Science/General-Sciences news

Diets and beauty products claiming to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Scientists at Jet Propulsion Lab in California, the University of Colorado and the University of Central Florida in Orlando teamed up to analyze the plumes of water vapor and ice particles spewing from the moon.

Child sexual exploitation has long been a known evil in developing countries where the combination of tourism and poverty make for a lucrative business.

Students at MIT working on designing a system that creates power using solar heat and methane gas received one of 49 national EPA grants which are helping programs that protect the environment and are economically profitable.

Deft Research Releases Study showing Senior Customer Loyalty to Insurer

Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can soon tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring.

Planning has begun in earnest for MIT's sesquicentennial in 2011, when the Institute will celebrate 150 years of education and research.

Conventional wisdom holds that diversity pays off in higher education. Now researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found scientific evidence that multiculturalism improves students' experiences on college campuses.

The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, while promoting sustainable agricultural practices and helping to conserve the world's most important freshwater basins.

The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

Philips and King's College London to work together on developing new ways to improve diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease

HP today unveiled renewable energy initiatives in its facilities, research and products to support a new goal to double the company's global purchases of renewable power from under 4 percent in 2008 to 8 percent by 2012.

Three-Pronged Program to Focus on Data Analysis, Storage, and Scalable Clusters

Research presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting describes an easier and more accurate method to predict the degradation and remaining useful life of mechanical and electronic equipment, while significantly improving maintenance operations and spare parts logistics.

Identifying HR Risk Areas Can Help Drive Business Improvement

As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their human interrogators that they were in fact communicating with a human rather than a machine.

Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a 'virgin birth' in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity.

Discovering what happens beneath an active volcano is a job that's often too hot for researchers to handle, but a University of Arkansas scientist and his colleagues have created a new and better way to "look" at what's going on in the molten magma that lies beneath a volcano's surface.

Following the successful circulation of first beam in the LHC on 10 September, the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument will be officially inaugurated at CERN1 on 21 October 2008.

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the IT power of more than 140 computer centres, the result of collaboration between 33 countries.