Branding Science To Save Us All
One of the serious side effects of the financial meltdown is the cutting of funds for scientific research. Development of the microprocessor to power your computer and mobile phone is a bi-product of...
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North Carolina's Backward Climate Legislation Could Hurt The Whole Country
Greetings from North Carolina, where our legislature gets to more crazy in a week than yours does in an entire session. You’re probably sick of hearing about it, but Plugged In wants to keep you...
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Bat-Eating Spiders Are Everywhere
There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say.Bats rank among the most...
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Katrina And Sandy Could Hit Every Other Year By 2100
Last year's devastating flooding in New York City from Hurricane Sandy was the city's largest storm surge on record. Though Hurricane Sandy was considered a 100-year-event — a storm that lashes a...
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Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims.Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature...
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Drinking Skim Milk May Be Making Toddlers Fat
Giving toddlers skimmed or one percent fat milk could cause them to become overweight or obese, according to the counterintuitive results of a study.US researchers found healthy-weight two-year-olds...
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New Study Reveals How Booze Screws Up Hand-Eye Coordination
Anyone who's failed a sobriety test will tell you that making coordinated movements while drunk is hard, and a new study explains why. Alcohol appears to disrupt connections between the brain's visual...
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Sugary Drinks Linked To 25,000 Deaths Per Year In The US
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says.The results show...
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Why Spring Begins One Day Early This Year
Lately, around this time of year, I often get letters from people wondering why spring begins early this year. Many folks assume the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere — also known as the...
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'Honey Laundering' Is An International Problem
There might be something funny in your honey.Food-safety experts have found that much of the honey sold in the United States isn't actually honey, but a concoction of corn or rice syrup, malt...
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Fallen Space Rocks Reveal The Secrets of The Russian Meteor
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Scientists studying small pieces of the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15 are working to glean new insights into the rare impact by a space...
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Mega Volcanoes May Have Killed Half of Earth's Species
Massive volcanic eruptions may have led to the extermination of half of Earth's species some 200 million years ago, a new study suggests.The release of gases from giant eruptions caused climate change...
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A Woman Developed A Rare Bone Disease From Drinking Too Much Tea
A 47-year-old Michigan woman developed a bone disease rarely seen in the U.S. after she drank a pitcher of tea made from at least 100 tea bags daily, for 17 years, researchers report.The Detroit woman...
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NASA: Flash Streaking Across East Coast Sky Friday Night Likely A Meteor
NASA official says flash of light reported across East Coast sky likely a 'meteor event'NEW YORK (AP) — East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief...
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Evolutionarily, Babies Are The Meaning Of Life
From an evolutionary gene’s-eye perspective, the genes are immortal, and our role, the meaning of life, is to perpetuate the genes. In a few centuries, all traces of our existence as human individuals...
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Obama Can And Must Do Much More About Climate Change
In Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, he intoned: "For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. … If Congress won’t act soon to protect future...
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Sleep Refreshes Your Brain By 'Resetting' Your Brain Cells
A little shuteye refreshes.Right, but what does that really mean?Not talking here about leaping out of bed ready for a five-mile run upon awakening, but rather about what’s happening at the level of...
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Coffee May Protect Alcoholics' Livers
For guys who drink alcohol, heavy coffee consumption may protect against liver damage, according to a new study from Finland."Our findings suggest a possible protective effect for coffee intake in...
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Scientists Want To Crash Into Asteroids To Learn How To Stop Them
A team of European and American scientists has an ambitious plan to deal with dangerous asteroids: Smash a space probe into one to see exactly how to stop them. This “cosmic crash” will occur in 2022,...
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Researchers Just Found A New Type Of Supernova
Astronomers have discovered a new kind of supernova, a star explosion so weak that scientists dubbed it a miniature stellar blast.Supernovas represent the deaths of stars, which collapse in powerful...
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