Project leader Dr. Larry Madin said Tuesday that U.S. and Philippine scientists collected about 100 different specimens in a search in the Celebes Sea south of the Philippines.
Madin, of the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said the sea is at the heart of the "coral triangle" ...
Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for "giant" and "chief," and for Duke ...
Giardia lamblia, one of the most common human parasites in the United States, causes more than 20,000 intestinal infections a year, often through contact with contaminated drinking or swimming water. In the September 28 issue of Science, an international team led by researchers at the MBL (Marine Biological ...
Richard Garriott, who made his fortune in computer games, is scheduled to blast off aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan in October 2008 on a one-week trip to the international space station.
His father, Owen Garriott, 76, spent 59 days aboard Skylab, America's first space station, in 1973 and flew ...
But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West.
Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged ...
And when it does hit, officials say, there is one other thing that is a near certainty — hundreds of thousands of people will be in need of shelter that the government will not be able to provide. Studies show as many as 3 million will be homeless, some 600,000 more than shelters can now handle.
But ...
"We are here today embarking upon this great adventure of having a nongovernmental, commercial organization return to the moon and explore," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. "And I'm very excited that Google can play a part in it."
The contest is modeled on the ...
The current theory of star formation is tied closely to the evolution of galaxies. Although the first stars obviously preceded the first galaxies in the early universe--forming around clumps of dark matter (ScienceNOW, 13 September)--for the most part, new stars are supposed to coalesce within gas clouds ...
"This is a revolutionary new view of marine biogeography. The idea that kelp forests occur extensively in all latitudes is simply staggering," says marine biologist James Estes of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Kelp forests are marine communities that provide shelter and food for ...
Small pieces of RNA called microRNAs help control gene activity and orchestrate development in plants and animals (ScienceNOW, 8 July 2002). But these essential molecules can also turn nefarious: Some of them apparently cause cancer. How they do so is poorly understood, although recent studies have suggested ...
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