http://news.discovery.com/ Lead daily science news stories from Discovery News en-us Copyright 2008, Discovery Communications Inc. http://news.discovery.com/images/icons/rss-feed-logo.png http://news.discovery.com/ 144 19 Tue Nov 24 2009 21:01:50 GMT Tue Nov 24 2009 21:01:50 GMT 1440 http://news.discovery.com/human/belgian-man-coma-consciousness.html 69611b87-4e5d-4f89-a91b-0d65d2580824 Brain and Central Nervous System Communication Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST Belgian Man Conscious During 23-Year Coma Car-crash victim Rom Houben says through an aide that being able to communicate again was like a rebirth. http://news.discovery.com/human/nuclear-attack-metropolitan-city.html 110b2135-379a-4ebd-83a4-056413a969a8 Robert Lamb Disasters and Accidents Nuclear Science Survival Surviving An Attack Terrorism Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST Urban Nuclear Attack Scenarios Examined Mapping the impact of a nuclear weapon could help emergency responders plan for the worst. http://news.discovery.com/earth/is-holiday-travel-bad-for-the-earth.html 3a402723-a9e2-4c7f-9002-cec1acd7c12f James Williams Carbon Emissions Carbon Footprint Climate Change Feedblog Global Warming Green Science Pollution Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:59:36 EST Is Holiday Travel Bad For The Earth? Today we got some bad news about climate change: it's happening faster than expected. If I'm one of the 38.4 million people hitting the roads and skies tomorrow, does this mean I'm going to make things even worse by adding ... http://news.discovery.com/earth/are--you-a-global-warming-sucker.html d66307dc-155b-45a4-9b39-fcc4ea6904fc Larry O'Hanlon Climate Change Global Warming Natural Disasters Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:44:20 EST Are You a Global Warming Sucker? Yesterday the "big news" in global warming was that some hackers broke into the private emails of climate scientists, cherry-picked a few comments, then published them completely out of context to make it appear like the scientists were lying to ... http://news.discovery.com/human/friday-news-feedbag-for-november-20th.html 02bea205-db55-435a-8887-fc146d05e424 James Williams Feedblog Holidays Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:33:31 EST Friday News Feedbag for November 20th If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation. Below you'll find an audio link to a weekly podcast where you can hear three of us Discovery ... http://news.discovery.com/earth/melting-away.html 09822b7f-4161-4835-81b8-2f0a079a8ce6 Kieran Mulvaney Climate Change Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:30:03 EST Melting Away The conclusions of the newly-released Copenhagen Diagnosis report - that climate change is proceeding more rapidly, and its effects are being felt more dramatically, than models had predicted - is not news to anyone who has been tracking the issue ... http://news.discovery.com/space/first-butterfly-chrysalis-on-space-station.html 55d4ad34-ea66-43c3-b11d-230c98684c71 Ian O'Neill Laboratories Life Science Space Station Space Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:29:45 EST First Butterfly Chrysalis on Space Station One Butterfly Coming Up: For the first time, a butterfly has formed a chrysalis on the International Space Station. The single chrysalis can be seen attached to the habitat in the lower left of the image (National Space Biomedical Research ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/switchgrass-looks-like-a-dream-field.html 2f2d91ed-7c48-437c-9759-7fa1ece3eb92 Alyssa Danigelis Alternative Fuels Cars Green Science Green Tech Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:17:19 EST Switchgrass Looks Like a Dream Field If you grow it, the cars will run. That's still the idea behind cellulosic ethanol, which is biofuel from tough, reedy, and often discarded plant parts. A recent study indicates that switchgrass could yield the most biomass for this fuel. ... http://news.discovery.com/history/charles-darwin-book-found-in-toilet.html dcdc7e42-e37b-43a1-9a61-0a8a10bbe601 Auctions Books Charles Darwin Evolution History Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:01:00 EST Rare Darwin Book Found in Toilet A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "The Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday. http://news.discovery.com/animals/look-inside-the-specimen-cabinet-of-a-charles-darwin-colleague.html 3d613b9e-ac12-4c48-91bb-0f69b0977176 Jennifer Viegas Books Crustaceans Evolution Insects and Arachnids Plants Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:39:56 EST Look Inside the Specimen Cabinet of a Charles Darwin Colleague Have you ever seen a Victorian naturalist's collections cabinet? I have such a cabinet, purchased years ago, at my house. Using a kit, I also put together a more modern-day version way back in the 1970's. Maybe you have a ... http://news.discovery.com/earth/carbon-rocks-global-warming.html 01eb6026-cc7e-4ebe-bde6-61b058a2c6ef Michael Reilly Climate Climate Change Engineering Exhaust and Emissions Global Warming Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST Newest Weapon Against Climate Change: Rocks A strong contender in the fight against global warming may be right under our feet. http://news.discovery.com/tech/the-electrification-roadmap.html a2837629-ba1d-43a8-bd06-6ce6501c6095 Chris Davis Electric Cars Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:52:30 EST The Electrification Roadmap T he Electrification Roadmap lays out a plan to transition the United States to electric vehicles by 2040. The plan is comprehensive, cogent, informed by organizations immersed in the details of electrification, and synchronized with current real world efforts. If ... http://news.discovery.com/tech/phishing-email-scammers.html 9cf30818-cd81-4140-97ad-f5e670984917 Cybercrime Email Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:00 EST Phishing for Scammers Reporter Elizabeth McIntyre talks with the members of 419eater.com, who work as email vigilantes. Listen to the podcast. http://news.discovery.com/earth/climate-change-copenhagen.html 66d8c80d-c328-461c-ae3a-d4c293af49c3 Jessica Marshall Climate Climate Change Exhaust and Emissions Global Warming Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:50:00 EST Climate Changing Faster Than Expected As climate change exceeds the worst projections, scientists underscore the urgency of reducing emissions. http://news.discovery.com/tech/smart-armor-bullet-electricity.html 883e4675-89d6-433e-a13a-dfe95713acb6 Eric Bland Army Electricity Soldiers Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:00:00 EST 'Smart' Armor Learns More With Every Bullet State-of-the-art armor can evaluate its own condition and relay that information to soldiers in real time. http://news.discovery.com/space/first-proton-collisions-in-the-lhc.html 5cf92fea-644d-447f-9972-9f14ebda9ce1 Ian O'Neill Laboratories Large Hadron Collider Physics Standard Model String Theory Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:09:10 EST First Proton Collisions in the LHC After the early announcement on Friday that CERN had successfully circulated the first protons around the 17 mile-long ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), really early news of the first ever particle collisions inside the LHC has been announced. ... http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming-emails.html d6f6d065-8a6a-46c6-b617-c5ad6d6b0e71 Climate Climate Change Computers Global Warming Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:50:00 EST Global Warming Emails Heat Up Debate Thousands of emails hacked from a research center have provided fodder for climate naysayers. http://news.discovery.com/earth/jupiter-saturn-venus-lightning.html 728af39c-e6b9-4e07-86fc-3e3c744e4520 Larry O'Hanlon Aliens and UFOs Cell Phones Chemistry ESA Earth Gravity Hydrogen Lightning Love Nature Pizza Plastic Pluto Radio Recipes Science Scientists Space Telescopes Spacecraft Storms Streams Telescopes The Sun Wind Windows Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:27:00 EST The Lightning Planets The Scoop: No matter what planet you're on, lighting is about storms, and about ice and rain -- even if it's not necessarily water rain.If you could see Jupiter's magnetic field, it would be the size of the full moon in the sky---the biggest object in the solar system (Saturn actually passed through Jupiter's... http://news.discovery.com/space/its-elemental-my-dear-watson.html 89d48039-0bc7-48b8-b534-50ecda7c1f35 Jennifer Ouellette Laboratories Particle Physics Physics Standard Model Supernova Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:05:38 EST It's Elemental, My Dear Watson It's practically a cliche these days to compare scientific pursuits to unraveling a mystery, but it's an accurate description of the ongoing search for neutrinos. Neutrinos, the so-called "ghost particles," rarely interact with other particles, which makes them extremely difficult ... http://news.discovery.com/space/gamma-rays-lightning-antimatter.html b85fcde8-2097-4572-a513-d3fed5fa95df Irene Klotz Astrophysics Earth Lightning Storms Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:05:00 EST Lightning Holds Fingerprint of Antimatter Positrons, the antimatter equivalent to electrons, were detected in gamma ray bursts during lightning storms.