A recent study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), investigated how Britain’s Bangladeshi community understand the disorders, and make…
The aim is to build human capital for Qatar. Additionally, it is hoped that the research will result in the creation of intellectual property rights and the…
Researchers in Jena and Bremen are planning something similar. However, their work is not with athletes but with tiny somatic cells. The experts have developed…
Production often comes to a standstill until the error has finally been pinpointed – and that can take hours. The causes are legion; in many cases it is all…
Manufacturers normally stack the fuel cells – a structure consisting of several metal plates, each containing one channel for air and one for hydrogen. This…
The bacterium that commonly causes stomach ulcers in humans is called Helicobacter pylori. Extensive research has been carried out on this bacterium and the…
The research suggests that it is not size alone that gives more brain power, but that, during evolution, increasingly sophisticated molecular processing of…
This study was carried out by a team of researchers from the Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri and led by R Michael Roberts. Roberts…
In his PhD dissertation at Chalmers in Sweden, Anders Sköld has investigated the emotional reactions generated by various types of sound. How happy or worried…
Engineers and scientists on the Phoenix team assembled at the University of Arizona are determining the best approach to get some of that material into the…
The GE ® Hybrid Water Heater is affordable and designed to be 50 % more energy efficient than a standard 50 gallon electric water heater, which should help…
Colloids require a delicate balance of opposing forces for them to be stable: attractive forces must be matched by repulsive ones. A new colloidal…
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite…
A novel ex vivo method for immediate early diagnosis and prognosis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DRP) is provided with DRPevader.
DRPevader is based…
Chitosan is a linear co-polymer of glucosamine (D) and N-acetyl-glucosamine (A) units. Enzymatic degradation of this co-polymer by chitinases or chitosanases…
“We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth,” says Peter Chen of NASA…