Valentine's Day romantic breaks: We met at Portstewart Strand. We've been ...
Lower Lough Erne in the Fermanagh Lakeslands is renowned for being one of the most beautiful places in the UK and Ireland so a trip to the area and Lusty Beg Island is sure to put lovers in a relaxed mood. It's one of the most dramatic natural ...
One Summer's Day: Make it a date for our photo competition
Mellow evening light on the river Bann, after a very dull day. That's Irish . These streets close to the two cathedrals are well worth visiting with many unique architectural gems in this special area of Armagh City. By Brian I took this photo ...
What Makes a Paris Street Parisian? This Program Knows
To program the new software, researchers at Carnegie Mellon fed it 40,000 Google Street View images from 12 cities, including Paris and New York. These photos contained hundreds of millions of unique visual elements, creating a huge database that ...
E. Coli That Cause Urinary Tract Infections are Now Resistant to Antibiotics
There is also evidence that the genes that give bacteria resistance to drugs are being spread in livestock farming operations, where antibiotics are a common ingredient in animal feed. Ciprofloxacin is one of those antibiotics, and researchers Some ...
Bees That Drink Sweat From People's Skin and Tears From People's Eyes
Wild bees know all about it, feeding human sweat and tears as a source of nutrition. Urban sweat In a very few cases the approach was so gentle that the host (H.B.) did not realize he had a Lisotrigona attached to his lid, imbibing his tears. After ...
Tsetse Flies Lactate and Give Birth to Live Larvae
They also make “milk” to feed those larvae in utero, which uses some of same enzymes as mammals, according to new study published in the journal Biology of Reproduction. In fact, the sleeping sickness parasite is not even the This enzyme has a ...
No Surprise: Pot Messes With Memory. Surprise: It's Not by Affecting Neurons.
The team then showed that the signaling molecule glutamate is used to communicate between astroglia and neurons, in this case causing neurons to weaken their connections with each other. (For more detail on the molecular mechanism, Functions of ...