Lisa Peterskovsky and Margot SchüllerWhile the leading industrial nations are still recovering from the consequences of the global financial crisis, China and…
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…
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…
A team of scientists from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, Imperial College London, and the Universities of St Andrews, Lancaster and Strathclyde as…
The function of its packaging proteins, the histones, was believed to be exclusively structural. Additional genetic information can be stored, however, and…
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…
To complement the Awards Ceremony of the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 – scheduled for 18-19 October in Munich, Germany – the Application…
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…
Marine renewable energies include harnessing the power of offshore wind, waves, tides, and ocean currents as well as exploiting salinity and temperature…
Researchers at The University of Nottingham are leading a national research project that will look at whether a new way of offering rehabilitation therapy…
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…
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…
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…
In a paper published by the international journal Conservation Biology, Dr Simon Black and Dr Jim Groombridge have proposed that an understanding and…
Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University, McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La., and the University of Konstanz in Germany report their…
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….