Obesity is known to increase the risk of chronic disorders, such as diabetes (type 2). An international team of scientists with German participation through…
The study provides the first evidence for a transgenerational effect on immune response based on environmental cues — with maternal perception of disease risk…
The report, Pain in older people: reflections and experiences from an older person’s perspective, aims to highlight the issue of pain in older people by…
To make children happier, we may need to encourage them to develop a strong sense of personal worth, according to Dr. Mark Holder from the University of…
In synch with the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discoveries, a group of astronomers and curators from…
LSL has just been awarded £800,000 from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) for projects to improve student assessment and to develop light-weight…
An image-recognition system developed by European researchers can hyperlink reality. It’s true. The MOBVIS system can recognise individual buildings in a photo…
John Ylander has studied the effects of various change processes within a large international group. Through in-depth interviews and workshops with staff,…
Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI) is one of the diseases considered as rare — there are less than 100 cases described throughout the world. FFI prevents the…
A new digital Moho depth map is compiled from more than 250 data sets of individual seismic profiles, 3-D models obtained by body and surface waves, receiver…
The first time such a coincidence was observed, at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, was the catastrophic event thought to be responsible for the extinction of…
Indigo is a vat dye and it needs to be reduced to its water-soluble leuco-form before dyeing. This allows the actual dye to pass on to textile fibres. Glucose…
Today two types of anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical drugs are available: steroids and those known as NSAID (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). This second…
On the face of it, the Beijing Olympics were remarkably drug free with only six athletes being caught during the games and three further suspect cases…
New research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that after controlling for other factors such as depression or substance abuse, there…
The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount Everest, published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM),…
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