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Earth Sciences

Wilkins Ice Shelf: Antarctic Winter Fails to Protect It

Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, is connected to two islands, Charcot and Latady. In…

Science Education

Russian Scientists Partner with ESRF for Joint Research Initiative

The Memorandum foresees a joint research and development programme as well as exchange of scientists and scientific expertise with the aim of pushing forward…

Business and Finance

Is India ‘banking’ for a greener future?

As part of her doctoral studies, Sophie Hadfield-Hill conducted forty interviews with CEOs and senior management of Indian banks and leading companies to…

Physics & Astronomy

Europe’s Grand Plan for Future Astronomy Unveiled at ASTRONET

The long-term future of European ground-based and spaced-based astronomy will be debated at the ASTRONET Symposium in Liverpool between 16 and 19 June 2008.The…

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Nobel Prize Communication Event in Sweden on June 23

Participating Nobel Laureates in the pre-conference: Peter Agre (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003) och Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize in Physics 2004). Also Dr….

Earth Sciences

Wilkins Ice Shelf Faces Further Break-Up: Latest Insights

Wilkins Ice Shelf is located on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula at about 70°S, about 100km south of the southern tip of South America. Dr. Angelika…

Physics & Astronomy

New Comet Mineral Named After Astronomer Donald Brownlee

The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a…

Earth Sciences

Field Project Uncovers Climate Change Clues in Remote Atmosphere

Findings from the project, based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will be used by researchers worldwide to improve computer models of…

Studies and Analyses

Threatened or Invasive? Species' Fates Identified

The study, the first of its kind, was published this week online in the British Ecological Society’s prestigious Journal of Ecology.“This study provides good…

Life & Chemistry

Nerve Stem Cell Breakthrough: New Molecule Promotes Maturity

This finding might someday allow a person’s own nerve stem cells to be grown outside the body, stimulated into maturity, and then re-implanted as working nerve…

Health & Medicine

Hunger Hormone Ghrelin May Alleviate Stress-Related Depression

While levels of the so-called “hunger hormone” ghrelin are known to increase when a person doesn’t eat, findings by UT Southwestern scientists suggest that the…

Life & Chemistry

New Imaging Technique Estimates Palm Oil Quality by Color

Here, researchers developed an automated technique of estimating quality based on fruit colour captured in JPEG format. This research has won the following…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples

In the past two days, two instruments on the lander deck — a microscope and a bake-and-sniff analyzer — have begun inspecting soil samples delivered by the…

Studies and Analyses

Society's attitudes have little impact on choice of sexual partner

The study is the largest in the world so far, and was performed in collaboration with the Queen Mary University of London. More than 7,600 Swedish twins (men…

Studies and Analyses

Herring ­- both healthful and environmentally friendly

In earlier studies of the health effects of fatty fish, researchers have addressed a mixture of fish species. Helen Lindqvist, a doctoral candidate at the…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Tumor Therapy for Dogs Using Interleukin Cell Lines

For the treatment of the majority of tumors diseases in dogs, only classical procedures by surgical removal of the tumor, radiation and chemotherapy are…

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