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Human Cells 'Forage' Like Amoebae, Bacteria (162 diggs) When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, researchers have found. The discovery has a practical value for drug development: Incorporating this basic behavior into computer simulations of biological processes that involve cell migration...

Should We Be Trying to Save the Dodo? (174 diggs) Declaring a species extinct is no trivial matter. A team of Australian researchers are trying to bring a more rigorous approach to this area with the help of the dodo.

The Frame: Hunting for "The Hobbit" (PICS) (231 diggs) The discovery of Homo floresiensis shocked and divided scientists. Here apparently was a band of distant relatives that exhibited features not seen for millions of years but were living at the same time as much more modern humans

Study: Fat Drinkers Face Double the Health Risk (237 diggs) Drinkers who are overweight face a "double whammy" impact on their liver, research suggests.

New Charging Method To Greatly Reduce Battery Recharge Time (337 diggs) "In a new study, researchers have proposed a charging method that could greatly reduce the charging time of lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from electronic devices to electric vehicles."

Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for the Big, Hot Sun (184 diggs) A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long. As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun. Things will not end well for the comet, which will burn.

50 million year old ancient rivers buried under the outback (396 diggs) An ancient river system buried 35 m below the Simpson Desert in Central Australia has been revealed by scientists from the Australian National University in Canberra.

Saturn Moon Has Surprisingly Slushy Insides (471 diggs) Under the brittle, icy crust of Titan lies a surprisingly icy mush, followed by a liquid ocean and a core of rock and ice, new data suggest.

Five new human genomes decoded, marking a transition to more (314 diggs) It seems longer, but it was only seven years ago that the Human Genome Project deciphered the sequence of the 3 billion nucleotides that make up a single human blueprint or genome. That project cost more than $3 billion and took 13 years. But the speed of sequencing has been increasing dramatically ...

APOD: 2010 March 13 - Centaurus A (339 diggs) A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Minimizing the Effects of Earthquakes (Graphic) (299 diggs) After the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, it is not surprising to see countries are updating their disaster contingency plans. As part of these plans, a range of different ideas and technologies are being considered to reduce the destruction caused by earthquakes.

Study: Short Blasts of Exercise as Good as Hours of Training (412 diggs) Less really can be more when it comes to exercise, scientists have discovered.

Einstein's relativity manuscript goes on display in Israel (380 diggs) Handwritten explanation of general theory of relativity being shown at Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem. Professor: I refer to it as the Magna Carta of physics

Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth (350 diggs) Gliese 710 should arrive sometime in...

Can Photos Inspire a New Generation of Environmentalists? (150 diggs) One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s early projects was Documerica, an effort "to photograph America’s environmental problems" from 1971 to 1977. Now they’re releasing the 15,000 photos from the vault at the National Archives and posting them on Flickr.

Hailing the arrival of alien predators (226 diggs) Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.

Wind Farms can aid Global Warming : MIT (265 diggs) MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.

Physicists seeking to shed more light on dark matter (348 diggs) Using a massive detector buried deep in the Japanese Alps, the T2K project will study the oscillation pattern of neutrinos -- ghost-like particles that make up a large part of the bulk of the universe.

Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed (222 diggs) HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting one other so close, they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes.

A Star Made Of Red Matter, From Before Our Galaxy Existed (542 diggs) Behold a star from the second generation of generation of stars after the Big Bang, something scientists have been seeking for a while. Its unique make-up may prove that our galaxy developed by cannibalizing dwarf galaxies.

Boob Cheese: A Protein Whose Time Has Come (421 diggs) What’s the big deal here? Of all the things that humans eat, there are only two or three existing in nature made by nature just to be food. There's breast milk (of all varieties). There's honey. And there are...probably a couple others that I can't think of right now (Twinkies, maybe? Those are excreted by something, right?)

The Last Person on Earth--What Would You Do? (977 diggs) For those who have misguidedly failed to develop an Armageddon plan, it's not too late. Here are the 6 phases you would probably go through if you were the only human left on Earth.

Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop (260 diggs) 48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.

World's Most Amazing Trees (PICS) (550 diggs) Spread among the billions of trees around the globe are a few special ones, especially worthy of attention. Here are seven of the world's most amazing trees.

The 70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth (475 diggs) Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nationâs environment writ large. Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar of the National Archive and onto Flickr Commons, where they are getting a wider viewing than they hâve ever received.