| Obama's Nuclear Arms Agenda Helps Him Win 2009 Nobel Peace Prize U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts advocating for a world without nuclear weapons, as well as his support for international diplomacy and institutions such as the United Nations, have earned him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize , the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today. [More] rss.sciam.com |
With One Space Observatory Down, NASA Uses Another to Map CO2 SAN FRANCISCO--The Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO , was designed to monitor the movement of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere starting this year, but instead it plunged into the ocean in February due to a launch malfunction. Now an instrument on another NASA probe is enabling researchers to map atmospheric CO2, and revealing that its global distribution is surprisingly uneven, with regional variations of up to 5 percent. [More] rss.sciam.com |
"Glimmer of hope": A Tasmanian devil colony displays possible immunity to deadly facial tumor disease Nearly 70 percent of the world's Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) have been killed in the past 10 years by an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). So far, no cure has been found, and the disease has spread to almost every corner of the remote island off the southeastern coast of Australia, the only place on Earth where they live in the wild.But now a colony of devils living near Cradle Mountain in northwestern Tasmania has displayed immunity against DFTD, and scientists say this could be the hope the species needs. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Street Basketball Scene at Rucker Park in Harlem Where winning a good nickname and humiliating opponents may be more important than winning the game. nytimes.com |
Heat Exhaustion: Has the Adelie Penguin Met Its Match? Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Fen Montaigne's book , Fraser's Penguins : A Journey to the Future in Antarctica.On December 3, 1959, Richard L. Penney, a pioneering penguin researcher, snatched five male Adélie penguins from their rookery on Wilkes Land, in eastern Antarctica. He affixed numbered bands to their flippers, placed the Adélies in cloth bags, and had them flown halfway across Antarctica to McMurdo Sound, on the Ross Sea. There, they were released. [More] rss.sciam.com |