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Health & Medicine

UK Kidney Cancer Patients Face Outdated Treatments: NICE Impact

Writing in the December issue of BJU International, Professor Eisen, from the University of Cambridge, points out that although NICE has put its findings out…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Dissertation Unlocks Groundbreaking Wave Power Insights

In his dissertation, Rafael Waters presents the findings from the experimental facility located in the sea outside Lysekil, Sweden, in which he has played a…

Business and Finance

How Unrest Drives Strategic Takeovers in Today’s Market

Takeovers and acquisitions have become increasingly common in recent decades. Companies grow and expand by buying up other companies, and there has been a…

Information Technology

W3C Empowers Authors to Enhance Mobile Content Creation

Today, W3C has made it easier to create content designed to improve people's mobile experience using a broad range of devices. W3C invites the community to try…

Health & Medicine

Malaria Vaccine Trials in East Africa Spark Phase 3 Development

Experts are recommending that a malaria vaccine progress to Phase 3 trials following the successful trial of the RTS, S/AS01E malaria vaccine among 5-17 month…

Earth Sciences

Dutch Research on Fair-Weather Clouds Enhances Climate Predictions

The Delft researcher Thijs Heus has tackled this issue with a combination of detailed computer simulations and airplane measurements. He charted data including…

Life & Chemistry

Faster Genetic Diagnosis for Hereditary Diseases Unveiled

By means of this technique, genetic tests that take a long time today – such as screening for hereditary forms of breast cancer – can be carried out much more…

Science Education

Essex Consortium Secures £1M Grant for Research Innovation

The £1.1m grant has been made to the Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER, the UK Data Archive, UKDA, and the Department of Sociology, who, in…

Business and Finance

The Crash of 2008: A Mathematician’s View

There is no such thing as laying off risk if no one is able to insure it. Big new risks were taken in extending mortgages to far more people than could handle…

Life & Chemistry

Leeds Study Uncovers New Hepatitis C Therapy Insights

A study of a protein called p7, has revealed that differences in the genetic coding of the protein between virus strains – known as genotypes – alter the…

Physics & Astronomy

HiRISE Camera Reveals Stunning 3D Images of Mars

Other Mars-orbiting cameras have taken 3D views of Mars, but the HiRISE camera – the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet – can resolve features…

Environmental Conservation

Juvenile Salmon Transport Impacts Adult Migration Patterns

Transportation programs have been in place for over three decades to improve the survival of fish that hatch in rivers but migrate downstream to the ocean,…

Health & Medicine

High Fructose Corn Syrup: Myths Debunked by Experts

A supplement in the December 2008 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that reviews the history and development of high fructose corn syrup…

Physics & Astronomy

New Record Set in Quantum Memory Storage with Rubidium Atoms

The new record – 7 milliseconds for rubidium atoms stored in a dipole optical trap – is scheduled to be reported December 7 in the online version of the…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Discovered Extinct Coral Species Linked to Pacific Gems

What began as an homage to achievement in the field of coral reef geology has evolved into the discovery of an unexpected link between corals of the Pacific…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Alpeorujo’s compost improves the properties of low-rainfall saline land

Spanish researchers have proved that the combined use of the compost of the waste obtained from olive grinding (alpeorujo) and manure improve agricultural land…

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