Cities around the world, starting with Sydney, switch off the lights for an hour to highlight climate change. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 29 Mar 2008 | 5:39 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - Anthropologists have exhumed the graves of Friedrich Schiller's family in an attempt to positively identify the skull of the German dramatist and poet and end a 180-year-old debate.
CAIRO (Reuters) - New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found.
Ben Goldacre: You will remember the Durham Fish Oil tale - don't switch off now, the punchline's funny Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Mar 2008 | 12:16 am
Letter: Steve Boggan's feature on nanotechnology highlighted the potential offered across many consumer products, including foods, but also some of the fundamental uncertainties Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 29 Mar 2008 | 12:14 am
Stem cell researchers used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.
A new method of filming blood-vessel cells that move in accordance with targeted signals has been developed. The method can also be used to study how migration of cancer cells and nerves can be controlled. Formation of new blood cells and lymph vessels takes place with a number of different diseases.
Mayo data showed that 82 percent of NFL players under age 50 had abnormal narrowing and blockages in arteries, compared to the general population of the same age. This finding suggests that the former athletes face increased risk of experiencing high blood pressure, heart attack or stroke.
Molecular evidence provides strong evidence that speciation rates slow down through time. New species seem to appear less and less as the number of species in a region approaches the maximum number that it can support.
As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions.
New research holds promise for thousands who suffer from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. RDB, a neurological disorder that causes violent twitches and muscle contractions during rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep, can lead to serious injuries.
Science and innovation is being stifled by the government, says shadow chancellor George Osborne. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 28 Mar 2008 | 10:42 pm
Researchers have a new strategy for designing the next generation of synthetic vaccines that could lead to more effective treatments for fighting malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious diseases. These conditions kill more than 17 million people around the world each year.
Long known for its role in preventing anemia in expectant mothers and spinal birth defects in newborns, the B vitamin folate, found in leafy green vegetables, beans and nuts has now been shown to blunt the damaging effects of heart attack when given in short-term, high doses to test animals.
Neurons spoke to Dr. Joe Z. Tsien when he was a sophomore college student searching for some meaningful extracurricular activity. He had stopped by the lab of a brain researcher at Shanghai's East China Normal University. The room was dark except for a light shining on the brain. "You could hear this pop, pop, pop, pop," says Dr. Tsien, brain scientist who recently came to the Medical College of Georgia from Boston University. "At that moment, I got interested in the brain."
Researchers have made a case study of a green community. The report "Green Schemes: Sustainable Urbanism in Garfield Park" presents 80 concepts such as filtration gardens, narrowed roadways, and an elevated bikeway adjacent to the Green Line tracks. Graduate students and faculty in urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture conceived the schemes.
Europe's ATV freighter lines itself up for practice docking manoeuvres at the space station. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 28 Mar 2008 | 7:28 pm
