Health
Should Racial Profiling Play a Role in Cancer Prognosis?
Two recent studies indicate that the genetics of race influences the survivability of some cancers, but the conclusions are not so black and white
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The Sciences
Tip for Casey: To Swing a Faster Bat, Lighten Up That Lumber
With Major League Baseball's All-Star game taking place tonight, a researcher explains why, when it comes to swinging a baseball bat, heavier isn't necessarily better
Space & Physics
Auction Offers the Moon--Or at Least NASA Gear That's Been There [Slide Show]
Stargazers will have the opportunity to get their hands on photos, charts, models and other space race relics from NASA missions thanks to an auction to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon mission...
Health
New Algorithm Speeds the Hunt for Nature-Derived Antibiotics and Cancer Drugs
A method to sequence potential pharmaceuticals could make nature's medicine cabinet more alluring to drugmakers
Evolution
Vietnam Burning: Warfare Scorched the Land for 1,500 Years
Political unrest between occupying Chinese and local Vietnamese groups--not climate change or agriculture--led to a surge in the frequency of fires
The Sciences
Spark for Life: Lightning Strikes Create Minerals Crucial for Early Organisms
Scientists identify a natural source for a form of phosphorus once common on Earth and critical for microbes
Mind & Brain
Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief
Dropping the F-bomb or other expletives may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it
The Sciences
Forensic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam
Scientists--including one who studied King Tut--are working to examine hundreds of human remains illegally exhumed from a Chicago burial ground
Environment
Biofuel Fraud Case Could Leave the EPA Running on Fumes
Cello Energy is unlikely to produce 70 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel next year, which means that the EPA will not meet its 2010 target of 100 million gallons
Space & Physics
Archival Telescope Data May Show Most Distant Supernovae Yet
Massive stars collapsing 11 billion years ago could shed light on the early universe
Health
If Swine Flu Weren't Enough, Now There's Swine Ebola
Scientists report that domestic pigs harbor Reston ebolavirus, the only Ebola species that has not caused disease in humans
The Sciences
Trapped Atom Makes for Supersensitive Probe and Quantum Link
Physicists suspend an ion in space to act as a minuscule stylus
Biology
U.S. Energy Corridors Could Disrupt Climate Change Research
Conservation groups challenge Bush-era "energy corridors" that threaten wilderness areas, including a long-term ecological study site
Environment
The Good News: A New Monkey Is Discovered; The Bad News: It Is Already at Risk
Construction projects could soon harm the Amazonian habitats of a tiny tamarin
The Sciences
Audit Smokes Out Lax Fire Protection at U.S. Nuclear Weapons Lab
Fewer than half of the fire prevention shortcomings examined at the Los Alamos National Laboratory had been fixed after previous evaluation, an Energy Department audit reports
Environment
Who's to Blame? Making Poor Nations Share the Cost of Fighting Climate Change
A proposal to set international carbon-reduction targets based on the distribution of one billion "high emitters" in both developed and developing countries
Technology
New Radar May Help U.S. Draw the Line on Burrowing Under the Mexico Border
The U.S. Border Patrol plans to use ground-penetrating radar technology to spot illegal transborder tunnels
Space & Physics
Space Show Takes Viewers on a Stellar Journey
The American Museum of Natural History's new movie focuses on what the stars have wrought
Health
DNA Sudoku
Researchers get help from a venerable number theory and a popular puzzle game to solve genetic medical mysteries
Engineering
Band of Bots Don't Play Musical Instruments--They Are the Instruments
Michael Hearst of the band One Ring Zero records his next solo album with a little help from the LemurBots
