Articles Posted in 2009
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Forty Years of Farmed Salmon … and One Genetic Mystery
It’s known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genetic and physical makeup of the country’s famed wild salmon stocks. But how much? Biologists…
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Black Holes in Star Clusters Stir Up Time and Space
Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, who…
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Deep Sea Anchors for Offshore Installations
It might look like a giant arrow or a rocket, but this 13 metre-long, 80-tonne anchor is currently being tested as a new mooring concept for offshore installations. Entrepreneur Jon Tore Lieng is the man…
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Movement Comes With Appetite
A body that is provided with food too often gets caught up in the maelstrom of a lack of exercise, obesity and ultimately diabetes. The trigger is a molecular switch that is controlled by insulin,…
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Cannabis Hope for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Chemicals found in cannabis could prove an effective treatment for the inflammatory bowel diseases Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, say scientists. Laboratory tests have shown that two compounds found in the cannabis plant — the…
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Authentic Van Gogh identified with Computer Algorithm
Igor Berezhnoy of Tilburg University in the Netherlands has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable of distinguishing a forgery…
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Sixty Headless Skeletons – 3,000 Years Old – Discovered in Pacific Ocean Archipelago Vanuatu
When a team of archaeologists began excavating an old coral reef in Vanuatu in 2008 and 2009, they soon discovered it had served as a cemetery in ancient times. So far, 71 buried individuals have…
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Which species are most threatened by climate change
Monkey species will become ‘increasingly at risk of extinction’ because of global warming, according to new research, published this week. It reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a…
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Fewer Migratory Birds in Dutch Woods Due to Climate Change
All insect-eating migratory birds who winter in Africa and breed in the Dutch woods have decreased in numbers since 1984. This has been revealed by research conducted by the University of Groningen, the SOVON Dutch…
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Why some scientists choose a given citation and not others to include in the references of their scientific writings?
Why some scientists choose a given citation and not others to include in the references of their scientific writings is an issue which is not completely resolved, according to what could be determined in a…