The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Evolution has been caught in the act, according to scientists who are decoding how a species of Australian lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth — via spudpundit.newsvine.com
Ants travelling along a familiar route use their photographic memory to calculate how to stay on track, British researchers say — via ABC News
James Gilpin is a designer and researcher who works on the implementation of new biomedical technologies. He’s also got type 1 diabetes, where his body doesn’t produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar levels — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Canadian developers are plotting a small revolution in the still-tiny market for electric cars, with a concept vehicle made from hemp set to debut at a specialised auto show next month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a single famous female scientist, according to an ICM poll — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A protein produced in cases of rheumatoid arthritis appears to protect against the development of Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists have said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien “sentient machines” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Will Swindon be remembered as the home of a major breakthrough in halting the global decline of the honeybee? Ron Hoskins, a 79-year-old beekeeper from the town, has spent the last 18 years looking for a bee that is resistant to the parasite blamed for killing billions worldwide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered a new type of chlorophyll in ancient Australian bacteria.
The finding could lead to new types of bio-energy to power the future — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists have discovered a frog the size of a pea, the smallest found in Asia, Africa or Europe, on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have found a class of drugs that could provide treatment for Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fever — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in Scotland have unveiled a new biofuel made from whisky by-products that they say can power ordinary cars more efficiently than ethanol — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian company is offering a watery alternative to cremation or burial, using a process it says ”totally eliminates pollution” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plant scientists around the world are warning that hundreds of years of accumulated agricultural heritage are in danger of being plowed under after a Russian court ruled today (August 11) that the land occupied by a world-renowned plant bank on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg may be transferred to the Russian Housing Development Foundation, which plans to build houses on the site — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists say they have discovered Britain’s oldest house at a Stone Age site in northern England, and have compared its historical significance to Stonehenge, the country’s most famous ancient monument — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In what turns out to be a major coincidence, Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer in Australia, is reporting that he recorded another impact on Jupiter! This time he has video of the impact, which he claims was quite bright and lasted about two seconds
Construction workers in ancient China used sticky rice to make a super-strong mortar for city walls and other structures that even withstood earthquakes. Chemists now have discovered the ingredient in sticky rice that made the mortar so strong. Scientists have discovered the secret behind an ancient Chinese super-strong mortar made from sticky rice, the delicious sweet rice
that is a modern mainstay in Asian dishes. They also concluded that the mortar — a paste used to bind and fill gaps between bricks, stone blocks and other construction materials — remains the best available material for restoring ancient buildings
The Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, striking fear with the uncontrollable bleeding it causes and mortality rates up to 90 percent. Ever since then, scientists have been struggling to find a way to treat the infection or protect against it. A team led by Thomas Geisbert of Boston University has used an experimental drug to protect monkeys from death after injecting them with massive doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola. We were stunned,
Geisbert says. I’ve been working with this virus for my whole career — 23 or 24 years — and we’ve had some mild successes where maybe we could go up to 50 percent protection,
he said. But I was really shocked that we got complete protection
A British scientist claims to have become the first human to be infected by a computer virus, in an experiment he says has important implications for the future of implantable technology. Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading infected a computer chip which was then implanted in his hand with the virus and then transmitted it to a PC to prove that malware can move between human and computer
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