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Transportation and Logistics

Reduce Traffic Crashes: The Case for Improved Street Lighting

Street lighting may be considered an obvious means of preventing road traffic crashes, but the scientific evidence for this has been uncertain and many studies…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Longer Working Lives: Insights from Volvo Workers

The study is based on life history interviews with 16 workers aged between 49 and 62 at Volvo’s Torslanda plant. The objective has been to try to understand…

Information Technology

Discover Lost Contacts with RISER’s Free Mobility Solution

People get lost all the time. Europeans have taken to free mobility with gusto and move regularly within their home state and abroad. Sometimes they forget to…

Earth Sciences

Project MARGO: Enhancing Climate Models for Future Studies

Project MARGO, which appears in an article published in the journal Nature Geoscience, offers more exhaustive data than that available at present and will…

Business and Finance

Understanding Patents: Key to Success in the Knowledge Economy

We live in a knowledge economy, and patents are the legal tender. They define a company’s or individual’s stake and they are the mechanism by which ideas can…

Medical Engineering

New VERT System Enhances Radiotherapy Training for Cancer Care

The Virtual Environments for Radiotherapy Training (VERT), one of the most sophisticated radiotherapy training systems in the world, is being rolled out in…

Studies and Analyses

Girls Excel in New Technologies: Insights from Learning Report

The Learning in the Family report which looked at how families are involved in children’s learning, was funded by Becta, commissioned by Intuitive Media…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Risks of Chemicals in Infant Liquid Medicines

Research published today (Jan 20) ahead of print in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood documents the non-drug ingredients…

Health & Medicine

New Tumour Measurement Criteria to Streamline Clinical Trials

RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours) were first published in 2000 and are used by investigators in phase II and phase III clinical trials of…

Life & Chemistry

Culture-Driven Language Evolution: A Study on Genetics and Speech

By modelling the ways in which genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be…

Life & Chemistry

MRSA’s ‘weak point’ visualised by scientists

Now, armed with detailed information about the structure of this enzyme, researchers hope to design new drugs that will seek it out and disable it, providing a…

Health & Medicine

Nicotine Receptors Discovered in Taste Buds: New Treatment Insights

A research team by scientists in Portugal and the US has found for the first time nicotine receptors in the taste buds. In fact, although most of the toxicity…

Physics & Astronomy

Microbot Motors Designed to Navigate Human Arteries

A research paper, published today, Tuesday, 20 January, in IOP Publishing’s Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering details how researchers are…

Health & Medicine

Immunotherapy Tablet Eases Hay Fever and Asthma in Kids

Taking one grass pollen tablet every day can alleviate hay fever and asthma in children. These are the results of a study by medical experts in the team led by…

Life & Chemistry

Infidelity Boosts Sperm Speed and Size, Study Reveals

Increased competition leads to both faster and larger sperms, and the research findings now being published in the scientific journal PNAS, Proceedings of the…

Information Technology

Pervasive Computing: Advancing Middleware for Connected Devices

In one field of computer research, however, the quest is on to create just such an intermediary to connect a flood of computerized devices with vast networks…

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