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Earth Sciences

Small Glaciers Account for Most of Greenland's Recent Ice Loss

A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland’s coast together account for three times more loss from the island’s ice…

Environmental Conservation

Boost Vegetable Growth with Biochar and Combat Global Warming

There’s a new player on the organic gardening front. It's called biochar, and it could be good medicine for the planet as well as for crops, because it can…

Studies and Analyses

Decade of Arctic Data: Markham Ice Shelf Breaks Away

The Markham Ice Shelf, a massive 19-square-mile platform of ice, broke away from Ellesmere Island in early August and is adrift in the Arctic Ocean. More than…

Studies and Analyses

Human Impact on Environment May Decline With Rising Incomes

By examining a variety of government and industry data spanning 1980 to 2006, Rockefeller University’s Jesse Ausubel and his colleagues say that…

Technology Offerings

Efficient Gas-Phase Oxygen Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes

A highly efficient gas-phase route for the oxygen functionalization of carbon nanotubes based on nitric acid vapor.Further Information: PDF rubitec -…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing Cellular Uptake of Nucleic Acids for Therapy

The invention relates to a method and a pharmaceutical formation for improving the cellular uptake of nucleic acids, particularly nucleic acid agents.

It is…

Business and Finance

Harnessing Innovation: Strategies for Corporate Success

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. The question merely is how to make best use of them. In his inaugural address, Van den Ende shows what…

Social Sciences

Uncovering the Innu Investigation: A Hidden Chapter in History

Dr Samson, from the Department of Sociology, will look at a clandestine operation 60 years ago when 100 Innu were transported to an Inuit settlement, Nutak,…

Life & Chemistry

Plant Cells as Factories for Pharmaceutical Innovation

The four-year project focuses on developing methods for production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds using plant cells as a production host in an effective…

Life & Chemistry

Next-Gen Chemical Reactors: UK Universities Unveil Innovations

Being developed by a consortium of UK universities, the nanostructures can regulate reactions, momentum, and heat and mass transfer inside chemical reactors….

Science Education

EU-Funded Health Research: Life Competence Insights Revealed

The data has been generated from an online webbased database of competences, supported through an EU specific support action.The project has been implemented…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Funding Boost for Fisheries Management Innovations

Dr Codling, jointly appointed between the University's Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences, was successful in the National Environment…

Physics & Astronomy

Key Molecules Found in Space That May Form Basic Life

The detection of this molecule suggests that a large number of the key components in prebiotic terrestrial chemistry could have been present in the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Research Traces Crop Development Back 10,000 Years

Until recently researchers say the story of the origin of agriculture was one of a relatively sudden appearance of plant cultivation in the Near East around…

Physics & Astronomy

Interferometry’s Future: PRIMA Instrument Sees First Light

The PRIMA instrument [1] of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw “first light” at its new home atop Cerro Paranal in Chile. When…

Life & Chemistry

Seaweed Innovation Reduces High Salt Levels in Food

In a project that could revolutionise the food industry and improve the health of millions, researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have been working with…

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