Millions of the world's poorest people in some of the most deprived regions could soon be helped by a new EU-funded food technology project that brings together researchers from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The 3-year project GRATITUDE ('Gains from losses of root and tuber crops') brings together 16 project partners from Ghana, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. It received close to EUR 3 million of funding from the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Quality validation date: 2012-05-16

Hockey is one of the toughest sports games. Players need both finesse and speed on the ice, but they also need to be strong. Being slammed into the boards or glass while chasing the puck is hard on the body.
Quality validation date: 2012-05-16

Scientists have refuted recent claims that sex-linked chromosomes such as the male Y chromosome could become extinct. The new claims have been made in a genetic study into the sex chromosomes of chickens, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The team, who hail from Sweden and the United Kingdom, looked at how genes on sex-linked chromosomes are passed down through generations and linked to fertility, using the specific example of the W chromosome in female chickens.
Quality validation date: 2012-05-15

An international team of researchers provides insight into the movement of the giant manta ray, the world's largest ray measuring up to 25 feet (around 7 metres) in width. Presented in the journal PLoS ONE, the study used satellite telemetry to track the open-ocean journeys of this marine traveller that is listed as 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in the United States, conservationists attached satellite transmitters to 6 manta rays (4 females, 1 male and 1 juvenile) off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for 13 days.
Quality validation date: 2012-05-15

The Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is home to Santino, the chimpanzee known for gathering stones and making concrete projectiles to throw at anyone visiting the zoo in 2009. But stone-throwing is not all that Santino does. A new study has found that the infamous chimp finds innovative ways to fool the visitors.
Quality validation date: 2012-05-14