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TwitterIntensive cleaning takes place on a hospital ward Photo: Rii SchroerFrom The Telegraph:Hospital curtains, bedding, and even patients’ pyjamas could become weapons in the war against hospital superbugs.A study has found that an antimicrobial treatment, which could be incorporated into dozens of surfaces on the ward, can kill MRSA on contact, reducing the risk of infection between patients.Scientists hailed the discovery by researchers from Imperial College London as a “very significant” step in the war on hospital superbugs which kill 10,000 people a year.Read more ….
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Curtains And Pyjamas To Become Weapons Against Superbugs
March 3rd, 2009 
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February 24th, 2009 admin Google?s Gmail service has suffered a worldwide crashpreventing millions of users from accessing their mailFrom The Telegraph:Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages. The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.Read more ….More News On Today’s Gmail InterruptionGoogle apologizes for Gmail outage — CNETGmail Struck With Service Outage — PC WorldGoogle mail users hit by global outage — Times OnlineGmail breakdown affects users worldwide — AFPFour Hours Without Gmail — New York TimesGmail Experiences Worldwide Crash — FOX News
Posted in Science News Tags: Crash, Crashes, Fox News, Gmail, Gmt, Google, Google Web, Interruption, Mail Clients, Mail Users, Mobile Phones, New York Times, Party Mail, Pc World, Service Outage, Telegraph, Third Party, Web Based Email, Web Based Email Service, Web Email Comments OffAAAS: ‘One Hundred Billion Trillion’ Planets Where Alien Life Could Flourish
February 19th, 2009 admin Dr Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, said there could be as many Earths as there are stars in the universe Photo: REUTERSFrom The Telegraph:There could be one hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets in space, making it “inevitable” that extraterrestrial life exists, according to a leading astronomer.Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once.But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms.The change in thinking has come about because of the new belief there are an abundant number of habitable planets like Earth.Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, said there could be as many Earths as there are stars in the universe – one hundred billion trillion.Because of this, he believes it is “inevitable” that life must have flourished elsewhere over the billions of years the universe has existed.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Abundant Number, Alan Boss, Alien Life, Astronomer, Belief, Billion Trillion, Billions Of Years, Carnegie Institution, Dr Alan, Earth Space, Extraterrestrial Life, Freak Accident, Habitable Planets, Life On Earth, Living Organisms, Reuters, Scientists, Stars In The Universe, Telegraph, Washington Dc Comments Off‘Eco-house’ Based On Medieval Architecture Could Be Home Of The Future
February 19th, 2009 admin Eco-house: The unusual dome-like design is based on a Medieval technique, originating in Spain, known as ‘timbrel vaulting’ Photo: MASONS NEWS SERVICE From The Telegraph:Energy bills will be a thing of the past in the ‘eco-house’ of the future thanks to a combination of the latest renewable energy technology and building techniques from hundreds of years ago.The zero carbon building, developed by University of Cambridge architects as a prototype for future living, is based on a 600-year-old Medieval design that retains heat from the sun while cooling naturally in the summer.Any extra energy needs are provided by solar panels on the roof and a woodchip boiler.The unusual dome-like design is based on a Medieval technique, originating in Spain, known as “timbrel vaulting”.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Boiler, Cambridge Architects, Energy Bills, Extra Energy, Future Living, Future Thanks, Home Of The Future, House Architecture, Hundreds Of Years, Masons, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Design, News Service, Prototype, Renewable Energy Technology, Solar Panels, Spain, Telegraph, University Cambridge, University Of Cambridge Comments OffHow Big Can Rats Get?
February 19th, 2009 admin Photo: Giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian. Photo: HTTP://NEWS.163.COMGiant Rat Caught In China — The TelegraphA giant rat with one-inch-long teeth has been caught in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.The rat, which weighed six pounds and had a 12-inch tail, was caught at the weekend in a residential area of Fuzhou, a city of six million people on China’s south coast.The ratcatcher, who was only named as Mr Xian, said he swooped for the rodent after seeing a big crowd of people surrounding it on the street.He told local Chinese newspapers that he thought the rat might be a valuable specimen, or a rare species, and had to muster up his courage before grabbing its tail and picking it up by the scruff of its neck.Read more ….My Comment: A few years ago I saw a rat the size of a cat (in Montreal). I had to look at it a few times for it to register in my brain that what I was looking at was in fact a rat.I am still scarred after all of these years.
Posted in Science News Tags: 163, Brain, Chinese Newspapers, Courage, Crowd Of People, Giant Rat, Montreal, Rare Species, Ratcatcher, Rats, Residential Area, Rodent, S South, Scruff, South Coast, Southern Chinese Province, Specimen, Teeth, Telegraph, Xian Comments OffAnti-Freeze Chemicals ‘Could Indicate Life On Mars’
February 19th, 2009 admin Mars: Perchlorates are rare on earth but they make up one per cent of Mars’s soil Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph:Life could exist on Mars thanks to chemicals found on the red planet which can prevent water turning into ice, experts have claimed.The low temperatures on the red planet mean any water would usually be frozen rather than running.But salts called perchlorates are abundant in the soil of the planet, where temperatures often fall below zero, and can act as a natural anti-freeze.This suggests there could be liquid water below the surface – increasing the chances of life being able to exist there.Perchlorates are rare on earth but they make up one per cent of Mars’s soil.They were discovered last year by the robotic arm of NASA’s Phoenix lander.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Anti Freeze, Chemicals, Getty, Life On Mars, Liquid Water, Mars Photo, Nasa, Perchlorates, Phoenix Lander, Rare Earth, Red Planet, Robotic Arm, Salts, Soil, Telegraph, Temperatures Comments OffWomen Less Tolerant Of Each Other Than Men Are, Study Finds
February 17th, 2009 admin From Telegraph:Women are less tolerant of each other than men are, according to a new study which may explain why some women prefer to have a male boss.The research, published in the US journal Psychological Science, found that women formed a negative view of their peers much quicker than men did.The team from Emmanuel College in Boston asked male and female college students to rate their room-mates under different scenarios.When asked to judge how they would rate their room-mates if they carried out a single fictional act of negative behaviour, after they had been otherwise completely trustworthy, women were far more likely to be critical of them.Men, on the other hand, were much more tolerant.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Act, Boss, Boston, Emmanuel College, Female College Students, Men Women, Peers, Psychological Science, Room Mates, Scenarios, Telegraph Comments OffScientists Warn Of First Ever Case Of Human Mad Cow Disease From Blood Plasma
February 15th, 2009 admin From The Telegraph:The first case of a person being infected with the human form of mad cow disease after receiving contaminated blood plasma has been identified by scientists. The man was one of thousands of haemophiliacs who received blood plasma transfusions in the years before strict controls were brought in to eliminate the spread of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).Until now, scientists had maintained that the 4,000 people who may have received plasma from infected donors were at very low risk of developing the fatal brain disease. Warnings were issued to them as a “highly precautionary measure”.Read more ….
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