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Earth Sciences

New Web Service Delivers Daily UV Index Updates

The research group “Physics of the Atmosphere” (CEAMA-University of Granada, Spain) has created a new web service which provides daily information about the…

Awards Funding

Claude Lorius: First French Winner of Blue Planet Prize

Lorius, France's first winner of this award, is being recognized for his contributions to raising awareness about the influence of human activities on the…

Environmental Conservation

Hydrogen Storage Powder: Quick Reaction Unlocks Sustainable Fuel

Hydrogen has significant benefits as a fuel of the future: potentially renewable and sustainable, and, as hydrogen fuel cells emit only water, a green…

Studies and Analyses

Managing Blood Pressure Post-Stroke: Key Insights Unveiled

Larger studies will now be necessary to confirm this result and test the effects on recovery from stroke. Amit Mistri, a postgraduate researcher working on…

Health & Medicine

Childhood Heart Disease Prognosis: New Insights from Leicester

Research is under way in the University of Leicester Engineering Department, in collaboration with The Leicester Royal Infirmary, to analyse the heart rate…

Medical Engineering

University of Ulster Spin-Out Launches No Wires Vital Sign Monitor

A tiny device invented by spinout company ST+D will enable clinicians to assess a patient’s condition irrespective of where they are. The “no wires” technology…

Information Technology

Designing Semantic Software: Insights from the NeOn Project

Semantic applications are the next frontier for information science, but creating them is very difficult. Now, European researchers in the NeOn project are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Robots That Climb: New Innovations in Pipe Navigation

In the main, today’s robots are not that clever. They cannot climb or navigate in vertical pipes – and very few have active joints.Cybernetics and optical…

Business and Finance

Shareholder Insights: Annual Reports Enhance Transparency

The annual report is the only document that has been put in the public domain from which members of the public can know whether their firms have indeed been…

Studies and Analyses

Increased Cancer Risk Linked to Radium-224 in Therapy

Ankylosing Spondylitis (Bechterew’s Disease) is a painful chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease, associated with stiffening of the vertrebral column. Between…

Earth Sciences

Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought

“The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially older than tools in Britain belonging to our own species, Homo sapiens,” says…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Are Electrical A-G Ratings Becoming Obsolete?

Many consumers buy A-rated appliances in the belief that they are more efficient, focusing on the rating rather then looking at the energy the devices use in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pigs Thrive on Three Square Meals: Study Insights

Lead author, Eva Persson, from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences explains that, “The natural feeding behaviour of pigs is searching for feed by…

Life & Chemistry

Viruses Ride Along in Cells: New Insights on Genetic Integration

Cells are exposed to foreign DNA and RNA and it is understood that some of this genetic material can be integrated into the host genome. Using modern…

Life & Chemistry

$5.6M NIH Grant for New Therapeutics Against Deadly Viruses

Dr. Christopher C. Broder, USU professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the university’s interdisciplinary program in Emerging Infectious…

Information Technology

Advancing Radar and Communications Systems at Argonne

Argonne's program partners are Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), Innovative Micro Technology (IMT), MEMtronics Corp., Peregrine Semiconductor the…

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