An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said today. The white line marks the area within which chemical ozone destruction takes place Hole in the sky: Europe, Canada and Russia at risk as continent-sized ‘second hole’ in ozone layer opens over the Arctic. The ozone loss... 

A group of New Zealand scientists and flu researchers have won a five-year, multi-million-dollar contract to study influenza in an effort to better understand the burden of the virus and how to prevent its spread around the world. New Zealand Health Minister Tony Ryall and the Minister for Science and Innovation Wayne Mapp on Wednesday congratulated the Institute of Environmental Science and Research... 

A new brain implant method enables monkeys to use a virtual arm controlled by the animal's brain. An international team of scientists has developed a new method of brain implantation which may enable the paralyzed to walk again in near future. According to naturenews, researchers at the Duke University in North Carolina have devised a brain implant procedure that enables monkeys to examine virtual... 

New bouncer molecule halts rheumatoid arthritis – Protective protein prevents immune system from ravaging joints and bones. According to the US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, Zinc helps increase the levels of the P21 Protein, therefore helps against Rheumatoid Arthritis. Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered why the... 

A screen shot shows how the Foldit program posed the monkey-virus molecular puzzle. Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. “This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS,” Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the... 

Scientists say they have devised a way of using graphene, the thinnest material in the world, for a very speed exchange of data on the Internet. British scientists, including last year’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, believe that with the new method they can capture and convert more light than before, paving the way for advances in high-speed Internet and other... 

King's College London scientists are trying to use coral's natural defense against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays to make a sunscreen pill. King’s College London scientists are trying to use coral’s natural defense against the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays to make a sunscreen pill. The team, who studied samples of the endangered Acropora coral in Australia’s... 

Twinkle, twinkle little star: The diamond planet - the shrunken core of a once-huge star - is a chunk of crystallised carbon measuring 40,000 miles across, five times the diameter of Earth. It is certainly what you could call a gem of a discovery. Astronomers believe they have found an entire planet made of diamonds. Scientists at the University of Manchester think they have unearthed a once-massive... 

Berkeley scientists this week discovered a new supernova, closer to Earth than any seen in the last 40 years, and believe they’ve spotted it within hours of its explosion. Astronomers are now scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and it’s likely to remain a major target for research for the next decade or more. Dubbed PTF 11kly,... 

A .22 calibre bullet hitting but not breaking the "bulletproof" skin. Scientists working on a bio-art project to create bulletproof skin are using genetically engineered goat and silkworms to make a strong material for artificial tendons and ligaments. After their bio-art project for the creation of a bulletproof skin, Randy Lewis and his colleagues are planning to use the same bioengineering... 

Scientists at Brown University found super-tiny melt inclusions in lunar soil samples that opened the door for measurements that revealed the magnitude of water inside the moon. There is water inside the moon so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of... 

Two new finds are at Saqqara, an older but lesser known pyramid site than Giza. Scientists at the University of Alabama also found 3,000 ancient settlements using a new technique of infra-red imaging. The astonishing results have been confirmed by archaeologists with picks and shovels, who have located two of the pyramids found from space. “I could see the data as it was emerging, but for me... 

One of the big threats from the global warming moonbat types is that a rise in temperature will melt the polar ice caps causing the oceans to rise, with the cataclysmic result of skyscrapers being under water. Let’s face it, if you think that the commute into Manhattan is bad now… just wait. There is only one problem with this scenario, Mother Nature isn’t being cooperative. You see it is... 

Russian scientists are reported in shock today after reviewing the report prepared by the Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA) that says the “fabric” of our Earth’s “space-time vortex” was “ripped apart” [photo top] this past week over Yekaterinburg (also known as Ekaterinburg) , the biggest city in Russia’s Ural Mountains, and the fourth largest in all the Motherland. The existence... 

Click on the image to enlarge it. NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet’s atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. “It really is a buried treasure,” said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA...