Meticulous machining and perfect surfaces are the primary prerequisites placed on the process chain involved in the machining of medical implants and…
The 5-day cool down, which took place in September was part of a project named 9komma4 after the giant magnet’s field intensity of 9.4 Tesla. The magnet will…
Annotating information with semantic data so that its meaning is understood by machines as well as humans has been heralded as the next evolution of the…
Half of all the 60,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in Europe this year will prove to be incurable and result in the patient’s death, and a similar…
Plugging the gaps in broadband internet access via two-way satellite is not a new idea, but to date there have been relatively few examples of successful…
Mask-less lithography (ML2) promises to rapidly reduce the costs and production times associated with low-volume device manufacture and prototyping. A mask is…
The semiconductor industry is the clock that beats the rhythms of the Information Age. Its revolutions are marked in 18-month cycles and its ticks herald every…
Terahertz waves occupy the part of the spectrum between light and radio, specifically between infrared and millimetre waves. With wavelengths of 0.1-1mm, THz…
Joy Clancy from the University of Twente has reviewed the problem in the current issue of the African Journal of Ecology. She says “A hundred years ago 95% of…
Today, anybody getting tests done in a GP’s surgery or hospital outpatients will usually have to wait several days before getting any results.Using current…
Among other things, the new Collaborative Research Centres will study the origins of diseases caused by viruses and bacteria, scarring of the liver and…
The risk algorithm, developed by a team led by UCL Professors Michael King and Irwin Nazareth, was tested in 6,000 people visiting their family doctor in six…
This issue of Reproductive Health Matters grew out of a conference on second trimester abortion convened in London in 2007 by the International Consortium on…
A group of scientists and physicians from the University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System in Seattle, in collaboration with…
According to a study in Geographical Research published by Wiley-Blackwell, the droughts are related to the solar magnetic phases and not the greenhouse…
This new material type improves the chemical compatibility of the ST-H transducer, offering more options for wet well, chemical storage, and process vessel…