*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Some of the most violent earthquakes that have occurred unexpectedly in places with no recent record of tremors may be the aftershocks of previous earthquakes that took place decades or even centuries ago, scientists have discovered.
Recently both Russia and China have claimed to be able to use cloud seeding to increase rainfall and snowfall, or change the location of where it falls. In the past, snow-making experiments have been carried out in North American ski resorts in the past with little evidence of success. So how have the Russian and Chinese scientists achieved this feat and what evidence is there that it is in fact due to cloud seeding?...Professor Tom Choularton is Head of the School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences is supporting the Science: [So what? So everything] campaign, which aims to highlight the leading UK science research that will shape the future of Britain.
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Professor Tom Choularton is Head of the School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences is supporting the Science: [So what? So everything] campaign, which aims to highlight the leading UK science research that will shape the future of Britain.
Water continued to erupt from the ground near the German state of Hesse's Ministry of Finance in Wiesbaden on Friday. Workers drilling for geothermal energy on Thursday accidently unleashed the powerful water spill. The water stood under high pressure approximately 130 meters (427 feet) below ground when disturbed by the drilling. At times, up to 6,000 liters (1,585 gallons) of water per minute poured from the hole.
Water continued to erupt from the ground near the German state of Hesse's Ministry of Finance in Wiesbaden on Friday. Workers drilling for geothermal energy on Thursday accidently unleashed the powerful water spill.
The water stood under high pressure approximately 130 meters (427 feet) below ground when disturbed by the drilling. At times, up to 6,000 liters (1,585 gallons) of water per minute poured from the hole.
An "extinct" animal has been found alive and well in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Oysters were thought to have died out in the area decades ago but specimens were found at a secret location. Scientists have described the discovery as hugely significant and insisted it could lead to future commercial production. The Forth Oyster was previously thought to have died out due to over-fishing and water pollution in 1957.
An "extinct" animal has been found alive and well in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Oysters were thought to have died out in the area decades ago but specimens were found at a secret location.
Scientists have described the discovery as hugely significant and insisted it could lead to future commercial production. The Forth Oyster was previously thought to have died out due to over-fishing and water pollution in 1957.
AFP - Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study reveals.
AFP - An Australian baby has become the first person to be cured of a rare and often fatal brain-poisoning condition thanks to an experimental treatment tested only on mice, according to doctors.The child, known only as "Baby Z", was born with molybdenum cofactor deficiency, a genetic condition in which a build-up of toxic sulphite causes fits and brain damage, typically killing victims within a few months of birth.
AFP - An Australian baby has become the first person to be cured of a rare and often fatal brain-poisoning condition thanks to an experimental treatment tested only on mice, according to doctors.
The child, known only as "Baby Z", was born with molybdenum cofactor deficiency, a genetic condition in which a build-up of toxic sulphite causes fits and brain damage, typically killing victims within a few months of birth.
Researchers have just linked prenatal exposure to bisphenol-A - a near-ubiquitous industrial chemical - with subtle, gender-specific alterations in behavior among two year olds. Girls whose mothers had encountered the most BPA early in pregnancy tended to become somewhat more aggressive than normal, boys became more anxious and withdrawn. This is the first study to link human behavioral impacts with BPA, a common ingredient in hard polycarbonate plastics and the resins used in food-can linings. Emerging data from an unrelated research group points to another especially rich newfound source of BPA to which people unwittingly may be exposed: thermally printed cash-register receipts (see next blog). At present, there's no way to know whether the apparent behavioral impact of BPA exposures early in development will persist or disappear, says Bruce Lanphear of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. But this epidemiologist, an author of the new study, says his worry is that if the kids don't grow out of these behaviors - and indeed, the changes are expressed widely across a population - they could greatly increase the number of teens at risk for delinquency, say, or for one day needing medical treatment of depression or anxiety. Further prompting concern that the associations are real, his team points out, are rodent studies showing aggression and hyperactivity in pups prenatally exposed to BPA. Lanphear and his colleagues at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have been conducting a Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment - or HOME - Study for several years. A primary focus has been the investigation of neurobehavioral risks posed by lead exposures early in a child's development. For the study, moms were recruited early in pregnancy and then followed through their babies' births. The children - now three to five years old - will continue to be followed into school age.
This is the first study to link human behavioral impacts with BPA, a common ingredient in hard polycarbonate plastics and the resins used in food-can linings. Emerging data from an unrelated research group points to another especially rich newfound source of BPA to which people unwittingly may be exposed: thermally printed cash-register receipts (see next blog).
At present, there's no way to know whether the apparent behavioral impact of BPA exposures early in development will persist or disappear, says Bruce Lanphear of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. But this epidemiologist, an author of the new study, says his worry is that if the kids don't grow out of these behaviors - and indeed, the changes are expressed widely across a population - they could greatly increase the number of teens at risk for delinquency, say, or for one day needing medical treatment of depression or anxiety.
Further prompting concern that the associations are real, his team points out, are rodent studies showing aggression and hyperactivity in pups prenatally exposed to BPA.
Lanphear and his colleagues at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have been conducting a Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment - or HOME - Study for several years. A primary focus has been the investigation of neurobehavioral risks posed by lead exposures early in a child's development. For the study, moms were recruited early in pregnancy and then followed through their babies' births. The children - now three to five years old - will continue to be followed into school age.
