Articles Posted June 2009
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Writing In Air Not Pie In The Sky: Student Device Turns Phone Gestures Into Email
It’s a familiar scene in airports and train stations. Hands full with luggage, briefcase, laptop or coat and there’s something you need to remember, like the level and row numbers where you parked your car…
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Improving The Catalytic Converters Of Motor Vehicles
The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frédéric Thibault-Strarzyk at the Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie in Caen (CNRS-Ensicaen).…
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Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint The Impact Epicenter Of Earthbound Space Storms
Using data from NASA’s THEMIS mission, a team of University of Alberta researchers has pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere, and given an advance warning of…
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Meteoroid Bombardment May Have Made Earth More Habitable
Large bombardments of meteoroids approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the results of a new study. When…
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High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago
Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy…
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Changing Residences Associated With Increased Risk Of Suicidal Behavior Among Children
Danish children who move frequently appear to have an increased risk of attempted or completed suicide between ages 11 and 17, according to a new report. Changes of residence occur frequently in modern society, and…
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Genedata Expressionist – Expanded Mass Spectrometry Biomarker System
Genedata Expressionist is an enterprise solution that integrates, stores and analyzes transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics data as well as a wide variety of phenotypic data. Continually developed in partnership with commercial and academic partners since…
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Satellite Detects Red Glow To Map Global Ocean Plant Health
Researchers from Oregon State University, NASA and other organizations said today that they have succeeded for the first time in measuring the physiology of marine phytoplankton through satellite measurements of its fluorescence – an accomplishment…
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Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Found In Fertilizer, Finds Study Of Swedish Sewage Sludge
Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) have been found in sewage sludge, a by-product of waste-water treatment frequently used as a fertilizer. Researchers writing in the open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica point out the danger of…
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Chicken Meat: Organic Acids, Plant Extracts And Irradiation Combine To Beat The Bacteria
A mixture of some organic acids and some extracts from plants turns out to be enough to greatly reduce pathogenic bacteria on chicken breast meat. Add some irradiation to the mix and it makes a…
