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Scarlet tanagers are more than 2% smaller today than in the 1960s.
(R. Mulvihill / Powdermill Avian Research Center)

Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.

A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings.
This [...]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet.

Located at the site www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with the speeds advertised by their providers.
The FCC release follows an FCC meeting in September where [...]

Bankrolled by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame and fortune, Blue Origin’s Goddard vehicle is a first development vehicle in the firm’s New Shepard suborbital program. Credit: Blue Origin.

Anticipation is on the rise for a new crop of commercial suborbital spaceships that can serve the scientific and educational market. These reusable rocket-propelled vessels are expected to [...]

(PhysOrg.com) — Space physicists from the University of Leicester are part of an international team that has identified the impact of the Sun on Mars' atmosphere.

Mars. Image: NASA
Writing in the AGU journal Geophysics Research Letters, the scientists report that Mars is constantly losing part of its atmosphere to space.
The new study shows that pressure from [...]

Tokyo

Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to ship its attention to supplying the UK and Germany with this hi-tech next-generation energy source.

With over 5,000 fuel cells providing heat and energy for conventional homes up and down Japan, the BBC has learnt [...]

A newly developed method harvests small amounts of waste energy and harnesses them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. (Credit: iStockphoto/Mustafa Deliormanli)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.

The [...]

This is an artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft taking a sample from asteroid RQ36. (Credit: NASA)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It [...]

Sexual size dimorphism: Female hawk moths (left) are larger than their male counterparts. (Credit: R. Craig Stillwell)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in body size. But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same genes governing their growth? University of Arizona entomologists studied [...]

Canopy of the Amazon rain forest. A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Credit: iStockphoto/Warwick Lister-Kaye)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — A new NASA-funded [...]