War fatalities--and especially those from terrorist or insurgent attacks--seem particularly and cruelly random. But some scientists think they have found the key to predicting just when these deadly assaults will come. [More]
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Read More »Fire menacing Los Alamos lab nears record size
* Los Alamos lab and town nearby evacuated * 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste on site [More]
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Glowing brainbows
Strawberry red, tangerine orange, banana yellow, honeydew green and plum purple. These are some of the cheesy names for the glowing molecules that were developed in Roger Tsien’s laboratory. To be fair, these names do make one thing clear: Roger Tsien has managed to design and produce fluorescent molecules of almost every colour in the rainbow.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–The future of biomedicine
The future of medicine is contained in 'The Four Ps': Personalised, Predictive, Preventative, and Participatory.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Cowboy hats and countesses
This is the 61th year that the Nobel Laureate Meetings have been held at Lindau. The conference was held for the first time in 1951, funded by the wealthy count Lennart Bernadotte, as an effort to restore the international scientific ties that had been severed by the war. The count’s daughter, Bettina Bernadotte, has been the patron of the Lindau Conferences since 2007.
Read More »Laureate Urges Next Generation to Address Population Control as Central Issue
LINDAU, Germany--A 93-year-old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans' remarkable evolutionary success as a species. [More]
Read More »What Happens to Google’s Other Social Networking Efforts?
The launch of the Google+ social network casts a shadow over Google's previous efforts in this arena, including Orkut, Wave and Buzz, all of which still have active Web sites.
Read More »Social Climber: Google Challenges Facebook for Social Networking Supremacy–Again
As Friendster , MySpace and many other social-networking sites have discovered, a successful business finds a niche that draws in a large number of users and offers intriguing, easy-to-use services that keep those users interested. Whereas Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter have excelled at this formula, Google's efforts in this area-- Buzz (2010), Wave (2009) and Orkut (2004)--have faltered. The search-engine giant hopes its search is over with this week's introduction of the new Google+ ( Google Plus ) network
Read More »Nobelist Christian de Duve Compares Good And Better Brains
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Read More »Project MonarchHealth
Help scientists better understand host-parasite interactions in monarch butterflies [More]
Read More »CES Forecast: Cloudy With A Chance Of Social
At the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'll see more web and mobile app companies--even tiny startups--than in years past.
Read More »What Makes Them Go Boom? Our Favorite Explainers on the Science of Fireworks
Staring up as cascades of colorful light bloom noisily from the dark sky--that's how many Americans will conclude their Independence Day. Behind the pretty image, however, fireworks rely on basic physical and chemical principles. So just how do fireworks work
Read More »UN peacekeepers likely caused Haiti cholera -study
* Haiti struck by earthquake, cholera epidemic in 2010 * Nepalese peacekeepers operated in central Haiti [More]
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