Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you’ve got to stop them. That’s the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone games available, according to its three developers, all with ties to the University of California, San Diego.
Three current and former UC San Diego computer [...]

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed new light on a process that fixes breaks in the genetic material of the body’s cells. Their findings could lead to ways of enhancing chemotherapy drugs that destroy cancer cells by damaging their DNA.
Using yeast cells, the scientists studied protein molecules that have [...]

As Many as 138,000 Persons Killed in Disaster.
Atlanta —Tropical Cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country’s recorded history—with a death toll that may have exceeded 138,000. In the July 2009 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers report on a field survey done three [...]

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) have found a new area of deployment for the SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY) atmospheric instrument on the European environmental satellite Envisat. In March and June 2009, the spectrometer, in a [...]

Atlanta (July 16, 2009) —A study published in the July 17 issue of the journal Science details how sandfish—small lizards with smooth scales—move rapidly underground through desert sand. In this first thorough examination of subsurface sandfish locomotion, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that the animals place their limbs against their sides and create [...]

Already 40,000 years ago people fed themselves to a large degree on fish.
The isotopic analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern humans in Asia, the 40,000 year old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave in the Zhoukoudian region of China (near Beijing), by an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new prostate cancer “homing device” could improve detection and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.
A new prostate cancer “homing device” could improve detection and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.
A team of Purdue University researchers has synthesized a molecule that finds and penetrates prostate [...]