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Explore the Benefits of Virtual Labs in Research Innovation

Two years ago, researchers in the European-funded project RINGRID – Remote Instrumentation in Next-generation Grids – took on the challenge of mapping out how…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Wireless System Boosts Wine Quality Monitoring

An automated wireless precision monitoring system that uses sensors to check soil moisture, air temperature and humidity is being commercialised by Italian…

Information Technology

Harnessing Network Anarchy: Empowering User Freedom Online

No hierarchical authority controls the internet and users have the freedom to create information, and leave or rejoin the network at will.Yet the essential…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Fairer Food Pricing: Insights from Essex Business School

Dr Lisa Jack, from the Essex Business School, is looking at whether participants in the food supply chain, from farmers to retailers, could adopt target cost…

Life & Chemistry

Biosynthetics Breakthrough: Insights from HZI Researchers

Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have achieved an important advance in better understanding metabolic…

Science Education

Norway Launches Regional Research Funds to Boost Innovation

The regional research funds are intended to bolster Norway's research capacity and quality by promoting research, innovation and development efforts at the…

Life & Chemistry

A molecular identity crisis – a "Ribozyme without RNA"

This surprising discovery was made during a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF that focussed on the enzyme RNase P. Contrary to accepted…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Transform Grass into Perfume Oil: A New Study

Studying the root of the tropical Vetiver grass through interdisciplinary research, the microbiologists Pietro Alifano and Luigi Del Giudice, the plant…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Enhancing Protein Sequence Alignments for Molecular Genetics

In recent years, the whole genome sequencing projects of the human species and several other species have produced large amounts of raw sequence data. This…

Life & Chemistry

Designer Molecule Fights Skin Cancer on Two Fronts

The body's own defences are also strengthened against cancer cells in this process. At the same time, the novel molecule also puts pressure on the tumour in a…

Medical Engineering

New Insights on Cancer Risks from Low Dose Radiation

Started in January 2004, the project carried out research to contribute to the improvement of the management of health risks attributable to low dose…

Life & Chemistry

Nodal Gene Family: Key to Heart Asymmetry and Function

Asymmetry is crucial for the heart proper functioning, and now, scientists from the Institute Gulbenkian of Science in Portugal and Harvard University, have…

Environmental Conservation

Dried Mushrooms Combat Climate Warming in Northern Forests

When soil in these forests is warmed, fungi that feed on dead plant material dry out and produce significantly less climate-warming carbon dioxide than fungi…

Business and Finance

Don’t Increase the Federal Tax on Long-Term Capital Gains

What is a capital gain? A capital gain is the profit enjoyed when assets such as real estate, stock, bonds, etc., are purchased and later sold at a profit….

Environmental Conservation

"Living Fossil" Tree Contains Genetic Imprints of Rain Forests Under Climate Change

The research appears in the November issue of the journal Evolution.Symphonia globulifera is a widespread tropical tree with a history that goes back some 45…

Environmental Conservation

World's Rarest Big Cat Gets a Check-Up

The capture was made in Primorsky Krai along the Russian-Chinese border by a team of scientists from WCS and the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of…

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