He continues: “Without environmental taxes it will be much harder to meet climate targets”. Kallbekken recently completed a Ph.D. on environmental tax schemes,…
Writing in the December issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), the group, which includes Professor Stephen Holgate, Medical Research Council…
However, these cuts will require fundamental shifts in technology and behaviour. Much more ambitious policies are needed if the 2050 target, as well as 2020…
In their review for Nature Geoscience, UK scientists claim that the Earth never froze over completely during the Cryogenian Period, about 840 to 635 million…
“Food allergy affects around 10 million EU citizens and there is no cure,” says Dr Clare Mills of the Institute of Food Research, a lead partner in the Food…
Organisms such as E coli may be present in animal manure and can pose a serious threat to human health. Irrigated crops are sometimes contaminated,…
A RIKEN-led research group has uncovered a previously unreported locus or area of chromosome in which single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are highly…
Radiation from x-ray lasers such as x-ray free electron lasers are of wide interest, as they will allow a large number of applications such as the study of the…
Masaaki SuzukiTeam Leader, Molecular Probe and Drug Design LaboratoryRIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science (CMIS)‘Molecular imaging’ is a technology that…
Researchers at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) have begun bridging research for a vaccine to prevent and treat pollen disease…
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is working closely with the well-established Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which…
The park now forms part of an important trans-boundary protected area with Nigeria’s Cross River National Park, safeguarding an estimated 115 gorillas—a third…
Until now, the skeleton was thought to control bone growth, and serotonin was primarily known as a neurotransmitter acting in the brain. This new insight could…
This is the first time that such an evolutionarily conserved aging mechanism has been identified between such diverse organisms. The mechanism probably dates…
This property, described as “plastic flow”, allows many plastics to change shape to absorb energy rather than breaking apart, says University of…
Anna Enblom, a physiotherapist and doctoral candidate at the Department of Medicine and Health Sciences at Linköping University and the Vårdal Institute in…
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