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Evidence of flooding at Mangala Valles
These images of fluvial surface features at Mangala Valles on Mars were obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft. The HRSC has imaged structures several times which are related to fluvial events in the past on Mars. The region seen here is... view more (2004-06-09)

Making music could be bad for your skin
Playing a musical instrument increases your risk of suffering from a variety of skin complaints, according to a study published this week in BMC Dermatology. These conditions can usually be averted by correcting your technique or by making slight alterations to your instrument. Dr. Thilo... view more (2004-04-15)

Schoolchildren Get A Buzz From Performing Arts
Taking part in the Rock Challenge performing arts competition has a range of broad health benefits for schoolchildren, according to a report published recently. The Rock Challenge is an initiative that aims to make a major contribution to drug education through providing young people with... view more (2004-03-22)

Launch of the "UK Mars Station Network"
The "UK Mars Station Network" will be launched at the University of Reading on Wednesday 17 March, during National Science Week. The Mars Station concept was developed by the Planetary Society to give everyone - school children and general members of the public alike - the experience of actively... view more (2004-03-10)

Evidence of violence in bones
To the great surprise of the investigators, when they removed that apparently normal and unremarkable rock, they found the remains of some three hundred people. It was a communal grave from the end of the Neolithic period, some 5,000 years ago. The bones are in a very good state of conservation,... view more (2004-03-09)

Climate changes locked inside microfossils
Fossilised remains of sea creatures are commonly found in rocks in the mountains of the Basque Country. So, at some time in the past, Euskal Herria was under the sea. For example, during the Palaeocene period, some 65-55 million years ago. The region was then subtropical, and similar in appearance... view more (2004-03-04)

World famous rock paintings three-times older than previously thought
Some of the world's finest rock paintings are more than three times older than previously believed, according to researchers from British and Australian universities who used the latest radio-carbon dating technology.  Previous work of the age of the rock art in South Africa's... view more (2004-02-05)

Investigating the deepest layers of the Earth's crust
The deep layers of the Earth's crust and the upper part of its mantle have been the target for investigation by a number of research groups at the EHU/UPV. This deep zone, and the processes that have taken place there in the past, can be investigated by means of studying those rocks which today are... view more (2004-02-04)

Asian rubies come always with marble and salt
Ruby is mineralogically the chromiferous variety of corundum gemstone, in other words an aluminium oxide in which some of the aluminium ions have been substituted by chromium. Chromium contributes, along with vanadium, another metal constituent of ruby, to the crystal's red colour. The most prized... view more (2004-01-30)

No Core In Volcanoes
A hot debate in the Earth Sciences is finally resolved in this week's issue of Nature. Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at Bristol University show that large volcanoes do not contain material from the Earth's core. This overturns previous theories that conflicted with models of how... view more (2004-01-12)

Fossilised Embryos - 500 Million Years Old
Evidence from fossilised embryos of worm-like creatures that lived 500 million years ago shows that embryos developed then in much the same way as their living relatives do today. The implications of this remarkable discovery, reported in this week's issue of Nature, is that embryological processes... view more (2004-01-12)

Rocks could reveal secrets of life on Earth - and Mars
A new UK project could help detect evidence for life on Mars, as well as improve our understanding of how it evolved on Earth. The aim is to develop a technique that can identify biomolecules in water that have been trapped in rocks for millions to billions of years. As well as analysing samples... view more (2003-10-09)

Mysterious rock markings discovery baffles archaeologists
THE discovery of a series of mysterious rock carvings has sparked a quest among experts to find out exactly what they are. Archaeologists from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who were alerted to the carvings by a local farm-hand, are baffled as to what they mean or who created them. Fellow... view more (2003-10-09)

Aussie arsenic-eating bacteria may save lives and clean mines
Melbourne scientists plan to harness the strange appetite of newly discovered Australian bacteria to help purify arsenic-contaminated water. The research group, led by microbiologist Dr Joanne Santini of La Trobe University, is working out how to use bacteria that eat arsenic to clean up... view more (2003-08-26)

British oceanographers find 'smoking' submarine volcano in the Indian Ocean
At over three thousand metres down in the north-west Indian Ocean, the Carlsberg Ridge is "probably the best ridge in the world". So say excited scientists from Southampton Oceanography Centre who have just found the first evidence of hydrothermal activity in this previously unexplored... view more (2003-07-29)

Super Fast Moulding Process Attracts £450,000 For Product Launch
A new high speed injection moulding process that could transform the manufacture of plastic packaging has raised funding of £450,000 with the help of The Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network (OION), the UK's most successful business angel network, and Oxford Technology Venture Capital... view more (2003-07-21)

Student Researchers Combine Engineering Degree and Hobby to Slash Build Time on Indoor Climbing Walls
Engineering student researchers at the University of Warwick have found a way of slashing the build time on indoor climbing walls that is being taken up commercially by the world's longest-established climbing wall manufacturer - Bendcrete. The students all in their final year of an MEng... view more (2003-07-07)

Microwaves could take the grind out of the rock business
The feasibility of using microwaves to extract minerals from rocks has been demonstrated by UK researchers. This revolutionary technique could cut mining and mineral processing industry costs, and make it viable to process previously uneconomic mineral reserves. It could also help the environment... view more (2003-05-16)

Sound turns solids into powder
The ancient alchemist's art of solvere et coagulare - dissolving and combining substances - evolved into an entire spectrum of modern processes. Grinding grain and baking bread are probably the most well-known. But it is not just in food processing technology, or in pharmaceuticals and the building... view more (2003-04-24)

21st Century 3-D Virtual Reality Saves Ancient Scottish Stone-Age Art
3-D modelling at the University of Warwick is set to revolutionise how we learn about history by digitally recreating archaeological sites and ancient monuments around the Kilmartin Valley, Argyll, Scotland's most spectacular and richest prehistoric landscape. Researchers from e-lab at the... view more (2003-04-23)

Lapis Lazuli as blue unexpected pigment in Iran L'˘jvardina ceramics
Blue colour has always attracted people. To date United Nations and Europa flags are blue ! The blue colour is rather rare in nature; blue-green is more frequent. The main "true blue" mineral is lazurite, an aluminosilicate belonging to the sodalite group, associated with some other... view more (2003-04-15)

The Radar Search For Martian Water
Until the last few years, Mars has been regarded as a cold, arid world that lost most of its water long ago. However, recent observations by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft have provided tantalising evidence that huge amounts of water may be hidden just below the surface.... view more (2003-04-01)

Mars Express leaves for Baikonur
Mars Express, the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months extensive thermal environmental, mechanical and electric tests, the spacecraft with the Beagle 2 lander will leave for Ba'-konur, Kazakhstan on 19 March 2003 onboard... view more (2003-03-19)

Upside-down underwater telescope to study visitors from space
Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds will soon be able to study some of the most elusive particles known to man, thanks to a giant telescope under the sea that looks down towards the centre of the Earth rather than up into the sky. Together with fellow scientists from across... view more (2003-03-17)

Deep-sea Ecosystem Engineers
Tube worms living at deep-sea oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico significantly alter their habitat, similar to beavers altering the flow of a river. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have just published an important finding in the journal Ecology Letters. A computer model of tube worm... view more (2003-03-12)
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