By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Fiery reds and oranges [More]
Read More »Tag Archives: article
Feed SubscriptionSmoke signals
Oh weather; a joy, a pain, the making of a beautiful day or a miserable evening.
Read More »False Color Images of Saturn’s Massive Lightning Storm
[More]
Read More »Friday Network Highlights #2
[More]
Read More »The Neuroscience of the Debt Debate, or Why Cooperation Takes a Backseat to Mistrust
Eleventh-hour negotiations aren't uncommon in Washington, D.C., but the most recent duel over the debt limit seems especially tense. Unless its debt ceiling is raised from its current $14.3 trillion, or its budget is miraculously balanced, the U.S. will default on its financial obligations on August 2, leading to a credit downgrade, delayed government payments and other serious economic troubles.
Read More »New Anti-Doping Test Looks for Biochemical Changes over Time
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Cyclist Borut Bozic drew his hands to his chest with a look of joy, disbelief and exhaustion after defeating some of the world's best sprinters in the Swiss village of Tobel.
Read More »The Reality and Utility of Bear Paternity Tests
It was summer of 2008 and the rhetoric was getting as hot as a globally warmed hood on a ’91 Chevy Camaro RS (my 2nd car, with t-tops of course). [More]
Read More »Diamonds Lose Mass in Sunlight
By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine It might be among the hardest materials known, but place a diamond in a patch of sunlight and it will start to lose atoms, say a team of physicists in Australia. [More]
Read More »Dawn to Rise over Asteroid Vesta
[More]
Read More »First things first: so what are protists anyway?
Hello everyone, and welcome again to The Ocelloid! The intro post before was a little too formal and impersonal, I think, at least for my usual style anyway. [More]
Read More »Summer Reading
I am one of those people that’s usually “reading” a lot of books at once. [More]
Read More »Will the Weather Add to "Carmageddon" Headaches in Los Angeles?
At least the weather outside will keep its cool in "camageddon" this weekend. However, the weather inside thousands of vehicles may get hostile. What Is Carmageddon?
Read More »BP promises safer drilling, without admitting flaws
* BP says to more closely monitor contractors * Declines to say if tightening internal procedures [More]
Read More »Fungus Protects Rice from Challenges of Climate Change
To ward off famine and potentially save millions of lives, researchers are looking for a little help from a tiny fungus.
Read More »Good News for 2 Rare Leopard Species [Video]
Conservation groups are reporting better than expected news on two rare leopard species, the critically endangered Amur leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis ) in Russia and the endangered snow leopard ( P.
Read More »