22/01/2012 

RIKEN: New study sheds light on evolutionary origin of oxygen-based cellular respiration

20/01/2012

Imperial College London: Terahertz waves (T-rays) technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners

20/01/2012

GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel: How dangerous is the Adriatic Sea?

20/01/2012

Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: Inability to express emotion may be an early symptom of Parkinson ' s disease

Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: What is the difference between being treated with drugs or psychotherapy for obsessions?

University of Southampton: Using Hollywood technology to unlock the secret of pianist's sounds

Expertanswer (Expertsvar in Swedish): Why do smells make some people sick ?

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers: Is an Early Vote a Wasted Vote in Primary Elections ?

The University of Toronto: University of Toronto / Royal Ontario Museum scientists discover unusual " tulip " creature

Asociación RUVID: IBV presents an assistive robot for patients sufering from stroke

19/01/2012

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE): Gulf of Finland Year 2014 organised by Finland , Estonia and Russia forges combined efforts to restore our coastal waters

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: World ' s Longest Superconductor Cable

Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE): Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2012 for Reinhard Genzel

South African Square Kilometre Array Telescope Project Office: Riera Madurell and Martínez Martínez , MEPs , encourage science cooperation with Africa

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Pictures of food create feelings of hunger

Medical University of Vienna: Mechanism for more efficient cancer treatment decoded

European Space Agency (ESA): The Helix in New Colours

European Space Agency (ESA): European finalists selected in Space Lab student competition

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Omen for the future : the Dead Sea was nearly dry generations ago , drilling project shows

Arizona State University: International species institute releases annual inventory of newly discovered species

18/01/2012

Wageningen University and Research Centre: Butterflies and birds unable to keep pace with climate change in Europe

Research Council of Norway, The: Gaming technology for calculating floods

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Solar alchemy : Photocatalysts to clean water and recover chemicals

Encyclopedia of Life: The Encyclopedia of Life Announces 2012 Rubenstein Fellows

The University of Stavanger: Weighing up the causes of obesity

Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland): Peerage of Science : a new social network service for scientific peer review

17/01/2012

Elhuyar Fundazioa: AZTI - Tecnalia researches the use of vegetable by - products for animal feed

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS): Arctic plants face an uncertain future

Vienna University of Technology, TU Vienna: The Perfect Liquid - Now Even More Perfect

Research Council of Norway, The : Less pain for the physically active

16/01/2012

York, University of: Biologists a step nearer to solving the Parkinson ' s conundrum

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13/01/2012 

Nottingham, University of: I recognise you ! But how did I do it ?

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Perfectly spherical gold nanodroplets produced with the smallest - ever nanojets 

Leicester, University of:  Seeing is believing ? The neuroscience of magic 

12/01/2012 

Royal Astronomical Society (RAS): Dr Becky Parker is first winner of RAS Patrick Moore Medal 

Technische Universität Darmstadt: Tiny transmitter sets frequency record - TU - Darmstadt researchers develop revolutionary terahertz transmitter

European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI: Study provides new insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution 

Asociación RUVID: Scientifics collaborate in an international research to draw the largest 3 D coloured map of the universe

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg:  Charges going astray : Scientists in Freiburg have discovered new transfer paths for electrons 

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology: Resource management in ant colonies may have lessons for politicians and economists 

University of Hohenheim: Good parents are predictable - at least when it comes to corn 

Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT): One third of car fuel consumption is due to friction loss 

11/01/2012 

ITE - Instytut Technologii Elektronowej: Microfluidics : Silicon valves operate at high pressures 

Springer Science+Business Media: New model for epidemic contagion 

BioMed Central Limited: Finding the silent killer - a biomarker test for atherosclerosis 

BioMed Central Limited : Titanium dioxide film enhances the sun ' s natural disinfection power 

Universitaet Tübingen: The Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered 

Institute of Physics (IOP): Cold winters caused by warmer summers , research suggests 

Medical University of Vienna: " Good " HDL cholesterol can also be " bad " 

10/01/2012 

European Space Agency (ESA): Hubble Pinpoints Furthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen 

Manchester University: Researchers discover particle which could ' cool the planet ' 

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU): Backing out of the nanotunnel - New method for nucleic acid analysis 

European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI: New pathogen resource launched ! 

European Space Agency (ESA):  Planet Population is Plentiful - Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception 

East Anglia, University of: First step towards treatment for painful flat feet 

Warwick, University of:  Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise 

Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien: No pain , no gain ? Studies of the ideal way of making jump shots in handball 

09/01/2012 

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Film coatings made from whey 

Elhuyar Fundazioa: Future development of smaller and more powerful electronics requires the understanding of " quantum jamming " physics 

Leicester, University of: New species of grass dedicated to University of Leicester botanist 

European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Global study sheds more light on role played by exercise , cars and televisions on the risk of heart attacks 

IBMC.INEB Associate Laboratory: Improving scientific literacy on biotechnology through teacher training 

Finnish Meteorological Institute: 2011 - An exceptionally warm year in Northern Finland 

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07/01/2012

Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover (TiHo): New primate species discovered on Madagascar

06/01/2012

SAGE Publications: The nuclear , biological and climate threat - 2011 reviewed

Universität Mainz: First hint of the Higgs boson particle

Manchester University: Graphene reveals its magnetic personality

BioMed Central Limited: Stem cell therapy reverses diabetes

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Multi - year prediction of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5 ° N possible

San Diego Zoo Global: Identifying sloth species at a genetic level

05/01/2012

Austrian Academy of Sciences: Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at large scale

Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Nanocrystals Make Dentures Shine

Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien: The bigger picture of population genomics

SINTEF: Norway invests in deep geothermal energy

04/01/2012

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences: Flipped from head to toe : 100 years of continental drift theory

Nottingham, University of: Magnetically - levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space

Elhuyar Fundazioa: Relay race with single atoms : new ways of manipulating matter

Institute of Physics (IOP): Through hardship to the stars

03/01/2012

Plataforma SINC: Deer antlers inspire a new theory on osteoporosis

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Sky light sky bright - in the office

02/01/2012

Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki): Aging - related degeneration can be caused by defects of energy metabolism in tissue stem cells

Asociación RUVID: The first intelligent wireless network intended for optimizing water purification and desalination

European Space Agency (ESA): The Smoky Pink Core of the Omega Nebula

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The Written Declaration on Science Capacity Building in Africa: promoting European African radio astronomy partnerships is available here.

More information on Africa Europe Astronomy Partnership initiative is available here.

With no visual sources for reference, Greer has used written sources  to create a likeness of Hooke with details fitting to his position in the history of science.

The image set to be hung at IOP shows Hooke holding a quill and a book in his right hand and a spring in his left. The spring represents one of Hooke's defining successes - Hooke's law of elasticity.

The history artist Rita Greer says, "I have been working on a project to put him back into history where he belongs - up with the greats.  I have been on the project for eight years and this portrait for IOP is no.8 in the series, with others memorials already in place at a range of high-profile locations in both Oxford and London."

Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS, a former President of the IOP and former Astronomer Royal, says, "Robert Hooke was a brilliant man of many parts of which one was physics. He was also remarkable for many advances and discoveries for which he did not receive adequate credit.

"With her fine portraits of Hooke, Rita Greer is going some way towards redressing the balance and bringing Hooke's image to a wider audience. I think that Hooke would have been pleased with her persistence, as we are at the IOP."

Robert Hooke was a key part of the group that went on to form the Royal Society, becoming the first Curator of Experiments for the Society in 1662.

On 5 October 1962, representatives from six European countries - Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom - signed the ESO Convention in Paris. Their signatures represented a formal commitment to establish the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, today commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory.

 "ESO's 50th anniversary comes in the middle of the most exciting period for European and international ground-based astronomy. ESO has come a long way since it was established in 1962. Fifty years later, ESO is now a leader in the astronomical research community as the most productive astronomical observatory in the world," says Tim de Zeeuw, ESO's Director General.

ESO's first observatory was built on La Silla, a 2400 metre-high mountain, 600 kilometres north of Santiago de Chile. The La Silla Observatory is equipped with several optical telescopes with mirror diameters of up to 3.6 metres. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope is now home to the world's foremost exoplanet hunter, HARPS.

The second site established by ESO was the Paranal Observatory, home of the Very Large Telescope array (VLT). Scientific operations began in 1999 and today the VLT is the flagship facility of European astronomy and with the VLT Interferometer (VLTI) the only regularly operated large interferometric telescope in the world. Also on Paranal, the VISTA telescope works in the infrared and is the world's largest survey telescope, while the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the largest telescope designed to survey the skies exclusively in visible light.

The most important 50 moments from the history of ESO are available here.

On the Chajnantor plateau in Northern Chile, together with North American and East Asian partners, ESO is building a revolutionary astronomical telescope - ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the largest astronomical project in existence. ALMA will be a single telescope composed of 66 high-precision antennas that will study the building blocks of stars, planetary systems, galaxies and life itself. ALMA's construction will be completed in 2013, but early scientific observations with a partial array began in 2011.

ESO is currently planning a 40-metre-class optical/near-infrared telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope or E-ELT, which will become "the world's biggest eye on the sky". With the start of operations planned for early in the next decade, the E-ELT will tackle the biggest scientific challenges of our time.

Events and public initiatives planned for this anniversary 2012:

From 3-7 September 2012, ESO's Headquarters will host a scientific symposium to cover topics such as exoplanets, the Solar System, star formation and stellar evolution, cosmology and more.

On the day of the anniversary, 5 October 2012, ESO aims to organise coordinated public events in the 15 Member States. Organised with the help of ESO's Science Outreach Network and Outreach Partner Organisations, the events will be an excellent way to put the public at national venues directly in touch with ESO's astronomy community and its breathtaking observatory sites in Chile.

On 11 October 2012, ESO's Director General, Professor Tim de Zeeuw, and the Council President, Professor Xavier Barcons, will welcome Ministers from the Member States and the host country Chile, the ESO Council, representatives of ESO committees, past ESO Director Generals, renowned astronomers and other people who have played key roles for ESO at a gala anniversary event to take place in Munich.

More info is available here.

Articles are all accessible here.

The Year in Pictures, Science, click here.

365 days: Nature's 10. Ten people who mattered this year, Nature, click here. 

The Year in Science, Nature, click here.

Breakthrough of the Year, 2011, Science, click here.

Best Environmental Photos of 2011, National Geographic, click here.

Five Future Techs for Passenger Air Travel, click here.

10 Biggest Gadgets of 2011, by Chris Pollette, How Stuff Works, click here. 

10 Fun Office Toys and Gadgets, by Robert Lamb, How Stuff Works, click here. 

5 Tips for Choosing the Right E-reader, by Chris Warren, How Stuff Works, click here. 

10 Things to Look For When Buying a Laptop, by Wesley Fenlon, How Stuff Works, click here. 

Top People of 2011, by Jef Akst, The Scientist, click here.

10 biggest stories for 2011, by Becky Crew, Cosmos Online, click here.

The paper describing the finding will be published in the journal Nature.

Please find details on the following websites:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, here.

NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, here.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here.

Dr. Ignacio Alejandro Cerda, from CONICET in Argentina, and his team's identification of the remains of the sauropod dinosaur suggests that advanced titanosaurs (plant-eating, sauropod dinosaurs) achieved a global distribution at least by the Late Cretaceous (see the end notes). Their work has just been published online in Springer's journal, Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature.

Sauropoda is the second most diverse group of dinosaurs, with more than 150 recognized species. It includes the largest terrestrial vertebrates that ever existed. Although many sauropod remains have been discovered in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe, there is no previous record of sauropoda in Antarctica. Other important dinosaur discoveries have been made in Antarctica in the last two decades - principally in the James Ross Basin.

Dr. Cerda and colleagues report the first finding of a sauropod dinosaur from this continent and provide a detailed description of an incomplete middle-tail vertebra, recovered from James Ross Island. The specific size and morphology of the specimen, including its distinctive ball and socket articulations, lead the authors to identify it as an advanced titanosaur.

These titanosaurs originated during the Early Cretaceous and were the predominant group of sauropod dinosaurs until the extinction of all non-bird dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. Although they were one of the most widespread and successful species of sauropod dinosaurs, their origin and dispersion are not completely understood.

The authors conclude: "Our discovery, and subsequent report, of these sauropod dinosaur remains from Antarctica improves our current knowledge of the dinosaurian faunas during the Late Cretaceous on this continent."  

Notes:

Photos credit: Cerda/Naturwissenschaften.

The Cretaceous Period spanned 99.6-65.5 million years ago, and ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

CONICET is the leading organization dedicated to the promotion of science and technology in Argentina. More infos here.

Full bibliographic information: Cerda IA et al (2011). The first record of a sauropod dinosaur from Antarctica. Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature. DOI 10.1007/s00114-011-0869-x.

Players have to answer 12 questions about energy comparisons. For example, which uses more energy, a Christmas tree with 100 lights continuously lit over the festive period or a dishwasher used once a week for month.

Play the game here.

Experiment shows that an engine does work, even if it is on the microscale. It would mean that developing highly efficient small heat engines is possible.

In the heat engine invented almost 200 years ago by the Scottish Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1876), a gas-filled cylinder is periodically heated and cooled so that the gas expands and contracts. This makes a piston execute a motion with which it can drive a wheel, for example. Now, the physicists replaced the piston, which moves periodically up and down in a cylinder, by a focused laser beam whose intensity is periodically varied.

More info here.

ShareBiotech is a European INTERREG project which aims to improve technology penetration in the life science and biotechnology sphere within the Atlantic Area. Led by French organizations, the project is implemented by a consortium of 10 partners from France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain and 7 regions.

Biocant is the first Portuguese Biotechnology park established in Portugal.

More info is available here.

You will be a good teacher who, from this experience, will become an excellent teacher and leader in your profession.

The application deadline is 4th March 2011.

For more info please click here.

Invited keynote speakers are Professor dr. Vincent Icke, University of Amsterdam & Leiden University, Dr. Michael Rappenglück, MA, Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Gilching-Geisenbrunn, Bavaria, Germany, and Alexandru Mironov, President of the Association of Romanian Science Journalists.

For more info about the conference SC4CS please click here.