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U of Minnesota researcher finds materialism in children and adolescents linked to self-esteem
Peer pressure, targeted marketing campaigns and bad parenting have all been blamed for increasing materialism in children. Until now, there has been little evidence showing when this drive for material goods emerges in kids and what really causes it.   view more (2007-11-26)

Sniffing out chloride
When industrial plants are wrecked, they often leave behind a site with contaminated soil. If it was a metalworking plant, a textile production or dry-cleaning facility, a paint manufacturing or an animal waste processing plant, the soil is often contaminated with chlorine-based solvents. In order... view more (2002-09-09)

Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji
Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard the Marine National Facility Research Vessel, Southern Surveyor.   view more (2008-06-19)

Displays for the pants pocket
Much to the disappointment of many users of computer and portable electronic information device, flexible screens still cannot be found in retail stores. The reasons are mainly of technical and chemical nature, as Dr. Armin Wedel from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP... view more (2002-06-26)

Hybrid renewable energy system
FATRONIK technological centre from the Basque Country has designed and installed a micro-wind generator at the Aubixa Euskal Girotze boarding centre (San Pedro neighbourhood, Elgoibar). Since the end of October the 2.5 kW micro-wind generator has been producing energy which is initially planned to... view more (2003-11-18)

Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan
The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today.   view more (2008-02-06)

Ohio University Researchers Discover Evolutionary Oddity in Flamingos
With their spindly legs, long necks and bright plumage, flamingos are a curiosity of nature. Now a new discovery by a team of Ohio University researchers reveals an anatomical oddity that helps flamingos eat: erectile tissue.   view more (2006-10-31)

Bone research that grows on you
Rapid and guided healing of bones has moved a step closer with research by two biomedical engineering students who have found new ways to deliver bone growth enhancers directly to broken or weakened bones.   view more (2006-11-01)

Argonne's Hard X-ray Nanoprobe provides new capability to study nanoscale materials
The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes.   view more (2008-06-25)

New graphic displays for the blind: caesar receives research prize
Scientists from the caesar research center have been awarded a prize by the Spanish foundation ONCE   view more (2004-12-21)

Transparent sinter alumina
The efficiency of halogen lamps could be increased by using pure sinter alumina instead of quartz glass. But the presently available types of this ceramic material diffuse the light. New and transparent ceramics for parts in almost any shape are highly pressure-resistant. Halogen plasma lamps emit... view more (2002-03-05)

White Christmases unlikely
CRed, the community carbon reduction project run out of the University of East Anglia, is urging people to aim for a low carbon Christmas this year. CRed say that the reason we no longer have any White Christmases is down to global warming and that we need to work harder at reducing our carbon... view more (2003-12-03)

Journal of Geological Society salutes Young Author 2003
The Geological Society of London's flagship journal has chosen Ingrid Ukstins Peate to be Journal of the Geological Society Young Author of the Year 2003. The award was given for the paper The transition from sedimentation to flood volcanism in the Kangerlussuaq Basin, East Greenland, published in... view more (2004-03-10)

Home-based diet and exercise intervention improves elderly cancer survivors' physical function
A home-based program to improve exercise and diet led to significant, clinically meaningful improvement in body weight and physical function among older long-term cancer survivors in preliminary findings from the RENEW (Reach-out to ENhancE Wellness) trial.   view more (2008-11-19)

Z machine melts diamond to puddle
Sandia's Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid.   view more (2006-11-06)

A Promise Of Half A Million Years: EU Research Provides New Insight Into Climate Change
Within the EUR3,6 million EU research project PROMESS1 (PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems), with a EU EUR2,7 million contribution, European scientists have collected 500 000 year-old sediment cores from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. These samples will allow researchers to... view more (2004-07-22)

Purification of purines through electroflotation
ADE Biotec and the INASMET Foundation, both from the Basque Country, after three years of working together, have developed a new purification technique for purines. The technique is based on electroflotation and could be very beneficial for agriculture as it has a high level (80%+) of purification... view more (2003-01-14)

From glass eyes to colour-fast digital prints
Top quality colour printing could be revolutionised thanks to the revival in Bristol of an old printing process once used to create, among other things, colour charts for selecting glass eyes. Art researchers from the University of the West of England have discovered a 21st century use for the... view more (2002-06-06)

MIT engineers probe spiders' polymer art
A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.   view more (2006-10-31)

Study finds endoscopic brain surgery pioneered in Pittsburgh effective in children with tumors
A first-of-its-kind study published in the February issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics suggests endoscopic brain surgery, pioneered by surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has the potential to be safer and often more effective than conventional surgery in children... view more (2007-02-09)

Taming Tiny, Unruly Waves for Nano Optics
Nanoscale devices present a unique challenge to any optical technology - there's just not enough room for light to travel in a straight line.   view more (2007-10-09)

Geoscience converges under pressure
The contents of the deep Earth affect the planet as a whole, including life at its surface, but scientists must find unusual ways to "see" it.   view more (2007-05-22)

FSU classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans
Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly 3,500 years ago.   view more (2008-03-12)

Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China
Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic... view more (2008-05-19)

What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency identification devices?
In 2004, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a radiofrequency identification (RFID) device that is implanted under the skin of the upper arm of patients and that stores the patient's medical identifier. A debate in this week's PLoS Medicine discusses the pros and cons of... view more (2007-11-27)
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