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Back seat less safe: Australian study

Adults who ride in the back of new cars are at higher risk of serious injury during an accident than those in the front seat, new research has found.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Primitive frogs do a belly flop: Study shows frogs evolved jumping before they refined landing (w/ Video)

Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study1 by Dr. Richard Essner, from Southern Illinois University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold fronts linked to European H5N1 outbreaks

Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Europe during the winter of 2005-2006 occurred at the edge of cold weather fronts, according to researchers from Princeton University and the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis

A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Oceanic seesaw links Northern and Southern hemisphere during abrupt climate change

Very large and abrupt changes in temperature recorded over Greenland and across the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age were actually global in extent, according to an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 8


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