Posts Tagged ‘UK’
Willing to pay 3x more for iPhone 5?
U. WARWICK (UK) — Some UK consumers may be willing to pay up to three times the price online to be the first to own an iPhone 5, one economist predicts. Continue…
Sunday, August 21, 2011 22:26 - 2 Comments
Earth & Environment - May 10, 2010 14:21 - 0 Comments
English summers heating up earlier
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—The onset of summer-like temperatures in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, a new study shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 7, 2010 12:48 - 3 Comments
Organic farming no boon for biodiversity
U. LEEDS (US)—The limited benefits organic farms offer to birds, bees, and butterflies don’t compensate for the lower yields produced, according to a new study. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 5, 2010 15:51 - 0 Comments
Poor families hardest hit by carbon tax
U. LEEDS (UK)—Taxing individuals for the amount of carbon they use would hit the poor and those living in the north of the U.K. hardest, forcing them to pay four times more as a proportion of their income than higher earners. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 26, 2010 12:15 - 0 Comments
Disabled kids more apt to live in poverty
U. WARWICK (UK)—Families of disabled children in the U.K. are more likely to live with low incomes, debt, and poor housing. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 23, 2010 16:12 - 3 Comments
Gene helps worm regrow missing head
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK)—Scientists have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regrow its whole head and brain—and other body parts—after amputation. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2010 5:49 - 2 Comments
What would nature do (with all this CO2)?
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Is there an organism out there—or could one be created—that chemically breaks down the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful form? A recent discovery has a team of scientists asking that question. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 20, 2010 15:34 - 0 Comments
Testing the waters of quantum computing
CARDIFF (UK)—Physicists have discovered properties of hybrid light-matter particles by firing photons into a tiny tower of semiconducting material. The findings have long-term implications for information and communications technology. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 13, 2010 10:52 - 3 Comments
Mapping human stem cells’ mutant DNA
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Scientists are closer to identifying and avoiding the adverse DNA changes that naturally occur when human embryonic stem cells are multiplied in the laboratory—changes that could hamper their future medical use. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 26, 2010 15:08 - 1 Comment
Quantum doughnuts freeze light
U. WARWICK (UK)—Researchers have found a way to use doughnut-shaped byproducts of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light-based computing to the possibility of “slow glass.” (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 26, 2010 11:01 - 1 Comment
Sex ed overlooks youth with learning difficulties
U. LEEDS (UK)—Young people with learning difficulties are more integrated into society than ever before, but a lack of basic sex education often leaves them embarrassed, vulnerable, and confused, according to a recent study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 25, 2010 11:51 - 1 Comment
Painkillers 2.0: Relief without side effects
U. LEEDS (UK)—An international group of scientists has discovered how two proteins play a key role in inflammation and in how we experience pain, paving the way for a new generation of painkillers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 24, 2010 13:45 - 3 Comments
Happiness is earning more (than they do)
U. WARWICK (UK)—Simply being highly paid isn’t enough. To be happy, people need to perceive themselves as being more highly paid than their friends and work colleagues. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 23, 2010 16:07 - 1 Comment
Will sea birds suffer under EU ban?
U. LEEDS (UK)—A proposed European Union ban on throwing unwanted fish overboard from commercial boats in the North Sea could put the survival of a sea bird at risk. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 15, 2010 14:11 - 0 Comments
Shakespeare’s lost work?
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK)—A literary detective who claims to have found evidence of a ‘lost play’ by William Shakespeare has won the backing of the acclaimed Shakespeare publishers, Arden, with the publication of his new book, Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 10, 2010 13:39 - 2 Comments
Eggshells preserve elephant bird DNA
Like an outsized ostrich, Aepyornis stood nearly 3m high and its eggs are the largest bird eggs ever known, with a capacity of 11 litres—equivalent to 180-240 chicken eggs or seven ostrich eggs. Most of the birds appear to have died out before AD 1000, when a lost civilization emerged in the south of Madagascar. (Courtesy: U. Sheffield)
Science & Technology - Mar 9, 2010 18:22 - 2 Comments
These two dwarfs orbit close and quick
U. WARWICK (UK)—The stars in HM Cancri, the smallest known binary, revolve around each other in just 5.4 minutes—the shortest known orbital period for any binary. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 8, 2010 16:44 - 2 Comments
Is your computer calling the shots?
U. LEEDS (UK)—People who use computers to help them make good decisions are often unwittingly being led by technology into making bad ones. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 8, 2010 13:18 - 0 Comments
Mega-tsunamis stoke up solar atmosphere
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Physicists from the University of Sheffield are scheduled to reveal their recent discovery of transition region quakes on the Sun. The finding could shed light on solar mega-tsunamis. (more…)
