Global warming isn't spiking but the global composite temperature during April revealed an increase above the 20-year average for that month. The report is issued monthly as part of an ongoing joint project between The University of Alabama in Huntsville, NOAA and NASA.
As part of an ongoing joint project between The University of Alabama in
Huntsville, NOAA and NASA, Dr. John Christy, director of U.A. Huntsville's
Earth System Science Center, and Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research
scientist in the ESSC, use data gathered by microwave sounding units on NOAA
and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all
regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest
David Sloan Wilson is doing a great job in his blog at The Huffington Post, exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of selfish gene theory.
He’s run a series of articles under the umbrella title of Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection, singling out Richard Dawkins as a target for some pretty heavy broadsides. Like this; “Richard has become unaccountable, in part by becoming a public icon. That disqualifies him as a spokesperson for science.” And this; “when it comes to semantic confusion, you can't beat selfish gene theory.”
It just makes me feel warm and tingly all over.
Duplicating our organic tissue synthetically isn't as easy as it sounds. Our bodily tissue is both soft and tough but modern implants - and replacement organs - will need to be as close to natural as possible to be effective.
A team of Australian and Korean researchers led by Geoffrey M. Spinks and Seon Jeong Kim has now developed a novel, highly porous, sponge-like material whose mechanical properties closely resemble those of biological soft tissues. It consists of a robust network of DNA strands and carbon nanotubes.
Dartmouth Medical School geneticists say they have made new inroads into understanding the regulatory circuitry of the biological clock that synchronizes the ebb and flow of daily activities, according to two studies published May 15.
Research on the relationship between clocks and temperature, reported in Cell, offers insight into a longstanding puzzle of temperature compensation: why the 24-hour circadian rhythm does not change with temperature when metabolism is so affected. A related study, in Molecular Cell, tracks a clock protein in action, mapping hundreds of highly choreographed modifications and interactions to provide the first complete view of regulation across a day.
Let's be honest, the one thing you worry about most when driving your Hummer and sipping corporate-farmed coffee is how much damage that Union Oyster House ("oldest restaurant in America!") refrigerator magnet in your house is doing to the environment.
You're out of luck. The refrigerator magnets scientists are a step closer to making are for environmentally-friendly 'magnetic' refrigerators and air conditioning systems.
The research group of Dr. Frédéric Charron, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), has made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. This new finding has been published in the current issue of Neuron.
TOKYO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --
BB Softservice Corp., a Tokyo-based planner and developer of application service in the SoftBank Group, announces that it will release an English version of 'Jigsaw Art' application software for iPhone(TM) 3G/iPod touch offered by 'SoftBank SELECTION,' in 18 countries in the world on May 15, 2009 at the AppStore.
'Jigsaw Art Premium' is a jigsaw puzzle with 100 masterpieces of pictures by master artists of the world that can be enjoyed by simple touch-screen operation utilizing iPhone 3G functions. It also enables creation of original jigsaw puzzles using photos and images stored in iPhone 3G. When a jigsaw puzzle is completed, the masterpiece can be viewed in the Gallery of the application.
Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel successfully installed the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) Thursday during the first of five scheduled EVAs, or spacewalks, to rejuvenate the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble was "full of surprises" for the astronauts, and EVA 1 took an hour longer than planned, but the veteran space and ground crews overcame all obstacles and Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) remains right on schedule. (See the full scheduled timeline in my
previous post.)
LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --
Perenco Ecuador Limited (Perenco) announced today that on May 8, 2009, a three member international arbitration tribunal constituted under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment disputes (ICSID) unanimously ordered that the Republic of Ecuador and Empresa Estatal Petroleos del Ecuador (Petroecuador) were restrained from instituting or further pursuing any action to collect from Perenco any payments they claim are owed pursuant to Law 42.
Have you ever thought about what's going on in your brain when you look at a painting that you like a lot? While Neuroscientist Dr. Edward Vessel has and he's done brain imaging experiments to figure it out.
What happens in your brain when you have a pleasurable experience -- for example, when you see at a painting that you like very much. Scientists describe this as an aesthetically pleasing experience. They want to know if simply seeing a painting that you enjoy engages an emotional response and triggers the emotion circuits in your brain.
