New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf
...he week and she manages to juggle her appointments thanks to the telephone's in-built calendar as she prepares to meet people from all walks of life from across the world. Using the phone where she can cuts down her fear of possible misinterpretations arising from differing sign language usage from one co...Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution
... The scheme will not cost French taxpayers a penny thanks to a deal between city hall and urban advertising giant JC Decaux, which is picking up the bill in exchange for exclusive rights to 1,600 hoardings across the city. It will even generate funds for the city, with a slice of ad revenue paid back into...Natural Selection in Butterflies
...arlat and Hurst reported in an earlier study that, thanks to Wolbachia, when males of H. bolina, commonly known as the Blue Moon or Great Eggfly butterfly, become a rare commodity, the number of mating sessions for both males and females jumps, possibly as an attempt to sustain the population despite the od...Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano
.... ESA now has a 16-year archive of homogenous data thanks to the continuity of satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat. Envisat and ERS-2, with a difference in overpass time of 30 minutes, are continually adding to the archive. To boost the use of Earth Observation (EO) data at volcanic observatories, ESA has...Understanding the Mechanism Underlying Embryo Development
...rlying embryo development has taken a step forward thanks to collaborative work between biologists specialized in the study of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and scientists specialized in the design of mathematical models that simulate the functioning of biological systems. Specifically, a study...Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team
...the specific genes involved. And he has succeeded, thanks to a study covering 178 women and men from 84 families. They all suffer from gallstones. In 21.4 per cent of cases the subjects were found to be carrying a particular gene variant. In healthy individuals studied as a control group, this variant also ...Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool
...limate change has faced indifference or ignorance, thanks mainly to sceptics who challenged the sometimes-sketchy evidence and fossil-fuel lobbyists who dismissed it as nothing more than a greenmongering scare. Thirty years ago, only a tiny number of individuals -- "climate scientists and the granola-and-......in kinases that have been identified and sequenced thanks to the mapping of the human genome. "Since we now know exactly what the requirements should be for a good blocker and how to avoid interference with host kinases, we should now be able to rationally design compounds that are highly effective agains...