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BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS at the US government Agricultural Research Service have developed a way to eliminate costly conventional and costly oil extraction procedures in making biodiesel. The new method involves oil being created through a chemical reaction caused by incubating dried oilseed with methanol and sodium hydroxide, which are currently used to process extracted oil.…

KEITH NUTHALL
OBESE shoppers are routinely treated with rude and dismissive behaviour from shop assistants according to a study performed by graduate students at Rice University in Texas. Conducted in a large Houston shopping mall, 10 medium-built Caucasian women aged between 19 and 28 played the role of customer in four different scenarios: an average-weight shopper in casual attire, an average-weight shopper in professional attire, an obese shopper (the result of a size 22 obesity prosthetic worn under the clothing) in casual attire and an obese shopper in professional attire.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
ASK the average motorist to identify which automotive technologies have advanced the most in recent years, and very few would mention coatings and finishings. Certainly, when it comes to innovation, carmakers are eager to promote new developments in performance, economy and safety.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a Euro 1.01 million research project to develop guidelines on producing food for elderly people. Researchers in the NUTRI-SENEX scheme will consider the loss of smell and taste of older consumers, which sparks a loss of appetite.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a Euro 1.01 million research project aimed at developing guidelines for boosting the nutrition of elderly people, improving their general health and well-being. Researchers in the NUTRI-SENEX scheme will consider ways of dealing with the loss of smell and taste in older people, which can spark a loss of appetite, leading to weight loss and other health problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ECOLOGICAL havoc that could be wreaked by careless undersea mining operations at the fringes of Europe’s continental shelf is to be assessed by a Euro 15 million international study. The European Commission is funding the HERMES project, which involves consortium of 36 research institutes and nine small companies from 15 countries, led by Britain’s Southampton Oceanography Centre.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers will be well acquainted with international efforts to develop hydrogen cars, but local authorities in Denmark wants to go further: they are planning to launch Europe’s first hydrogen-powered train. Three towns in western Jutland – Vemb, Lemvig and Thyborøn – have pledged funding to run a hydrogen train along the 59-kilometre railway that connects them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY by American and Japanese scientists says that meat products derived from cloned cattle are not only safe, they are almost identical to those derived from cattle reproducing normally. Published in the USA’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, research coordinated by the Center for Regenerative Biology, at the University of Connecticut, focused on two beef and four dairy cattle clones.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS from the USA’s Agricultural Research Service have found that altering a cows diet can make their dung smell sweeter. They discovered that feeding cattle high-moisture corn instead of the traditional dry-rolled corn significantly reduced the odours that can spark complaints from residential areas near livestock farms.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EMPLOYEES’ motivation decreases significantly if they sense distrust from supervisors, according to new research from Germany’s University of Bonn.

Professor Armin Falk, research director at the Institute for the Study of Labour, conducted a controlled experiment of students to research people’s reaction to supervision.…