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Romance may happen every day, but finding true love in London is as rare as aliens in the galaxy, says one London-based economist. Peter Backus, a teaching fellow of economics at the University of Warwick, has calculated that he has a 0.00034 percent chance of finding love in the British capital using the same “Drake” [...]
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Love in London is as rare as finding aliens
Posted by Siril on January 20th, 2010
German scientists develop fast-acting germ killer
Posted by Siril on January 20th, 2010
A new fast-acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, viruses and other germs could help stop the spread of deadly infections in hospitals, German scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin said they had developed a fast-acting, practical formula which would kill germs on surgical instruments without damaging them through [...]
Exotic Symmetry Seen in Ultracold Electrons
Posted by Siril on January 20th, 2010
An exotic type of symmetry — suggested by string theory and theories of high-energy particle physics, and also conjectured for electrons in solids under certain conditions — has been observed experimentally for the first time. An international team, led by scientists from Oxford University, report in a recent article in Science how they spotted the [...]
Common Stomach Pathogen May Protect Against Tuberculosis
Posted by Siril on January 20th, 2010
It’s been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomach cancers, but studies by researchers at Stanford University, UC Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) also may play a protective role — against the worldwide killer, tuberculosis (TB). In an article appearing online in [...]
Researchers Confirm That Ant Has Given Up Sex Completely
Posted by mrudula on January 11th, 2010
The complete asexuality of a widespread fungus-gardening ant, the only ant species in the world known to have dispensed with males entirely, has been confirmed by a team of Texas and Brazilian researchers. Most social insects—the wasps, ants and bees—are relatively used to daily life without males. Their colonies are well run by swarms of [...]
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