(PhysOrg.com) -- More schools should consider adopting bilingual education for part of their teaching, according to a language education expert from the University of Exeter, UK.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Here’s another reason to cheer for the little guy. A new study co-authored by Matthew Bracken, assistant professor of biology in Northeastern’s College of Science, has found that rare species from ...
Ecology
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A growing body of evidence underscores the importance of human gut bacteria in modulating human health, metabolism, and disease. Yet bacteria are only part of the story. Viruses that infect those bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Fink of the University of Arizona department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this planet and others.
Engineering
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the lead characters in the popular Broadway musical "Wicked" sing about defying gravity, the low-Earth orbiting twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) continue to ...
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent work by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shed new light on the perplexing environmental chemistry of plutonium. They demonstrated that under anaerobic, or oxygen-free, conditions, ...
Environment
Mar 19, 2012
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With St Patrick's Day upon us, a new study asks whether the saint fled his native Britain to escape a career as a Roman tax collector, only to arrive in Ireland and sell slaves.
Archaeology
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) emits more radiation in the X-rays than do a million suns at all wavelengths. ULXs are rare: Most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have none, and galaxies that do ...
Astronomy
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people know that ticks are rather hardy little creatures, killing them generally takes some severe bashing with a blunt object, or incineration in an open fire. But few likely suspected they would be ...
A special foil sensor developed to measure the pressure on a spaceplane’s wings during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere is now helping to build safer cars.
Engineering
Mar 19, 2012
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