19 May 2012
In science news around the world this week, a Senate bill would preserve the U.S. helium supply for research, researchers have issued the first-ever international principles governing peer review of grant proposals, the European Parliament rebuked three regulatory agencies, Norway opened the world’s largest carbon capture and storage test facility, and a new Twitter feed [...]
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17 May 2012
Patients receiving two targeted drugs appear to develop resistance later News – Up to the minute news and analysis from Science.
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15 May 2012
Students from five schools in rural Montana won a ,000 prize in the America’s Home Education Energy Challenge. Deep inside a mountain cave in Dachstein, Austria, an international team of researchers showed off a new suit that simulates the challenges that await human visitors to Mars. And this week’s numbers quantify signatures protesting the Discovery [...]
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13 May 2012
Proposed voluntary standards for all U.S. students is out for comment News – Up to the minute news and analysis from Science.
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11 May 2012
In science news around the world this week, attorneys sought to prevent 9000-year-old bones from being handed over to American Indians; a senior U.S. health official disputed charges that the government tried to prearrange an advisory panel’s recommendation to publish two studies that describe how to make the H5N1 avian influenza virus transmissible in mammals; [...]
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09 May 2012
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that, when part of a miRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC), repress the expression of fully or partially complementary mRNAs. Argonaute (Ago) proteins bind miRNAs and … [Read more] Editors’ Choice
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07 May 2012
Francis Eberle leaves NSTA after surprise decision by board News – Up to the minute news and analysis from Science.
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05 May 2012
Located 25 light-years away, the star Fomalhaut is surrounded by a spectacular eccentric disk of dust and debris somewhat similar to the Kuiper Belt in our solar system. Boley et … [Read more] Editors’ Choice
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03 May 2012
The high electronic conductivity of carbon nanotubes and graphene could be exploited for delivering power to electronic devices. However, even these good conductors can undergo resistive or Joule heating, and … [Read more] Editors’ Choice
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01 May 2012
Excessive expansion of a series of glutamine residues in the N terminus of the protein huntingtin (HTT) lies at the root of the neurodegenerative Huntington’s disease. Although HTT is evolutionarily … [Read more] Editors’ Choice
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