Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

Mar 15, 2013 10:40 PM EDT

Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun Released Today

The sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) today, March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT. It is a regular solar phenomenon that sends billions of tons of solar particles into space and, if it is aimed at Earth and strong enough, can reach our planet within one to three days later a...

Mar 15, 2013 04:52 PM EDT

Chewing Gum Improves Enduring Concentration

Chewing gum can help you stay focused for longer on tasks that require ongoing attention.

Mar 15, 2013 04:40 PM EDT

Water Fluoridation More Useful in Preventing Tooth Decay Than Thought

Fluoride in drinking water improves adults’ dental health, even for people who didn’t drink fluoridated water as children, a new study shows.

Mar 15, 2013 03:06 PM EDT

Scientists Tally Up Cost of Iraq War to $6 Trillion

The invasion of Iraq was supposed to cost "only" $60 billion by initial government estimates, and it is hard to fathom that this figure has exploded by a factor of 100 -- but in the end the direct costs for the invading U.S. alone will be $2.2 trillion, plus about $4 trillion in cumulative interest ...

Mar 15, 2013 01:23 PM EDT

Social Bees Use Alarm Pheromones To Mark Danger Zones

Social bees were found to use chemical signals to warn other bees of their own species about the presence of a nearby predator by a study published this week in the journal Animal Behaviour.

Mar 14, 2013 11:47 PM EDT

Microbes Have Huge Ecosystem Beneath Ocean Floors And Could Live On Other Planets Too

A vast underground world of microbe is buried hundreds of meters beneath the ocean floor inside of the oceanic crust, which in turn is covered by several kilometers of water, according to a new study that analyzed samples from such a location.

Mar 14, 2013 10:47 PM EDT

Super Fast Optical Communications Link Sets Crucial Power Efficiency Record

High-speed data transmission on the principle of fiber-optics was not accelerating as fast as the raw computing power of ever smaller chips during the past years.

Mar 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT

European Mars Rover Will Drill Deep And Directly Search For Life in 2018

Mars exploration and especially the search for past and current life on the Red Planet will be further escalated in the coming years. With ancient habitability now all but proven by the epochal results of the Curiosity rover revealed two days ago

Mar 14, 2013 03:32 PM EDT

New Commercial Space Company Launched: Swiss Space Systems [Video]

Swiss Space Systems, or S-3, is another commercial space launch company that looks to become a leader in the niche for nano and small satellites with an airplane and shuttle based launch system.

Mar 14, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

Eureka! Higgs Boson Discovery Confirmed After Analysing Additional Data

Physicists from Large Hadron Collider said that they have new evidence that shows that the particle discovered in July 2012 is indeed the Higgs Boson- the subatomic particle that's associated with mechanism that gives mass to particles. The next step, physicists say, will be to identify the type of ...

Mar 14, 2013 02:04 AM EDT

Some Birds Show Ability of Human-Like Self-Control, Study Shows

Some birds of the corvid family and in particular cockatoos, which were subject of a study conducted by researchers from the University of Vienna, displayed a human-like behavior of self-control.

Mar 13, 2013 05:55 PM EDT

New Nanolaser Works at Room Temperature

So called nanolasers, being invisible to the naked eye, could one day become crucial components serving in photonic chips to transfer data at lightspeed within and between chip components.