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Lesbian and gay young people twice as likely to smoke and drink alcohol

By Guest PostSeptember 3, 2013Healthalcohol drinking patterns, bisexual, bmj open, depression, drink alcohol, frequent intoxication, gareth hagger johnson, gay, hazardous alcohol drinking, heterosexism, heterosexual peers, homophobia, lesbian, london metropolitan university, longitudinal study, minority stress, public health england, research, smoke, social change, symptoms of anxiety, ucl, university of cambridge, young people

Young people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual are twice as likely to have smoked than their heterosexual peers, according to new research published in BMJ Open. Lesbian and gay young people were also more likely to drink alcohol frequently and more hazardously.

The interdisciplinary research team comprised researchers from five UK Universities (UCL, University of Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, De Montfort University Leicester and Brunel University), a doctor working in General Practice and a consultant from Public Health England. (more…)

Gauck auf den Spuren der Wölfe

By Guest PostSeptember 3, 2013Naturefreilebende Woelfe, nabu projekt, rueckkehr der woelfe, spur der woelfe, willkommen wolf, wolfsbotschafter, wolfsforscher

NABU-Wolfsbotschafter auf dem Bürgerfest des Bundespräsidenten

Beim alljährlichen Bürgerfest des Bundespräsidenten im Park des Schloss Bellevue hat sich Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck am Wochenende am Stand der Wolfsbotschafter über die Rückkehr der Wölfe informiert. (more…)

Fifty years later: ‘I have a dream’

By Guest PostSeptember 3, 2013Politicsamerican history, civil rights, civil rights movement, dream forever, have a dream

U faculty and leaders reflect on the historic day and its aftermath

Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a young preacher delivered a speech that would go down as one of the most important and powerful in all of American history. “I Have a Dream” became the cornerstone of the March on Washington, a march which galvanized a people and energized the civil rights movement. One year later, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. (more…)

Nourishing people and an economy

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2013Economydairy farmers, dairy industry, farmers in malawi, malawi, native farmers, white revolution

Milk has a reputation for strengthening bones. In Malawi, the growing dairy industry is strengthening the livelihoods of small dairy farmers and the health of the country’s inhabitants. (more…)

Protest gegen Aigners verfehlte Agrarpolitik

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2013Environmentaigner, aigners verfehlte agrarpolitik, bayer und syngenta, bienenvoelker, csu, deutsche oekolandbau, deutschland, die wirkstoffe, dirk zimmermann, efsa, eu, europa, fipronil, klimawandel, landwirtschaft, pestizid, protest, umwelt

Nicht alle wollen die Biene schützen: Bayer und Syngenta klagen gegen das Pestizidverbot der EU, in Deutschland hat Ilse Aigner (CSU) als Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerin versagt. Greenpeace-Aktivisten protestieren dagegen in München mit einem großen Plakat. Eine Fotomontage zeigt, wie Aigner inmitten eines Rapsfeldes steht und lächelnd Pestizide versprüht.

“Die Industrie bestreitet die nachgewiesene Bienengefährlichkeit der Pestizide”, sagt Dirk Zimmermann. “Unabhängig vom Rechtsstreit zwischen Industrie und EU fordern wir von der nächsten Bundesregierung ein wasserdichtes nationales Verbot der Bienenkiller.” (more…)

Ultracold Big Bang experiment successfully simulates evolution of early universe

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 2013Scienceabsolute zero, andrei sakharov, background radiation, beginning of universe, big bang, black holes, chao lin kuo, chen lung hung, cheng chin, cmb, cobe, cosmic microwave, dynamics, early universe, evolution, excitations, galaxy formation, infant universe, initial conditions, john carlstrom, laboratory simulation, matter and radiation, michael turner, phenomenon, power of physics, russian physicist, sakharov acoustic oscillations, sakharov oscillations, simulation, sound wave excitations, stanford university, ultracold big bang, ultracold cesium atoms, university of chicago, vacuum chamber, wayne hu, wmap

Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber at the University of Chicago.

“This is the first time an experiment like this has simulated the evolution of structure in the early universe,” said Cheng Chin, professor in physics. Chin and his associates reported their feat in the Aug. 1 edition of Science Express, and it will appear soon in the print edition of Science. (more…)

New Biochip Holds Great Promise for Quickly Triaging People after Radiation Exposure

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 2013Healthbiochemical signatures, biochip, blood assay, ionizing radiation, radiation dose, radiation exposure

Berkeley Lab scientists have helped to develop a tiny chip that has big potential for quickly determining whether someone has been exposed to dangerous levels of ionizing radiation. (more…)

Magma can survive in upper crust for hundreds of millennia

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 2013Scienceandes mountains, cascades range, craggy granite formation, crystallization, francisco gutierrez, hawaii, heat conductivity, hundreds of millennia, kilauea volcano, magma, modeling research, molten rock, mount pinatubo, mount st helens, national scientiﬁc, olivier bachmann, oozing, pacific northwest, period, Philippines, plutonic magma, plutonic rock, reservoir, Santiago, sarah gelman, silica rich magma, south america, survive, temperature dependent, universidad de chile, university of washington, upper crust, volcanic arcs, volcanic eruptions, volcanic magma, washington state, yellowstone national park, yosemite national park

Reservoirs of silica-rich magma – the kind that causes the most explosive volcanic eruptions – can persist in Earth’s upper crust for hundreds of thousands of years without triggering an eruption, according to new University of Washington modeling research.

That means an area known to have experienced a massive volcanic eruption in the past, such as Yellowstone National Park, could have a large pool of magma festering beneath it and still not be close to going off as it did 600,000 years ago.

“You might expect to see a stewing magma chamber for a long period of time and it doesn’t necessarily mean an eruption is imminent,” said Sarah Gelman, a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences. (more…)

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