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Science From our online daily news site, ScienceNOW: The most popular stories of 2009, as judged by reader clicks, and some staff favorites.
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ScienceNOW Einstein's brain, fruit bat fellatio, and a dancing parrot--our top 10 stories of the year, in a spiffy slide show:
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Every year, ScienceNOW publishes hundreds of breaking science news stories, from the discovery of Earth-like planets to new insights into how the brain works. Picking our Top 10 is never an easy task, so we've relied on you to help us out. Most of the stories below were our most popular of 2009, as ...
ScienceNOW Memo to influenza: You're no friend, and your benefits may be about to expire.
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ScienceNOW It takes 3 steps to master the use of fire. Unlike all other non-human animals, chimps have the first one down.
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When primatologist Jill Pruetz found herself threatened by wildfires in the savannas of Fongoli, Senegal, in 2006 she had two options: stay with the chimpanzees she was studying, or run. She chose the chimps. The primates were calm, and--with her in tow--they carefully made their way around the blaz...
ScienceNOW Seasick? Try Controlling Your Breathing
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If you get seasick easily, you may prepare for boat rides with pressure-point bracelets, ginger, or a prescription skin patch. Now there's one more remedy: timing your breathing to counteract the nauseating motion. The technique presumably works because it helps control gravity sensors in the abdome...
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Angular momentum is a fundamental and conservative property of a system in rotation. In the atmosphere its distribution and fluctuations, which are based on internally changing mass and motion fields, are related to dynamic modes that vary on a range of time scales. ...
ScienceNOW Why do women have a finer sense of touch than men do? It has nothing to do with gender...
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ScienceNOW Update on the purported dark matter discovery: the evidence is WIMPy at best.
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Tiger Woods's philandering notwithstanding, the truth often proves less exciting than the gossip preceding it. So it is with the rumor that physicists had detected dark matter--the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to hold the galaxies together. Today, physicists working with an underground par...
ScienceNOW Breaking news: NASA to have larger budget, new launcher for manned space missions.
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By Andrew LawlerPresident Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the Moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, ScienceInsider has learned. The president chose the new direction for the U.S....
ScienceNOW Ardi has been named "Breakthrough of the year"
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In the 18 December 2009 issue, the editors and news staff of Science look back at the big science stories of the past 12 months and dub one of them the Breakthrough of the Year. The fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, or "Ardi", take the top spot, with H1N1 being dubbed "v ...irus of the year." See the run...
Ver más...ScienceNOW Terorist attacks follow simple mathematical pattern
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War is messy, but it may be predictable. According to a study of nine recent insurgencies around the world, some patterns, such as the risk of violence over time, can be predicted from just a few simple aspects of the conflict.
ScienceNOW Adult brain size predicts how long it takes for a species to start walking
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Many animals test their legs and totter forth only hours after they are born, but humans need a year before they take their first, hesitant steps. Is something fundamentally different going on in human babies? Maybe not. A new study shows that the time it takes for humans and all other mammals to st...
ScienceNOW Deforestation, the "Danish Text," and the leverage of poor nations. See full Copenhagen climate conference coverage from ScienceInsider: http://ow.ly/MlHS
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The largest study ever conducted of a microbicide designed to prevent HIV infection has resulted in yet another case of high hopes being dashed about a promising product. Earlier in the year, a smaller study of the same vaginal gel gave a hint that it might offer modest protection, but the new resul...
