Research explores the secret life of Australia’s rarest coastal dolphins

Biology /

Aug 18, 2006 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

University of Queensland researchers are using behavioural observations together with the latest molecular techniques to providing insights into the life of Australia's rarest coastal dolphins.

New Web database improves access to ionic liquid data

Chemistry /

Aug 18, 2006 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Chemical engineers and others designing "green" industrial processes using new ionic liquid solvents now have an important new resource, an on-line database of physical properties developed by the National Institute of Standards ...

How bugs avoid getting sick after sex

Medicine & Health /

Aug 18, 2006 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Scientists at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich revealed today how the promiscuous Salmonella bacterium protects itself from getting ill after acquiring foreign DNA through "sex" with other bacteria. ...

Why piglets shudder to keep warm

Medicine & Health /

Aug 18, 2006 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, have uncovered a genetic reason why newborn piglets are less tolerant to cold than other newborn mammals. It turns out that the gene that codes for the protein UCP1 was inactivated ...