Approaching storm scrubs California rocket launch
An approaching storm has delayed the launch of a U.S. defense satellite from California's central coast.
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2014
0
0
11/12/2014
Rapid bird evolution after the age of dinosaurs unprecedented, study confirms
The most ambitious genetic study ever undertaken on bird evolution has found that almost all modern birds diversified after the dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2014
0
3
Clouds fill Grand Canyon in rare weather event
A rare weather phenomenon at the Grand Canyon had visitors looking out on a sea of thick clouds just below the rim.
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2014
1
0
Tripling Internet access would do more good than tackling HIV: study
Dramatically expanding broadband access would boost the global economy and could do more good than investing in HIV prevention or clean drinking water, according to a study published Thursday.
Economics & Business
Dec 11, 2014
1
0
Study supports the theory that 'men are idiots'
The theory that men are idiots and often do stupid things is backed up by evidence in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. The findings are based on an analyses of sex differences in idiotic behaviour.
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2014
42
0
Nanoshaping method points to future manufacturing technology
A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as "plasmonic metamaterials" for advanced ...
Nanophysics
Dec 11, 2014
0
0
Labor board OKs personal use of company e-mail (Update)
In a victory for unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that employees can use their company email accounts for union organizing and other workplace-related purposes, if they do it on their own time.
Business
Dec 11, 2014
0
0
High-tech CU-Boulder hardware to support experiments launching to space station
The University of Colorado Boulder will fly state-of-the-art hardware on the commercial SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launching to the International Space Station (ISS) Dec. 19 to support experiments designed to better understand ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2014
0
0
New studies power legacy of UW-Madison research, 60 years later
Frederick Crane was a researcher under David E. Green in the mid-1950s, during the early days of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Enzyme Institute, when he made his defining discovery.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2014
0
0
Swarms of Pluto-size objects kick-up dust around adolescent Sun-like star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may have detected the dusty hallmarks of an entire family of Pluto-size objects swarming around an adolescent version of our own Sun.
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2014
5
0
