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News | Archive (17 July 2009)
NASA, CU-Boulder airborne expedition chases Arctic sea ice questions
— 18:42 GMT | EnvironmentA small NASA aircraft completed its first successful science flight Thursday in partnership with the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of an expedition to study the receding Arctic sea ice and improve understanding of its life cycle and the long-term stability of the Arctic ice cover. The mission continues through 24 July…
The fancier the cortex, the smarter the brain?
— 18:36 GMT | HealthWhy are some people smarter than others? In a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Eduardo Mercado III from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, describes how certain aspects of brain structure and function help determine how easily we learn new things, and how learning capacity contributes to individual differences in intelligence…
Made-to-measure solutions for enhancing prostheses of amputated legs
— 18:31 GMT | HealthTECNALIA Corporacion Tecnologica and the Valencia Institute for Biomechanics (IBV) have designed made-to-measure solutions to improve adaptation to replacements for amputated legs - the prime objective of the new health biomaterials project, FABIO, financed by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism…
Naval Research Laboratory's ANDE-2 launched aboard Endeavour
— 18:26 GMT | TechnologyThe Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on 15 July. The ANDE-2 satellite suite consists of two nearly perfectly spherical micro-satellites with instrumentation to perform two interrelated mission objectives. The first objective is to monitor the total atmospheric density along the orbit for improved orbit determination of resident space objects. The second is to provide a test object for both radar and optical U.S. Space Surveillance Network sensors…
Neon blue-tailed tree lizard glides like a feather
— 18:21 GMT | BiologyMost lacertid lizards are content scurrying in and out of nooks and crannies in walls and between rocks. However, some have opted for an arboreal life style. Neon blue tailed tree lizards (Holaspis guentheri) leap from branch to branch as they scamper through trees in the African forest. There are even anecdotes that the tiny African tree lizards can glide. But without any obvious adaptations to help them to upgrade a leap to a glide, it wasn't clear whether the reptiles really do take to the air and, if they do, how they remain aloft…
Preemies born in poverty 4 times less likely ready for school
— 18:16 GMT | HealthAdvances in neonatal care enable two-thirds of premature babies born with respiratory problems to be ready for school at an appropriate age, but those living in poverty are far less likely to be ready on time than their better-off peers, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Centre report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics…
Hospital software improves patient satisfaction at discharge from hospital
— 18:11 GMT | HealthWhen hospitalists use discharge communication software, patients and the outpatient doctors who carry out the care have better perceptions of the quality of the discharge process, according to new research published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine…
Montana State professor hopes to help high elevation pines grow
— 18:06 GMT | EnvironmentThread-like fungi that grow in soils at high elevations may play an important role in restoring whitebark and limber pine forests in Canada. Montana State University professor Cathy Cripps is looking for ways to use fungi to help pine seedlings get a strong start…
Scientists assess the 2008 Myanmar cyclone disaster
— 18:01 GMT | EnvironmentTropical cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on 2 May 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country's recorded history - with a death toll that may have exceeded 138,000. In the July 2009 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers report on a field survey done three months after the disaster to document the extent of the flooding and resulting damage…
Why winning athletes are getting bigger
— 17:56 GMT | HealthWhile watching swimmers line up during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, former Olympic swimmer and NBC Sports commentator Rowdy Gaines quipped that swimmers keep getting bigger, with the shortest one in the current race towering over the average spectator…
Svilen Bobev receives ACA Early Career Award
Researchers confirm second-ever case of virgin birth by shark