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Science in the News
- Science in the News - Wednesday 29 November
29 Nov 2006
Dunkleosteus terrelli, a prehistoric Jaws that terrorised the oceans 400 million years ago, had the most powerful bite of any creature yet known, scientists writing in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters have discovered. - Science in the News - Tuesday 28 November
28 Nov 2006
Doctors in Aberdeen have concluded that the best way to avoid back pain is not to sit bolt upright but to perfect a sprawl that is halfway between upright and horizontal. - Science in the News - Monday 27 November
27 Nov 2006
The Centre for Animal Ethics, which claims to be the first think-tank of its kind in the world, has opened in Oxford with the aim of fostering informed debate on issues such as animal testing. - Science in the News - Friday 24 November
24 Nov 2006
A cataclysmic mass extinction that devastated life on Earth around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian era, is the reason such a rich variety of life is found in the oceans today, according to new research published in Science. - Science in the News - Thursday 23 November
23 Nov 2006
Humans are three times as genetically diverse as previously estimated, a new study has shown. The research by an international team including researchers at the Harvard Medical School gives new insights into our unique characteristics, and could help fight disease, Nature reports. - Science in the News - Wednesday 22 November
22 Nov 2006
Six individual countries and the European Union yesterday agreed to spend about £6.75bn over the next 20 years to construct and operate the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor, in the south of France. - Science in the News - Tuesday 21 November
21 Nov 2006
A team from Boston University has found that male chimps prefer to pair off with older females, Current Biology reports. - Science in the News - Monday 20 November
20 Nov 2006
The Large Hadron Collider at Cern will soon begin the search for the Higgs boson, which would confirm scientists’ most complete theory of the universe and the matter from which it is created - Science in the News - Friday 17 November
17 Nov 2006
Scientists studying a group of lizards exposed to a new predator have found how evolution can be fast forwarded in times of emergency. - Science in the News - Thursday 16 November
16 Nov 2006
Stem cell tests on dogs have advanced the possibility of a cure for muscular dystrophy, researchers at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan have reported in Nature
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