European researchers working in the MOBVIS project have successfully developed a system that can attach hyperlinks to real-world urban features. Users simply…
You wake up in a strange city with no recollection of how you got there and no information about where you are. Demonstrating nerves of steel, you calmly pick…
In addition, institutional mechanisms to enhance synergies in forests and water administrations are needed at national and regional levels.These key messages…
The key to this technique is the CymaScope, a new instrument that reveals detailed structures within sounds, allowing their architecture to be studied…
As a result of this weakness it is possible to impersonate secure websites and email servers and to perform virtually undetectable phishing attacks, implying…
In addition to winning over regulators and other key constituents, some green manufacturers are even cutting costs through their environmental initiatives,…
At present, cell transplantation therapy is limited because transplant recipients are forced to take powerful immunosuppressant medications that have toxic…
Experiments show that calcium, when bound to a protein called calmodulin, prompts plants to make salicylic acid (SA) when threatened by infection or other…
These nanodiamonds, which are produced under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts and have been found in meteorites, are…
The WCS team, working in conjunction with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARCCoERS) along with government,…
From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of…
The ‘oddly enough’ sections of newspapers regularly feature amusing stories of GPS mayhem. For instance, one lorry driver in Poland had such confidence in his…
Change is coming to the IT world, says Dave Robertson, coordinator of the EU-funded OpenKnowledge research project.Just as individuals are now storing, editing…
This applies to infectious disease transmission, main topic of a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which called for…
This comes from a report commissioned by Rafael Martínez Fortún, from the town of Molina de Segura in Murcia, whose farm was struck by the largest meteorite…
Their discovery, reported in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, centres on the significance of DNA damage for both normal cells and…