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ICES advises zero catch on more cod stocks
This Friday, scientists from ICES will release a report giving more strong advice to the European Commission and governments to reduce fishing pressure. In particular, cod stocks in the Kattegat, eastern Baltic and Norwegian coastal cod are all depleted and being overfished and ICES will advise zero catch of cod in these areas for 2005. (The... view more... (2004-06-08)
Little Crashes Could Protect Stock Market
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 7 AUGUST 2002 19:00 BST UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk WALL STREET`S sneezing fit continues, and the rest of the world can`t shake off its cold. Could the answer be to "immunise" the stock market by injecting it with a dose of minor... view more... (2002-08-07)
Wishful betting can contaminate financial markets, study shows
Wishful bettors, those who make overly optimistic investments, will ultimately harm themselves financially, but they can harm entire markets as well, new research shows. view more (2009-03-12)
Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments
Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. view more (2008-10-23)
Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events in Solar Wind
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have applied data analysis methods used to model stock market fluctuations, to explore changes in the solar wind (the sun's expanding atmosphere). They have discovered that the fluctuations in the solar wind follow the same kinds of patterns seen in the stock markets - particularly when it comes to the... view more... (2002-07-25)
Electronic Markets Win Out Over Traditional Dealing
Trading through dealers on the London Stock Exchange could be obsolete in less than three years, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. A study led by Dr Nir Vulkan of the Sa'-d Business School and Worcester College, University of Oxford, investigated where traders would trade if they have the choice of... view more... (2003-05-15)
Owning too much company stock puts workers' retirement at risk
Congress should ban employer stock from company-sponsored retirement plans to spare workers the risk of putting too much of their nest eggs in one basket, a new study by a University of Illinois legal expert says. view more (2009-06-23)
Why youth hostel showers are like the stock market
Diversity keeps you warm. At least that is true while you're having a shower in youth hostels. If you like, this sums up the research project just published by scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn. Their result is not as trivial as it sounds. Ultimately it shows that heterogeneity provides stability, whether this is in a shower,... view more... (2008-02-12)
Chemistry & Industry Issue 1 - Cover Date Monday 7 January 2002
From Issue 1 2002 Chemistry & Industry has a new look and updated contents, including the launch of the C&I stock price indices. Based on the price of shares in 22 blue chip chemicals companies in Europe and North America, the value of the portfolio has been normalized to 100 and we await developments. Its value will be printed fortnightly on... view more... (2002-01-02)
Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
In the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In the May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice that ordinary citizens can use when faced by such threats. view more (2007-04-11)
Irrational exuberance behind recent stock gains, says UAB finance expert
A second straight week of stronger-than-expected third quarter earnings from a broad cross section of U.S. industries has held the nation's Dow Jones Industrial Average above the psychological benchmark of 10,000 points for the week of Oct. 19, but the climb isn't likely to last, says a finance expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham... view more... (2009-10-22)
Winter Flounder On The Fast Track To Recovery
Winter flounder - sold in markets as flounder or lemon sole - in the Gulf of Maine went into serious decline in the 1980s, taking with it a major commercial and recreational fishery. view more (2007-04-17)
Women's biological clock revealed: Hormone may predict age at menopause
Age at menopause may now be predicted more realistically according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). view more (2008-04-29)
First datasets for national biomass and carbon dataset now available
Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) are releasing data from nine project mapping zones. view more (2008-02-15)
New Study on Effects of Disclosing Financial Interests on Participation in Medical Research
Knowing how an investigator is paid for running a research study surprisingly plays a small role in patients' willingness to take part in clinical trials. However, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study more participants are troubled when they are told that the investigator could profit or lose money depending on the results. view more (2008-10-06)
Radio Frequency tagging for preventing theft and tracking stocks
Tagging individual items with barely noticeable disposable electronic circuits that can be detected with a radio wave scanner is becoming increasingly common, with over 4 billion circuits sold last year. There are many applications where tags are currently in use. Manufacturers and distributors use hand-held radio frequency tagging to track stock,... view more... (2003-06-03)
Transponders keep track of inventory
Clothes make the man, but they also create work. Each consignment has to be recorded on arrival at the warehouse, and again after shipment to one of retail outlets. When the job involves thousands of garments, it can become a real labor of Sisyphus - especially when the time comes round for the next general inventory. Each item of clothing has to... view more... (2003-09-18)
Clinical trial volunteers mostly indifferent -- but not blind to -- researchers' financial conflicts
Unless a researcher has stock ownership in a company whose drug is being tested, telling potential research volunteers about an investigator's financial interests is unlikely to affect their willingness to volunteer, a new study shows. view more (2008-04-07)
North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from U.S. waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study by NOAA researchers. view more (2009-11-03)
Journal details how global warming will affect the world's fisheries
Watching the ebb and flow of populations of fisheries around the world can provide some insight into understanding the effects of global warming on our planet, according to a group of researchers writing in the summer 2007 issue of Natural Resource Modeling. view more (2007-05-17)
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