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UPC Leads EU Project for Future Mobile Network Technology

This project is funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme and is coordinated by Professor Josep Vidal. The project aims to work on two new…

Transportation and Logistics

Intelligent Airlines: Meeting Evolving Passenger Needs

Dimitris Kanellopoulos of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, explains how in recent years, the airline industry has become increasingly…

Materials Sciences

New Testing Facilities Boost Car and Plane Safety and Efficiency

Two novel testing facilities for materials research will be provided to the Technical University of Braunschweig and Hamburg University of Technology by the…

Studies and Analyses

Snow in the Arctic: Unveiling Its Role in Nitrogen Compounds

They made a quantitative study of the origin and evolution of nitrogen compounds in the Arctic atmosphere, in order to understand their environmental impact on…

Seminars Workshops

ESF Workshop Advances Cancer Radiotherapy With Charged Particles

The use of charged particles as an alternative to x-ray or gamma ray radiation can extend the scope of radiotherapy to tumours previously requiring invasive…

Studies and Analyses

Androgynous Leadership Boosts Innovation in Norwegian Companies

With the law in their hands, women have marched into the boardrooms of Norwegian companies, particularly in the public limited companies (ASA), where women now…

Health & Medicine

Mental Health’s Impact on Stillbirth and Newborn Deaths

Researchers at the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at The University of Manchester studied almost 1.5 million births in Denmark between 1973 and 1998,…

Earth Sciences

Clouds: Nature’s Key to Predicting Climate Change

The earth's climate field is regulated by the balance between incoming solar radiation and outbound heat radiation. The aerosol content of the atmosphere, that…

Medical Engineering

New Micro-CT System Captures Heart and Lung Motion in Mice

A newly developed micro-CT system produces images sharp enough to detect the motion of arteries and small airways in rats and miceA RIKEN-led team has designed…

Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified a novel factor—and an unexpected mechanism—for the regulation of epithelial development

Signaling factors known as Wnts play an integral role in processes relating to body pattern formation during embryonic development. The Wnts can trigger a…

Physics & Astronomy

Antiprotons and Quantum Mechanics: Unraveling Atomic Secrets

Quantum mechanics makes it easy to describe hydrogen, the simplest atom, but bigger atoms are more complicated owing to interactions between their electrons….

Life & Chemistry

Crosstalk Reveals Plant Defense Mechanisms Against Stress

Researchers unearth molecular evidence of an antagonistic relationship between abiotic and biotic stress defenses in plants Japanese plant biologists have…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Brain Waves: The Science Behind Simple Actions

A seemingly simple action, such as picking up a pencil, actually involves complex communication between many parts of the central nervous system. Information…

Physics & Astronomy

Traffic Management in Space: A Global System Initiative

Earth orbits are crowded with active spacecraft, as well as dead or dying satellites – and countless bits of hazardous space debris.Work is now underway to…

Life & Chemistry

10 Years of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Progress

Since then, the cells have become a household word, a source of hope for the afflicted, and a boon to biologists and biology everywhere. The cells, which in…

Information Technology

Enhancing Accuracy: The Rise of Computer-Based Formal Proofs

These computer tools, based on the notion of “formal proof”, have in recent years been used to provide nearly infallible proofs of many important results in…

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