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• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel in chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...
• Oscar broadcast will now allow movie ads
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood’s biggest annual advertisement for itself — the Academy Awards broadcast — now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to ...
• Power cell wins $1 million Pentagon prize
The winners, and really all the teams that competed, have moved wearable power technology forward," William Rees Jr., the Defense Department's deputy under secretary for defense laboratories and basic sciences, said Monday in a statement announcing ...
• NASA grapples with budget-busting Mars rover
Scientists are concerned that Mars Science Lab cost overruns may force NASA to cancel or delay other Mars probes including an atmospheric sciences mission selected last month. Long-term plans to return rock and soil samples from Mars also may be ...
• 'It's not science fiction — it's even cooler'
On Saturday morning, Angela Lumpkin, a professor of health, sport and exercise sciences at the University of Kansas, will present, "Is It Fair? Using Science to Build the Perfect Athlete." She'll include recent examples from the Olympics, like new ...