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Environmental Conservation

Ancient Oak Trees: Nature’s Ally in Combating Global Warming

The battle to reduce carbon emissions is at the heart of many eco-friendly efforts, and researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that nature…

Health & Medicine

Portable Lab Innovations for Quick Disease Detection

There is no quick and simple way to detect infectious bacteria on farms, or even in food processing and distribution plants. Samples have to be sent to labs…

Health & Medicine

Rethinking Kids’ Activity Guidelines: Ties to Childhood Obesity

The study carried out by the EarlyBird Diabetes Research Centre at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth aimed to determine the extent to which physical…

Science Education

Austria Joins ESO: Expanding Access for Astronomers

“This will not only give the high-quality Austrian astronomical community full access to ESO's facilities, it will give Austrian scientists a say, together…

Architecture & Construction

Spanish Engineers Unveil New Slope Marine Dock Design

Scientists from the UGR have designed a new “model” of slope marine docks, more resistant and prepared to reduce risks for ports, promenades or beaches, as…

Physics & Astronomy

Super Atoms Transform Our Understanding of the Periodic Table

Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a…

Studies and Analyses

Ski Faster: Camera-Less Fusion Motion Capture Explained

This pilot study “Fusion Motion Capture: a Prototype System using Inertial Measurement Units and GPS for the Biomechanical Analysis of Ski Racing” uses FMC to…

Physics & Astronomy

A bright future for plastics – robot ‘skin’, flexible laptops and electric posters

July’s edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman, from the School of Physics and…

Studies and Analyses

New Research Reveals Challenges in Achieving Top Science Grades

Durham University researchers analysed and compared data from nearly one million schoolchildren sitting GCSE and A-level exams and reviewed 28 different…

Life & Chemistry

Mammalian Gene Regulation Evolution Unraveled After 150 Million Years

The findings, reported today online in Nature Genetics, have provided new insights into the evolution of genomic or parental imprinting and epigenetic…

Business and Finance

Investing Insights: Mexican Peso vs. Turkish Lira Analysis

De Zwart conducted five different empirical studies into financial markets. In one of the studies, he investigated the best position for an investor to take…

Business and Finance

Langoustine Labels: 24% Misidentified Species Revealed

The results show that 24.4% of the labels display the wrong species name, and that information is incomplete in 39% of cases. The researchers have patented a…

Life & Chemistry

New Early Eurafrican Population Revealed By Ancient Mandible

This mandible is the oldest human fossil uncovered from scientific excavations in Morocco. The discovery will help better define northern Africa's possible…

Life & Chemistry

Laka: “Language exists in the brain”

In order to understand how we become fluent in a language and to better comprehend bilingualism, the La Mente Bilingüe (“the bilingual brain”) research team at…

Information Technology

Boosting Info Security: A Must for UK SMEs Today

According to the Department of Trade and Industry there are 4.5 million businesses in the UK of which 99.3% are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs),…

Life & Chemistry

Chick Competition for Food: Insights from Evolutionary Ecology

The way the food is distributed amongst chicks in the same brood is one of the most important challenges for evolutionary ecology. According to a study…

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