http://www.agencyscience.com/index_en.php Breaking science, health and technology news provided by Agency Science en-gb Copyright 2009, Agency Science contact@agencyscience.com (Stanislav Abadjiev) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:12:00 GMT Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:12:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.agencyscience.com/images/as_logo_news.jpg http://www.agencyscience.com/index_en.php In December 2007 a team of experts, led by The University of Nottingham, unveiled an extraordinary set of high-resolution images that gave an insight into the plan of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062401-showcasing-the-secrets-caistor-roman-town http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062401-showcasing-the-secrets-caistor-roman-town Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:12:00 GMT Implicit stereotypes - thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have - may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062302-citizens-34-countries-show-implicit-bias-linking-males-more-than-females-with-science http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062302-citizens-34-countries-show-implicit-bias-linking-males-more-than-females-with-science Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:58:00 GMT Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analysing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062301-obsidian-trail-provides-clues-how-humans-settled-interacted-kuril-islands http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09062301-obsidian-trail-provides-clues-how-humans-settled-interacted-kuril-islands Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:58:00 GMT The U.S. Global Change Research Program released a long-awaited, comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change impacts in the United States. It presents the first region-by-region analysis of our vulnerability to climate change since 2001 and represents the best available climate science in the United States. The report outlines choices based on various global emissions scenarios including one that transitions the U.S. to a clean energy future versus business as usual reliance on fossil fuels... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061701-federal-report-outlines-state-emergency-that-demands-immediate-decisive-action http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061701-federal-report-outlines-state-emergency-that-demands-immediate-decisive-action Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:32:00 GMT A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found 'convincing evidence' that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061601-cannabis-alters-human-dna http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061601-cannabis-alters-human-dna Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:50:00 GMT Men with low testosterone should have their hormone levels retested after they fast overnight because eating may transiently lower testosterone levels, a new study concludes. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061401-testosterone-decreases-after-ingestion-glucose http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09061401-testosterone-decreases-after-ingestion-glucose Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:03:00 GMT A combined tooth-venom arsenal revealed as key to Komodo Dragon's hunting strategy. A new study has shown that the effectiveness of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialised serrated teeth and venom. The authors also dismiss the widely accepted theory that prey die from septicaemia caused by toxic bacteria living in the dragon's mouth... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051901-a-combined-tooth-venom-arsenal-revealed-as-key-komodo-dragon-hunting-strategy http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051901-a-combined-tooth-venom-arsenal-revealed-as-key-komodo-dragon-hunting-strategy Tue, 19 May 2009 15:12:00 GMT Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, will address seniors graduating from The Johns Hopkins University's schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering at their diploma ceremony at 1:45 PM on Thursday, 21 May. She will also be awarded an honorary degree from Johns Hopkins, as will former Johns Hopkins President William R. Brody... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051404-johns-hopkins-university-commencement-21-may http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051404-johns-hopkins-university-commencement-21-may Thu, 14 May 2009 08:16:00 GMT Blood stem cells literally go with the flow, according to a new report published as an immediate early publication in the journal Cell, a Cell Press journal, on 13th May. Researchers have found that a heart beat and blood circulation are critical signals for the production of blood-forming, or haematopoietic, stem cells in the developing embryo... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051403-what-do-blood-stem-cells-need-grow-blood-flow http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051403-what-do-blood-stem-cells-need-grow-blood-flow Thu, 14 May 2009 08:16:00 GMT Twenty years ago, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was exiting Alaska's Prince William Sound when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next is considered one of the nation's worst environmental disasters: 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the pristine Alaskan waters, eventually covering 11,000 square miles of ocean... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051402-scientists-document-fate-oil-slicks-from-natural-seeps http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051402-scientists-document-fate-oil-slicks-from-natural-seeps Thu, 14 May 2009 08:16:00 GMT Widening participation efforts in UK universities should do more than simply create a 'wow moment' for young people, according to a new study led by the University of Leicester... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051401-new-study-urges-new-thinking-over-government-widening-participation-policy http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051401-new-study-urges-new-thinking-over-government-widening-participation-policy Thu, 14 May 2009 08:16:00 GMT In honour of the National Holiday 24 May on 21 May at 16:00, the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia will host an official meeting of Golden Book awards presentation... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051302-nmnhs-host-meeting-golden-book-awards-presentation http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051302-nmnhs-host-meeting-golden-book-awards-presentation Wed, 13 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a human, and one of the oldest known examples of figurative art worldwide, was made at least 35,000 years ago. This discovery radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Palaeolithic art... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051301-a-venus-figurine-from-the-swabian-jura-rewrites-prehistory http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09051301-a-venus-figurine-from-the-swabian-jura-rewrites-prehistory Wed, 13 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT On 29 April 2009 NMSII Leader Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Vice-Premier and Minister of Education and Science Daniel Valchev visited the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences by reason of 120th Anniversary of the founding of the museum... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09050301-minister-daniel-valchev-simeon-saxe-coburg-gotha-on-visit-the-nmnhs http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09050301-minister-daniel-valchev-simeon-saxe-coburg-gotha-on-visit-the-nmnhs Sun, 03 May 2009 20:34:00 GMT The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire. These ancient tablets from the palaces of Persepolis include pieces of language and art from the centre of the Persian Empire, all made when it extended from India and Central Asia to Egypt and the Mediterranean... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09050101-iran-ancient-story-preserved-digitally http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09050101-iran-ancient-story-preserved-digitally Fri, 01 May 2009 17:50:00 GMT A trove of Benjamin Franklin letters has turned up in the British Library. Discovered by University of California, San Diego professor Alan Houston, the letters are copies of correspondence that hasn't been seen in more than 250 years. All dating from the spring and summer of 1755, the 47 letters by, to and about Franklin are in the hand of one Thomas Birch, a contemporary of Franklin's who was a prodigious - almost inveterate - compiler and transcriber of historical documents... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09042501-benjamin-franklin-find-new-letters http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09042501-benjamin-franklin-find-new-letters Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:47:00 GMT Scientists have found an ancient ecosystem below an Antarctic glacier and learned that it survived millions of years by transforming sulfur and iron compounds for growth... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041701-ancient-ecosystem-thrives-millions-years-below-antarctic-glacier http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041701-ancient-ecosystem-thrives-millions-years-below-antarctic-glacier Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:32:00 GMT Young scholars will get another opportunity to pursue research at the beginning of their careers, thanks to a new three-year post-doctoral fellowship between Cambridge University and the University of Chicago. The fellowship, which will alternate between the schools, was established with a $4 million grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041602-uncovering-the-story-lost-empire-syria http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041602-uncovering-the-story-lost-empire-syria Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:00 GMT The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey - thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC - sheds light on the so-called Dark Age... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041601-archeologists-discover-temple-that-sheds-light-on-so-called-dark-age http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09041601-archeologists-discover-temple-that-sheds-light-on-so-called-dark-age Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:00 GMT 'The 'foot' structures that we found in the Jordan valley are the first sites that the People of Israel built upon entering Canaan and they testify to the biblical concept of ownership of the land with the foot,' said archaeologist Prof. Adam Zertal of the University of Haifa, who headed the excavating team that exposed five compounds in the shape of an enormous 'foot,' that it were likely to have been used at that time to mark ownership of territory... http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09040601-archaeological-discovery-jordan-valley-enormous-foot-shaped-enclosures http://www.agencyscience.com/article.php?q=09040601-archaeological-discovery-jordan-valley-enormous-foot-shaped-enclosures Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:34:00 GMT