http://www.accessscience.com/ AccessScience Latest News en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:01:29 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:01:29 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss online_customerservice@mcgraw-hill.com online_customerservice@mcgraw-hill.com http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=SN15445 Hula painted frog turns out to be the only surviving member of an extinct genusA species of frog once considered extinct hasn’t actually croaked.The discovery of living, breathing Hula painted frogs has allowed the amphibians to hop back onto scientists’ radar, and the orange-speckled animal isn’t quite what researchers thought it was.When scientists first spotted the painted frog in the 1940s in Israel’s Hula Valley, they classified it as Discoglossus nigriventer for its disklike tongue and unusual black belly http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=SN15443 Experimental microchip improves reliability and speed of writing and reading data An advance in a speedy type of microchip could help engineers integrate computers’ short-term and long-term memory.For all the recent advances in the speed of computers, their command centers remain relatively inefficient http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=SN15441 New specimen may be a feathered dinosaur — or the earliest avian yet discoveredA birdlike fossil that dates to roughly 155 million years ago is ruffling the feathers of some paleontologists http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=SN15437 Warmer temperatures may bring stronger rainy seasons over the long term, study findsThe summer monsoon that dumps rain on an otherwise-arid American Southwest may grow stronger as the climate warms, suggests a study of the region’s monsoon patterns of the last millennium http://www.accessscience.com/IOW/iow.aspx Biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey have discovered a new species of gecko, adorned like a bumblebee with black-and-gold bands and rows of skin nodules that enhance its camouflage on the tropical forest floor. http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120422 What is the shape of space? While this question may have once seemed more philosophical than scientific, modern cosmology has the chance to answer it using the oldest observable light in the universe, the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120350 Medical robots autonomously removing an appendix of a child or pouring a glass of water and bringing it to grandma: some people will say this is science fiction, others will say it is the future http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120255 Color vision is a perceptual capacity that allows animals to discriminate reliably between objects or lights delivering different wavelength compositions to the eye, irrespective of their relative intensities http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120001 The capacity to interact with others in complex social situations constitutes one of the key elements of our daily life http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120305 Ethical leadership deals with the virtuousness of leaders and the nature of their behavior http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120406 The discovery of new elements advances our understanding of the limits of the periodic table of the elements http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120272 The Census of Marine Life was launched in 2000 as a 10-year program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life throughout the world's oceans http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=YB120415 The use of the Arctic Ocean for expanded marine transportation has garnered increased interest around the globe http://www.accessscience.com/qanda.aspx?id=4041 Questions and Answers