Water of life and other scientific highlights of 2004
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The scientific Breakthrough of the Year awards are less glitzy than the Oscars, but the discoveries they honour are as spirit-stirring as anything to come out of Hollywood.
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Kevin Costner&#39;s Water World might have bombed at the box office, but the real stuff is all set to force-grab world attention. The most comprehensive scientific report to date on global warming conducted by
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This week, scientists f urther confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun.
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For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments or life. Just about everywhere they look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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Recent analyses of ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet.
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US scientists have unraveled the genetic map of a microscopic algae that absorbs huge amounts of greenhouse gases. âThese organisms are incredibly important in the global carbon cycle,â said Virginia Armbrust
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By Steve Connor  A census of ocean life has revealed a treasure chest of living jewels ranging from a mighty microbe as big as a fingernail to a furry crab and a giant lobster.
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 2005. River Diagnostics BV has introduced its model 2500 High Performance Raman Module, optimized for measurements in the NIR region.
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By JOHN JOHNSON JR.  NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had found evidence that water still flows over the surface of Mars - sporadic gushers that increase the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor some form of life.
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The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
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Ocean researchers are conducting studies on New Jersey's bays, which have been beset by algae whose growth is fostered by fertilizers and other pollution. "The stuff is growing like wildfire," said Michael Kennish, a Rutgers University professor studying the effects of the algae and pollution that spawns it.
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By J. Craig Anderson, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Dec. 7--A Mars exploration team with strong ties to Arizona has uncovered the strongest visual evidence to date that water -- the most crucial substance for sustaining life -- is present on the Red Planet.
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The whale's tiny ancestor, how global warming may be hurting plants' carbon-fixing ability, and the mystery of Mars's missing limestone
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Some 13,000 new marine species have been discovered in the past year by an international survey project.
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The effort by scientists from more than 60 countries aims to understand the dynamics of life at the ends of the earth.
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New data showing overlap in patterns of water and methane in Mars' atmosphere may have implications for the idea that life exists there.