http://www.sciencecentric.com/ Latest news in natural sciences and technology provided by Science Centric en-gb Copyright 2013, Science Centric contact@sciencecentric.com (Stanislav Abadjiev) Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:00 GMT Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.sciencecentric.com/images/sc_logo_news.jpg http://www.sciencecentric.com/ 60 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Acrotholus audeti, a new species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur, was identified from recently discovered and historically collected fossils from Alberta, Canada. The article describing the new species was published today, 7 May, in the journal Nature Communications... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050701-new-species-dinosaur-from-alberta.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050701-new-species-dinosaur-from-alberta.html Tue, 07 May 2013 18:48:00 GMT Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA in a simpler and more efficient way than conventional methods. They designed microscopic probes that dip into a fluid sample and apply an electric field within the liquid. That draws particles to concentrate around the surface of the tiny probe. It takes 2 or 3 minutes to separate DNA using this technology... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050601-new-device-can-extract-human-dna-very-fast.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050601-new-device-can-extract-human-dna-very-fast.html Mon, 06 May 2013 18:56:00 GMT A new species of small fossil theropod have been discovered in northwestern China by a team of international researchers. In a paper published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, the authors explain recovering the skull, mandible and partial skeleton of the dinosaur... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050501-new-species-small-theropod-discovered-china.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050501-new-species-small-theropod-discovered-china.html Sun, 05 May 2013 19:17:00 GMT A mid-level solar flare, peaking on 3 May, was seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This flare was classified as an M5.7-class flare. M-class flares are the weakest ones. They can cause some space weather effects near Earth... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050401-a-mid-level-solar-flare-seen-by-nasa.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/13050401-a-mid-level-solar-flare-seen-by-nasa.html Sat, 04 May 2013 18:26:00 GMT Existing coherent ultraviolet light sources are power hungry, bulky and expensive. University of Michigan researchers have found a better way to build compact ultraviolet sources with low power consumption that could improve information storage, microscopy and chemical analysis... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120226-a-smarter-way-make-ultraviolet-light-beams.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120226-a-smarter-way-make-ultraviolet-light-beams.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:56:00 GMT Hawaii's main volcano chains - the Loa and Kea trends - have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems connecting them to the Earth's deep mantle, according to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience, in conjunction with researchers at the universities of Hawaii and Massachusetts... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120225-lava-fingerprinting-reveals-differences-between-hawaii-twin-volcanoes.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120225-lava-fingerprinting-reveals-differences-between-hawaii-twin-volcanoes.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:53:00 GMT As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, has revealed that climate change is causing certain species to move and adapt to a range of new habitats... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120224-british-butterfly-is-evolving-respond-climate-change.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120224-british-butterfly-is-evolving-respond-climate-change.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:50:00 GMT Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals they generate. This proof-of-concept platform opens the way for further investigation of a promising new material. Graphene's distinctive combination of characteristics makes it a leading contender for future biomedical applications requiring a direct interface between microelectronic devices and nerve cells or other living tissue. A team of scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the Juelich Research Centre published the results in the journal Advanced Materials... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120223-biocompatible-graphene-transistor-array-reads-cellular-signals.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120223-biocompatible-graphene-transistor-array-reads-cellular-signals.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:47:00 GMT New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack. Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the U.S.... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120222-researchers-find-some-smartphone-models-more-vulnerable-attack.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120222-researchers-find-some-smartphone-models-more-vulnerable-attack.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:44:00 GMT An archaeological research team from North Carolina State University, the University of Washington and University of Florida has found one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric non-native animal remains in the Caribbean, on the tiny island of Carriacou. The find contributes to our understanding of culture in the region before the arrival of Columbus, and suggests Carriacou may have been more important than previously thought... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120221-archaeologists-find-new-evidence-animals-being-introduced-prehistoric-caribbean.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120221-archaeologists-find-new-evidence-animals-being-introduced-prehistoric-caribbean.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:41:00 GMT In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2.3 million automobile crashes occurred at intersections across the United States, resulting in some 7,000 deaths. More than 700 of those fatalities were due to drivers running red lights. But, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, half of the people killed in such accidents are not the drivers who ran the light, but other drivers, passengers and pedestrians... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120220-mit-new-algorithm-may-improve-defensive-driving.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120220-mit-new-algorithm-may-improve-defensive-driving.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:38:00 GMT Scientists and engineers have proven the worth of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120219-swiss-scientists-prove-durability-quantum-network.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120219-swiss-scientists-prove-durability-quantum-network.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:35:00 GMT Scientists studying populations of grey wolves in the USA's Yellowstone National Park have developed a way to predict how changes in the environment will impact on the animals' number, body size and genetics, amongst other biological traits... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120218-study-wolves-will-help-scientists-predict-climate-effects-on-endangered-animals.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120218-study-wolves-will-help-scientists-predict-climate-effects-on-endangered-animals.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:32:00 GMT In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies. And while astronomers can describe the members of this new 'species,' they can't explain what makes them so ruddy... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120217-strange-new-species-ultra-red-galaxy-discovered.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120217-strange-new-species-ultra-red-galaxy-discovered.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:29:00 GMT The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120216-microscopic-worms-could-hold-the-key-living-life-on-mars.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120216-microscopic-worms-could-hold-the-key-living-life-on-mars.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:26:00 GMT Geophysicists from Potsdam have established a mode of action that can explain the irregular distribution of strong earthquakes at the San Andreas Fault in California. As the science magazine Nature reports in its latest issue, the scientists examined the electrical conductivity of the rocks at great depths, which is closely related to the water content within the rocks. From the pattern of electrical conductivity and seismic activity they were able to deduce that rock water acts as a lubricant... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120215-earthquakes-water-as-lubricant.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120215-earthquakes-water-as-lubricant.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:23:00 GMT A new research report appearing in the December issue of the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows how scientists from the United Kingdom have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The test is possible because scientists found a substance in the blood, called 'phosphorylated alpha-synuclein,' which is common in people with Parkinson's disease, and then developed a way to identify its presence in our blood... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120214-simple-blood-test-diagnoses-parkinson-disease-long-before-symptoms-appear.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120214-simple-blood-test-diagnoses-parkinson-disease-long-before-symptoms-appear.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:20:00 GMT The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120213-livermore-russian-scientists-propose-new-names-elements-114-116.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120213-livermore-russian-scientists-propose-new-names-elements-114-116.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:17:00 GMT One of the earliest known impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease - loss of sense of smell - can be restored by removing a plaque-forming protein in a mouse model of the disease, a study led by a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher finds... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120212-early-sign-alzheimer-reversed-lab.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120212-early-sign-alzheimer-reversed-lab.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:14:00 GMT When a sperm fertilises an egg, each contributes a set of chromosomes to the resulting embryo, which at these very early stages is called a zygote. Early on, zygotic genes are inert, so embryonic development is largely controlled by parental factors. The activation of the zygotic genome therefore represents an important transition toward a more autonomous mode of embryonic development, and has been the subject of much speculation and scrutiny. Now, a new study published by Cell Press on December 1st in the journal Developmental Cell suggests that the reach of parental control in the embryo may be longer than we thought... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120211-parental-controls-on-embryonic-development.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120211-parental-controls-on-embryonic-development.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:11:00 GMT Researchers have identified a new and relatively abundant pool of stem cells in the heart. The findings in the December issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, show that these heart cells have the capacity for long-term expansion and can form a variety of cell types, including muscle, bone, neural and heart cells... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120210-newly-discovered-heart-stem-cells-make-muscle-bone.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120210-newly-discovered-heart-stem-cells-make-muscle-bone.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:08:00 GMT Research conducted by a pair of physicians at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Centre (BMC) has led to the development of a test that can help diagnose membranous nephropathy in its early stages. The test, which is currently only offered in the research setting and is awaiting commercial development, could have significant implications in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Currently, the only way to diagnose the disease is through a biopsy... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120209-busm-researchers-develop-blood-test-detect-membranous-nephropathy.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120209-busm-researchers-develop-blood-test-detect-membranous-nephropathy.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:05:00 GMT New hip implants appear to have no advantage over traditional implants, suggests a review of the evidence published on bmj.com today... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120208-new-hip-implants-no-better-than-traditional-implants.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120208-new-hip-implants-no-better-than-traditional-implants.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:02:00 GMT Policies aimed specifically at men are urgently needed to improve the health of Europe's men, say experts on bmj.com today... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120207-action-needed-improve-men-health-europe.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120207-action-needed-improve-men-health-europe.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:59:00 GMT