Science vs. politics gets down and dirty
Malicious, vindictive and mean-spirited. These are words that might surface in divorce court. But they have been lobbed in the course of a different estrangement: the standoff between the Bush administration and the nation’s scientific community.

Senate Asks FTC to Oversee Internet Safety
Members of Congress last week turned their attention to online child predators with the introduction of a bill intended to strengthen public awareness about Internet safety. The measure … requires schools that receive e-rate funding to include tutorials on the detriments of “cyberbullying” and strengthens child pornography enforcement.

Buy.com launches Garage Sale service on Facebook
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online shopping site Buy.com said on Tuesday it has launched a new shopping service named Garage Sale for users of online social networking sites such as Facebook.com.

China hopes to cure Internet addicts at summer camp
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is launching an experimental summer camp for 40 youngsters to try to wean them off their Internet addiction, state media said on Tuesday.

Search engine revs up to look for billions of names
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A US web firm is preparing to launch an ambitious Internet search engine that it hopes will eventually track down the names of the world’s six billion people.

Scientists reveal secret of levitation
LONDON (AFP) - Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says. Physicists said they can create “incredible levitation effects” by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force.

Injections to Kick-Start Tissue Repair
Prolotherapy is an alternative medicine method to promote connective tissue repair even years after the damage occurred. Prolotherapy involves a series of injections designed to produce inflammation in the injured  tissue. In effect, prolotherapy tricks the body into initiating a healing response.

Its Poor Reputation Aside, Our Fat Is Doing Us a Favor
Fat’s bland and amorphous appearance notwithstanding, it represents a highly specialized organ, as finely honed to the task of energy storage as muscle is built for flexing.

Foods Taste Better With McDonald’s Logo, Kids Say
Study suggests branding has powerful effect on preschoolers’ diet.

Brain chemical has key role in ADHD: studies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Monday showed the importance of a brain chemical in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with researchers saying it might help explain why people with ADHD often are substance abusers.

Memory Slow? Drink Some Joe
Older women who consume 3 cups a day have sharper cognitive skills, study says

Learning: In Tiny Part of the Brain, a Key to Foreign Tongues
A tiny part of the brain appears to play an important role in how well adults can learn another language, a new study finds.

Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution
CHICAGO (AFP) - A new analysis of the dental fossils of human ancestors suggests that Asian populations played a larger role than Africans in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, said a study released Monday.

Ethiopians fret as “Lucy” skeleton heads to U.S.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopians worried on Tuesday that the fragile bones of their world-famous skeleton — the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as “Lucy” — may not survive a six year U.S. tour.
I just don’t understand why they can’t send a replica out on tour.

New Fossils Support Deep-Sea Origin of Life
Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean.

Entombed Microbes Flourish Again in Lab
WASHINGTON (AP) - Microorganisms locked in Antarctic ice for 100,000 years and more came to life and resumed growing when given warmth and nutrients in a laboratory.

Largest Known Exoplanet Discovered
The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say. 

Does life exist beyond Earth?
Life can be found in almost every nook and cranny of our planet Earth… Whether a similar bounty of life exists elsewhere in the universe is one of the oldest and most tantalizing questions of science. Considering the wide breadth of the universe and the countless stars it contains, the odds would seem in favor of the answer being “yes.”