Early in 2006, an EU-funded research group called SIMS, for Semantic Interfaces for Mobile Services, took on the challenge of how to envision, design and…
Researchers have studied the spread of the disease among sumo wrestlers in Japan and have discovered that a new strain of the virus could be even more…
The novel system developed in the MPG Junior Research Group “Laboratory of Photonics” led by Dr. Tobias Kippenberg could resolve this problem (Nature…
It may be a few weeks until the British pantomine season kicks-off, but this new fossil from the Isle of Sheppey is giving 'Mother Goose' an entirely new…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, reported the completion of the first genomes of wild strains of the…
The high prices of naphtha (crude petroleum) as a feedstock for steam crackers are prompting the chemical industry to reevaluate alternative approaches to…
Pleased to announce the International Symposiums on Electrohydrodynamics, jointly organised by the Faculty of Engineering (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak),…
An international team of scientists from RIKEN at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and elsewhere in the USA, Japan and the UK are testing the Standard…
The chances of obtaining crystals of sufficient quality and quantity to allow determination of three-dimensional protein structures using synchrotron radiation…
A team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has predicted that man-made structures called metamaterials could produce instabilities in electron…
A recent study describes the structure of the active form of BACE1, which is an enzyme implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. BACE1 cleaves amyloid precursor…
A project at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak is focusing on developing hand gesture modeling techniques for sign language recognition and presentation. It aims for…
Rooting out Wi-Fi “dead zones” in large wireless networks that cover whole neighborhoods or cities is an expensive proposition. Pre-deployment testing is so…
The researchers showed in animal models that a red blood cell derivative increases production of a key molecule, normalizing the digestive process. The…
Now, in an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, Uppsala researchers are presenting experimental findings that show…
The experiment will simulate predicted future rainfall patterns in a semi-natural grassland at Imperial’s Silwood Park campus in Berkshire, and scientists will…