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Sunday, June 10, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top News

ScienceDaily: Top News


Anthropologists finds high levels of omega-3 fatty acids in breast milk of Amerindian women

Posted: 09 Jun 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Anthropologists have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United States.

New anti-cancer vaccine developed and tested

Posted: 09 Jun 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Researchers have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others.

Hubble spots a bright spark in a nearby spiral galaxy

Posted: 09 Jun 2012 02:16 AM PDT

A new image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a detailed view of the spiral arms on one side of the galaxy Messier 99. Messier 99 is a so-called grand design spiral, with long, large and clearly defined spiral arms -- giving it a structure somewhat similar to the Milky Way. In recent years, a number of unexplained phenomena in Messier 99 have been studied by astronomers. Among these is the nature of one of the brighter stars visible in this image.

Microbes discovered in extreme environment on South American volcanoes

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Scientists looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few living on volcanoes that reaching nearly 20,000 feet in height.

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