Other Sciences News

Jun 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles. Pomegranates at a market in Istanbul, Turkey (Jessica May H.) Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology. The pomegranate, Punica granatum, is native in northern India and has been...

Jun 19, 2012 by News Staff

A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

A new study into the biogeography of Antarctica has identified 15 distinct regions on the continent and near-shore islands. 15 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic...

Jun 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria....

Jun 11, 2012 by News Staff

A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi, and other...

Jun 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists have revealed new details on a 2,300-year-old beak-like weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy vessels in the First Punic War, the...

Jun 6, 2012 by News Staff

The reconstruction of human limb bones found in Atapuerca, Spain, has helped scientists to determine the height of the human species Homo heidelbergensis. The...

Jun 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Monash University in Australia have found how the zebrafish heals its spinal cord after injury. A zebrafish, Danio rerio, in an aquarium...

May 30, 2012 by News Staff

Forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have found that heads of Americans are getting larger. Uncle Sam, a national personification...

May 30, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas has found that East Asian and American Facebook users...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, a team of scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich...

May 28, 2012 by News Staff

A new study has revealed that it took about 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time. End-Permian Earth (Christine...

May 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has identified why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for...

May 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils. Image shows a 300 million year...

May 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian researchers have identified a formula to understand why some branded movies go viral on YouTube. YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California...

May 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from Britain and Australia have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing,...

May 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University has found large quantities of sulphur and iron compounds in marine archaeological...

May 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles has found that binging on soda and sweets for as little as six weeks may make you stupid. Crystalline...

May 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has found ambient background noise to be an important factor affecting creative cognition among consumers. The new...

May 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...