Month: August 2006

Near­ly 2,500 astronomers from 75 coun­tries gath­ered here Mon­day to come up with a uni­ver­sal def­i­n­i­tion of what qual­i­fies as a plan­et and pos­si­bly decide whether Plu­to should keep its plan­et status.

TechTV is back. Sort of.

The youngest star ever found near the Milky Way’s cen­tre is deep­en­ing a mys­tery over how stars could take shape in such a tur­bu­lent environment.

A sim­ple skin test that enables doc­tors to diag­nose the ear­ly signs of Alzheimer’s dis­ease could be avail­able with­in five years, researchers say.

The test could allow doc­tors to inter­vene ear­ly on and pre­vent major brain dam­age, they say.

The Trans-Alas­ka Pipeline Sys­tem, which trans­ports crude oil from the largest reserve in the Unit­ed States to a nav­i­ga­ble port, is in trouble.

In the new hor­ror movie Snakes on a Plane, which slith­ers into the­aters this Fri­day, hun­dreds of dead­ly snakes are set loose inside an air­plane, where they pro­ceed to attack the passengers.

The pow­er­ful adhe­sive respon­si­ble for the amaz­ing stick­ing pow­er of mus­sels has been revealed for the first time.

More than a decade ago, a land­mark study drove home a mes­sage that res­onat­ed with wine lovers every­where: Drink red wine in mod­er­a­tion to low­er your risk for a heart attack. Now, new results sug­gest that some white wines pro­tect the heart just as well, at least in rats.

A new report from the non-prof­it group Com­mon Cause details the ways that indus­try groups are set­ting up fake grass­roots orga­ni­za­tions (aka “astro­turf” orga­ni­za­tions) to join the fight against Net neu­tral­i­ty legislation.

The abil­i­ty to detect threat­en­ing snakes may have shaped the visu­al sys­tem of our pri­mate ances­tors, a new study says.