Uncategorized

  1. Plants

    Time Capsules: Seeds sprout 120 years after going underground

    An experiment designed by a botany professor to last longer than his own life has demonstrated that seeds of two common flowers still sprout and blossom despite more than a century in a bottle.

    By
  2. Health & Medicine

    Flower Power: Corn lily compound stops cancer in mice

    A new study in mice suggests that cyclopamine, a plant derivative that causes birth defects in animals, can inhibit medulloblastoma, a brain cancer in children.

    By
  3. Planetary Science

    Planetary Beginnings: Data reveal Earth’s quick gestation

    Two new studies confirm that Earth's core formed in a hurry—during the first 30 million years after the solar system's birth.

    By
  4. Chemistry

    Down to the bone

    A new method for making bone cement could simplify hip and knee replacements and improve the surgeries' outcomes.

    By
  5. Materials Science

    What the mail must go through

    Mail irradiation in Washington, D.C. is damaging valuable objects and documents intended for scientific study or archiving at the Smithsonian, the White House, and other government organizations.

    By
  6. 19111

    Regarding this article, I was shocked. Not by the findings but the resources that were wasted. I have been involved in the radiation sterilization of medical devices for 30 years. Yellowing and brittleness of cellulose materials is well known, as are discoloration and damage to many plastics. Computer chips, CDs, film, and video and audiotapes […]

    By
  7. 19109

    The image in this article looks to me more like a yo-yo or taco than a hamburger. Then again, turned 45 to the left, it looks like the mouth of a frog with two small eyes on top. Jacky MemoleLargo, Fla.

    By
  8. Astronomy

    An image to relish

    The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution image of an object that looks like a giant hamburger.

    By
  9. Computing

    Writing faster with your eyes

    A new method for gaze-operated, hands-free text entry is faster and more accurate than using an on-screen keyboard.

    By
  10. Health & Medicine

    Lost and found

    Researchers have shown that a drug may shepherd a mutated protein—gone astray in people with cystic fibrosis—into its proper place.

    By
  11. Health & Medicine

    Processing corn boosts antioxidants

    Cooking sweet corn increases its disease-fighting antioxidant activity, despite decreasing its vitamin C content.

    By
  12. Planetary Science

    It’s only a sharper moon

    Astronomers have taken what appears to be the sharpest image of the moon ever recorded from Earth.

    By