Newswise - Scinews

Wednesday th 14th of January 2009

Nations That Sow Food Crops for Biofuels May Reap Less than Previously Thought - 13:21

More Chip Cores Can Mean Slower Supercomputing, Simulation Shows - 13:21

Jumbo-Sized Discovery Made in Malaysia - 13:21

Study Links Prenatal Exposure to Chemicals With Higher BMI in Toddlers - 08:21

Tuesday th 13th of January 2009

New Method Accelerates Stability Testing of Soy-Based Biofuel - 18:28

New Tool Gives Researchers a Glimpse of Biomolecules in Motion - 18:28

U.Va. Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security - 17:21

'Two-Faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly - 17:21

Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes - 17:21

Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms - 17:21

Story Tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory - January 2009 - 17:21

Medieval Walls in Spain Contain Bits of Bone - 16:35

Microscopic "Hands" for Building Tomorrow's Machines - 16:35

Atomic Scientists Call on Administration to Reduce Nuclear Threat - 16:35

WHOI's Joe Pedlosky to Present Haurwitz Lecture at AMS Meeting - 15:28

Can You See Me Now? Flexible Photodetectors Could Help Sharpen Photos - 14:21

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the "Droop" - 12:28

Mental Health History Increases PTSD Risk - 09:36

Monday th 12th of January 2009

Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests - 17:21

Decade of the Mind Symposium to be Held This Week - 16:35

Einstein Scientist's Finding Highlighted as One of 15 'Evolutionary Gems' by Nature - 15:28

U-M and GM Open $5M Advanced Battery Research Lab - 15:28

Preventing Soil Erosion in Continuous Corn - 13:35

Organic Soils Continue to Acidify Despite Reduction in Acidic Deposition - 13:35

Study Suggests Ways to Avoid Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison - 13:35

Soil Maps Generate Reliable Quaternary Geologic Map - 12:28

Giant Bird Poo Records Pre-human New Zealand - 09:28

Semantic Search Engine Helps Scientists Do Productive Searches - 00:21

Engineers Have Created ICE in Order to SWIM - 00:21

Sunday th 11th of January 2009

Biologists Find Link Between CGG Repeats and Mental Disorders - 13:21

Friday th 9th of January 2009

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables - 15:35

Research Shows Cell's Inactive State is Critical for Effectiveness of Cancer Treatment - 12:35

Digital Communication Technology Helps Clear Path to Personalized Therapies - 12:35

How Bed Bugs Outsmart Poisons Designed to Control Them - 05:21

Thursday th 8th of January 2009

Hydrocarbon Afterglow Reveals Reproductive Cheaters - 20:21

Mosquitoes Create Harmonic Love Song Before Mating - 17:21

Carbon Nanotube 'Ink' May Lead to Thinner, Lighter Transistors and Solar Cells - 16:35

Half of World's Population Could Face Climate-Induced Food Crisis by 2100 - 14:21

Northeastern Wins Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Develop Critical Infrastructure Sensing Technology - 13:35

Scientists Discover an Ancient Odor-Detecting Mechanism in Insects - 12:28

UT Southwestern Scientist Honored Among Best in Texas Research - 11:15

Hind Wings Help Butterflies Make Swift Turns to Evade Predators - 11:15

Decline of Carbon Dioxide-Gobbling Plankton Coincided with Ancient Global Cooling - 11:15

Conference to Learn About Sun's Bubble in Stuff Between the Stars - 00:35

Wednesday th 7th of January 2009

Call for Nominations: $75,000 Prize for Contributions to Women's Health - 16:21

Lost in Translation - 15:35

Scientists Find Evidence of Asteroids with Earth-Like Crust - 15:35

Low-Level Herbicide Use Can Damage Potato Reproduction - 13:15

Hubble Finds Stars that Go 'Ballistic' - 13:15

Polarized Light Pollution Leads Animals Astray - 09:24