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Environmental Conservation

Collaboration Unveils Secrets of Elusive Whales in Biscay

The research programme, called “Diver 2008”, commences on the 28th June and will run for a month off the northern coast of Spain, within the Bay of Biscay – an…

Automotive Engineering

Be a jammy dodger – new sat nav to beat traffic jams

The ‘Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine’ (CADRE) uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret live traffic information shared between vehicles…

Life & Chemistry

Key Mechanisms Behind Transient Binding Protein Affinity

There are many kinds of interactions; however, the most complicated to study from the perspective of structural biology are those which are transient. This…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Qubit Innovation: Understanding Electron Interaction

Our results give us, for the first time, the possibility to understand the interaction between just two electrons placed next to each other in a carbon…

Medical Engineering

Predicting Fracture Risk: Advances in Computer Simulations

With the goal of developing an accurate, powerful and fast method to automate the analysis of bone strength, scientists of the ETH Zurich Departments of…

Environmental Conservation

India’s New Petrol Standard Lowers Sulphur for Cleaner Air

RestrictionsSulphur in fuel is harmful to the environment, and restrictions in this area worldwide have become tougher. In a densely populated country like…

Health & Medicine

More Intercourse Linked to Lower Erectile Dysfunction Risk

Analyzing a five-year study of 989 men aged 55 to 75 years from Pirkanmaa, Finland, the investigators observed that men reporting intercourse less than once…

Awards Funding

Enric Trillas receives the international Kampé de Fériet Award

The scientific researcher of the European Centre for Soft Computing (Spain), Enric Trillas (Barcelona 1940), has won the prestigious Kampé de Fériet Award…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Intuition: Insights from Ingemar Stenmark

“Can’t ‘splain sump’n to somebody who doesn’t understand it”; “my legs think faster than I do” (Swedish alpine skiing champion Ingemar Stenmark). “Skate where…

Awards Funding

Vebbio Wins European Parliament Award for Innovative Recycling

“In essence, Vebbio wants to solve the waste problem worldwide through innovative ways of recycling garbage,” said Ovidiu Vasiliu from Vebbio.“We all know that…

Information Technology

Galileo System Procurement Starts: Enhancing European Navigation

The overall programme objective for Galileo is the deployment, by 2013, of a European navigation system providing five main services, namely the Open Service,…

Information Technology

Mobile Users Mirror Mistakes of Disabled PC Users

The first set of results from research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) indicates that many able-bodied people make the…

Awards Funding

Student Company “Click Events” from Belgium wins the Microsoft Innovation Award

“Click events offer an innovative integrated service which is unique and simple. We know that our customers are busy and we want to offer them the possibility…

Awards Funding

Young Entrepreneurs Win Awards for Innovative Outdoor Heating

“The aim for Mensa Heating I/S is to give café guests the opportunity to sit outside comfortably during most of the year. Up until now, they have frequently…

Health & Medicine

First comprehensive analysis of cancer incidence, mortality and survival combined reveals encouraging trends in Europe …

The first research to look at recent trends in European cancer incidence, mortality and survival together has shown that cancer prevention and management in…

Life & Chemistry

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hits 1 Terabase Weekly Genomes

The amount of data is remarkable: every two minutes, the Institute produces as much sequence as was deposited in the first five years of the international DNA…

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