Other Sciences News

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network. Yahoo’s the Small World Experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that anyone in the world can get a message to anyone else in just ‘six degrees of separation’ by passing it from friend to friend. Sociologists have tried to prove or disprove this claim for decades, but it is...

Aug 16, 2011 by James Freeman

In a new study co-authored by University of Florida scientists, researchers recovered and analyzed the oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...

Aug 11, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has made the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. Using data from the European Space Agency’s...