Everyone knows that women are attracted to guitar players but why? Most women who are attracted to guitar players don't know why themselves: they simply experience the attraction. The simple answer to this question involves three parts. First, women are attracted to skill and guitar playing is...
It was reported at a news conference December 2, 2010 that NASA funded astrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon has isolated a form of life that is capable of using arsenic instead of phosphorus as an elemental building block. These are microbes from the domain Archaea, which have an independent evolutionary...
On Thursday, December 2, 2010, NASA held a press conference to announce the discovery of GFAJ-1, a new life form. GFAJ-1 is a rod shaped extremophile bacterium that can use arsenic, rather than phosphorus, to build its DNA, RNA, cell membranes, and proteins. GFAJ-1 is unlike any other living...
NASA's website issued an important message Wednesday regarding "a news conference on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 2 p.m. EST to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." Astrobiology is the study of the origin and evolution of the universe....
Dr. Sam Wickline of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri, is the recipient of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for his research using bee venom to stop the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Wickline received the $100,000 Grand challenges Explorations grant for devising...
Folk lore indicates that tonight, November 21, 2010, an extraordinary event will occur: the moon shines blue (but chances are it will not.) Observers can however defer to the present definition of the term "blue moon" and not be disappointed. Tonight star watchers can delight in a once in a fifty...
The Leonid Meteor Shower is a prolific meteor shower associated with the Tempel-Tuttle coment. The Leonids are named from the location of their radiant based in the constellation Leo as they appear to radiate from that point in the sky. As the Earth moves through the meteoroid stream, frozen...
A new U.S. study conducted by a team of researchers found wandering minds lead to unhappiness. The results of the study are available in the most recent installment of Science journal released Thursday. Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University published the...
Fracking is media term applied to a process known as Hydraulic Fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing was first used in the United States in 1947. Fracking (or hydraulic fracturing) is a process that creates fractures in rocks to force natural gas, water, and oil reserves trapped 5,000 to 20,000 feet...
Crime scene evidence refers to evidence found in the scene where the crime was committed. This is usually gathered and preserved by law enforcers specifically those assigned in the crime scene operations department. A crime scene is the place where an illegal act occurred or where the crime may...
