A British newspaper has published leaked figures which show the world’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year.
The Guardian published estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) which showed the world economy’s return to growth in 2010 coincided with a 1.6 gigatonne rise in carbon dioxide emissions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Key players behind the Australian-New Zealand joint bid to host the $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will launch a grid Cloud computing initiative by September with the aim of potentially harvesting the computing and storage power of desktops worldwide.
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), along with iVEC, the company running the $80 million high performance computing Pawsey Centre at CSIRO in Western Australia, are set to launch a citizen science
application this year based on the open source Nereus V Cloud computing technology developed at Oxford University. The application, dubbed theskynet
by Australian researchers, would grant anyone not affiliated with the global telescope project access to the datasets formed out of the array’s work — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers from the CSIRO have used laser technology to discover how much methane gas cows in northern Australia expel each day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The brains of people with autism are chemically different to those without autism, according to researchers.
A study, published in the journal Nature, showed the unique characters of the frontal and temporal lobes had disappeared.
Different genes should be active in each region, but autistic brains had the same pattern of gene expression.
The National Autistic Society said the results could be important for future treatments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Californian team say they have managed to convert human skin cells directly into functioning brain cells.
The scientists manipulated the process by which DNA is transcribed within foetal skin cells to create cells which behaved like neurons.
The technique had previously been demonstrated in mice, says the report in Nature.
It could be used for neurological research, and might conceivably be used to create brain cells for transplant — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Melbourne student has discovered a part of the universe that astrophysicists have spent decades trying to find.
Undergraduate student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, 22, was on a summer scholarship at Monash University when she managed to crack a mystery that until now had baffled scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twins joined at the head — the medical term is craniopagus — are one in 2.5 million, of which only a fraction survive. The way the girls’ brains formed beneath the surface of their fused skulls, however, makes them beyond rare: their neural anatomy is unique, at least in the annals of recorded scientific literature. Their brain images reveal what looks like an attenuated line stretching between the two organs, a piece of anatomy their neurosurgeon, Douglas Cochrane of British Columbia Children’s Hospital, has called a thalamic bridge, because he believes it links the thalamus of one girl to the thalamus of her sister. The thalamus is a kind of switchboard, a two-lobed organ that filters most sensory input and has long been thought to be essential in the neural loops that create consciousness. Because the thalamus functions as a relay station, the girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A wide-ranging study of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland has revealed just how wildlife-rich the area is, with researchers finding more than 260 species, including a new species of frog — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A comparatively cheap vitamin D supplement could change the way sufferers of multiple sclerosis are treated for the disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study says dark energy is real and is causing space-time and the universe to expand — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronomers have discovered a group of planets that have no fixed orbits and instead float freely through the Milky Way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer’s is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Doctors have declared a man cured of HIV five years after he received a bone marrow transplant and radiation therapy — but keep wearing those condoms as in the short term that cure will only work for a very small number of people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
CSIRO scientists have shown that a new experimental vaccine helps to protect horses against the deadly Hendra virus.
Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) will announce the successful progress to develop the vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
French scientists claim to have found the first planet outside our solar system with the potential to support Earth-like life.
Modelling of planet Gliese 581d shows it has the potential to be warm and wet enough to nurture Earth-like life, they said.
It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around 20 light years from Earth, which makes it one of our closest neighbours — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tarantulas eject silk through their feet to anchor themselves to slippery, vertical surfaces, say scientists.
The discovery, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows how these large but very fragile spiders avoid potentially lethal falls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The malaria parasite can ensure it keeps a host body all to itself by preventing further malarial infections, according to international researchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 16-year-old from the Toronto area used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that shows potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, and won top honors for his work.
Marshall Zhang, an 11th-grade student at Richmond Hill’s Bayview Secondary School, received first place Tuesday (May 10) in the 2011 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge, a contest in which students conduct their own research projects with the help of mentors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you think biologists have a pretty good idea about what lives on the Earth, think again. Scientists say they have just now discovered an entirely new branch on the tree of life. It’s made up of mysterious microscopic organisms. They’re related to fungus, but they are so different, you could argue that they deserve their very own kingdom, alongside plants and animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronomers and stargazers were looking to the dawn sky Friday as planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter aligned over the southern hemisphere.
The visual treat was visible just above the horizon around sunrise — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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