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Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool
Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws.   view more (2008-09-04)

Wildlife Conservation Society discovers 'Planet of the Apes'
The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.   view more (2008-08-06)

Royal College of Art PhD Student Designs Interactive Jewellery to Show Human Emotions
Moi Fusakul, a PhD student in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art has developed jewellery that will interact with human emotions. By wearing the specially designed jewellery with a heart rate monitor sensor it could literally mean that people could soon... view more (2002-06-13)

Antarctica and climate change - representatives of 32 nations decide on research focus programmes for the exploration of Antarctica
Antarctica and climate change - representatives of 32 nations decide on research focus programmes for the exploration of Antarctica   view more (2004-10-21)

Community divisions having `profound impact` on Northern Ireland's toddlers - University of Ulster research
By the age of three, Catholic children are already twice as likely to say they don`t like the police compared to Protestant children. By the age of six, a third of children are identifying with one of the two main communities and just under one in six (15%) are making sectarian statements according... view more (2002-06-24)

Study Offers Preview of Ice Sheet Melting, Rapid Climate Changes
The retreat of a massive ice sheet that once covered much of northern Europe has been described for the first time, and researchers believe it may provide a sneak preview of how present-day ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will act in the face of global warming.   view more (2006-03-15)

Photo reveals rare okapi survived poaching onslaught
A set of stripy legs in a camera trap photo snapped in an African forest indicates something to cheer about, say researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The legs belong to an okapi-a rare forest giraffe-which apparently has survived in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National... view more (2008-09-11)

Study raises questions about diagnosis, medical treatment of ADHD
A new UCLA study shows that only about half of children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, exhibit the cognitive defects commonly associated with the condition.   view more (2008-01-23)

A "slurp" says more than ten beeps
Natural warning sounds may be the future in airplanes and perhaps in cars as well. A "slurp" when fuel is low works better than a monotonous beeping sound. In a dissertation at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, Pernilla Ulfvengren has studied how warning sounds function,... view more (2003-12-18)

Two other Mars missions heating up
Two Mars orbiter missions - one from NASA, the other from the European Space Agency (ESA) - will open new vistas in the exploration of Mars through the use of sophisticated ground-penetrating radars, providing international researchers with the first direct clues about the Red Planet's subsurface... view more (2006-03-07)

Brown-led research team proposes new link to tropical African climate
he Lake Tanganyika area, in southeast Africa, is home to nearly 130 million people living in four countries that bound the lake, the second deepest on Earth. Scientists have known that the region experiences dramatic wet and dry spells, and that rainfall profoundly affects the area's people, who... view more (2008-09-12)

TU Delft Students build own Formula Racing Car
During the roll out of the car on 5 June Team Shark of TU Delft present their car to the public for the first time. The team is made up of Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering and Mechanical Engineering students. They will compete internationally for the fastest, safest and best... view more (2001-05-23)

Atmospheric Mercury Has Declined -- But Why?
The amount of gaseous mercury in the atmosphere has dropped sharply from its peak in the 1980s and has remained relatively constant since the mid 1990s. This welcome decline may result from control measures undertaken in western Europe and North America, but scientists who have just concluded a... view more (2003-06-10)

Northern Right Whales Head South to Give Birth, Leave Genetic "Fingerprints" with NOAA Researchers
Like many northerners who head south to warmer climates for the winter, many Northern right whales also head south in November and stay into April.   view more (2008-03-04)

Universe's oldest objects emerge from the background
The deepest reaches of space are permeated by a cloak of infrared radiation, an uneven energy swath generated by long-dead objects from the early universe.   view more (2006-12-20)

Sea Grant warns of dumping seafood
In its latest outreach campaign, MIT Sea Grant has developed an educational pamphlet to encourage people not to release or dump live and fresh seafood and seafood waste into the wild.   view more (2006-06-22)

Journal of the Geological Society Contents Vol 157 / 3 May
The Journal of the Geological Society Volume 157, March 2000   view more (2000-03-02)

Varying prevalence among ethnic groups of gene mutation that increases risk of breast cancer
Among several U.S. racial/ethnic groups examined, Hispanic women were found to have the highest prevalence of the cancer-associated gene mutation BRCA1 at 3.5 percent, with Asian Americans having the lowest prevalence (0.5 percent), according to a study in the December 26 issue of JAMA.   view more (2007-12-26)

Changing jet streams may alter paths of storms and hurricanes
The Earth's jet streams, the high-altitude bands of fast winds that strongly influence the paths of storms and other weather systems, are shifting-possibly in response to global warming.   view more (2008-04-17)

Study reveals lakes a major source of prehistoric methane
A team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age.   view more (2007-10-26)

Clues to African archaeology found in lead isotopes
Microscopic specs of lead are offering clues about the enormous cultural changes that swept across northern Africa a thousand years ago.   view more (2006-03-27)

Computer vision for the blind
The white cane used by the blind as a travel aid may be universal, but it is not always adequate when it comes to pedestrian crossings. Although some crossings make a sound when it is safe to cross, many do not, and it is at these crossings that the blind need to know when the green man is showing.... view more (2002-08-15)

Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean
Several days ago, the 'Maria S Merian' returned from her second Arctic expedition with data confirming trends of Arctic warming.   view more (2006-10-05)

Brown University Geologists Create 5-Million-Year Climate Record
Using chemical clues mined from ocean mud, Brown University researchers have generated the longest continuous record of ocean temperatures on Earth.   view more (2006-04-07)

Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast
NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely culprit for the dramatically low returns of Chinook and coho salmon to rivers and streams along the West Coast of the United States in 2007.   view more (2008-03-04)
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