Eye-opener as scientists grow lens cells Date January 31, 2013 15 reading now Read later Bridie Smith inShare. Pin It submit to reddit Email article Print Reprints & permissions . It’s just started: Researcher Professor Tiziano Barberi. Photo: Simon Schluter RESEARCHERS have established a way to grow human eye lens cells in the laboratory – Continue Reading →
Council amalgamations ‘will not save money’ says research by Jeff Tate Consulting Vikki Campion The Daily Telegraph January 30, 20135:35PM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share 0 A NEW report on council amalgamations warns awards and laws that mandate no forced redundancies for three years create overstuffed bureaucracies and would not save Continue Reading →
Tomorrow’s Life-Saving Medications May Currently Be Living at the Bottom of the Sea Jan. 29, 2013 — OHSU researchers, in partnership with scientists from several other institutions, have published two new research papers that signal how the next class of powerful medications may currently reside at the bottom of the ocean. In both cases, the Continue Reading →
Antarctic Lake Beneath the Ice Sheet Tested Jan. 29, 2013 — In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact Continue Reading →
2013 Australian Electoral Pendulum The electoral pendulum set out below shows the margins for all electorates at the next commonwealth election due in the second half of 2013. Seats are ordered from most vulnerable to safest. The margins have been adjusted to take account of redistributions in Victoria and South Australia. The Victorian redistribution is Continue Reading →
Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov Jan. 29, 2013 RELEASE : 13-032 NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station WASHINGTON — In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA’s QuikScat Continue Reading →