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Hebrew University professor first Israeli to win top mathematics medal considered equivalent to Nobel
AlphaGalileo 19/08/2010Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today received the Fields Medal for 2010 ? a prize regarded as the ?Nobel Prize? in mathematics that is awarded once in four years. He w...
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Disease threat to UK garden birds
BBC News | Science & Environment 19/08/2010A disease that first emerged in 2005 is killing large numbers of greenfinches and chaffinches, researchers say....
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Urine could be renewable source
BBC News | Science & Environment 19/08/2010A research team at Heriot-Watt University investigates whether urine could be used as a source of renewable energy....
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Germany wants EU to plug 'innovation gap'
EURACTIV Science 19/08/2010The EU's new innovation strategy must do more to link research, education and entrepreneurship if it is to tackle Europe's "innovation gap", Dr. Georg Schütte, Germany's junior minister for education and re...
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How Much Mass Makes a Black Hole? - Astronomers Challenge Current Theories
AlphaGalileo 18/08/2010Using ESO?s Very Large Telescope, European astronomers have for the first time demonstrated that a magnetar ? an unusual type of neutron star ? was formed from a star with at least 40 times as much mass as the Sun. The result presents great...
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Mainz University opens new vista in smart materials: Fully reversible functionalization of inorganic nanotubes
AlphaGalileo 18/08/2010Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany have devised a tool which allows fully reversible binding of metal oxides to inorganic nanotubes...
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New Satellite Data Reveals True Decline of World's Mangrove Forests
AlphaGalileo 18/08/2010New satellite imagery has given scientists the most comprehensive and exact data on the distribution and decline of mangrove forests from across the world. The research, carried out by scientists from the U.S Geological Survey and NASA, is ...
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Study shows gene's role in developing and maintaining cells key for a lifetime of memories
AlphaGalileo 18/08/2010St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists identify a novel feedback mechanism that regulates differentiation of adult neural stem cells. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators showed a gene named Prox1 is a key player in...
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'No human link' to mammoth demise
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010A new study suggests that woolly mammoths died out because of dwindling grasslands - rather than being hunted to extinction by humans....
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Fossils may be 'earliest animals'
BBC News | Science & Environment 18/08/2010Small, irregularly shaped fossils from South Australia could be the oldest remains of simple animal life found to date....
