- Guardian Unlimited Science
- 09/1/9 01:08
Letters: In exposing the muck behind 'advanced industrial pig farming' you did the world a service
Letters: In exposing the muck behind 'advanced industrial pig farming' you did the world a service
THURSDAY 8. JANUARY 2009
Study performed using an 18,000-year-old fossil found in southeast Asia
Was dissection before 1,500-strong crowd important research or publicity exercise, asks James Sturcke
The Ancient Greeks may have made cash on the side by turning parts of their homes into bars and brothels, researchers have found.Excavations at sites across the Greek mainland have uncovered hundreds of drinking cups and erotic objects in homes dating back to the 5th and 4th centuries BC, suggesting rooms and courtyards were used for dubious commerical practices.The discovery may solve the...
Harbours froze over, balcony railings in Plymouth sheared away from a block of flats and a polar explorer arrived in London to test the ice in the fountains of Trafalgar Square as Britain endured the coldest snap for more than 20 years.Benson in Oxfordshire survived the coldest temperatures overnight: -11.8C, the chilliest night there for 11 years. And in the fens, near Earith, Cambridgeshire...
As temperatures stay stubbornly well below freezing, it may feel like the last issue on anyone's mind, but the government has been warned it may need to start thinking about introducing emergency hot weather payments to help poorer households keep cool.The Department for Work and Pensions is studying a specially commissioned report from the Met Office which concludes that the weather may become so...
Previously, the only good thing about being in hospital, apart from staying in bed all day, was the freedom from mobile phones. Not any more. This week, the Department of Health said that NHS trusts should allow "the widest possible use" of mobile phones in hospitals. There is evidence that electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobiles can interfere with some electronic medical equipment, resulting...
WEDNESDAY 7. JANUARY 2009
Scientists who climbed to the summit of Everest and took samples of their own blood have shown that the human body can survive with much lower oxygen levels than was previously thought possible. They say the findings, based on blood taken at higher altitudes than ever before, will help doctors to treat patients in intensive care more effectively.The purpose of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest...
Marriage counsellors may soon be taking a more Shakespearean approach to solving troubles of the heart, by administering love potions to boost couples' feelings for one another, according to a leading scientist.Greater understanding of the brain chemistry of love has revealed hormones that could be given to couples to rekindle faded passions or diminish problematic feelings, says Larry Young, an...
James Ironside: Research into a range of brain diseases is being held back by a lack of tissue samples. More donors are urgently needed
Supporters raised £140,000 which will be spent on posters featuring slogans doubting the existence of God....
Platypus, pig, pangolin, bat, louse, worm ... Jane Charlesworth reveals the genomes that sequencers hope to crack in 2009
Roman Catholic leaders have pounced on a "confession" by one of the inventors of the birth control pill who has said the contraceptive he helped create was responsible for a "demographic catastrophe".In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world's Roman Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought "devastating ecological effects" by...
The planet Venus blazes in the SSW at nightfall, stands at its greatest angular distance from the Sun (47°) on the 14th and remains conspicuous as an evening star until it plunges into our evening twilight in late March. Viewed through a telescope, its dazzling cloud covered disc grows from a small almost-first-quarter phase tonight, to a large slender crescent as it moves towards the Sun's...
Leading snow crystal scientist publishes book in bid to persuade the world that no two flakes are exactly alike
Obituary: Researcher with a radical approach to the understanding and remedying of dyslexia
Snowflakes photographed using a designed photo-microscope
TUESDAY 6. JANUARY 2009