Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed, researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, UC Davis, and NASA's Johnson Space Center have found. ...
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2007
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The emergence of flowering plants is regarded as a major botanical mystery. In today’s edition of the scientific magazine Nature, an international research team with participation from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) ...
Nov 21, 2007
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One gene for pea pod color generates green pods while a variant of that gene gives rise to the yellow-pod phenotype, a feature that helped Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Austrian priest and scientist, first describe genetic ...
Nov 21, 2007
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The shrine where ancient Romans worshiped the she-wolf who nursed Rome's mythical founding twins, Romulus and Remus, may have been found, archaeologists said.
Archaeology
Nov 21, 2007
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The modern-day turkey on American tables and the extinct Tyrannosaurus rex have one thing in common: their wishbone.
Nov 21, 2007
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The Canadian government is investing in solar energy, awarding $1.1 million for projects promoting photovoltaic and solar thermal power technologies.
Other
Nov 21, 2007
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Congo has established a rain-forest preserve to protect the bonobo from deforestation and poachers, government officials said.
Nov 21, 2007
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New research led by a University of St Andrews astronomer has found evidence for what might be the raw material for the beginning of shrunken versions of our solar system - miniature worlds in the making.
Astronomy
Nov 21, 2007
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Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2007
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In an effort to find an answer to the problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California say a neutron scatter camera they are developing may be able ...
General Physics
Nov 21, 2007
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