The bacterium Escherichia coli can be a scientist’s best friend when it’s being used as a tool for biological research, but some strains of it are better known for their nasty effects on humans as a causative agent ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The work of Faculty of Science PhD graduate Alex Gardner -- published in Nature magazine in April -- has revealed some alarming evidence that Canada's Arctic glaciers and ice caps have lost nearly as much ...
Earth Sciences
May 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s not unusual for students to send Joanna Clair photos of washroom signs.
Social Sciences
May 4, 2011
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When Engin Kirda started focusing on cyber-security research 10 years ago, those primarily responsible for launching Internet attacks were teenagers out for kicks, he said. But the scope of threats existing through the Web ...
Internet
May 4, 2011
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Two of Boston’s professional sports teams — the Celtics and the Bruins — have reached the second round of their league playoffs for the third consecutive season. We asked John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan distinguished ...
Economics & Business
May 4, 2011
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Nintendo is dropping the price of its Wii game system by $50 to $150 and introducing a new line of cheaper Wii games.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 4, 2011
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The Internet has become a major tool in European organised crime, which uses it for drugs and human trafficking and money laundering as well as cybercrime, Europol's top official said Wednesday.
Internet
May 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Four paleontologists, including two at Simon Fraser University, have discovered the fossil of a gigantic ant whose globetrotting sheds light on how global warming events affected the distribution of life ...
Plants & Animals
May 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scars on the jaw of a 120 million year old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same species. ...
Archaeology
May 4, 2011
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At the University of Michigan College of Engineering, recent breakthroughs may lead to more effective means for harnessing the power of the sun.
Nanomaterials
May 4, 2011
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