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MIT slows concrete creep to a crawl

MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform,…

New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns

As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system's habitable zone, where heat radiated…

Research Team Finds Key Target of Aging Regulator

Scientists have long known that a class of proteins called sirtuins promotes fitness and longevity in most organisms ranging from single-celled yeast to…

New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions

The new protocol was developed as part of a project to investigate life that exists in extreme Arctic environments, which are the closest analogue we have on…

Small Molecules Mimic Natural Gene Regulators

Scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley have taken a step forward on that route by developing small molecules…

Freedman, Kennicutt, Mould Share 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize

The recipients of the 2009 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation are Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie…

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