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The Wild, Hidden Cousin of SN 1987A
Over a decade after it exploded, one of the nearest supernovae in the last 25 years has been identified. This result was made possible by combining data from the vast online archives from many of the world's premier telescopes.   view more (2008-09-26)

40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits
Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA.   view more (2007-01-16)

Promising Talents Of A Wild Bacterium
A wild strain of E. coli possessing completely original properties has been discovered in shea cake, a residue of a tropical food industry used in cosmetics, by IRD scientists working in microbial biotechnology found the strain, designated “ C2 ”, had the ability to transform certain... view more (2002-06-27)

Eppendorf, the Hamburg-based Biotech Group establishes competence center for biochips in Belgium.
Eppendorf AG, Hamburg, will concentrate its core activities in the business field of micro arrays (biochips) in Belgium and has acquired the majority interest in Advanced Array Technology, Namur, (AAT) effective immediately. Micro arrays are DNA probes, which are fixed to polymer supports and... view more (2002-07-19)

Will lemmings fall off climate change cliff?
Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not commit mass suicide by leaping off of cliffs into the sea. In fact, they are quite fond of staying alive.   view more (2007-04-23)

Gene thought to assist chemo may help cancer thrive
A gene thought to be essential in helping chemotherapy kill cancer cells, may actually help them thrive.   view more (2007-05-16)

Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
To give voice to people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing floods, The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a unique survey of evacuees in shelters in the Houston area.   view more (2005-09-19)

New-Caledonia: is the chromium present in soil toxic for crop plants ?
Nearly one-third of the surface area of New Caledonia bears outcrops of ultramafic rocks containing high levels of heavy metals, such as nickel and chromium. The soils derived from these formations, bearing high concentrations of these metals, are however poor in mineral elements essential for... view more (2003-05-23)

New method edges closer to holy grail of modern chemistry
University of Chicago chemist David Mazziotti has developed a new method for determining the behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules, a key ingredient in predicting chemical properties and reactions.   view more (2006-10-13)

Historian Reveals Spiralling Debt has Shaped Consumer Culture for Centuries
New Year sales and Christmas shopping sprees have a sting in the tail when credit card bills hit doormats in January, but new research from the University of Warwick shows that rather than being a modern phenomenon, debt and consumer credit dependency were rife in the 1800-1900s, and that formal... view more (2004-01-09)

Radar teledetection for estimating the superficial humidity of soil
Photographic images captured by radar satellites enable the superficial humidity of agricultural basins to be estimated with great precision, although it is important to have knowledge of the rugosity of the surface.   view more (2006-02-03)

Field Museum provides gold standard for mammal survey
Putting together the Who's Who of bats, bears, beaked whales and all of Earth's other known mammals was a gigantic task ably assisted by a Field Museum scientific team with access to one of the planet's most extensive and diverse mammal collections.   view more (2008-10-07)

Salmonella: Trickier than we imagined
Salmonella is serving up a surprise not only for tomato lovers around the country but also for scientists who study the rod-shaped bacterium that causes misery for millions of people.   view more (2008-06-16)

CU-Boulder researchers forecast 3-in-5 chance of record low Arctic sea ice in 2008
New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice.   view more (2008-05-01)

A new more effective tuberculosis screening test for HIV victims
World Health Organization (WHO) figures show that each year an estimated 9 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) arise in the world.   view more (2008-03-06)

Stray penguins probably reached northern waters by fishing boat
Guy Demmert got quite a surprise when he hauled a fishing net into his boat off the coast of southeast Alaska in July 2002. There among the salmon, in living black and white, was a Humboldt penguin, thousands of miles from where any of its kind should have been.   view more (2007-06-06)

Portuguese opinion of the "Assembleia da Rep'ºblica" (Portuguese parliament)
In a recently published study, the «Adelino Amaro da Costa» prize, various researchers in the fields of social science and constitutional law analysed Portuguese political institutions. The most significant results concern the evaluation of these institutions by Portuguese citizens. Under the... view more (2003-01-21)

UGA study reveals a new way of looking at vaccine development
University of Georgia researchers have given vaccine developers a new tool that could lead to the development of designer vaccines that protect against a wider range of diseases or work against diseases that are currently hard to prevent.   view more (2006-05-23)

Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy.   view more (2008-06-05)
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