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| UQ research finds aging is satisfying |
| UQ research finds aging is satisfying
University of Queensland research is turning conventional wisdom on its head when it comes to grumpy old men and women. |
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| ACRYLAMIDE CROPS UP IN MORE FOODS |
| Acrylamide, a cancer-causing substance that led to scares when it was found in fried potatoes and other popular foods, is also found in olives, prune juice and teething biscuits, the U.S. food safety regulator says. |
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| CHAMPAGNE AND BUBBLES: SMALLER IS BETTER |
| As New Year's Eve approaches and you prepare to pop open that champagne bottle, keep your fingers crossed for small bubbles ... and lots of them. |
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| BOTTLE BLONDES CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER |
| Hair at a crime scene may not be a clue to who committed murder, according to Australian forensics research. |
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| MUSIC IMPROVES LANGUAGE AND MEMORY |
| Learning an instrument can help children improve their linguistic skills, and may even help people recover from memory loss after brain injury, researchers have found. |
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| TOO MUCH WATER DURING EXERCISE CAN KILL |
| Drinking too much fluid when exercising vigorously - often recommended in training - can actually kill you, sports medicine experts have warned. |
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| SCIENTISTS BRING NEW TWIST TO ‘DEATH BY CHOCOLATE’ WITH CHOCOLATE FLAVOURED MOUSETRAP |
| A mousetrap made out of chocolate developed by scientists at the University of Warwick is set to bring a new meaning to ‘Death by Chocolate’. The novel invention leads mice into temptation with the irresistible, alluring scent of chocolate essence without the use of bait. |
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| BROOKHAVEN LAB AND ARGONNE LAB SCIENTISTS. INVENT A PLASMA VALVE. |
| Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have received U.S. patent number 6,528,948 for a device that shuts off airflow into a vacuum about one million times faster than mechanical valves or shutters that are currently in use. The new device, called a plasma valve, was developed through research funded by DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences in the Office of Science. |
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| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO STUDY CHARTS NEW REALM OF PHYSICS |
| By constructing artificial materials that break long-standing rules of nature, a University of Toronto researcher has developed a flat lens that could significantly enhance the resolution of imaged objects. This, in turn, could lead to smaller and more effective antennas and devices for cell phones, increased space for data storage on CD-ROMs and more complex electronic circuits. |
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| OZONE MAY PROVIDE ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE PROTECTION FOR GRAINS |
| Taking a clue from air purification systems used in surgical suites, Purdue University researchers have discovered that ozone can eliminate insects in grain storage facilities without harming food quality or the environment. |
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| CURSE OF TUTANKHAMEN FINALLY LAID TO REST |
| After 80 years, the curse of Tutankhamen's tomb - credited with a host of untimely deaths since its discovery - has finally been disproven by an Australian epidemiologist. |
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| FROM THE BONE OF A HORSE, A NEW IDEA FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES |
| The horse, a classic model of grace and speed on land, is now an unlikely source of inspiration for more efficient flight. |
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| GLOBAL ANALYSIS FINDS NEARLY HALF THE EARTH IS STILL WILDERNESS |
| According to the most comprehensive global analysis ever conducted, wilderness areas still cover close to half the Earth's land, but contain only a tiny percentage of the world's population. More than 200 international scientists contributed to the analysis, which will be published in the book, Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places, (University of Chicago Press, 2003). |
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| THE ARCTIC PERENNIAL SEA ICE COULD BE GONE BY END OF THE CENTURY |
| A NASA study finds that perennial sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster than previously thought--at a rate of 9 percent per decade. If these melting rates continue for a few more decades, the perennial sea ice will likely disappear entirely within this century, due to rising temperatures and interactions between ice, ocean and the atmosphere that accelerate the melting process. |
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| BREAD CRUST AND STUFFING RICH IN HEALTHY ANTIOXIDANTS |
| The best thing since sliced bread may be bread crust: Researchers in Germany have discovered that the crust is a rich source of antioxidants and may provide a much stronger health benefit than the rest of the bread. |
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| MIT MODEL PREDICTS BIRTHPLACE OF DEFECT IN A MATERIAL |
| Defects such as cracks in a material are responsible for everything from malfunctioning microchips to earthquakes. Now MIT engineers have developed a model to predict a defect's birthplace, its initial features and how it begins to advance through the material. |
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| HEAT SENSITIVE MATERIALS CHANGE COLOR WHEN HOT |
| Imagine a fire door that changes color when hot, football jerseys that can tell when a player is overheating, road signs that change color indicating icy road conditions, and food packaging stamps that disappear when products have been kept at room temperature for too long. At the University of Rhode Island, chemists Brett Lucht and Bill Euler and chemical engineer Otto Gregory are working to make these products a reality. |
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| CAN THE SPHINX KEEP ITS FEET DRY? |
| The monuments of ancient Egypt may have stood for thousands of years in the desert sands, but now they face a new threat -- from rising groundwater.
Ayman Ahmed of the University of Sohag, Egypt, is working with Graham Fogg, professor of hydrology at the University of California, Davis, to study the problem and find ways to solve it. |
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| STUDY OF AQUATIC MUSSELS INDICATES THEY MAY YIELD NEW ANTIFOULING MATERIALS, SURGICAL ADHESIVES |
| New insights into how aquatic mussels bind tightly to rocks and other surfaces could lead to surgical applications and improved adhesives, it was reported today at the Great Lakes Regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. |
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| I'LL HAVE DOUBLE THE ICE WITH THAT |
| The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica is nearly twice as large as previously thought.
A study by a team at the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre and Australian Antarctic Division found that the shelf's grounding zone, where floating ice connects to the land, is further upstream than expected. |
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| WAR OF WORDS. WHY WOMEN HAVE MORE REASON THAN MEN TO FEAR THE GOSSIP'S TONGUE |
| MOST women may be physically weaker than men, but they have a formidable weapon at their disposal: gossip. Nattering to each other in this way could be why women form such strong social bonds, says anthropologist Nicole Hess from the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
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| EXERCISE EFFECTS DEPENDENT ON TIME OF DAY |
| Peak athletic performance may be related to time of day, suggests a University of Chicago study being presented to the Endocrine Society's annual meeting, ENDO 2001, in Denver, Colorado, on June 22, 2001. The study shows that the response of the systems regulating energy metabolism and some hormones differs according to when in the day exercise is performed. |
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