News tagged with heritage science

Scientists name Dorset crocodile after Kipling

(PhysOrg.com) -- A superbly preserved 130-million-year-old crocodile skull, discovered at Swanage in Dorset in 2009, has been described as belonging to a species new to science in a paper by researchers at ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages

Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sound effects inspired Stonehenge: US scientist

Ancient legends of thunder gods can be explained today with the modern science of sound waves, said a US scientist on Thursday who believes an auditory illusion inspired the creation of Stonehenge.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 10

Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age

Europe's leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space technologies help historians to virtually reassemble tomb monuments

A group of Renaissance Tomb-Monuments in Suffolk is being analysed with tools developed in Space Science, to unlock their mysterious past and offer new insights into the Tudor Reformation.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Policy changes needed to protect southeast Mexico's farmers, forests

(PhysOrg.com) -- If it is to ensure a bright future for Campeche farmers and the tropical forests surrounding them, the Mexican government must institute new policies that are more responsive to economic and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Leading edge facility to strip history bare

A new facility opening later this year at the Diamond synchrotron is set to revolutionise world heritage science. A new research platform soon to be available at the leading UK science facility, Diamond Light ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 2