iTWire - Science News Sience news http://www.itwire.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:44 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png Powered by Joomla! 1.0 http://www.itwire.com Sience news Watch discarded NASA tank zip across your night sky http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19604&Itemid=1066 NASA announced that the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS), a backup pressurization tank, which was thrown out of the International Space... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:15:49 -0600 U.S. study finds women more likely to remove tattoos http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19579&Itemid=1066 According to a Texas-led study, over twice as many unhappily tattooed women will get their tattoos removed than men. Their... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:01:54 -0600 North Star dims for a century, suddenly gets brighter http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19576&Itemid=1066 After about one hundred years of growing increasingly dimmer, the North Star (Polaris), according to international astronomers, is now growing... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:07:50 -0600 UPDATE: NASA has no plans to buy JAXA transfer vehicles http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19555&Itemid=1066 As reported by many news sources (but incorrect in their information), NASA announced on July 21, 2008, that the U.S.... Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:58:39 -0600 Welcome to the solar system! Dwarf planet and plutoid Makemake! http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19551&Itemid=1066 The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial... Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:42:37 -0600 NASA discussing Japanese purchase of robotic cargo vehicles http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19549&Itemid=1066 According to a Japanese newspaper, U.S. officials with NASA are negotiating with officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)... Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:03:26 -0600 Obsessive-compulsive disorder now seen with brain scan http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19536&Itemid=1066 British researchers at Cambridge University have used brain scans, for the first time, to see differences in the brains of... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:36:53 -0600 Postmenopause and stroke: Don’t sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19535&Itemid=1066 A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:03:02 -0600 Study of nearly 400,000 women: breast self-exam may not help http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19530&Itemid=1066 The Cochrane Collaboration reviewed the use of the breast self-exam (BSE). It based its conclusions on two studies that together... Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:40:07 -0600 Harvard researchers argue U.S. tobacco companies use menthol as "candy" to entice ... http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19529&Itemid=1066 According to a July 16, 2008 press release by the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. tobacco industry, which... Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:43:35 -0600 Japanese SELENE confirms Apollo 15 landing spot on Moon http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19528&Itemid=1066 According to a press release of the Japanese space agency, a “halo” has been photographed by the Terrain Camera onboard... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:23:07 -0600 Apollo 11 was flying to the Moon thirty-nine years ago http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19526&Itemid=1066 On July 18, 1969, 39 years ago, the three astronauts aboard the NASA Apollo 11 spacecraft were winging their way... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:03:32 -0600 We’re still going the wrong way: Obesity in U.S. worsens in 2007 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19524&Itemid=1066 According to the recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) by the CDC, between 2005 and 2007 the percentage of... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:13:17 -0600 Three popular diets improve health, weight loss slightly http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19505&Itemid=1066 According to a new Israel-U.S.-Canada study on three popular diet plans, moderately obese dieters lost, on average, only six to... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:33:59 -0600 Evidence of ancient lakes, rivers found in clay Martian soil http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19504&Itemid=1066 The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided new data to scientists that show a host of “wet environments” existed... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:48:12 -0600 One small pee for a person, one giant urine sample for NASA http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19488&Itemid=1066 Urine goin’ love this one: NASA wants your pee for testing of its new toilet system for the future NASA... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:17:19 -0600 Drive safer with passengers, except for young drivers http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19486&Itemid=1066 Canadian engineer Chris Lee and American engineer Mohamed Abdel-Aty discovered that the more passengers in a car actually makes the... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:16:11 -0600 Humans walked America 40,000 years ago http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19484&Itemid=1066 An international team of geoarchaeologists have discovered footprints in central Mexico that place the presence of early humans in the... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:27:16 -0600 Cassini finds evidence of underground ocean on Enceladus http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19462&Itemid=1066 The NASA spacecraft Cassini, while on its travels around the planet Saturn, has found striking evidence that the tiny Saturnian... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:51:41 -0600 Women faculty in science, engineering rises over 800% in 33 years http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19461&Itemid=1066 According to the National Science Foundation, the number of female academic facility with science and engineering doctorates rose over eightfold... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:39:18 -0600