'Bond Girls' - and their survival prospects

'Bond Girls' - and their survival prospects

What are the survival prospects for female characters in the James Bond movies? A new research project from Cleveland State University and Kent State University performed a quantitative content…
Researchers - maybe don't mention the polywater

Researchers - maybe don't mention the polywater

The Polywater debacle has been called ‘one of the most famous mistaken scientific research programs of the past half-century’. It was initially feared that the USSR’s discovery of highly viscous…
No New Heavy Quarks In ATLAS

No New Heavy Quarks In ATLAS

A nice new search for heavy quarks has been completed by the ATLAS collaboration in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions data collected in 2011. The ideas behind the search are instructive to describe, so…
Robot dogs and asymmetric tail wagging

Robot dogs and asymmetric tail wagging

A research team from the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria, Canada, have, for the first time, investigated the  behavioural responses of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to the…