Jan 30 Experts Weigh in on Bird Flu Research Pigeons are seen eating on a street in Hong Kong on January 6, 2012. Photo by Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images. Earlier this month, the scientists who altered the H5N1 virus to create a more contagious strain that's transmissible between ferrets,… Continue reading
Jan 30 Electronic Tissue Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles Scientists are trying to develop tissue-like electronics that conform better to human organs. Elastic electronics, they call it. John Rogers, professor of material science and engineering at the University of Illinois has developed a device that can… Continue reading
Jan 26 How Do You Spot a Black Hole? Look for Its 'Burp' EmbedVideo(2541, 482, 304); Last week, a team of astronomers met in Arizona to discuss ambitious plans to see the unseeable. Using data pulled from more than 75 ground-based telescopes and assembled by a supercomputer, their plan is… Continue reading
Jan 25 Is There a Big Relief Rally Under Way? By Paul Solman The European Central Bank's new headquarters, still under construction, right, are seen alongside other buildings within the city, across from the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Some might be expecting comment on the… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch How to Catch a Black Hole, Explained Hari interviews MIT's Shep Doeleman on plans to capture the first-ever black hole image. Continue watching
Jan 24 Solar Storm Swipes Earth, But No Immediate Damage On Sunday, a gigantic solar flare erupted from out of the sun and began charging toward Earth at millions of miles an hour. This was a coronal mass ejection, which describes balls of gas consisting of charged… Continue reading
Jan 23 Marcia Coyle: Court Moves 'Carefully' to Balance Rights in GPS Ruling By Elizabeth Summers The Supreme Court's decision Monday -- saying police must have a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to vehicles -- shows the court "wants to move carefully" in weighing the privacy rights of individuals against law enforcement's need for… Continue reading
Jan 20 Bird Flu Studies Temporarily Paused, Journals Announce Last year, questions were raised over how much research on the dangerous H5N1 virus -- or avian flu -- should be published in scientific journals. H1N1 is not yet transmissible among humans, though scientists have created a strain that… Continue reading
Jan 19 Rejected Keystone XL Pipeline Project at Top of Congress' Agenda Capitol dome; file photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Congress got back to work this week, kind of. The House convened late Tuesday evening, conducted one day of legislative business on Wednesday and then left town again so the Republicans… Continue reading
Jan 19 Darwin Fossils Released From Hiding This slide containing the cross section of a monkey-puzzle conifer tree was most likely collected from South America. Photo by British Geological Survey/Natural Environment Research Council. Updated: January 20, 6:30 p.m. ET| In April 2011, Howard Falcon-Lang,… Continue reading