Gene Mapping Reaches Major Milestone
For years, scientists have been talking about the era of personalized medicine. While many preparations are underway, the biggest hurdle to widespread adoption has been the prohibitive cost to read a...
View ArticleBird Flu Flies to Top of the Pathogen Pile
After several deaths of people in Cambodia, Vietnam and China recently, the bird flu is making a comeback in public discourse. Concerns are growing about the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus. A few...
View ArticleSDF: Jackson Browne’s Ode to the Ocean
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song?...
View ArticleMalaria Deaths Grossly Underestimated
When George Clooney was recovering from his second bout of malaria after vising Sudan last year he demonstrated that the tropical infectious disease can create a very unpleasant ten days but they...
View ArticleWhite House Stages Science Fair
President Obama fires a marshmallow gun and lets robots roam his White House at the White House Science Fair. Three-year-old Danielle Fairchild probably can’t grasp the magnitude of what she’s...
View ArticlePresident Pushes Achievement in New Science Programs
The second White House science fair was a fitting location for President Barack Obama to make some announcements about science education and policy, including a preview of what will appear in the...
View ArticleMeet Test Tube Meat
The first beef created in a science lab in the Netherlands is being grown and by October physiologist Mark Post thinks it will reach the size of a golfball and be big enough to cook to see if the meat...
View ArticleBacteria Gene Inserted in Corn to Make it More Drought Tolerant
Drought resistant corn is coming soon. It’s the latest transgenic offering from the Monsanto seed company. After the US Department of Agriculture chose not to regulate DroughtGard, a new species of...
View ArticleSpaceflight May Damage Eyesight
Can you see yourself in space? Do you envision yourself traveling months or even years to explore our corner of the solar system? If so, you may want to get your eyes checked. A new study of...
View ArticleDiabetes from Obesity Guts Teen Health
Type-2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset diabetes. But that had to change when so many kids, some as young as 5, began contracting the disease that stems from poor nutrition and obesity. Now...
View ArticleCurbing Cow Emissions to Slow Global Warming
35 million sheep and 8 million cows animals are emitting more than 50 percent of the greenhouse gas New Zealand produces. That is why scientists at the Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Center are...
View ArticleBrain May Look More Like Street Map Than Mess of Spaghetti
The human brain may be more like a street map — laid out on a grid — than a tangled mess of spaghetti. Neuroscientists have been trying to unlock the structure of the brain to unravel mysteries of...
View ArticleElectricity from Viruses May Power Personal Devices
Not every virus has a pathological purpose. Sure they make us sick regularly and terrorize our computers. But researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Berkeley have found a good use for...
View ArticleSDF: Southern Belle Fights for her Life
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song?...
View ArticleThree in South Battle Flesh-Eating Bacteria
24-year old Aimee Copeland was the picture of health. She was working towards a Masters degree in psychology at the University of West Georgia before she went zip-lining three weeks ago. During a...
View ArticleRadioactive Tuna Makes Trek from Japan to U.S.
For the first time ever scientists were able to use the nuclear disaster in Japan to track the migration of fish. After finding bluefin tuna with high levels of two cesium radioisotopes, marine...
View ArticleAsteroid Barrage Calls for Citizen Science Spotters
Potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are orbiting space rocks that come within five million miles of Earth. As you can imagine, there are a lot of asteroids that qualify as regionally or globally...
View ArticleLend Your Voice for Parkinson’s Disease
Boxer Muhammad Ali and actor Michael J. Fox both have one thing in common — they suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a debilitating neurological disease with no cure and no real way of...
View ArticleJapan Tsunami Debris Stymies Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon
It’s floating fast and furious. What could amount to millions of tons of debris that was swept into the Pacific Ocean after the 9.0 magnitude Japanese earthquake is beginning to arrive up and down the...
View ArticleAsteroid Hunters Want Private Telescope to Spot Dangerous Space Rocks
A group of scientists and former NASA astronauts believe they can stop a killer asteroid from crashing into the planet. Their plan? Find and locate all the small to mid-sized threats well before they...
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