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Scientists scuttle claims that 'Hobbit' fossil from Flores, Indonesia, is a new hominid
When scientists found 18,000-year-old bones of a small, humanlike creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, they concluded that the bones represented a new species in the human family tree that they named Homo floresiensis. view more (2006-05-19)
STAR WARS GOES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
STAR WARS GOES UNDER MICROSCOPE AT UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN view more (1999-07-12)
Nanomedicine: Grounds for optimism and a call for papers (p 673)
Issue 30 August 2003 Embargoed 0001 h (London time) 29 August 2003. 'Nanomedicine is a discipline whose time has come', states this week's editorial. Nanoscience and the implications for medicine has recently been the focus of the US National Institutes of Health who have highlighted three key areas for the future of nanomedicine: structures... view more... (2003-08-27)
IChemE President appointed Chair of EPSRC
The Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, has appointed IChemE's current President, Professor Dame Julia Higgins FRS FREng, as the new chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). She succeeds Professor Tony Ledwith and will hold the post for a term of four years. Higgins, the first female president of IChemE, is currently... view more... (2003-04-07)
Prime Minister and Education and Skills Secretary launch new Government, industry and higher education partnership to INSPIRE science in schools
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair and Education and Skills Secretary, Estelle Morris today launched a new partnership between the Government, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the Technology Colleges Trust (TCT) and Imperial College London to boost science education in schools applying to become Science Colleges under the Government's Specialist Schools... view more... (2002-06-13)
Fossilized cashew nuts reveal Europe was important route between Africa and South America
Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. view more (2007-10-18)
DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
Studying DNA obtained from teeth of ancient cave bears, researchers have been able to identify a shift in a particular population of the bears inhabiting a European valley in the late Pleistocene era. view more (2007-02-20)
Researchers build an ultrasound version of the laser
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Missouri at Rolla have built an ultrasound analogue of the laser. view more (2006-06-09)
Deep sea algae connect ancient climate, carbon dioxide and vegetation
Assistant Professor Mark Pagani in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale and his colleagues mapped the first detailed history of atmospheric carbon dioxide between 45-25 million years ago based on stable isotopes of carbon in a National Science Foundation study reported in Science Express. view more (2005-06-23)
Scientists invite the public to "Meet the Ancestors" at the Chelsea Flower Show
Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich[1], are in the final stages of their preparations for this year's Chelsea Flower Show[2] where they will be inviting the public to 'Meet the Ancestors - of the past and the future'. Visitors to the JIC exhibit will be able to compare modern crops with the wild plants that are their ancestors and... view more... (2002-05-17)
U of T physicists are first to 'squeeze' light to quantum limit
A team of University of Toronto physicists have demonstrated a new technique to squeeze light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications for high-precision measurement, next-generation atomic clocks, novel quantum computing and our most fundamental understanding of the universe. view more (2009-01-07)
New method shows mushrooms a top source for one antioxidant
Using a new, more sensitive-testing approach they developed for fungi, Penn State food scientists have found that mushrooms are a better natural source of the antioxidant ergothioneine than either of the two dietary sources previously believed to be best. view more (2005-09-01)
New special needs technologies showcased
Exciting new worlds are being opened up by putting together the technologies of electronic music, special needs, therapy and the arts, and the technologies which help people make the greatest use of the movement they are capable of. And the Special Needs Technology 2000 conference at the University is attracting delegates and exhibitors from... view more... (1999-10-26)
Caltech visiting associate champions the study of solar eclipses in the modern era
Championing the modern-day use of solar eclipses to solve a set of modern problems is the goal of a review article written by Jay Pasachoff, visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. view more (2009-06-11)
New Call for Public Awareness of Science
New Call for Public Awareness of Science The European Commission, Research Directorate General has just launched a call for proposals for Raising Public Awareness of Science and Technology. The deadline for proposals is 15 April 2002. The main objectives of Raising Public Awareness include helping European citizens to understand more about the... view more... (2002-01-18)
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline
Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and humans, say researchers from Duke University and the Indian Institute of Technology. view more (2008-08-05)
New journal 'SOFT MATTER' to be launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry
The largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), announced yesterday at the Jülich Soft Matter Days 2004 conference that it will launch a new publication, Soft Matter, in Summer 2005. view more (2004-11-17)
New UK Musical Work Inspired By Japanese Art
A new musical work by University of Sussex composer and music lecturer Ed Hughes will be premiered during the Brighton Festival on May 8, 2004. The piece, Memory of Colour, is a Brighton Festival commission to accompany an exhibition that includes a celebrated art installation, Surface of the Lake, by Japanese artist Teruyoshi Yoshida. Yoshida's... view more... (2004-04-26)
Unravelling a genetic mystery
Research by a University of Nottingham expert has shed new light on a genetic mystery that has its origins millions of years ago. view more (2005-03-02)
Obesity genetics
New evidence that genetics plays a key role in obesity is published today in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. The findings relate to the genetics of modern Pima Indians who have an unusually high rate of obesity but could be extrapolated to all people. view more (2007-10-16)
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