By NICHOLAS BAKALAR wsj.com A massage after vigorous exercise unquestionably feels good, and it seems to reduce pain and help muscles recover. Many people — both athletes and health professionals – have long contended it eases inflammation, improves blood flow and reduces muscle tightness. But until now no one has understood why massage has this [...]
by STEVE HENN npr.com Last year, Stanford University computer science professor Sebastian Thrun — also known as the fellow who helped build Google’s self-driving car — got together with a small group of Stanford colleagues and they impulsively decided to open their classes to the world. They would allow anyone, anywhere to attend online, take quizzes, ask [...]
by NPR STAFF January 3, 2012 Make a list of the world’s most popular scientists, and Stephen Hawking’s name will be near or at the very top of the list. Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time and a professor at the University of Cambridge, is known as much for his contributions to theoretical cosmology and [...]
Editor’s note: Cheryl Hayashi is a professor of biology at University of California Riverside and the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. She spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to “Ideas worth spreading,” which it makes available on its website. (CNN) – With all due respect [...]
Listen to the story… by JOE PALCA December 26, 2011 npr.com Hurricanes topple plenty of trees, but when you think about it, the more amazing thing is that many trees can stand up to these 100-mile-per-hour winds. Now a French scientist has come up with an explanation for the resilience of trees. And astonishingly, the [...]
Listen to the story… by SIMONE ORENDAIN December 28, 2011 npr.com Sheila Royeras, her husband, her mother and two young daughters live in a single-room cement apartment in a poor neighborhood in Manila, Philippines. Like many such homes, it’s mostly dark during the day, except for a small ray of sunlight that enters through an open [...]
Morton Arboretum The Morton Arboretum is one of the nicest museums you will ever encounter! It is located in Lisle, IL just along Route 53 as it intersects with the Reagan Expressway (I-88). As you enter the main gate you will notice off to our left the Visitor Center. There is a restaurant and even a [...]
By DIANE HIRAKAWA nytimes.com Published: December 24, 2011 MY grandparents emigrated from Japan to California for a better life. My mother was 10 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and she and her family were sent to an internment camp. We have a photo of the notice that was posted on a utility pole in [...]
Former Pennsylvania Sen. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the “left” and “scientific community” have monopolized the public school system’s curriculum, only permitting the teaching of evolution and leaving no roomfor the introduction of creation-based theories in the classroom. “There are many on the left and in the scientific community, so to speak, who are [...]
by CARRIE KAHN November 26, 2011 npr.com Capt. Sean Malinowski of the Los Angeles Police Department does his crime-fighting in front of a computer screen. He’s in the LAPD’s Real Time Analysis and Critical Response Division, located in a new crime data and analysis center in downtown Los Angeles. Malinowski is tracking two crimes that [...]
by JOE PALCA November 25, 2011 npr.com Scientists in California think they’ve figure out why flies like beer. That may sound a bit trivial, but in fact it could lead to new ways of combating plant and animal pests. That flies like beer is well known. “The attraction of flies to beer was first reported [...]
by NPR STAFF November 19, 2011 npr.com Listen to the story… In 1990, a fire broke out in a house in Jacksonville, Fla., killing two women and four children. The husband of one of the women became the prime suspect, and that’s when a fire investigator named John Lentini was called in. At the time, [...]
By Adam Mann wired.com Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which first reported the superluminal neutrinos in September, has rerun the experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein’s theoretical limit. The findings are heartening to anyone hoping to see a major physics revolution in their lifetime. [...]
cnn.com So where are the geeks? Watch “Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley” at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET November 19 on CNN. Growing up in Dothan, Alabama, Makario Lewis knew there weren’t many people like him. He was a black nerd and it confused a lot of people around [...]
By LOUISE STORY Published: April 1, 2007 nytimes.com It sounds like something straight out of a futuristic film: House hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point their cellphone at the sign. With a click, their cellphone screen displays the asking price, the number of bedrooms and baths and lots of other details about [...]
by RICHARD HARRIS November 9, 2011 npr.com The world would be a very different place if we could bottle up a bit of the sun here on Earth and tap that abundant and clean energy supply. Governments have spent many billions of dollars to develop that energy source, fusion energy, but it’s still a distant [...]
by JOE PALCA November 8, 2011 npr.com It doesn’t happen often, but there are times when a single book turns the world on its head. Isaac Newton’s Principia unraveled the mystery of gravity. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species explained how evolution worked. But before either of these, there was On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus. [...]
Posted by Brad Plumer washingtonpost.com Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature data that underpinned global-warming claims. Remember, this was not long after the Climategate affair had erupted, at a time when skeptics were griping that climatologists had [...]
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN updated 1:02 PM EST, Wed October 19, 2011 (CNN) – It was hot at 3 a.m. in a small town in North Carolina, and there wasn’t a lot for a group of teenagers to do. So, Hillary Tillotson, her brother and three other guys sneaked under a fence to go swimming at [...]
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