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- Too lazy to make your own bed? Create one that makes itself
- GENEVA AFP — Italian engineer Enrico Berruti admits that it was simply his personal laziness that first prompted him to come up with an idea of a bed that makes itself. Three years of mulling later, his first prototype is on show at the five-day International Exhibition of Inventions...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Man hospitalised in Sicily with allergic reaction to counterfeit toothpaste
- ROME AFP — A man was hospitalised in Palermo, Sicily, with an allergic reaction to counterfeit Colgate toothpaste, ANSA reported Wednesday after 20,000 tubes of the substance were confiscated at the weekend. The 30-year-old man, who used the fake Colgate toothpaste, has pustules on his face, the Italian news...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- Clever orangutans confirm Aesop's fable
- PARIS AFP — Orangutans, using water and their wits, have emulated a crow in Aesop's fable which illustrated the saying "Necessity is the mother of invention," German researchers reported on Wednesday. A team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig threw down a challenge to five...
- Research articles 2007-07-04
- War Between the Sexes: The Co-evolution of Genitalia in Waterfowl.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 May 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: War Between the Sexes: The Co-evolution of Genitalia in WaterfowlC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30042007 New Haven, Conn. -- A team of biologists at Yale University and the University of Sheffield discovered anatomical details about the female ...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Simple and cheap test emerges for tragic eye disease
- PARIS AFP — Scientists say they have invented the first cheap, simple and accurate test for trachoma, the eye disease that ravages parts of Africa. Nearly six million people have been blinded by trachoma, which is caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. Infection causes the eyelid to fold...
- Research articles 2006-05-11
- Manufacture of Sparse-Spectrum Optical Microresonators
- Multiple units having the same spectral parameters could be produced. An alternative design for dielectric optical microresonators and a relatively simple process to fabricate them have been proposed. The proposed microresonators would exploit the same basic physical phenomena as those of microtorus optical resonators and of the microsphere...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- New York
- The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council has added the $6 billion Trans-Hudson Express rail tunnel to its list of major projects that need to be built during the next 25 years. The project, eligible for federal funding, is a high priority for NJ Transit. Supplementing an existing Amtrak tunnel, it...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- 21 prisoners hospitalized in Guantanamo hunger strike: defense official
- WASHINGTON AFP — Twenty-one hunger-striking prisoners have been hospitalized at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and all but one of them was being fed through tubes, a defense official said. "They are listed in stable condition and JTF Guantanamo medical personnel are monitoring their condition," the...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- Brain distinguishes between nose and mouth odors.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 August 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Brain distinguishes between nose and mouth odors C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:19082005 New Haven, Conn. - Researchers in a study in Neuron this week present the first clear evidence that the brain processes the...
- Research articles 2005-08-19
- Bunting Magnetics Co., a leading manufacturer of sanitary Magnetic Metal Separation Equipment
- Bunting Magnetics Co., a leading manufacturer of sanitary Magnetic Metal Separation Equipment, now supplies electronic Metal Detectors for dairy foods. Bunting's P-Tron-O Metal Detectors are designed to detect and remove tramp iron, stainless steel, aluminum, brass, copper, and other conductive metal contaminants from liquids, pastes, and slurries pumped through pipes....
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Pope has lost 19 kilos (42 pounds) since operation
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II has lost 19 kilogrammes (42 pounds) in a few weeks and there is great concern over his chances of recovery, a Vatican source said as Church opinion-makers questioned whether he should carry on appearing in public. Doctors began feeding the pontiff...
- Research articles 2005-03-31
- Pope could be hospitalised again
- VATICAN CITY AFP — A frail Pope John Paul II could be hospitalised for a third time in two months amid deepening concerns that he is failing to recover from a recent throat operation, Vatican watchers said. The pontiff missed Easter Holy Week ceremonies for the first time in...
- Research articles 2005-03-29
- Pope being fed through nasal tube: Vatican
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II is being fed through a tube in his nose, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told reporters, adding that his convalescence was "slow" but continued to progress. The spokesman, making his first comment about the pope's health in more than two weeks, said...
- Research articles 2005-03-30
- Fresh concerns over pope's health
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Growing fears over Pope John Paul II's health, amid signs that his condition is worsening, cast a pall over the Roman Catholic Church's preparations for Easter ceremonies over which he normally presides. "The pope was unwell all day Monday, during the night and again today,"...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Congress backs deal on Schiavo
- PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- As a deal in Congress was worked out to have federal courts decide Terri Schiavo's fate, emotions swelled outside the brain-damaged woman's hospice room Saturday, with protesters arrested after they symbolically tried to smuggle in bread and water on her second day without a feeding tube....
- Research articles 2005-03-20
- Pope back at Vatican to continue recovery
- ROME AFP — Pope John Paul II returned to the Vatican, ending an 18-day stay at Rome's Gemelli hospital during which he underwent throat surgery which leaves him breathing with a tube in his neck. Looking tired and drawn, but in reasonably good form, the 84-year-old pope blessed and...
- Research articles 2005-03-13
- Pope in voice therapy -- a month after start of latest health scare
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II spent his fifth night under medical watch following complications of the flu and a throat operation, but the Vatican said he had begun therapy to recover his voice amid concern that he may be unable to speak again. Vatican spokesman Joaquin...
- Research articles 2005-02-28
- Study of cracks in zirconia under compression.(Testing And Measurement)
- Scientists at Purdue University, USA, have studied crack behaviour in plasma-sprayed zirconia. Specifically, the researchers--J.P. Levin, G.R. Dickinson and R.W. Trice--observed in situ the microstructure evolution of plasma-sprayed yttria-stabilized zirconia YSZ tubes under incremental compressive load, while simultaneously viewing it in a scanning...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Silicon carbide cladding doubles life of fuel rods.(Nuclear)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL, USA, and materials company Gamma Engineering, also USA, have jointly developed ceramic tubes that they say could double the life span of nuclear fuel rods. The tubes form the cladding surrounding uranium rods and prevent the oxidation that allows...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Thermal workhorses: technical refinements in heat exchangers are lowering maintenance costs, increasing efficiency, and improving safety for food and beverage manufacturers.(Tech Update)
- THERMAL TRANSFER IS AT THE HEART OF MOST FOOD AND beverage processing, and there are many tools for adding or removing heat. One of the most controlled, efficient and versatile is the heat exchanger. Since they first were applied to dairy processing more than 80...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
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