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| 25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner 2008-08-21T14:11:38-07:00 |
| As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which eventually washed up hundreds of miles away on the West Sands in St Andrews |
| NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse 2008-08-21T14:07:17-07:00 |
| The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department`s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation. This was the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building, the agency stated as it released for public comment its WTC investigation report and 13 recommendations for improving building and fire safety. |
| Research shows pollsters how the undecided will vote 2008-08-21T14:02:05-07:00 |
| As the American Presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to predict who will win. A study by a team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Padova, Italy, may give pollsters a new way to determine how the undecided will vote, even before the voters know themselves. |
| Manes, trains and antlers explained 2008-08-21T12:37:08-07:00 |
| For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme. |
| Study on salmonella self-destruction 2008-08-21T12:36:08-07:00 |
| ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (CN), have been able to describe how random molecular processes during cell division allow some cells to engage in a self-destructive act to generate a greater common good, thereby improving the situation of the surviving siblings. |
