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Titanic salvagers awarded $110m
BBC News | Science & Environment 14/08/2010A US court awards the company that salvaged artefacts from the Titanic $110m for its efforts, but has yet to decide how the sum will be funded....
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Home computers discover rare star
BBC News | Science & Environment 13/08/2010Three "citizen scientists" discover a rare astronomical object using the processing power of their home computers....
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Scientist will live as an Inuit
BBC News | Science & Environment 13/08/2010A Cambridge University researcher will set out on Sunday on a year-long expedition to document the threatened Inughuit culture....
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Discover BIRDS & BIRDLIFE in the ALGARVE
AlphaGalileo 13/08/201017/09/2010 — 21/03/2011, CCMAR - University of AlgarveThe intensive courses are addressed to environmental sciences students, teachers, nature-guides, birdwatchers, hotel-staff, photographers and nature enthusiasts. Experienced local ...
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Time is money, for new ERC grant winner
CORDIS 13/08/2010EU-funded scientists are embarking on a major effort to construct a nuclear atomic clock, a device that would represent a major improvement over the atomic clocks used to set time today. The work is being made possib...
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Sun's 'quiet period' explained
BBC News | Science & Environment 13/08/2010Changes in the way that plasma circulates in the Sun may help explain prolonged period of weak solar activity....
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Waste powers autonomous robots
EUROPA 12/08/2010As the saying goes, one person's garbage is another person's treasure. In this instance, the garbage in question is used by a robot to harness energy for its own operation. For the last few years, the team of EU-funded scientists behind the...
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Ireland a Clean Energy World Leader?
AlphaGalileo 12/08/2010As conventional energy sources run out Ireland has an extraordinary opportunity to use its own natural resources, in a cost competitive way, to achieve energy independence and become a world leader in the use of clean energy. That was the k...
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Geoscience: Towards a Smarter Economy
AlphaGalileo 12/08/201018/08/2010, OnlineThis webinar, run with the American Geological Institute and the Royal Irish Academy, details how Geoscience can be oriented toward a smart economy, and describes how the Geoscience sector can contribute to economic recove...
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Heat shock protein can restore nerve damage in diabetic mice
AlphaGalileo 12/08/2010Researchers have been able to use a common chaperone protein, Hsp70, to reverse the loss of function in the nerves of mice with diabetes. ...
