Organic material in ‘dino mummy’ to give clues about its evolution

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Organic foods may be healthier and may not tax the environment, but choosing them is not an easy option for consumers when the other option is locally grown foods, says a new study. Chengyan Yue, horticulture professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMTC), and colleague Cindy Tong investigated consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organically grown and locally grown fresh produce.

August 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research from the University of Washington scientists has described an approach to organic electronics that allows transport of both positive and negative charges. Until now, however, circuits built with organic materials have allowed only one type of charge to move through them.

August 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - An Egyptian expert has arrived to restore a mummy from the age of the pharaohs and preserved at the State Archaeological Museum here. Tarek el Awady, director of Scientific Research in Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), arrived Wednesday night on a six-day visit to restore the mummy, dating back to 2500 BC, but which is showing signs of decay now.

July 30th, 2009 Oxidized lava may help explain Earth's evolutionWASHINGTON — Material from volcanoes where the Earth's plates squeeze together is more oxidized than in regions where the seafloor splits apart, a finding that helps shed light on some of the basic processes in the planet's mantle. Using highly sensitive X-ray techniques researchers were able to measure the amount of reaction with oxygen that had occurred in minerals in various situations.

July 20th, 2009 Researchers: Still learning from moon rocksST. LOUIS — Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn about the moon and the solar system.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has provided evidence that 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites were responsible for building 'microbial mats', a finding that may provide insight into the origins of life on Earth. Stromatolites are dome or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time.

July 10th, 2009 LONDON - The murder mystery of a 1,700-year-old Graeco-Roman mummy has deepened, with CT scans revealing that a 'metallic' object stuck in its neck is in fact one of three or four fragments lodged in the base of the skull. According to a report by Sky News, the 1,700-year-old mummy was scanned along with two other Egyptian mummies from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, in a quest for more information on the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A study has said that advanced nuclear science can shed new light into the well-being and nutrition of ancient mummies. Paleoradiology uses nuclear technologies such as X-rays, computed tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to study artefacts, skeletons, mummies and fossils.

June 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The CT scan of a 2,000-year-old mummy in Egypt, who was believed to be a woman, has revealed that the preserved corpse actually belongs to a man. The mummy has been kept at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

May 25th, 2009 LONDON - NASA's robot explorers may have been destroying the signs of life on Mars, say researchers. When the twin Viking landers, sent on the planet in 1976, failed to detect even minute quantities of organic compounds, scientists were puzzled because even if Mars has never had life, comets and asteroids that have struck the planet should have scattered at least some organic molecules - though not produced by life - over its surface.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Elizabeth Hurley will join hands with Prince Charles to launch a range of organic and low fat food. Hurley was inspired to go into the catering business last year after reading dietary advice for women hoping to avoid breast cancer.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - The Malawian tot denied to Madonna spent a tearful day pleading for her mother before being taken back to the orphanage. Mercy James was in flood of tears pleading, "Where's my Mummy?" 'Devastated' Madonna left the African country along with her kids - Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and adopted son David Banda, three - after being denied interim adoption of the four-year-old orphan.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - The baby who pop star Madonna had hoped to adopt cried all night as she was sent back to the orphanage. 'Where's my mummy?' she asked.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - Jade Goody's beloved sons have paid tribute to their late mum in their own special way, by tucking in 'miss you' messages in a bottle and launching it into the ocean from Australia. The Brit reality TV star's five-year-old Bobby and four-year-old Freddie, on vacation with dad Jeff Brazier, marked their mum's funeral on April 4 by writing messages and drawing her pictures.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - An International team of scientists have developed an organic material that may one day enable the Internet to work at "superfast" speeds. Ivan Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University and member of the research team, says that the novel material has been developed with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction.