CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES), acting through its new radar applications division (formerly the BOOST Technologies Company), is using the…
Chronic low-back pain is treated increasingly often with lumbar fusion, by which several lower back vertebrae are fused in a way that has little impact on the…
A total of 154,934 men and women aged from 55 to 74 took part in the multi-centre Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial and 38,349 men…
Over-fishing, pollution, river development, global climate changes, etc. are threatening a large number of migratory fish. Among the endangered species, one…
With its Galileo navigation system, the European Union intends to become independent of America’s GPS (Global Positioning System). Now the Mobile and…
Although restoration programmes have been set up, the future distribution of these species may be modified because of climate change. At the Bordeaux Cemagref,…
CNRS, Université de Rennes 1 and Zhengzhou University (in Henan province) have created the International Associated Laboratory “Matériaux organophosphorés…
The multiple images are a result of gravitational lensing by a foreground galaxy, an effect that was predicted by Albert Einstein as a consequence of his…
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, has undergone many changes in 2008. Due to the warming in the…
The vegetable species of Sierra Nevada are the 30% of Spain’s floral richness and they are impoverishing due to the maintenance with heavy plant of the ski…
Approximately 20% of us will suffer from this peripheral artery disease (PAD) once we are 65 or over, and with risk factors including smoking, diabetes,…
A. Alexandra Michel’s new book, “Bullish on Uncertainty: How Organizational Cultures Transform Participants,” explores the case of two major U.S. investment…
The government has today announced the funding to help establish a new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide from next…
You really can learn a lot from a dummy.For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or…
The team efforts of scientists and crew from the Waitt Institute for Discovery, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have paid off with the recent discovery of three never-before identified Lophelia coral reefs which were located 35 miles off the coast of Florida and 450 meters deep. The CATALYST ONE expedition which kicked-off on December 4 combined the scientific expertise of Harbor Branch’s senior research professor, John Reed, with Waitt Institute’s cutting edge…
In research that could mitigate the spread of Lyme disease, Kansas State University entomologists are looking for answers in tick saliva.Yoonseong Park,…