A Pentagon-chartered report urges the United States to take the lead in developing space platforms capable of capturing sunlight and beaming electrical power to Earth.
Statins are known to be good for lowering cholesterol and maybe even fighting dementia, and now they have another reported benefit: they appear to slow decline in lung function in the elderly - even in those who smoke.
Were Neanderthals direct ancestors of contemporary humans or an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out? This is one of the enduring questions in human evolution as scientists explore the relationship of fossil groups, such as Neanderthals, with people alive today.
In April the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on car pool lane cheaters in the Bay Area. I remember in particular because I was interviewed for the article. In the Bay Area, there are plenty of legal users of the car pool lane, but there are also plenty of cheaters. Some, as the article's title indicates, are pretty brazen about the whole thing, not even trying to hide it. In some areas, some go so far as to use mannequins or dolls in car seats to fake out anyone (the police?) who might see them --- after all those HOV lane fines are pretty steep. A company, Vehicle Occupancy Limited, has a solution for that.
An 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull has been found in southwestern Japan, one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the country, the Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.
Just as in sports, astronomical records are made to be broken, and the latest one is a doozy: a supernova that briefly outshone the sun by a factor of 100 billion, doubling the brilliance of the previous record holder.
Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds -- much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale -- are very effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents.
