Corals unlock secrets of climate change
PICTURE CAPTION: Coral Skeletons can be up to 100,000 years old.
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Biologists share multi-million dollar funding
Scotland's marine biologists have been awarded a share of a $5 million international grant to develop new instruments for collecting information about marine mammals and create digital databases on the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life throughout the world.
The route to commercialisation
A seminar highlighting the ways entrepreneurial academics and students can turn their research into commercially viable results is to be held at the University of St Andrews later this month (Thursday 18 April 2002).
Meet the relatives: microbes mirror mankind
*Caption: boiling volcanic pool in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming - typical conditions for growth of archaea*
Call for earwigs in classrooms
A University of St Andrews biologist claims that earwigs could become a valuable learning resource for Scottish school pupils.
Lost in a forest
People are terrified of getting lost in forests according to a University of St Andrews psychologist commissioned by the Forestry Commission to help shape the future of the nation's woodlands.
Fate could be fatal
Most heart attack victims delay going to hospital because of a belief in fate, according to a University of St Andrews study.
Science museum ‘wellcomes’ new battery technology
Recent breakthroughs in research into rechargeable batteries at the University of St Andrews are being highlighted by The Science Museum in London.
World first discovery of novel enzyme
PICTURE CAPTION: The discovery was made by Professor David O'Hagan and his fellow researchers at the Centre For Biomolecular Sciences.
Scot. Ent. grant for light in medicine project
A University of St Andrews physicist has been awarded Scottish Enterprise funding to develop advances in optoelectronics to use light in helping diagnose and treat disease.