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Studies and Analyses

Depression Accelerates Decline in Cancer Patients: Study Insights

In a six-month study patients who were found to be depressed had a 7% increased chance of dying and this percentage increased depending on the severity of the…

Life & Chemistry

Simian Foamy Virus Detected in People Near Monkeys in Asia

The findings provide more evidence that Asia, where interaction between people and monkeys is common and widespread, could be an important setting for future…

Environmental Conservation

Ivory Poaching Crisis: Elephants Face Extinction by 2020

The elephant death rate from poaching throughout Africa is about 8 percent a year based on recent studies, which is actually higher than the 7.4 percent annual…

Power and Electrical Engineering

‘Small’ research at MSU leads to advances in energy, electronics

The material – xGnP Exfoliated Graphite NanoPlatelets – will be instrumental in the development of new and expanded applications in the aerospace, automotive…

Event News

Ventomobile Set to Race the Wind in the Netherlands

It took them many months of intense construction work to reach this goal. First wind tunnel testing produced very promising results. The extremely stylish…

Life & Chemistry

Combating Secondary Infections in Clinics and Care Facilities

Infections following treatment in clinics, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover Universal Blood Cell Origins Across Mammals

The architecture of haematopoiesis – which is the process by which all blood cells originate – is essentially the same throughout the mammal world, report…

Health & Medicine

The world's first transplant of both arms at the “Klinikum rechts der Isar” of the TU in Munich

The patient is doing well under the circumstances. This operation was managed by the Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery (Director Prof. Hans-Günther…

Earth Sciences

Tracking Abrupt Climate Changes: Insights from Geoscientists

In an article in the scientific magazine “Nature – Geosciences”, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jörg Negendank, (emeritus Professor) from the…

Environmental Conservation

Spanish Researchers Find Key Leatherback Turtle Nesting Sites

In the course of their work, they came across extensive nesting grounds that bring new hope for the survival of the leatherback turtle. This species suffered a…

Awards Funding

Innovative Solutions to Urban Poverty in Africa

The Population Training and Research Capacity for Development (PopTRCD) initiative will enable social scientists at Southampton to work alongside colleagues in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights: How Dust and Gas Shaped Early Universe Stars

How the first stars formed from this dust and gas has been a burning question for years, but a state-of-the-art computer simulation now offers the most…

Information Technology

CSIRO’s Wireless Tech Enhances Emergency Response Accuracy

The new high-accuracy terrestrial localisation systems are suitable for applications as diverse as tracking workers in emergency situations to following…

Environmental Conservation

Rosella research could re-write ‘ring theory’

Published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the research investigates the genetic and geographical relationships between…

Life & Chemistry

Caltech Researchers Discover Population-Control Chemicals in Nematodes

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have now found a rare kind of signaling molecule in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans that serves…

Health & Medicine

Unlocking Skin Health: The Role of Filaggrin Deficiency

New knowledge points to the fact that a genetically induced lack of filaggrin, a key protein of the skin barrier, plays a decisive role in the origin of…

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