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Finding victims in post-disaster spaces
When earthquakes strike, people often get trapped in buildings. Search and rescue teams can pinpoint some victims using sniffer dogs and sensors. But a new European system that takes pictures during or after a building collapse promises to save many more lives.   view more (2004-09-17)

Ice has a starring role - CMD19/CMMP with The Physics Congress 2002
When even moderately hot stars like our Sun have surface temperatures of around 6,000°C, it is hard to imagine that ice plays an important part in their formation. But that`s exactly what astrophysicists have recently discovered by turning to surface scientists for help. At the Condensed Matter conference on Monday 8 April, part of the... view more... (2002-03-26)

One in four patients has been drinking before arrival at accident and emergency
One in four patients has been drinking before arrival at accident and emergency, reveals a study in Emergency Medicine Journal. Alcohol was implicated in almost all cases of self-harm, almost half of collapses, half of all assaults, and half of admissions to hospital, the findings show. A survey was carried out of all new attenders aged 10 and... view more... (2001-06-29)

DNA solves mystery of Gibraltar's macaques
Research will help manage populations of macaques, a threatened species of primate   view more (2005-04-20)

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
Undergraduate education generally involves acquiring "received knowledge" - in other words, absorbing the past discoveries of scholars and scientists. But University of North Carolina at Charlotte senior biology major Andrew Pierce went beyond the textbooks and uncovered something previously unknown.   view more (2007-06-12)

Bringing space down to Earth to explain how stars form
In a laboratory in Nottingham, scientists are now creating the uniquely harsh conditions encountered in interstellar space. In an environment where the pressure is only one ten billion billionth (one part in 10 to the power 13) of atmospheric pressure, and the temperature a mere 10 degrees above absolute zero, Dr Martin McCoustra and his... view more... (2002-04-04)

Turn back, wayward axon
To a growing axon, the protein RGMa is a "Wrong Way" sign, alerting it to head in another direction. As Hata et al. demonstrate in the March 9, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, translating that signal into cellular action requires teamwork from two receptors.   view more (2009-03-09)

Scientists solve longstanding astronomy mystery
Scientists may have solved one of the most longstanding astrophysical mysteries of all times: How massive stars - up to 120 times the mass of our sun - form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth.   view more (2009-01-16)

Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics
Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the DNA of the Streptomyces family of bacteria.   view more (2008-10-29)

Ants and avalanches: Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendency
Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality---a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature---scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches.   view more (2008-01-24)

MIGRATING DOCTORS (pp 177, 245)
The increasing divide between less-developed and more-developed countries in the quality of health care is well recognised. In this week's LANCET, Peter E Bundred and colleagues, from Liverpool and Canada describe how the prospects of a better standard of life are attracting large numbers of doctors to more-developed countries and away from... view more... (2000-07-12)

Toad tadpoles and the 'Laurel and Hardy' effect
Research at the University of Kent has revealed a remarkable phenomenon among tadpoles of the Mallorcan midwife toad, one of Europe's most threatened species. The researchers, from the University's Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, (DICE) have discovered that the toad tadpoles can change shape when they smell snakes swimming nearby.... view more... (2003-10-20)

Was El Ni'得 unaffected by the Little Ice Age ?
An extremely intense El Ni'得 event in 1983 prompted an international surveillance programme, involving the deployment of moored or drift measurement buoys and observation satellites. This research effort is proving to be fruitful. The data obtained provide a key to understanding how the two components of the now-famous two-phase system El Ni'得... view more... (2002-03-27)

Royal corruption is rife in the ant world
Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption - and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen.   view more (2008-03-12)

Newcastle University Professor to spearhead World Trade Center insurance investigation
A Professor from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has been confirmed as the man who will advise Lloyds insurance company as they begin to assess insurance claims expected to exceed £1.5 billion dollars in the wake of the attack on New York's World Trade Center on 11 September. John Knapton, Professor of Structural Engineering in... view more... (2001-10-19)

UC Riverside researcher develops novel method to grow human embryonic stem cells
The majority of researchers working with human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) - cells which produce any type of specialized adult cells in the human body - use animal-based materials for culturing the cells. But because these materials are animal-based, they could transmit viruses and other pathogens to the hESCs, making the cells unsuitable for... view more... (2008-08-20)

Are sacrificial bacteria altruistic or just unlucky?
An investigation of the genes that govern spore formation in the bacteria B. subtilis shows that chance plays a significant role in determining which of the microbes sacrifice themselves for the colony and which go on to form spores.   view more (2008-04-16)

The downside of a good idea
Good ideas can have drawbacks. When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas, according to Indiana University cognitive scientist Robert Goldstone.   view more (2008-02-21)

A&T professor has technology to monitor bridge safety
North Carolina A&T State University has developed a technology that could have possibly prevented the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   view more (2007-08-06)

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds
Being a devoted husband and father is not enough to keep an avian marriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.   view more (2007-06-13)
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