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Studies and Analyses

Men Share Creative Work Online More Than Women, Study Finds

“Because sharing information on the Internet today is a form of participating in public culture and contributing to public discourse, that tells us men’s…

Life & Chemistry

How Our Genome Evolves: Insights from Johns Hopkins Research

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that epigenetic marks on DNA-chemical marks other than the DNA sequence-do indeed change over a person's lifetime, and…

Medical Engineering

Automated MRI technique assists in earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis

In Alzheimer's disease, nerve cell death and tissue loss cause all areas of the brain, especially the hippocampus region, to shrink. MRI with high spatial…

Medical Engineering

Ultrasound Exam Could Help Predict Osteoporosis Risk

Along with certain risk factors, including age or recent fall, radiation-free ultrasound of the heel may be used to better select women who need further bone…

Health & Medicine

Low Childhood IQ Tied to Vascular Dementia Risk

The most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia occurs when blood flow to the brain is impaired. The study examined 173 people…

Awards Funding

Hydra Middleware Shines as Runner-Up at Best Demonstrator Award

Today's cars, aircrafts, intelligent buildings and home cinema systems all rely on embedded systems for vital functions. Advanced solutions actually are…

Studies and Analyses

Study identifies toxic key to Alzheimer’s disease memory loss

The scientific findings published in the latest edition of Nature Medicine suggest a potential new target for the development of drug therapies to fight the…

Social Sciences

Understanding the desire for ‘freshness’ – a first step towards saving water

A new Economic and Social Research Council publication, ‘Behavioural Change and Water Efficiency’, which accompanied a seminar organised jointly with UK Water…

Information Technology

Hydra Middleware Shines as Runner-Up at Best Demonstrator Award

For this type of environment, the European Hydra project develops a “Networked Embedded System Middleware for Heterogeneous Physical Devices”, which will help…

Life & Chemistry

Role of Splenic Ellipsoids in Early AA Amyloidosis Development

AA amyloidosis is a potential complication of chronic inflammation or infection, for example, rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis, and is characterised by…

Science Education

EUROHORCs and ESF: Shaping a Competitive European Research Area

The ESF EUROHORCs Science Policy Briefing 33, The EUROHORCs and ESF Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and their Road Map for Actions to Help Build it,…

Information Technology

Advancing Code Generation: New Funding for Research at ECS

Dr Bernd Fischer at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research…

Life & Chemistry

Bridging Aquatic and Terrestrial Life: Tetrapod Innovations

It has long been known that the first backboned land animals or “tetrapods” – the ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including ourselves -…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Discover Greenhouse Gas Reduction Over Tropical Atlantic

Published today (26th June ’08) in the scientific journal, Nature, this startling discovery was made by a team of scientists from the UK's National Centre for…

Social Sciences

Exploring Child Protection Policy Impacts: Licensed to Hug Report

Titled Licensed to Hug, the report, which will be published by independent think-tank Civitas on 26 June, goes on to suggest that in a climate where many…

Event News

Boosting Environmental Technologies Through Effective Verification

Promotion of innovative environmental technologies is essential for the environment and for the European economy. Proving that new technologies are working…

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