What makes someone your sister or brother? No easy question in 2005
...o today's complicated range of family set-ups must recognise that 'brother and sister' relationships are now about far more than blood ties and living in the same home, warns a new study sponsored by the ESRC. As 21st Century children and young people create their own, complex understandings of who and what is...Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date
...ecific transporter, or even if one transporter can recognise 3 or 4 different substances, an infinity of such transporters would be required. The conclusion of this research is that, while not discarding the existence of specific transporters in plasma membranes, their number and relevance is considerably i...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...Y NSW2006, Australia Macaques (Macaca nemestrina) recognise when they are being imitated by Miss A Paukner, Dr...ive in monkeys, this experiment found that monkeys recognise when they are being imitated. Ten pigtailed macaques were tested by two experimenters. One experimen......yeballs because ancient parts of our brain fail to recognise them as fake, he says. He believes that strong reciprocity is an illusion because even though volunteers are told they will never meet the other players again, our brains are not geared up for that degree of anonymity because humans evolved in smal...Heart specialists call for cardiovascular screening for all young competitive athletes
...and clinically justifiable to make every effort to recognise in good time the diseases that put these athletes and risk, and to reduce fatalities. "Screening of large athletic populations will have significant socio-economic impact and its implementation across Europe will depend on the different socio-economi...Screening for genetic disorders: Need to avoid anxiety
...uncommon, GPs are not necessarily well equipped to recognise the symptoms of the disease for what they are."...Exercise doesn't work for us all
...t previously been linked to exercise. "We need to recognise that although on average exercise may have clear benefits, it may not work for everyone," says Mark Hargreaves of Deakin University in Melbourne. "Some people may do better to change their diet."...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
Urban planners must recognise that green spaces are not produced by professional...ral and sparsely populated regions. Scientists now recognise that cities sustain important 'communities' of plants and animals drawn together from many different...Global warming: Informal networking is the key to a swift response
...ment agencies and other organisations more able to recognise and adapt to the unexpected shocks that are accompanying climate change," says Mark Pelling. ...Insects implicated in the evolution of new human infectious diseases
...ilure of automated hospital diagnostic machines to recognise this unusual bacterium means that many more cases of this new infection may exist. This is likely to be particularly true for the developing world, where doctors may diagnose the sore as a bad ulcer and treat immediately with antibiotics. Now that re...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...ss. "We have developed a system farmers can use to recognise the various soil types that can be used to grow crops and which ones to avoid," Dr Fitzpatrick says. His team is now preparing a series of papers for major international journals and conferences to communicate the impact of their findings. "It was a...