Supersizing the supercomputers: What's next?
Supercomputers excel at highly calculation-intensive tasks, such as molecular modeling and large-scale simulations, and have enabled significant scientific breakthroughs. view more (2005-08-31)
Awards of the Netherlands' greatest prize for science
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has granted the NWO/Spinoza Award 2002 to four leading Dutch research scientists. The Award is the highest Dutch prize for scientific achievement and carries a grant of EUR 1.5 million per recipient, to be spent on research of their own choice. The scientists are receiving this prestigious... view more... (2002-08-28)
Vice Chancellors support Save British Science`s argument
SBS today welcomed the Today programme`s survey of higher education bosses, which shows that among the research-led universities, low pay is causing problems recruiting the best people, and that most Vice Chancellors no longer believe that UK universities can compete with the best in the world. view more (2002-01-18)
Premature babies show poor school performance
Up to a third of children born between 32 and 35 weeks gestation will have some form of school problem, finds a study in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Given the large number of surviving children in this gestational age group, this finding has important implications for educational services, report the authors. All children born at 32-35 weeks... view more... (2001-06-19)
Twins have similar school performance to single-born children
Twins have similar academic performance to single-born children, finds a large Danish study published online by the BMJ today. view more (2006-09-29)
Mathematicians maximize knowledge of minimal surfaces
Mathematicians have studied basic minimal surfaces for more than 250 years, and long ago understood their basic building blocks and how those fundamentals fit together to form a figure with the least surface area and high surface tension. view more (2006-08-16)
Math could help cure leukemia
When kids complain that math homework won't help them in real life, a new answer might be that math could help cure cancer. view more (2008-06-20)
Full-day vs. half-day kindergarten
In an important new longitudinal study forthcoming in the Feb. 2006 issue of the American Journal of Education, researchers draw on a nationally representative sample of more than 8,000 kindergarteners and 500 U.S. public schools to explore the role of full-day vs. half-day kindergarten in early academic achievement. view more (2006-01-16)
Math model predicts cancer behavior
Vito Quaranta clicks on a small black dot on his computer screen. The dot - which represents about a thousand cancer cells - begins to "grow," morphing into a mass with finger-like projections that looks like an invasive tumor. view more (2006-12-04)
Bath University team win top award for popularising science (11th September 2002)
Flying marshmallows, spaghetti structures and frozen bananas are just some of the methods used by a group of Bath University academics to promote science to the public. The team’s unique approach to making science more accessible has won them a Public Awareness of Physics award from the Institute of Physics. The award-winning project... view more... (2002-09-06)
Algae's Protein "Tails" Create Motion — and Aid Munching
When single-celled organisms such as sperm crack their whip-like appendages called flagella, the beating sets them in motion. But in certain colonies of green algae, flagella also boost nutrient uptake, according to surprising new research. view more (2006-05-30)
Rainfall research could help flood control
A new method of measuring rainfall accurately could help to improve flood control. Following a study in the Bolton area, the method, devised by the University of Essex and using dual-frequency microwave links, will now be tested in Italy and Germany. The recent devastating floods in central Europe have demonstrated the need for accurate rainfall... view more... (2002-09-27)
Closing the Achievement Gap in Math and Science
The latest results from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but also a closing of the achievement gaps between both African-American and Hispanic students and white students in elementary school math, and between... view more... (2008-05-05)
Mathematics simplifies sleep monitoring
A UQ researcher has created a new way to measure breathing patterns in sleeping infants which may also work for adults. view more (2008-05-08)
Leading Eclipse Scientist puts finishing touches to his next expedition
Professor John Parkinson, Britain's leading eclipse expert sets off for South Africa in a few days time to observe the total eclipse of the sun on 4 December. He will be heading for a remote bush camp at Sirheni in the northern part of the Kruger National Park. A total eclipse offers a rare opportunity to learn more about astronomy, science and... view more... (2002-11-11)
Ocean spray lubricates hurricane winds
Hurricane Emily's 140-mile-per-hour winds, which last week blew roofs off hotels and flattened trees throughout the Caribbean, owed their force to an unlikely culprit - ocean spray. view more (2005-07-26)
Labs on a chip
The American bio-technology company, WaferGen, is planning to produce three micro laboratories on three different sensor chips, which were developed in Delft. To this end the company will acquire licences to for the patented design. The contracts will be signed by representatives of WaferGen and by Ir. G.J. van Luijk (chairman of the TU Delft... view more... (2004-06-03)
Rutgers researchers 'rewrite the book' in quantum statistical physics
An important part of the decades-old assumption thought to be essential for quantum statistical physics is being challenged by researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and colleagues in Germany and Italy. view more (2006-02-10)
UC San Diego Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle
Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research initiated by an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego has resulted in the first model of how knots form. view more (2007-10-04)
Lineage trees for cells
Some fundamental outstanding questions in science - "Where do stem cells originate?" "How does cancer develop?" "When do cell types split off from each other in the embryo?" - might be answered if scientists had a way to map the history of the body's cells going back to the fertilized egg. view more (2005-10-31)
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