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Bradford’s Role in Olympic TV Innovation Project

LIVE is an integrated research project partially funded under the European Union's IST Sixth Framework Programme. It is being co-ordinated from the Fraunhofer…

Health & Medicine

Broccoli’s Role in a Designer Diet for Prostate Cancer

For the first time, a research group at the Institute of Food Research led by Professor Richard Mithen has provided an explanation of how eating broccoli might…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Nitrogen Management: Key Insights for Soil and Plant Health

A comprehensive review of the principles and management implications of nitrogen in the soil–plant–water system is now available in a new monograph Nitrogen in…

Physics & Astronomy

Latest Insights from Mars: Discoveries of Water and Soil

Frozen water, safe soil, images of treadmarks in red, granular soil: almost every day brings new test results or stunning photographs from the Phoenix…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Align with Protein Maps for Efficient Division Insights

Self-organization keeps schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites in sync. It's also, according to new research, the way cells regulate the…

Physics & Astronomy

Doppler Lidar Enhances Wind Measurement for Olympic Sailing

As described in the July 1 issue of the journal Optics Letters, published by the Optical Society, the mobile lidar station can measure wind fields more…

Life & Chemistry

Early Stem Cell Mutation Linked to Autism: Key Findings

In a breakthrough scientific study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Fortified Cassava Could Provide A Day's Nutrition in A Single Meal

The researchers have further engineered the cassava plant so it can resist the crop’s most damaging viral threats and are refining methods to reduce cyanogens,…

Health & Medicine

New Map Reveals Core Structures of the Human Brain

The work by the researchers from Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Carbon Hoofprint: Cows Supplemented with rbST Reduce Agriculture’s Environmental Impact

Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed, but rbST – the first biotech product used on American farms — has been in agricultural use for…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Captures Celestial Fireworks from SN 1006 Event

On or around May 1, 1006 A.D., observers from Africa to Europe to the Far East witnessed and recorded the arrival of light from what is now called SN 1006, a…

Studies and Analyses

Spiritual Benefits of Hallucinogens: New Research Insights

Writing in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the Johns Hopkins researchers note that most of the 36 volunteer subjects given psilocybin, under controlled…

Environmental Conservation

Penguins Setting Off Sirens Over Health of World's Oceans

Oil pollution, depletion of fisheries and rampant coastline development that threatens breeding habitat for many penguin species, along with Earth's warming…

Life & Chemistry

The Surprising Growth of Domesticated Tomatoes Explained

Domesticated tomatoes can be up to 1000 times larger than their wild relatives. How did they get so big? In general, domesticated food plants have larger…

Physics & Astronomy

UCSB professor's paper on safety of large hadron collider to be published in Physical Review D

But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction.Giddings has co-authored a paper, “Astrophysical implications of…

Physics & Astronomy

Engineers Capture a Rainbow Using Grating Technology

Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows.They may not wish literally to capture all the…

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