Newest Posts in Science news Atom Feed from Searchles Sun Jul 06 06:15:12 -0400 2008 en-us Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites paulleviss Do Fireworks Scare Pets? Geek Why We Save Stuff jonj Study: World Gets Happier Gambo Despite the anxieties of these times, happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds. HAARP CBC Broadcast Weather control part 1 wishbone11 Here's a report on HAARP, an expirement made by USA to engineer the weather. Undersea Chesapeake Crater Offers Hints to Mars Life driftabit A 35-million-year-old crater under Chesapeake Bay is offering new insights into possible locations for life on Mars. But it also has the potential to threaten the area's groundwater supplies with contamination, according to a new study. Will NASA Ever Find Life on Mars? Mindscout Martian soil appears able to support life Kimberley McKee "Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be needed to prove it. Life Survived Catastrophic Space Rock Impact Geek Man-made tornadoes could power the future - LiveScience- msnbc.com andysandy Coiled up in a tornado is as much energy as an entire power plant. So a Canadian engineer has a plan to spin up his own twister and extract energy from its tethered tail. Huge Meteor Strike Explains Mars?s Shape, Reports Say dweller The lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, three teams of scientists are reporting. That would suggest that the lowlands of Mars’s northern hemisphere are a single gigantic impact crater, the largest crater in the solar system. Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin - Yahoo! News lordskab Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers announced they had discovered three super-Earths — worlds more massive than ours but small enough to most likely be rocky — orbiting a single star. And dozens of other worlds suspected of having masses in that same range were found around other stars. For Alien Life-Seekers, New Reason to Hope craig88 For those of us who still mourn the demise of the “Star Trek” franchise and its vision of the cosmos as a thrillingly multicultural if occasionally lethal nightclub, the announcement last week that many Sun-size stars in our galaxy are girdled with Earth-size planets was, frankly, transporting. Researchers build Robot that Can Replicate Itself Makin Researchers have developed a robot that can create 3D replicas of objects and even replicate itself.Scientists from the University of Bath in England unveiled an open-source machine that acts like a three-dimensional printer. Instead of printing out documents or pictures on paper, this printer uses blueprints to produce 3-D plastic objects. Chimp's sex calls may reflect calculation Beamer Intricate as the mating dance may be among people, for other primates like chimpanzees and baboons it is even more complicated. This is evident from the work of researchers who report that the distinctive calls made by female chimpanzees during sex are part of a sophisticated social calculation. The Strange Science of Summer speedy Does Washing Fruits and Vegetables Make Them Safe? phassan Einsteins theory of relativity under scanner paulleviss Study says brains of gay men and women are similar daveyoung31 This article discusses how Brain scans provide evidence that sexual orientation is biological. PHOTOS: 1780 British Warship Found in Lake Ontario driftabit Encrusted with quagga mussels, a cannon protrudes from the front of the 22-gun British warship Ontario, found in Lake Ontario in June 2008.