Another day, another Apple drama. Today our big worry is the reappearance of a security…
Month: July 2011
Chesapeake Bay pesticides: Some diminish, some persist
Scientists are identifying factors that influence pesticide levels in the Chesapeake Bay airshed, including traces…
New disparity in US nursing homes: Whites leave, minorities enter
Nursing homes in the United States are shrinking and their residents are becoming proportionately more…
Seven new mice species discovered
After living incognito for millions of years in a remote area of a forested mountain…
Prototype ‘optics table on a chip’ places microwave photon in two colors at once
Researchers have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single…
California groundwater management trickles up from local sources
In a typical year, California gets about 30 percent of its water from groundwater wells….
Graphene: What can go wrong? New studies point to wrinkles, process contaminants
Using a combination of sophisticated computer modeling and advanced materials analysis techniques at synchrotron laboratories,…
Promising fire retardant results when clay nanofiller has space
Materials scientists have demonstrated that the more widely and uniformly dispersed nanoscale plates of clay…
New strategy to prevent infertility, birth defects
A strategy that has been shown to reduce age-related health problems in several animal studies…
Murdoch declines further comment on hacking at Sun Valley (Reuters)
Reuters – Rupert Murdoch declined to comment further on the escalating phone hacking scandal at…