We had about a dozen participants at the Open Notebook Science Case Studies SciFoo Lives On session yesterday. I talked about using a free and hosted blog (Blogger), wiki (Wikispaces), referral…

Today we can print documents from anywhere using protocols and techniques unknown 20 years ago. I can send them from my phone to my printer in seconds. But 'printing' solid objects, like a piece of…

A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever - 150 percent more than average. Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth…

What killed the wooly mammoths? Overhunting, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes but a once-ridiculed theory is now being supported by an international team of scientists;…

Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think they can "shock the foundation of general relativity," according to Arlie Petters, a Duke professor of mathematics, by…

There are many changes in human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments but a new study led by researchers from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University shows that the…

Overall, student achievement in mathematics and reading in the United States is on the rise, according to results from The 2007 Nation's Report Card(TM), with some of the larger gains made by the…

Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not…

Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system’s ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according…

What will we find in the way of planets similar to Earth as we keep expanding our ability to see into the universe? No one is sure but a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists wants to come up…