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Physorg
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University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.” While earlier studies h..
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American Society For Microbiology
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Recent microfossil evidence casts fresh doubt as to whether an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, according to micropaleontologist Gerta Keller of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and her collaborators...
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CNN
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Washington University engineers using imaging technology have found that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into alternative energy.
Hog and cow manure is a persistent pollutant from industrial-sized barns and feed lots, but can becom..
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BBC News
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The institute famed for creating Dolly the sheep is to share expertise with a university vet school in a new multi-million pound partnership.
The Roslin Institute is to join forces with Edinburgh University's Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies...
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BBC News
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Penguin sketches made by Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton have been found in a basement at Cambridge University.
The legendary explorers drew the pictures on blackboards, probably for public lectures, in 1904 and 1909.
Nobody knows how the fragil..
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Science Daily
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Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the University's Centre for Astrobiology have long argu..
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Science Daily
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Whether people are making financial decisions in the stock market or worrying about terrorism, they are likely to be influenced by what others think. And, according to a new study in this month's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published by..
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Al Jazeera
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Nathan Smith, of the University of California at Berkeley, who led the discovery team, described SN 2006gy as "a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before".
He called it "freakily massive" at 150 times the mass of the sun.
"This on..
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BBC News
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A claim by South Korean scientists to have created the first cloned wolves is being investigated by officials at the team's university.
The group is led by a former colleague of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.
In 2005, a Seoul National University..
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MSNBC
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Two university professors have combined their knowledge of science and videogames to create a game that helps students learn chemistry.
Instead of using books, beakers and test tubes, students battle aliens and other mysterious forces that are trying t..
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SF Gate
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Federal regulators said they are preparing to toss out three key patents related to human embryonic stem cells, an action that could ease concerns over commercial control of the nascent work.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, an arm of the Univ..
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BBC News
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Computer game graphics could soon be much more realistic thanks to research at the University of Saarland, Germany.
At the tech-fair Cebit, a team from the university demonstrated a lighting technique, known as ray-tracing, using relatively low-powered..
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New Scientist
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In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of "particles" with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives of ordinary peopl..
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Yahoo News
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Like bedside doctors huddled in consultation, scientists gather in the bone-cracking cold of Antarctica to examine, several times a day, a very sick patient -- the ozone layer. Roman Cormic, a researcher in atmospheric physics at Jussieu, France's top..
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Yahoo News
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Researchers on a safari for microbes have found that human skin is populated by a veritable menagerie of bacteria -- 182 species -- some apparently living there permanently and others just dropping by for a visit...
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Raw Story
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The following is a press release regarding an announcement from Princeton University about a "potential 'off-switch'" for the HIV virus. The university's research was "funded in part by the National Institutes of Health," according to the release...
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Stuff.co.nz
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Research at the University of Auckland is giving new meaning to the term "bums on seats"...
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Science Daily
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Researchers at the University of Rochester may have answered one of neuroscience's most vexing questions—how can it be that our neurons, which are responsible for our crystal-clear thoughts, seem to fire in utterly random ways?..
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