US biologist who won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine this year, Randy Schekman, announced this week that his lab would no longer send research papers to the leading scientific journals like Nature, Cell and Science because they
Powerful and deadly winter storms covered parts of United States in a deep freeze over the last couple of days. More than 6 000 flights were canceled and at least 80 000 households were left without electricity in Washington, Virginia
A new study, published December 5 in the international scientific journal Nature, reveals that vast underwater offshore reserves of fresh and brackish water are a global phenomenon.
The discovery is providing new opportunities to stave off a looming global
From the looks of an average produce section in a typical American supermarket, it might seem like modern society has access to basically every major type of fruit, vegetable and herb one could want. But a survey conducted by the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory
Human trials for revolutionary artificial heart are now approved in 5 international cardiac surgery centers. The new prosthetic, ESA said in a press release today, is the brainchild of the visionary cardiac surgeon, Professor Alain Carpentier, and the result of 15
During past seven days 5 volcanoes had new activity, ongoing activity was reported for 10 volcanoes. This report covers active volcanoes in the world from November 27 – December 3, 2013 based on Smithsonian/USGS criteria.
New
Since the late afternoon of December 2, 2013, vigorous strombolian activity was taking place at Etna's New Southeast Crater. This activity was accompanied by a gradual increase in the volcanic tremor amplitude. A dilute eruptive plume composed mostly
One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that "bubbles look like this" and that he is "most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market." But you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is
Latest updates:
December 2, 2013
13:45 UTC
Comet ISON's November adventures video by Sun Whisperers
13:43 UTC
Latest CIOC update: In Memoriam: "…Never one to follow convention, ISON lived a dynamic and unpredictable life,
November 30, 2013
ISON is fading and exiting LASCO C3 view.
08:18 UTC
Comet ISON on November 30, 2013 @ 08:18. Image credit: ESA/NASA SOHO
05:30 UTC
Karl Battams (NRL/CIOC) wrote and update on ISON and embeded cool gifs from STEREO: In
