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Alien Pizza, Anyone?

Although many biochemical molecules come in left-handed and right-handed versions, life on Earth uses one version exclusively, and some controversial experiments suggest this preference might not be due to chance.

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1. Telescopes can tune in to alien TV
   10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Radio telescopes designed to study the early universe could be sensitive enough to pick-up radio leakage from alien civilizations. Researchers from Harvard University say that the most powerful emissions from our own planet come from military radar, TV and FM radio transmitters. If ET is producing similar signals, these spikes in the radio spectrum could be detected by telescopes being built today
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2. New gene linked to macular degeneration risk
   10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have identified a gene called HTRA1 that contributes to a major risk of age related macular degeneration, the most common cause of irreversible vision loss in the developed world. The discovery of this gene allows anyone to take a simple blood test to find out if they are up to 700 percent more likely to develop AMD than the average person.
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3. Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can be powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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4. Modeling alien invasions: Plasticity may hold the key to prevention
   10-30-2006 · EurekAlert!
   The ability of an organism to respond adaptively to environmental variation -- phenotypic plasticity -- can have profound and unexpected effects on species interactions and the probability that a species will invade.
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5. Every wanna-be rocker's fantasy comes true
   11-12-2006 · EurekAlert!
   CSIRO has "built" a shirt which could fulfill the fantasy of anyone who has, in the privacy of their homes, jammed along with one of rock 'n roll's great lead guitarists.Led by engineer Dr Richard Helmer a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in Geelong has created a 'wearable instrument shirt' (WIS) which enables users to play an 'air guitar' simply by moving one arm to pick chords and the other to strum the imaginary instrument's strings.
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6. Adults living with children eat more fat than do other adults
   12-29-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Adults living with children eat more saturated fat -- the equivalent of nearly an entire frozen pepperoni pizza each week -- than do adults who do not live with children, according to a University of Iowa and University of Michigan Health System study.
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7. Alien Alert: Shrimpy invader raises big concerns
   01-13-2007 · Science News Online
   A shrimplike European invader just discovered in the Great Lakes could prove ecologically disruptive to populations of native lake animals.
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8. SENSEable City reveals 'friendspotting'
   12-13-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   MIT researchers today unveiled a new social networking application that will make it possible for anyone on the Institute's 168-acre campus to locate anyone else, via their laptop.
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9. Being around friends can impair your memory
   02-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
   You're watching a basketball game with some buddies and decide to order pizza during the commercial. Researchers from Indiana University found that people in a group setting exposed to brand information -- such as an ad for Pizza Hut -- have a hard time recalling the brand's competitors. In other words, being around friends when deciding where to order takeout might cause you to forget completely about that local pizza place you've been wanting to try.
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10. Alien Light: Taking the spectra of extrasolar planets
    02-24-2007 · Science News Online
    Astronomers have for the first time recorded the spectra of light emitted by two extrasolar planets.
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