LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A British scientist has been named 2009 European Laureate as part of the prestigious L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in…

Simple Machines Machines don't reduce the amount of work that needs done but they make it easier for us.  That ease is called mechanical advantage.    If a machine allows a person to…

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect Charles Thorpe, University of Chicago 2006 For decades, there was a dearth of comprehensive Oppenheimer biographies. As Thomas Powers noted in the New York Review…

A new approach to calibrating quantum mechanical measurement has been developed with particular applications in optics and super-secure quantum communication.Scientists have used the approach to…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. As part of the commemoration of this event, the space shuttle Endeavour brought a version of it up to the…

One of the most important developments in human civilization was the practice of sustainable agriculture, but we were not the first - ants have been doing it for over 50 million years. Just as…

A new class of exceptionally effective catalysts that promote the powerful olefin metathesis reaction has been discovered by a team of Boston College and MIT scientists, opening up a vast new…

Pasteurization was invented for a good reason and raw milk is illegal in many countries because it can be contaminated with potentially harmful microbes. Contamination can also spoil the milk,…

Psychological stress and anxiety have been shown to produce an activation of coagulation and fibrinolysis. Resulting hypercoagulability is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and could…

In the November 15th issue of Genes&Development, Dr. Kenneth Dorshkind and colleagues at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA) have identified two genes – p16(Ink4a) and Arf – that sensitize…