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Business and Finance

Enhancing Business Research: ESRC’s Capacity Building Initiative

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is building upon its commitment to support research and training essential to the international competitiveness…

Health & Medicine

Breastfeeding’s Role in Reducing Childhood Asthma Severity

Dr Mohammad Shamssain and his research team recently completed a two phase study into the prevalence and severity of asthma in children in the North-East….

Life & Chemistry

Nature-Inspired Nano Materials: Insights from Extreme Environments

A team from the UK’s John Innes Centre, the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Institut Pasteur in Paris have identified a stable, modifiable…

Health & Medicine

Why sufferers from Alzheimer’s disease might have lower blood pressure

A new study published in Bioscience Hypotheses, a recently launched Elsevier journal, proposes that some people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease experience a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Targeting Footrot Can Save 1.3 Million Sheep from Lameness

Around 1.6 million of the UK’s sheep are afflicted with lameness and 80% of that is due to the disease footrot. Footrot is infectious, caused by the bacterium…

Social Sciences

European Benefit Rights: Impact of Legislative Reforms

Researcher Minna van Gerven argues that this is the result of ongoing legislative reforms within the welfare state. On 17 October she will be awarded her…

Power and Electrical Engineering

IMEC Unveils First Functional 3D Stacked Integrated Circuits

IMEC recently demonstrated the first functional 3D integrated circuits obtained by die-to-die stacking using 5µm Cu through-silicon vias (TSV). It will now…

Transportation and Logistics

Exploring User Insights for UK Transport Solutions

The key to future transport solutions may lie in the way users of the various transport systems use information technology to meet the challenges they face in…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanoscale Bubble Manipulation: Insights from Shangjiong Yang

They are something of a mystery, yet it is possible to manipulate the development of these bubbles, according to PhD candidate Shangjiong Yang at the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Polynet: Advancing Organic Electronics in EU Industry

Future industrial Exploitation needs a research cooperation base and a service base to foster transfer from science to industry within EU. Therefore…

Information Technology

PRACE Reviews Future Applications for European Petaflop Systems

PRACE investigated the applications and other software that will run on future European Petaflop systems. The application codes analysed are those selected…

Earth Sciences

LUSI Mud Volcano Eruption: Causes and Ongoing Impact

The mud volcano, dubbed LUSI, has been continuously erupting since May 2006, when water, steam and gas at 100 degrees broke through the surface in the village…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidant Deficiency Linked to Eye Disease Risk in Sunlight

The EUREYE study, led by Astrid Fletcher, Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is the first to report in…

Information Technology

Machines Mimic Human Communication in Turing Test Challenge

As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exploring the New Face of the Sea: A Visual Innovation

It shows one red curve and one blue one. He then indicates the point where they meet each other, then frowns and says the message he cannot repeat often…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Human Disease: Insights from Genome Research

The mysteries of the human genome are slowly being revealed – but the more we uncover the more complicated the picture becomes. This was one key message to…

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