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Materials Sciences

Cement Innovations Yield Concrete Results in Nature Materials

Their refinements to our understanding of how cement and concrete actually work, reported this week in Nature Materials,* ultimately may make possible…

Life & Chemistry

Titanium dioxide — It slices, it dices …

Because most proteins are very large, complex molecules made up of hundreds or thousands of amino acids, they usually must be cut up into more manageable…

Life & Chemistry

NYU Scientists Uncover Gene Roles in Species Development

The findings, which were discovered by researchers in Professor Claude Desplan’s and Steve Small’s laboratories in NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics,…

Earth Sciences

Sandia Researchers Advance Understanding of Climate Change

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mark Ivey and Bernie Zak are members of a research team from around the world whose work on the cold tundra in…

Life & Chemistry

Danish Researchers Collaborate to Solve Virus Puzzle

The research is a collaboration between molecular biologists and physicists. ”The molecular biologists have knowledge of how the cell functions and of the…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Discovery: Ammonia’s Role in Blood Health

Thousands of people with liver and kidney disease die every year from too much ammonia in their blood, and scientists from the United States and Japan have…

Life & Chemistry

Monitoring poisons in the environment — a woolly matter

Significant correlations were found between the amount of copper and lead found in washed wool from sheep and in local streams. Median copper concentration in…

Life & Chemistry

Making no bones about it — digestion in Burmese pythons

Dr Jean-Hervé Lignot (Louis Pasteur University) and Dr Robert K. Pope (Indiana University South Bend) will talk about the implications this has on the way…

Physics & Astronomy

Amateurs and Pros Unite to Map Double Asteroid Insights

In a paper to be published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Icarus, a team of University of California, Berkeley, and Paris Observatory astronomers…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanotubes Enhance Thermal Management in Electronics

The chips inside an electronic device give off heat as a byproduct of power consumption when the object is on or being used. To reduce high temperatures, heat…

Environmental Conservation

Great Sharks Impact North Carolina Bay Scallop Fishery

A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has found…

Health & Medicine

UK Researchers Propose National Database for Epidural Safety

They discovered that 12 of the 8,100 people studied developed major complications after receiving epidural pain relief following an operation. Six developed…

Physics & Astronomy

Conference of Planetarium Directors & Professional

The Conference had the theme “Planetarium through ages: Vision 2027”. It was attended by directors and professionals of all the major planetariums in the…

Life & Chemistry

Silent Research Vessels: Impact on Fish Stock Surveys

The aim is to avoid scaring off fish and thus biasing results from stock abundance surveys. However, comparative studies carried out by IMR show that the…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta and New Horizons Team Up to Observe Jupiter

New Horizons made its closest approach to Jupiter on 28 February 2007. Its principal objective was to use the gravity of the giant planet to slingshot it…

Physics & Astronomy

New Adaptive Optics Technique Achieves First Light

On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit…

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