Shovelling snow linked to heart attacks
December 15, 2011
It’s not just an urban myth – shovelling snow can cause heart attacks say American researchers.Anecdotal evidence in America suggests that shovelling snow can cause heart attacks, with two of...
Marzipan under the microscope
December 15, 2011
Is that real or fake marzipan on your Christmas cake?December is the peak season for indulging in marzipan – a rich almondy paste found in stollen and Christmas cakes but...
Looking forward to a White Christmas?
December 15, 2011
We all dream of a white Christmas, but things in Lapland are looking less than snowy.Scottish researchers have predicted that by 2050, Santa’s official home of Rovaniemi will experience black...
Perfect cocktail lessens inflammation
December 14, 2011
Inflammation has evolved to help fight infection, but can be damaging in long term diseases: most non-infectious diseases are in fact worsened by inflammation. Researchers from the University of Manchester...
Higgs not found…yet
December 13, 2011
The end of the Large Hadron Collider’s 2011 run has revealed a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson – but not enough for physicists to proclaiming its discovery.Scientists at CERN...
Chronic pain eased by cannabis
December 13, 2011
Patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if doctors add cannabinoids to an opiates-only treatment plan suggests research from the University of California San Francisco.In the first study of...
Nanocar takes to the copper highway
December 12, 2011
A four wheel drive car just 1 nm long which uses electrons as fuel has been developed by researchers at the University of Groningen, who hope it might find uses...
Nanocellulose powder developed
December 9, 2011
Nanocellulose has the potential to be used in medical technology and the food and pharmaceutical industries, but when it dries out, it loses some of the mechanical properties that make...
What caused Ice Age mass extinctions?
December 7, 2011
Scientists have answered one of the most contentious questions in history – was it climate change or the presence of humans which caused extinction of some of the most iconic...
Key element of cell division uncovered
December 5, 2011
In dividing human cells, chromosomes are duplicated, and one copy is passed onto each daughter cell, but some cells with an unequal number of chromosomes bypass the body’s in-built health...
Living antibiotics from vampire bacteria
December 2, 2011
The genome of a vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto other specific bacteria as has its genome sequenced, and revealed its usefulness as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious...
Creating the super-heavy
December 1, 2011
The search for super-heavy elements is on – two international teams of scientists are currently in a battle to create super-heavy elements in the lab. The race to create element...
