Brooke Miller : Science World Report

Sep 26, 2012 06:20 AM EDT

Low Levels of Vitamin D Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack

Vitamin D is a steroid vitamin that is important for the absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorous and which have various crucial functions, especially maintaining healthy bones. This works as an immune system regulator.

Sep 26, 2012 06:18 AM EDT

Mars Rover Curiosity Gets Close Look at the Rock Sample

Mars Rover Curiosity has touched the Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22. It assessed the chemical elements in the rock called 'Jake Matijevic'.

Sep 26, 2012 06:15 AM EDT

Red Wine Consuming Honeybees Eat Less and Survive Long

Several health benefits were linked to consumption of red wine, right from dropping blood pressure in men and protecting against obesity and diabetes. Now, the human race has competition.

Sep 26, 2012 06:11 AM EDT

Snoring During Pregnancy is Indication of High Blood Pressure

Snoring during pregnancy is common complaint. Most pregnant women found snoring were reacting to the increased levels of estrogen and other hormones. These women are at a high risk of high blood pressure.

Sep 25, 2012 06:24 AM EDT

Microbial Life Migrated From Earth's Oceans to Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago

New evidence on the microbial life points to migration of microbial life from Earth's oceans to land 2.75 billion years ago. According to the researchers from the University of Washington early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide miner...

Sep 25, 2012 06:22 AM EDT

Targeted Laser Takes Control of Tiny Animal’s Brain

The scientists from Harvard have taken control over an animal's brain by using precisely targeted lasers. This new revolutionary development could help in understand human nervous system. The Harvard researchers can instruct the tiny worm C. Elegans to turn in any direction they choose. They can eve...

Sep 25, 2012 06:20 AM EDT

Major Changes in the Waters of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

A team of marine scientists have stated that drastic changes are occurring in the waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) over the past 25 years. This evidence was yielded from the satellite measurement of sea surface temperatures.

Sep 25, 2012 06:16 AM EDT

Hot Gas Around Milky Way May Have Answers to Missing Baryons

Astronomers have found evidence that our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. This observation was made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The approximate mass of the halo is similar to the mass of all the stars in the...

Sep 25, 2012 06:14 AM EDT

Eye Holds Key to Revolutionary Protection Against Pathogens

What you do not see can be destroyed by the eye. Such is the power of eye protein that it kills a host of pathogens. A team of vision scientists from the UC Berkeley have set a strong path for inexpensive antimicrobial drug. According to their finding proteins in the eye can help keep pathogens a...

Sep 24, 2012 07:23 AM EDT

Motor Vehicle Fatalities Decrease, Suicide Deaths on the Rise

A new study brings to light a new finding that states suicide has passed motor vehicle traffic crashes. This study was published by researchers from the West Virginia University School (WVU) of Public Health and Injury Control Research Center. They also stated that the disease rate has dropped while...

Sep 24, 2012 06:58 AM EDT

First Private Commercial Cargo Flight Launch in Oct

As the space shuttle Endeavour took final flight to its stationary spot, NASA signaled a significant departure in cargo delivery to the International Space Station by handing it over to a private contractor. The Endeavour played a major part in building the ISS. This also marks a new approach of doc...

Sep 24, 2012 06:26 AM EDT

Male Leatherback Sea Turtle Rescued

A giant seven ft long endangered ocean going leatherback sea turtle was found on a mud flat in Pamet Harbor in Truro, MA, near the tip of Cape Cod. The 655 pound massive turtle is being kept at the New England Aquarium's Marine Animal Care Center in Quincy, MA.