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China and India — The New Growth Engines of the Global Economy?

Lisa Peterskovsky and Margot SchüllerWhile the leading industrial nations are still recovering from the consequences of the global financial crisis, China and…

Studies and Analyses

Young people with mental health problems at risk of falling through ‘gap’ in care services

A team led by Professor Swaran Singh at Warwick Medical School looked at the transition from child mental health services to adult mental health services and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Pain Therapy for Piglet Castration in Europe

Every year, 98 million male pigs are castrated in Europe and this surgery is usually carried out before the pigs are 14 days old. Castration is proven to be…

Physics & Astronomy

Smaller, Cheaper Innovation: 300X Intensity Breakthrough

A team of scientists from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, Imperial College London, and the Universities of St Andrews, Lancaster and Strathclyde as…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling the Epigenetic Code: Histones Beyond Structure

The function of its packaging proteins, the histones, was believed to be exclusively structural. Additional genetic information can be stored, however, and…

Life & Chemistry

Mathematics ensures clean water

Drinking water is a vital prerequisite for all life on earth and is therefore probably our most important resource. However, this resource is also becoming…

Event News

European Satellite Navigation Conference 2010 Highlights

To complement the Awards Ceremony of the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 – scheduled for 18-19 October in Munich, Germany – the Application…

Studies and Analyses

It Is Good To Have Friends in Business

Business clusters is a hot term in the debate on value creation. The thought is for the social networks between the different actors in a cluster to contribute…

Power and Electrical Engineering

50% by 2050 – How the power of the sea could help solve our electricity needs

Marine renewable energies include harnessing the power of offshore wind, waves, tides, and ocean currents as well as exploiting salinity and temperature…

Studies and Analyses

New Rehabilitation Therapy Helps Stroke Survivors Reintegrate

Researchers at The University of Nottingham are leading a national research project that will look at whether a new way of offering rehabilitation therapy…

Health & Medicine

New Hope: Innovative Bone Cancer Treatment Under Study

The Bone Cancer Research Trust launches Bone Cancer Awareness Week today and has funded a new project at the University which is testing a theory that…

Studies and Analyses

New Microscopy Concept Enhances Visibility in Foggy Conditions

It’s a familiar situation for all car drivers. In the autumn, when the roads are foggy, visibility drops below 50 metres. The light of the car’s headlights are…

Environmental Conservation

Ancient Hyrax Urine Sheds Light on Climate Change Insights

The animal in question is the rock hyrax, a common species in countries such as Namibia and Botswana. They look like large guinea pigs but are actually related…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Methods for Effective Conservation Management

In a paper published by the international journal Conservation Biology, Dr Simon Black and Dr Jim Groombridge have proposed that an understanding and…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover a New Class of Highly Electronegative Chemical Species

Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University, McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La., and the University of Konstanz in Germany report their…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Mission to Asteroid Gets Help from Hubble Space Telescope

Scientists have constructed a video from the images that will help improve pointing instructions for Dawn as it is placed in a polar orbit around Vesta….

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