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E-Learning Surges Amid Economic Crisis: A Smart Business Shift

Faced with shrinking budgets, the use of learning technologies is becoming increasingly attractive for businesses: This was the appraisal articulated by the…

Environmental Conservation

New Material Enhances Methane Transport Efficiency

Scientists have developed a material made out of a mixture of silica and water which can soak up large quantities of methane molecules. The material looks and…

Earth Sciences

New Method Traces Metal Pollution to Its Source

Imperial College London researchers say their work is a major breakthrough as current methods for analysing zinc pollution only measure pollution in the…

Science Education

New Survey Reveals School Dropout Rates Among Immigrant Youth

No less than one quarter of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands drops out of school. This is the most alarming result of a recent survey conducted…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Common Cold Virus Originates From Birds

“Human metapneumovirus may be the second most common cause of lower respiratory infection in young children. Studies have shown that by the age of five,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UK’s biggest ever Countryside Survey: Results published

The results identify how the main features of the countryside have changed and include fields, woods, ponds, heath and moorland areas as well as linear…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles show that a rhesus factor controls renal functionand male fertility

For several years, researchers from ULB have been studying Rhesus factors. These factors belong to a family comprising five proteins, three of which are…

Environmental Conservation

New Research Aims to Preserve the Vasa Shipwreck

Researchers are now going to study the degradation processes and test new methods for determine their speed, including the monitoring of how much oxygen is…

Information Technology

TECNALIA Drives Future Internet Research in Spain

It is now the time to rethink a New Internet for an interconnected future. Over the past 30 years, Internet has evolved from being an academic experiment to…

Physics & Astronomy

New Discovery Challenges Star Theory in Astrophysical Journal

In a paper entitled A Planetary Nebula around Nova V458 Vul Undergoing Flash Ionization, which will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on Thursday…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU Code of Conduct Boosts Energy Efficiency in Data Centres

If no specific action to improve the energy efficiency is taken, electricity consumption of data centres is expected to rise to 104TWh a year by 2020….

Science Education

£20 Million Investment to Tackle Virtual Crime and Ageing Issues

This new investment will create two new centres in areas where world-class scientific breakthroughs have already been achieved. These ‘Innovation and Knowledge…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Ocean Mysteries: Insights from ‘The Swarm’

The best-selling novel ‘The swarm’ captured the imagination of countless readers with the fascination of marine life. But it also showed how little we…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Upcoming Innovations in Lithium Ion Battery Technology

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers,…

Medical Engineering

Siemens and Asklepios Strengthen IT Cooperation in Healthcare

Siemens Healthcare and the Asklepios Hospitals will continue to deepen their cooperation in the information technology (IT) sector. The hospital information…

Corporate News

Canadoil Plate Ltd Acquires Siemens VAI Smart Shear Technology

Canadoil Plate Ltd from Thailand have become the first company to purchase the new Siemens VAI Smart Shear Technology, a new hydraulically operated cross-cut…

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