Science news articles about 'nineteenth century'

  • 'Deaf by God' tried in Old Bailey records

    ... servant, was sworn interpreter and used signs to explain the proceedings to James. In the early nineteenth century a shift occurred from the use of people with personal knowledge of the deaf person, ...
  • The emerging story of plant roots

    ... question has fascinated, yet frustrated, scientists since the nineteenth century. A paper appearing in Nature Cell Biology reveals for the very first time how lateral root emergence ...
  • Tel Aviv University researchers root out new and efficient crop plants

    ... Development to Prof. Fromm and Prof. Eshel. Ideas Planted in Darwin's Time In the nineteenth century, scientists were already observing that plant roots naturally seek out the wetter regions in ...
  • Key to virulence protein entry into host cells discovered

    ... oomycete Phytophthora infestans caused the Irish potato famine in the nineteenth century. Another Phytophthora species, P. ramorum, is causing Sudden Oak Death disease in California's ...
  • James Lovelock: Medicine for a feverish planet: kill or cure?

    Planetary scale engineering might be able to combat global warming, but, as with nineteenth century medicine, the best option may simply be kind words and letting Nature take its course, says James ...
  • Will the 'bare below the elbows' rule for doctors cut infection rates or just patient confidence?

    ... in the September issue of BJU International. Charting the history and attire of surgeons from the early nineteenth century, he points out that it is hard to find significant evidence that the 'bare ...
  • Infectious heart disease death rates rising again say scientists

    ... and frequently fatal heart disease usually caused by bacterial pathogens. It was first identified in the nineteenth century and has changed beyond all recognition due to evolution of the disease ...
  • Infectious Heart Disease Death Rates Rising Again, Say Scientists

    ... killer in spite of improvements in health care, but the way the disease develops has changed so much since its discovery that nineteenth century doctors would not recognize it, scientists report.
  • New hope for the red squirrel

    ... the UK since the introduction of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) at the end of the nineteenth century. Their rapid decline has been attributed primarily to the susceptibility of red squirrels ...
  • White vans goes green

    ... handling. Kim and colleagues have used the principles of fluid dynamics, which were first developed in the nineteenth century, to create a computer model of a moving mini-van, on which they could ...
  • The auto change bicycle

    ... and maintain this optimal state without reducing comfort. The researchers point out that bicycles are a nineteenth century invention but there has been little fundamental change in the bicycle's ...
  • Cell transplantation and diabetes: New sites, new devices

    Early attempts at islet cell transplantation to treat diabetes date to the nineteenth century, decades before the discovery of insulin in the 1930s. In recent years, research has focused on the ...
  • Is Geo-Engineering Our Only Hope?

    ... " image--that well-intentioned genius whose creation lurches out of control. In fact, there's a nineteenth-century book that warns about that. Its subtitle is The Modern Prometheus and its author is ...
  • Private papers reveal ‘Who`s Who of British Science`

    One of the most important archives of nineteenth-century science - stored in obscurity for over 100 years - has been reunited and acquired by the John Rylands University Library at The University of ...
  • Distributed security

    ... infringing on civil liberties. Modern criminal law has its origins in the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century and does not meet the needs of the current digital age, Brenner and Clarke ...

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