The risks of flooding, marine erosion and landslips are a hot topic for engineers, planners and coastal managers as well as for people who live on vulnerable…
This is the first report linking aluminium overload with either of the two conditions and the possibility is considered that the coincident aluminium overload…
This is the first time that astronomers have caught a flare with these telescopes simultaneously. The telescopes' location in the southern hemisphere provides…
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing to the experimental swipe-free credit cards used to pay…
“Climate change is a key public health challenge. Health professionals need to understand the consequences of climate change for health, take appropriate steps…
This landmark project – Telescopes for Schools – is just part of the global effort to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009), which…
With renewed efforts to eradicate malaria – a disease which kills up to one million people every year, most of them young children – the global demand for…
Recent scientific fieldwork led by researchers from the Natural History Museum and UCL on Skye, an island off the north-western coast of Scotland, discovered a…
Creating new drugs to combat disease and illness requires the completion of a complex 3D jigsaw. The shape of the drug must be right to allow it to bind to a…
The finding casts doubt on the idea that the world-wide success of ants stems from job specialization within the colony. Ants are found on every continent…
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations, or calculations) per second, incorporating 1.382…
Now, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simple, inexpensive method for detecting contaminants in heparin, a development that could prevent…
The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole…
When atoms in a crystal are struck by laser light, their electrons, excited by the light, typically begin moving back and forth together in a regular pattern,…
As the global population continues to grow exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively small, as if we’re all protagonists in the…
Using a test that involved learning to play video games, researchers showed for the first time that people who had “forgotten” how to perform a complex task 12…
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