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Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution
Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution. They are the primary ingredients in ground-level ozone, a pollutant harmful to human health and vegetation.   view more (2005-06-07)

Ice age imprint found on cod DNA
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated how Atlantic cod responded to past natural climate extremes. The new research could help in determining cods vulnerability to future global warming.   view more (2007-11-14)

Mussels evolve quickly to defend against invasive crabs
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) have found that invasive crab species may precipitate evolutionary change in blue mussels in as little as 15 years.   view more (2006-08-11)

Welcome to the Smart Lab
Chemists at the University of Southampton will soon be monitoring their experiments from a more comfortable place than a lab stool. In the final stage of a pioneering IBM project to wire their lab for remote control the researchers will be able to keep an eye on reactions they have left running in... view more (2005-01-26)

Odd energy mechanism in bacteria analyzed
Scientists at Oregon State University have successfully cultured in a laboratory a microorganism with a gene for an alternate form of photochemistry - an advance that may ultimately help shed light on the ecology of the world's oceans.   view more (2005-11-04)

Study sheds light on risks of being a second twin
A nine year study published on bmj.com today has concluded that being a second born twin confers a small increased risk of suffering fatal complications during birth.   view more (2007-03-02)

Westminster Awards and Prizes for Science, Engineering and Technology Announced
Younger researchers from University, Industry and Government Laboratories competed for the new 'Westminster Awards and Prizes' at the first National Showcase of Science, Engineering and Technology held at the House of Commons this week. The showcase, held as part of set99, the National Week of... view more (1999-03-18)

Researchers seeking to identify Alzheimer's risk focus on specific blood biomarker
A simple blood test to detect whether a person might develop Alzheimer's disease is within sight and could eventually help scientists in their quest toward reversing the disease's onset in those likely to develop the debilitating neurological condition.   view more (2008-09-09)

JILA solves problem of quantum dot 'blinking'
Quantum dots-tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light-are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But these semiconductor nanocrystals also have a secret problem, a kind of nervous tic. They mysteriously tend to "blink" on and off like... view more (2008-01-24)

Belfast company wins Europe's biggest IT prize
Belfast-based MINEit Software Ltd has won one of the three EUR200,000 Grand Prizes in Europe's most lucrative IT competition - the European Information Society Technologies Prize 2001. They emerged from the 20 finalists to become only the second UK Grand Prize Winner since the award started five... view more (2000-11-09)

Aurorae and Volcanic Eruptions
Impressive thermal-infrared images have been obtained of the giant planet Jupiter during tests of a new detector in the ISAAC instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). They show in particular the full extent of the northern auroral ring and part of the... view more (2001-06-07)

NOAA announces next solar storm cycle will likely start next March
The next 11-year cycle of solar storms will most likely start next March and peak in late 2011 or mid-2012-up to a year later than expected-according to a forecast issued by the NOAA Space Environment Center in coordination with an international panel of solar experts.   view more (2007-04-30)

Treatment for cigarette, alcohol and drug use in pregnancy improves outcomes for mom and baby
Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of Perinatology.   view more (2008-06-26)

A baby's smile is a natural high
The baby's smile that gladdens a mother's heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Pediatrics today.    view more (2008-07-07)

Frozen Natural Gas Discovered at Unexpectedly Shallow Depths Below Seafloor
An international team of research scientists has reported greater knowledge of how gas hydrate deposits form in nature, subsequent to a scientific ocean-drilling expedition off Canada's western coast.   view more (2006-08-22)

Regeneration web site hits the number one spot
A website designed by an expert at Staffordshire University to spread good practice in regenerating coalfield communities in Europe is number one on several Internet search engines. As part of the EU-funded RECHAR II Exchange of Experience Project(1), Jon Fairburn of the University's Geography... view more (2001-01-05)

Photos reveal Myanmar's large and small predators
Using remote camera traps to lift the veil on Myanmar's dense northern wild lands, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have painstakingly gathered a bank of valuable data on the country's populations of tigers and other smaller, lesser known carnivores. These findings will help in... view more (2008-09-10)

'Hellish' hot springs yield greenhouse gas-eating bug
A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming.   view more (2007-12-07)

New chair will help meet key challenges in diabetes
A new, world-leading centre of excellence for diabetes research and treatment, currently under development at Oxford University, is to be further enhanced by the creation of a new chair in diabetic medicine. The Robert Turner Professorship in Diabetic Medicine, created to commemorate one of the... view more (2000-11-27)

Kingston University Designer Delivers Christmas Tree Charity
A Kingston University designer is bringing some early Christmas cheer to hundreds of needy children. Tim Simpson, a third year student on the University's Product and Furniture Design course, has created an alternative Christmas tree for Save the Children's Festival of Trees. This festive... view more (2003-11-20)

Green light for high data rates
As their quality has improved, services such as video streaming and Internet telephony have proliferated, but the high bandwidths can cause data congestion. At CeBIT a Competence Center is demonstrating how priority can be assigned dynamically to rapid connections. Data traffic on the Internet is... view more (2002-03-06)

Ice core studies confirm accuracy of climate models
An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000 year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and surprisingly abrupt changes in climate.   view more (2008-09-12)

Light is shed on new fibre's potential to change technology
Photonic crystal fibre's ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article in the leading science journal Nature-Photonics.   view more (2007-12-11)

U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming
The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student.   view more (2005-10-18)

Fuel cells help make noisy, hot generators a thing of the past
Two core technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - a fuel desulfurization system and a fuel reforming system - were instrumental in the demonstration of an electric power system operating on JP-8, a fuel commonly used in military operations.   view more (2007-12-12)
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