French nature lovers discover huge dino footprints in sauropod stomping groundOctober 7th, 2009 Big dino prints found in Jurassic park in FrancePARIS — Now that's one big foot. Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 meters to 1.5 meters (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter.
New laser technique may be used to detect microbial life forms in Martian iceOctober 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have said that an innovative new laser technique could be used to detect microbial life forms in Martian ice. According to scientists, the technique, called L.I.F.E.
New technique identifies wild cheetahs from just their paw printsSeptember 24th, 2009 LONDON - Conservationists have developed a new technique to identify cheetahs in the wild from just their paw prints. According to a report by BBC News, the method has been developed for the first time with cheetahs in an international collaboration involving conservation organisations N/a'an ku se sanctuary, Wildtrack, AfriCat and Chester Zoo.
Indian-origin scientist's technique for better urinary continence after prostatectomySeptember 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin scientist, Vipul R. Patel, has found that the periurethral suspension technique leads to increased urinary continence rates at 3 months following robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP).
Largest dinosaur footprints in Europe discoveredAugust 19th, 2009 LONDON - Scientists have found the largest dinosaur footprints ever to be discovered in Europe, which are discovered half way up a Swiss mountain. According to a report in the Telegraph, a team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in Basel found the prints at 3,300 metres on a mountain in Ela Nature Reserve, Switzerland's largest park.
Scientist 'sees' fingerprints on fired bulletsJuly 13th, 2009 LONDON - a scientist has fabricated a new technique to 'see' fingerprints erased from fired bullets. Alex Goddard of University of Leicester has developed a technique that involves studying the chemical and physical interactions occurring between the metal and the fingerprint sweat deposit -- which have been overlooked until now.
New analytical technique to recognize archaeological material and fake masterpiecesJuly 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Dutch researcher Laurens van der Maaten has developed a new analytical technique that enables the computer to recognize archaeological material and fake works of art. According to a report in www.physorg.com, the technique not only enables the computer to better interpret the content of photos and images, but also of data.
Novel implant coating technique createdJune 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An electrochemical process for coating metal implants which vastly improves their functionality, longevity and integration into the body has been developed by a Tel Aviv University researcher. Brainchild of Prof.
New technique improves estimates of pulsar agesJune 9th, 2009 Washington, June 9 (ANI): Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a new technique that improves the estimates of determining the ages of millisecond pulsars, the fastest-spinning stars in the universe. "The standard method for estimating pulsar ages is known to yield unreliable results, especially for the fast-spinning millisecond pulsars," said Bulent Kiziltan, a graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC.
New lie-detection methods not better than old ones, says expertJune 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A renowned scholar has cast doubts on the efficiency of new lie-detection methods. The conventional truth-seeking technologies have been replaced by new brain-based techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and the electroencephalography(EEG)-based technology known as Brain Fingerprinting(r).
Fire, water to help unravel archaeological objects' ageMay 26th, 2009 LONDON - Scientists are relying on fire and water to date archaeological objects by unlocking their "internal clocks", with this simple yet novel method promising to be as significant for dating ceramic materials as radiocarbon has become for organic materials such as bone or wood. Researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh, behind the new technique, called it "rehydroxylation dating" to be used on fired clay ceramics like bricks, tile and pottery.
Fire and water to unlock 'internal clocks' of archaeological objectsMay 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has developed a new way of dating archaeological objects, by using fire and water to unlock their 'internal clocks'. The scientists, from the University of Manchester and the University of Edinburgh, call this technique as 'rehydroxylation dating', which can be used to date fired clay ceramics like bricks, tile and pottery.
New method to analyse sleep disorders developedApril 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from Israel and Germany say that it is possible to monitor sleep, and potentially diagnose sleep disorders, just by recording a person's heart rate. People suffering from disturbed sleep have an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, hypertension, obesity, depression, and accidents.
Scientists reveal new way to make narrower chip patternsApril 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a new way for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light. Research engineer Rajesh Menon and his colleagues call the new technique absorbance modulation.
Footprints prove earliest humans walked 1.5 mn years agoMarch 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Footprints found by researchers in two 1.5 million-year-old sedimentary layers in Kenya show that some of the earliest humans walked like we do today. The footprints found near Ileret in northern Kenya constitute the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human-like foot anatomy.
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