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Better protection for wood
Coatings used to protect the exposed wooden parts of buildings have to withstand all kinds of weather. To avoid over-frequent renovation, architects, builders and house-owners are advised to look for a reliable quality label. The relevant European standard is being revised.   view more (2004-10-04)

Weird water: Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties
Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance: Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature.   view more (2008-01-21)

Scientists Discover How Fish Evolved To Float At Different Sea Depths
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how fish have evolved over the last 400 million years to stay motionless at different water depths.   view more (2005-03-18)

A single water molecule acting as gate keeper
How do the bonds cells form with their environments rupture? What enables some cells to migrate? It is known since quite a while that cells can have complex mechanical interactions with their environments. Not only the biochemical but also the physical properties of their environment can thus have... view more (2004-11-12)

Strengthening case for life on Mars - CMD19CMMP with The Physics Congress 2002
When it was announced last month that the Mars Odyssey satellite had found water ice beneath the planet`s frozen carbon dioxide south polar ice cap, "I felt excited!" says Dr Lidija Siller, a physicist from the University of Newcastle. "I believe that the data I have explains how this water became... view more (2002-03-26)

Larger GP practices do not provide better care
It is widely known that fewer patients die in larger hospitals that do more operations, but does a similar association between volume of treatment and quality exist in primary care? In this week’s BMJ, Azeem Majeed and colleagues set out to test whether large general practices or those that... view more (2003-02-12)

Monash team learns from nature to split water
An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.   view more (2008-08-18)

River-shelf interactions during Spring floods in the coastal Beaufort Sea
Multi-year study provides insights to possible future responses to environmental change in the arctic.   view more (2006-12-06)

Mopping up mercury - a new solution to an old problem
A pilot plant employing a new type of bioreactor has successfully been used to treat mercury-contaminated wastewater in Germany. Dr Irene Wagner-Döbler and colleagues from the GBF National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Germany, developed the technical scale plant based on previous work... view more (2001-04-01)

Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
Microbes that result in beach closures and health advisories when detected at unsafe levels in the ocean also have been detected in the sand, according to a recent study by a team of Stanford scientists.   view more (2007-08-08)

Interruptions at work have multiple effects
Interruptions make people speed up their work pace, while maintaining the required quality of work. However, interruptions do have negative impact on emotion and well-being, and lead to an increase in effort, leaving workers tired.   view more (1999-06-09)

Water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, Cornell research survey finds
About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has... view more (2007-08-14)

Social Environment is the Key to Quality of Life for Older People
Healthy older people living with a partner feel they have the highest quality of life, whilst those in residential homes are likely to report the poorest, according to new research funded by the Economic & Social Research Council as part of its Growing Older Programme. A three-year-long study... view more (2003-07-29)

New knowledge improves rice quality
A major international initiative is being launched to try to boost the income of the world's millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting food.   view more (2007-05-08)

Breast asymmetry surgery improves quality of life, self-esteem
Many women suffer from uneven breasts, also known as breast asymmetry - a relatively common condition that is often not discussed. The embarrassment can affect their daily lives, sexuality and confidence, but for those with significant asymmetry, breast surgery can considerably elevate quality of... view more (2006-10-09)

No trouble removing oil from water
A simple tank-and-siphon system for removing oil from oily water and protecting the environment is about to be launched internationally by an engineering team from the University of New South Wales.   view more (2005-08-05)

Invisible waves shape continental slope
A class of powerful, invisible waves hidden beneath the surface of the ocean can shape the underwater edges of continents and contribute to ocean mixing and climate, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found.   view more (2008-07-01)

New technique reduces radiation exposure by 60 percent in abdominal CT of children
By lowering the tube current to account for both the weight and body symmetry of a child, an abdominal CT radiation dose can be reduced by 60% without compromising the image quality.   view more (2006-05-02)

New Technology Opens Up PC World To Disabled
Researchers at the University of Ulster have developed new technology that could revolutionize the quality of life for the disabled. The Look Device allows individuals with severe physical impairments to control the operation of a computer cursor solely with the movement of their eyes. A set of... view more (2002-11-12)

Drainage system still not fully developed
Drainage systems can be far better designed. This is one of the conclusions that Professor Fran'§ois Clemens comes to in his thesis, for which he received his PhD on Tuesday 13 March. “The models that are used for the development of drainage systems are not realistic,” says Clemens,... view more (2001-03-15)

Old McDonald Had a Phytochemical
Forget the moo-moo here and quack-quack there. Farmers may find phytochemicals to be the barnyard bonanza.   view more (2007-11-08)

Predicting quality of life for individuals with chronic pain
People who suffer with chronic pain have a lower quality of life than those with the chronic illness diabetes.   view more (2002-11-13)

Turn your copper coins gold for Science week
What about changing the texture of a rose so it becomes as brittle as glass? Perhaps you'd prefer to see a large tube of water take on the colours of the Rainbow ? These are just some of the experiments being carried out on Friday March 23rd as part of Science week in Swindon's Designer Outlet... view more (2001-03-21)

LLNL researchers peer into water in carbon nanotubes
Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves within these tiny channels.   view more (2008-06-26)

Lighting up paper
Researchers have developed a sophisticated way of measuring the print quality of paper. The work, published today in the Institute of Physics journal, Measurement Science and Technology, describes how Jari Palviainen and colleagues at the Universities of Joensuu and Oulu in Finland, use what is... view more (2002-02-27)
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