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University of Essex Secures £1.5M for Election Survey Insights

The BES is the UK’s top political science research study. It investigates why people vote, and why they choose one party rather than another when they do vote….

Business and Finance

Global Regulation Strategies to Prevent Financial Crises

This was a policy response to an unprecedented global financial crisis, aimed at preventing financial meltdown. It succeeded in doing so, according to…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Motor Neurone Disease Treatment Unveiled

This insight opens up the possibilities for developing new treatments to treat these devastating progressive conditions. The research is published today (17…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Found for Regulating Blood Vessel Formation

These findings, by Sérgio Dias and his team, are to appear in the new issue of the journal PLoSOne(*), and have implications for the development of new…

Physics & Astronomy

Dancing Droplets: New Insights from University of Liege Physicists

A group of physicists from the University of Liege, Belgium, is publishing research in the New Journal of Physics today, Tuesday, 18 November, which shows how…

Physics & Astronomy

Gamma-Ray Findings Reveal Ancient Oceans on Mars

“We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of…

Life & Chemistry

First Deep-Sea Observatory Launches Off California Coast

Nestled within the metal pyramid is the heart of the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS)-the first deep-sea ocean observatory offshore of the…

Life & Chemistry

Does Growth Hormone Drug Slow Alzheimer’s Disease?

Growth hormone is naturally produced in the body and stimulates the release of another hormone called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Studies on mice…

Earth Sciences

Glacial Erosion Shifts Mountain Responses to Plate Tectonics

This interpretation of structural response is based on real-world data now being reported, which supports decades of model simulations of mountain formation…

Physics & Astronomy

Comet Particles Provide Glimpse of Solar System’s Birth

These convulsions flung primordial material billions of miles from the hot, inner regions of the gas cloud that later collapsed to form the sun, out into the…

Machine Engineering

First Wireless Communication for Distributed IOs with New Module

For this purpose, the new 154-6 PN HF IWLAN interface module was developed for the Simatic ET 200pro system. The interface module wirelessly integrates the…

Information Technology

Transforming Computer Science: Innovations for the Future

There in the video, framed and hanging on the living room wall amidst the celebration, is a color photograph of your former significant other. Bummer. But what…

Health & Medicine

Red Meat Consumption Linked to Cancer Progression Risk

Their findings, which suggest that inflammation resulting from a molecule introduced through consumption of these foods could promote tumor growth, are…

Life & Chemistry

Antibodies Linked to Asthma: Cockroach and Mouse Proteins

The study, published in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is the first to focus on the links between antibody…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Observes Exoplanet Fomalhaut B Orbiting Distant Star

Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away…

Physics & Astronomy

UF Engineers Create Small Satellite for Easier Space Access

But the “pico satellite” being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to…

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