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News | Archive (24 December 2008)
Spain's biggest meteorite strike remembered 150 years on
— 14:00 GMT | AstronomyEarly on Christmas Eve, 1858 'people who in the streets, on pathways and in the fields saw a magnificent ball of fire appear, which shone with a brilliant, blinding light and all the colours of the rainbow, obscured the light of the moon and descended majestically from the sky.' This comes from a report commissioned by Rafael Martinez Fortun, from the town of Molina de Segura in Murcia, whose farm was struck by the largest meteorite recovered to date in Spain. In 1863, Queen Isabel II accepted it as a donation to the National Museum of Natural Sciences, where it has been conserved and exhibited ever since…
Georgia Tech physicist honored with Humboldt Award
— 14:00 GMT | PhysicsUzi Landman, professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists. He will accept the award in June 2009 at the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, to be held in Berlin…
Evidence for protective effect of fish oil not conclusive
— 14:00 GMT | HealthFish oil protects against deaths from heart problems, but doesn't provide a clear benefit in heart rhythm problems (arrhythmias), according a study published on bmj.com today…
With mental health insurance, price matters
— 14:00 GMT | HealthMore people who need mental health services will seek follow-up care if the price is right, Brown University researchers have found…
Researchers find chink in the armour of viral 'tummy bug'
— 14:00 GMT | HealthResearchers at Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Melbourne have moved a step closer to identifying a broad spectrum treatment for the dreaded 'viral tummy bug' or rotavirus…
UC Davis discovery offers hope for treating kidney cancer
— 14:00 GMT | HealthKidney cancer is typically without symptoms until it has spread to other organs, when it is also the most difficult to treat. Newer chemotherapies show great promise for extending survival during later disease stages, but they can also be highly toxic…
Enhancing solar cells with nanoparticles
— 14:00 GMT | TechnologyDeriving plentiful electricity from sunlight at a modest cost is a challenge with immense implications for energy, technology, and climate policy. A paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, describes a relatively new approach to solar cells: lacing them with nanoscopic metal particles. As the authors describe in the article, this approach has the potential to greatly improve the ability of solar cells to harvest light efficiently…
Excessive police violence evident in emergency care cases
— 14:00 GMT | HealthExcessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal…
In many fungi, reproductive spores are remarkably aerodynamic
— 14:00 GMT | BiologyThe reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimising shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University…
Humans aren't alone in giving gifts
— 14:00 GMT | BiologyAt Christmas time, we usually expect presents in return for the gifts we give out. And now it seems we humans aren't alone in this calculating attitude. New research published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, has shown for the first time that non-humans also keep tabs on the gifts they give, and expect something back in return…
Professor publishes 'Folktales of the Amazon'
Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova classified