In the “MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management” that appears in the Fall 2008 issue of Morgan Stanley’s Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, a…
And even more surprising, was that his findings revealed answers to NASA’s questions about sediment transport and surface processes on Mars. Those results are…
A new study in the Review of Agricultural Economics reveals that the recent changes in China ’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in poverty…
The avian flu, an Influenza A subtype dubbed H5N1, is evolving a resistance to a group of antiviral drugs known as adamantanes, one of two classes of antiviral…
In their paper, Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman point out that a large body of previous research consistently has found that people born in December,…
A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation,…
What kinds of personal relationships develop between immigrants and local inhabitants, and what changes take place between them? These questions are answered…
Nanotechnology exploits the properties of materials on a nanometric scale, (a nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter). The ultimate limit for such…
Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is commonly used by dentists to sedate their patients before treatment, but some dentists believe their patients also become more…
“The shorter moulding cycles achieved with Crastin® SF can deliver cost savings ranging up to 20 percent,” said Dave Donofrio, global business manager for…
The Primary Science Quality Mark which has been developed by the SLC EE, in conjunction with the Association for Science Education and Barnet Local Authority…
A thesis from Gothenburg University supports a different theory: that the formation of the Andes was a species pump which spread animals and plants across the…
This network will supply Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) with knowledge on how the world’s forests can best contribute to…
The disease, the cause of which is currently unknown, is a rare and severe childhood disorder that occurs mainly in young children. It is the most common cause…
The project compared counselling via phone and e-mail with the standard practice of issuing self-help literature in approximately 1400 workers as an aid to…
The question of why we sleep has long puzzled scientists. Brian Preston from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, led an…
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