubes - 14:32

Direction of Crop Rows Increases Yield by Maximizing Access to Sunlight - 14:32

Scientists Make Fundamental Discovery About How Gene Expression Functions in Bacteria - 13:31

New Carbon Composite Holds Promise for Bionics - 13:31

UI Superfund Research Program Receives $16 Million Grant from NIEHS - 12:02

Wednesday th 21st of April 2010

Cell Biologist Daniel Gottschling Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences - 16:30

NIH-led Interagency Group Identifies Research Needs to Study Climate Change and Human Health Impacts - 15:30

New Research Suggests Autism Effects May Be Reversible - 14:31

Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Hurting Global Environment, Security and Financial Health - 13:30

Research Restores Credit for an Engineering Feat - 12:30

Researchers Identify Key Molecular Step to Fighting Off Viruses - 10:52

UC San Diego Rated One of the Nation's Most Environmentally-Responsible Universities - 08:40

New Biofuel Process May Change Chemical Industry - 08:40

National Geographic Taps UC San Diego Students for Technology Solutions - 08:40

Tuesday th 20th of April 2010

Rattlesnakes Sound Warning on Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation - 21:40

Scientists Find Gene that Ties Stress to Obesity and Diabetes - 14:50

Chemists Clarify Protein-Receptor Role in Iron Uptake - 14:50

Agilent Technologies and UC San Diego Collaborate on Chip-Scale Photonic Systems Testing Facility - 13:50

Want to Live More Sustainably? 'Just Don't Buy Stuff' - 13:50

Hops Helps Reduce Ammonia Produced by Cattle - 13:50

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Industry to Collaborate in Advanced Battery Research - 12:50

$50 Million Gift to Fund Global Water for Food Institute at University of Nebraska - 12:50

Katrina Storm Surge Led to Over 200 Onshore Releases of Petroleum and HazardousMaterials, Rivaling Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - 11:50

MTI Satellite Continues to Serve After 10 Years in Orbit - 08:42