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Irish airport to take part in the EGNOS system
On 24 July, ESA signed a contract with the Irish Aviation Authority to install satellite navigation equipment at Cork airport in Ireland. This will form part of EGNOS, Europe's first venture into satellite navigation and the first step on the way to Galileo, Europe's own satellite navigation system which is a joint initiative of the European... view more... (2001-08-09)

What Aristotle could teach your business
Public scandals, such as the Enron affair, the sub-prime mortgage problem, and the ensuing global credit crunch have led to dwindling confidence in the business world.   view more (2008-04-16)

World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria
Experts at Cardiff University, UK, have designed world-first technology to investigate sustainable energy sources from the ocean bed by isolating ancient high-pressure bacteria from deep sediments.   view more (2005-06-06)

Toothed Embryo Of Mammoth
For the first time, a well-preserved lower jawbone of a mammoth embryo is found by paleontologist E.N. Mashchenko and his colleagues in the Tomsk area. Judging from the size and structure of the bone, the embryo is from 14 to 16 weeks old, which is the last stage of its development (the pregnancy of mammoths as well as elephants lasts for almost... view more... (2002-06-17)

Hold the Hookah: Researcher warns against trendy tobacco use
The growing fad of smoking tobacco through a waterpipe, sometimes known as a hookah, is rapidly turning into a worrisome epidemic.   view more (2006-10-02)

ON TRAILS OF ANCIENT SEA GRASSES
Paleobotanists from St. Petersburg have found that ancestry of sea grasses had come to sea from desert 40 million years ago. The study was supported by International Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., and by Linnean Society of London. It is not easy to reconstruct how life developed on the Earth - too little stuff had... view more... (2000-12-01)

Tuatara, the fastest evolving animal
In a study of New Zealand's "living dinosaur" the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution recovered DNA sequences from the bones of ancient tuatara, which are up to 8000 years old.   view more (2008-03-24)

World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks.   view more (2007-02-06)

Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution
Researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed the first global family tree of metabolic protein architecture. Their approach offers a new window on the evolutionary history of metabolism.   view more (2007-05-21)

New Technology Helps Bring The Past To Life
The past is being brought to life through wireless technology thanks to a grant of around EUR145,000 from the Information Society Technology (IST) Programme of the European Union's Framework Programme. The CHOSA (Cultural Heritage Of St Albans) project set out to develop a new way of interpreting and experiencing the Roman Park and remains of the... view more... (2004-04-15)

Our Ancestors Did Not Suffer From Caries, But Took Drugs
When coming across ancient vessels the archaeologists first of all search for any remnants inside. As a rule, the vessels are crammed full with soil, the analysis of which can help to learn about the content of the vessel. In the course of excavation of burial mounds in Kalmykia Natalia Shishlina (State Historic Museum) collected a lot of soil... view more... (2002-09-26)

Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug
A unique Mayo Clinic collaboration has revived the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties.   view more (2007-01-02)

Ancient war paint in fight against breast cancer
A plant that gave ancient Britons and Celts their blue war paint, has been found to be a rich source of the anti-cancer compound, glucobrassicin, traditionally associated with broccoli.   view more (2006-08-14)

Scientists discover 'light echoes' of ancient supernovae
Astronomers have found "light echoes" from three ancient supernovae by detecting their faint, centuries-old light reflected in the clouds of interstellar dust.   view more (2005-12-23)

Avian flu threat: New approach needed
As the first globally co-ordinated plan for the planet's gravest health threats is hatched by government ministers from around the world this weekend, a new report sets out a 10-point plan for this new, globalised approach to infectious diseases such as avian flu.   view more (2008-10-23)

Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water
A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors.   view more (2009-11-23)

Spot urine test: To monitor dietary sodium compliance in liver disease patients?
A research article to be published on August 7 , 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question.   view more (2009-08-12)

New Research Recreates the Experience of Greek Theatre-Goers 2000 Years Ago
New research from the University of Warwick, England, enables viewers to tread the boards or take a seat in long-lost ancient Greek Theatres. Through state-of-the-art 3D digital recreations the researchers show the Odeon of Pericles, built mid-fifth century BC in Athens, assigned most of the audience a terrible viewing experience. The Odeon of... view more... (2003-04-14)

Origins of Pompeii-style artifacts examined at ISIS
Roman artefacts which are nearly two thousand years old with similarities to ancient remains found at Pompeii in Italy have been examined at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's ISIS neutron source (21-22 February).   view more (2009-02-25)

Seats Helped Ancient Greeks Hear From Back Row
As the ancient Greeks were placing the last few stones on the magnificent theater at Epidaurus in the fourth century B.C., they couldn't have known that they had unwittingly created a sophisticated acoustic filter.   view more (2007-04-05)
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