Cat's eye view of DNA sheds light on human disease

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first full genetic map of a cat -- a domestic pedigreed Abyssinian -- is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS and...Full Article

Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel DNA winner, dies at 89

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in Cali...Full Article

Dog DNA study reveals new role for protein

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A family of proteins known to fight off microbes surprisingly also helps determine whether a poodles coat will be black, white or somewhere in between, U.S. researchers said on Thu...Full Article

Climate myths: Mars and Pluto are warming too

There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto are proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity, and not by greenhouses gases. But we can say with certainty...Full Article

Elephants can sniff out human friends from foe

Elephants can sniff out human friends from foe, suggests a new study which shows the big mammals can recognise the smells and clothing of different ethnic groups.African bush elephants (Loxodonta afri...Full Article

Futuristic car makes reversing obsolete

TOKYO (Reuters) - For all those drivers that hate parallel parking and anything else that requires the reverse gear, Nissan could one day have the car for you.The leading Japanese carmaker recently un...Full Article

Robots And Science Will Keep Our Food Safe

Robots And Science Will Keep Our Food SafeThe Administration envisions a future where science and technology keep our food supply safe and secure. The multi-agency working group tasked with improving ...Full Article

Green fuels will save the earth - or not

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The earth is too small to accommodate all the biofuels projects envisioned for the globe, and this raises doubts whether green fuels will ever play a big role in weaning the worl...Full Article

A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, ...Full Article

Science, Religion, and the Other Fellow

In a hypothetical world ruled by science, religion would be a relic of the past, banished from everyday life and relegated to the dusty archives of history. Such was the scenario envisioned by a handf...Full Article

Fossils Challenge Old Evolution Theory

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science WriterAP Photo/KAREL PRINSLOOtcdacmd=cc=hlt; dt; var hosted_site =WIRE; var hosted_section =SCIENCE; hosted_ad(@x96);hosted_ad_pop(@x03);AP_Tacoda_AMS_DDC_add...Full Article

Scientists Discover Largest-Known Planet

PHOENIX (AP) -- Scientists have discovered the universes largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,400 light-years away.Scient...Full Article

Neural Systems for Reinforcing Behavior

Description of the work of Princeton professor, Bartley HoebelWhy do we work? Or why do addicts put themselves in harms way by abusing a substance? Researchers are finding clues in the brain chemistry...Full Article

Imagine Earth without people

Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planets land for our cities, farmland and pastures...Full Article

Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests

If you’re looking for a quick memory fix, move your eyes from side-to-side for 30 seconds, researchers say. Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact m...Full Article

Traffic Zoology

There is a secret zoo that runs encaged along the roads.They are liquid, semi-visible goliaths that rage through the streams and chunks of ordinary traffic, with the effervescent tendrils of mile-long...Full Article

Glyco Nutrients & Stem Cell Production

During the speach, Dr. Reg McDaniel talked about first seeing new stem cells in the peripheral blood of clients using glyconutrients many years ago and not recognizing these cells as stem cells. They ...Full Article

Tsunami Defined

Tsunami is a Japanese term that describes a large seismically generated sea wave which is capable of considerable destruction in certain coastal areas, especially where underwater earthquakes occur.In...Full Article

Why Condition Your Boiler Water?

A boiler is used for generating steam. It does this by heating water to its boiling point, after which steam will evaporate from it.When you boil a kettle of water, you will shut off the fire or elect...Full Article

Get Hot on Combustion

Energy in the form of heat is obtained when fuel is burnt in air. The release of this heat energy can be slow or can be very rapid.When fuel oil is sprayed as a fine mist in the boiler burners, it is ...Full Article