http://www.physorg.com/science-news/sci-other/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. (PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide public opinion polls. http://www.physorg.com/news177100878.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:10:02 EST news177100878 Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," which interact with the weather to ultimately create environmental structures that integrate form with function. http://www.physorg.com/news176732821.html Other Sciences - Other Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:27:46 EST news176732821 Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. http://www.physorg.com/news176637030.html Other Sciences - Other Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:01 EST news176637030 Something fresh is growing in Indiana. The number of farmers' markets in the state has increased at double the rate of other U.S. states; between 1994 and 2004 the number of farmers' markets in Indiana increased by an impressive 222%. Researchers at Purdue have published an insightful study that identifies the reasons behind this unprecedented growth. http://www.physorg.com/news176566481.html Other Sciences - Other Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:01 EST news176566481 A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance advantage over counterparts who use their biological legs. http://www.physorg.com/news176565385.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:50:01 EST news176565385 The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. http://www.physorg.com/news176545086.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:19:04 EST news176545086 For kids, ringing a neighbor's doorbell, yelling "trick or treat," and receiving candy brings plenty of smiles, but for many the real fun of Halloween happens when you turn your plastic jack-o'-lantern candy bucket upside down, unleashing a candy tsunami onto a tabletop or bedspread. From there it's easy to pick out the holiday-inappropriate items that somehow made it into the mix -- kids need pencils, and eating the occasional apple is swell, but not on Halloween night. http://www.physorg.com/news175971356.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:56:33 EST news175971356 (PhysOrg.com) -- They're everywhere. Like knee boots, capes and cloaks, vampires are trendy again. In books and movies, on magazine covers, TV and the Internet -- it's hard to avoid blood suckers in the media lately. http://www.physorg.com/news175891178.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:01 EST news175891178 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion fire. http://www.physorg.com/news175879200.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:50:03 EST news175879200 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new book, UCLA historian Joan Waugh argues that Ulysses S. Grant deserves to be remembered with as much reverence and gratitude as Abraham Lincoln. http://www.physorg.com/news175796297.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:30:02 EST news175796297 Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically. http://www.physorg.com/news175787445.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:19 EST news175787445 Teachers tend to spend more time speaking than most professionals, putting them at a greater risk for hurting their voices -- they're 32 times more likely to experience voice problems, according to one study. And unlike singers or actors, teachers can't take a day off when their voices hurt. http://www.physorg.com/news175782929.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:37:20 EST news175782929 A fire aboard a Navy ship can quickly become a deadly cauldron. The grim reminders of this would be the deadly fires that took place aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 or the USS Enterprise in 1969. http://www.physorg.com/news175527481.html Other Sciences - Other Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:01 EST news175527481 The Batavians, who lived in the Netherlands at the start of the Christian era were far more Roman than was previously thought. After just a few decades of Roman occupation, the Batavians had become so integrated that they cooked, built and bathed in a Roman manner. Dutch researcher Stijn Heeren discovered this during archaeological research. http://www.physorg.com/news175507383.html Other Sciences - Other Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:20:01 EST news175507383 (PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African language. http://www.physorg.com/news175418617.html Other Sciences - Other Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:24:00 EST news175418617 (PhysOrg.com) -- It has passed as fact among historians, journalists and politicians, and has been recounted everywhere from tourist guidebooks to the floor of the U.S. Congress: British forces used chemical weapons on Iraqis just after World War I. http://www.physorg.com/news175282627.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:41:37 EST news175282627 Communication between the public and government is a necessary component of public trust. For many modern issues, constituents trust that their legislators understand the science behind these topics and pass legislation for the betterment of society. While science has its uncertainties, much of that public trust is subsequently transferred to the scientists who inform legislators. Past studies show that scientists were seen as trustworthy sources of information; however, the public would like scientists to be more open, sharing their scientific knowledge through information sources such as mass media. For an issue as debated as agricultural biotechnology, communicating factual scientific information is a necessary ingredient in public acceptance. http://www.physorg.com/news175262006.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:01 EST news175262006 Performance assessment schemes aimed at making local authorities into more effective organisations are having the desired effect, according to new research released by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project "Leadership Change and public services: Reinvigorating Performance or Reinforcing Decline?" found that poor performance was likely both to be punished by voters at local elections and to lead to change among the senior management of authorities. http://www.physorg.com/news175080835.html Other Sciences - Other Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:35:44 EST news175080835 A team of engineers from the University of Almería (UAL, Spain) has developed a methodology to help meet the EU objective of cutting road deaths by 50% between 2000 and 2010. The researchers have calculated the relevant amount for each country according to its starting point, and have done the same for each of the Spanish provinces. http://www.physorg.com/news174821155.html Other Sciences - Other Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:02 EST news174821155 If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics suggests that more of us are no longer entrusting our finances to virtual accounts. http://www.physorg.com/news174740133.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:59 EST news174740133 (PhysOrg.com) -- The cheese aisle of your local supermarket is an unlikely place to study a classic political problem: How do we balance state power with individual freedom? But for those with a trained eye, the variety, flavors, and textures of the products available have much to tell us. Cheese, says Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Anthropology, is "a window into broader issues of politics and ethics." In this case, it reveals a conflict between the federal government and local producers that has been aging for two decades. http://www.physorg.com/news174645990.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:54 EST news174645990 Cash-rich US researchers have again dominated this year's Nobel awards, but it seems identifying the nationality of laureates is not an exact science, and change may be on the way. http://www.physorg.com/news174633100.html Other Sciences - Other Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:40:05 EST news174633100 (PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children`s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online. http://www.physorg.com/news174559861.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:52:43 EST news174559861 (AP) -- A nuclear physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to the Algerian branch of al-Qaida, another blow to a project that has been plagued by glitches and was shut down after a massive electrical failure a year ago. http://www.physorg.com/news174308577.html Other Sciences - Other Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:03:32 EST news174308577 A battered U.S. economy has sent many of the country's leading minds packing for "greener" shores. America is losing thousands of top scientists, academics and biotech executives to cities like Singapore, which offer more lucrative salaries. Now, an Israeli specialist is sharing a proven formula for wooing the expatriates back home. It worked in Israel, and he says it could rebuild America's innovation edge as well. http://www.physorg.com/news174218546.html Other Sciences - Other Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:04:34 EST news174218546 The question of how hormones affect a woman's voice is relevant to professional singers because hormonal fluctuations may place them at risk of injury. Knowing when the risks are greatest would help singers avoid performing at those times -- in the same way that a track star with a bad knee will sit out a competition. http://www.physorg.com/news174156623.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:52:00 EST news174156623 (AP) -- European authorities and industry must increase funding for scientific research and improve cooperation to try to close the technology gap with the United States, the European Commission said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174138562.html Other Sciences - Other Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:00:03 EST news174138562 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a University of Texas at Austin linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are very different from what we traditionally think of as grammar. http://www.physorg.com/news173979856.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:20:01 EST news173979856 (PhysOrg.com) -- The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news173955504.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:10:16 EST news173955504 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Ig Nobels are a highlight of the scientific calendar and award research that makes people laugh as well as think. The awards were presented last week at Harvard University in the U.S, and winning research included a bra that doubles as two face masks, a process for making diamonds from tequila, and Zimbabwe's scheme to simplify the handling of money. http://www.physorg.com/news173943429.html Other Sciences - Other Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:00:01 EST news173943429