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The World Factbook: The Pacific Ocean
Facts and statistics about "the largest of the world's five oceans."Covers climate, terrain, natural hazards, economic activity, major ports and terminals, access waterways, and more. From The World Factbook, published annually by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Cholesterol-lowering Drug Linked To Sleep Disruptions
A cholesterol-lowering drug appears to disrupt sleep patterns of some patients. Because simvastatin is fat soluble it can more readily penetrate cell membranes and cross the blood brain barrier into the brain. The brain controls sleep, and many of the brain's nerve cells are wrapped in a fatty insulating sheath called myelin. In past studies and case reports, some people on statins reported having insomnia or nightmares. 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old Paleontologica
Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs. Researchers Develop Chemical Process To Use Cotton-gin Residue
Solving problems in the commonwealth's agriculture sector is part of Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' mission. Filk Music for Nerd People
From asteroid truckers to vampire computers, this little-known folk spinoff takes on the big issues of the future. By Xeni Jardin. Molecular Clock Genes Influence Metabolism Of Sugar And Dietary Fats
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that components of the internal molecular clock of mammals have an important role in governing the metabolism of sugars and fats within the body. They found in mice that two of the well-studied proteins in the clock control the ability of animals to recover from the fall in blood sugar that occurs in response to insulin. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Visual Screening For Rare Objects Surprisingly Inaccurate: Hands Quick
That fleeting moment of regret between clicking the wrong icon and seeing an unwanted web page pop onto the screen could make a huge difference in improving the accuracy of visual searches in medicine and homeland security. Visual screening is critical to such things as early cancer diagnosis and airport security, but paradoxically the more rare the object being searched for becomes, the lower the screeners'accuracy in finding it when it is there. NASA Finds 'Big Baby' Galaxies In Newborn Universe
Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to "weigh"the stars in several distant galaxies. One of these galaxies, among the most distant ever seen, appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young universe. This came as a surprise to astronomers. The earliest galaxies in the universe are commonly thought to have been much smaller associations of stars that gradually merged to build large galaxies like our Milky Way.
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