From: redOrbit on Wed, Feb 23 2011 3:57 PM

Georgia Tech Researcher Julia Kubanek discusses studying possible antimalarial compounds found on the surfaces of a tropical seaweed harvested in the Fiji Island.

From: redOrbit on Wed, Feb 23 2011 3:53 PM

Scientists have decoded the DNA of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis, a disease linked to eating raw or undercooked pork or carnivorous wild game animals, such as bear and walrus.

From: redOrbit on Mon, Feb 21 2011 12:53 AM

A consumer columnist makes points about cleaning your produce to avoid diseases.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:12 PM

A new study — co-authored by Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson and UC-Davis researcher Mark A. Delucchi -- analyzing what is needed to convert the world’s energy supplies to clean and sustainable sources says that it can be done with today's technology at costs roughly comparable to...

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:12 PM

Seamounts are a window into the processes of the deep earth. With our able ship, the JOIDES Resolution, Expedition 330 is drilling into seamounts on the Louisville Seamount Trail in the western South Pacific Ocean to study hotspots. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:10 PM

This movie shows a typical (wild type) mouse as it spends much more time exploring an object it has never seen before and little time with the object it has previously explored. In this study, the mice without the WRP gene spent equal amounts of time exploring new and already seen objects.

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:10 PM

This video about how a new study says that thawing permafrost likely will accelerate global warming in coming decades. credit: University of Colorado

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 17 2011 12:10 PM

Researchers at Princeton University developed a technique for generating a laser beam out of nothing but air. They focus a pump laser on a distant point in the air and another laser beam comes back. The video shows 100 pulses of infra-red light from this "air laser." The center region represents ...

From: redOrbit on Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:11 PM

Theories from great minds, discoveries from 150-million years ago, and paintings from artists we see in the best museums in the world. Now a powerful x-ray may change the way we think about the past. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Wed, Feb 16 2011 12:11 PM

Forget dishpan hands! A new soap-free, scrub-free self-cleaning coat could change housework forever. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Tue, Feb 15 2011 12:11 PM

A microsample is taken from the van Gogh painting "Bank of river Seine" on display at the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands), and then analyzed at the X-rays microscope at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (France).

From: redOrbit on Tue, Feb 15 2011 12:11 PM

This is a 3D-rotation through the optic lobe of a fly larva’s brain. Blue are axons of the photoreceptor nerve cells, the two guidance proteins are shown in green (GoGo) and magenta (Flamingo).

From: redOrbit on Sun, Feb 13 2011 7:02 AM

Laboratory experiments demonstrating squid response to aggression-producing phermone. Credit: Roger Hanlon, Kendra Buresch, Chelsea Bennice, and Charlie Fry, MBL

From: redOrbit on Sun, Feb 13 2011 7:02 AM

Scientists from Southern Methodist University in Dallas have preserved a popular 110-million-year-old Texas dinosaur track by creating a model using 3D digital scanning technology. Download the 3D model for free. credit: SMU

From: redOrbit on Sun, Feb 13 2011 7:02 AM

The stress level of college freshmen is at an all-time high.

From: redOrbit on Sun, Feb 13 2011 7:02 AM

Marriage is good for both physical and mental health.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Feb 12 2011 4:47 AM

71-percent of the earths' surface is covered by the sea. Now go the behind the scenes and talk to animals at a marine lab. We’ll show you what a couple of dolphins, a monk seal and a sea otter are doing to help save the sea. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Sat, Feb 12 2011 4:47 AM

Paul Edmiston demonstrates the effectiveness of his Osorb water purifier by drinking from a slurry of water and engine-enhancing fuel additives. Osorb is a powder made from tiny fragments of chemically modified glass, and it works like a nanoscale sponge. credit: NSF

From: redOrbit on Sat, Feb 12 2011 4:47 AM

We depend on fossil fuels for 85-percent of our nation’s energy supply, so it’s no wonder a team of scientists is looking at generating electricity from a really big source—the Atlantic Ocean. credit: Ivanhoe

From: redOrbit on Thu, Feb 10 2011 12:08 AM

Tagging and tracking leatherback sea turtles has produced new insights into the turtles' behavior in a part of the South Pacific Ocean long considered an oceanic desert. The new data will help researchers predict the turtles' movements in the ever-changing environment of the open ocean,...