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Spanish Scientists Develop Shadow Detection for Satellite Images

The results of this research have been passed to a company in the Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía (Andalusia Technology Park) which is already applying them in…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Potential Treatments from Cryptic Genes in Bacteria

“Over the last eight years we have been looking for new natural products in the DNA sequence of the antibiotic-producing bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor,”…

Health & Medicine

Atishoo! From babies with colds to bird flu – new centre to tackle respiratory infections

Research into respiratory infections is an urgent priority, they argue. Colds can be a very serious problem for the elderly, babies, and patients with lung…

Life & Chemistry

Biology Meets Physics: Advancements in Cell-Imaging Tech

In the June issue of Physics World, Paul O’Shea, a biophysicist at the University of Nottingham, Michael Somekh, an optical engineer at Nottingham’s Institute…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm Camera Sees Possible Ice

“We could very well be seeing rock, or we could be seeing exposed ice in the retrorocket blast zone,” said Ray Arvidson of Washington University, St. Louis,…

Awards Funding

Dräger Award for Intensive Care Medicine bestowed

The award went to the working group studying “Antithrombin III in critically ill patients: systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis”…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on X Chromosome From EMBL Researchers

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton,…

Medical Engineering

Synlab Nuremberg Launches 5,000th Siemens Immulite 2000

synlab Nuremberg has put the five thousandth Immulite 2000 Analyzer sold by Siemens worldwide into operation. Franconia's largest laboratory center serves some…

Information Technology

Unlock Desktop Access to Grid Power with GRIA Middleware

The successful integration of IT Innovation's GRIA middleware into commercial off the shelf problem solving environments (PSEs) is part of the SIMDAT project,…

Transportation and Logistics

In cooperation with global industrial partners – BIBA has begun the development of systems for the automatic loading of goods

Scientists at the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics GmbH (BIBA) at the University of Bremen already know from the results of their market study…

Health & Medicine

Golf: Unlocking Health Benefits for a Longer Life

It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the health, but the expected health gains of particular activities are still largely unknown. A team of…

Environmental Conservation

How Forest Canopies Influence Natural Nitrogen Fertilization

In this week’s issue of Science, a US and Swedish research team report on a newly identified factor that controls the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal…

Physics & Astronomy

Cassiopeia A: Insights from Interstellar Archaeology

But now, an international scientific team has performed an impressive work of celestial archaeology: they have used the interstellar dust as a look-back mirror…

Physics & Astronomy

Strange Ring Discovered Surrounding Dead Star SGR 1900+14

The paper entitled An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14 relates to the stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, which belongs to a class of objects…

Environmental Conservation

Exotic Plants in Reforestation: Impact on Tropical Soil Fertility

The high world population growth rate and the expansion of areas given over to crop production associated with climatic changes (longer periods of drought,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

50 Years of Innovation: Celebrating Key Research Achievements

A special supplement highlighting the main research achievements of the organisation over the last 50 years has been published as part of the latest edition of…

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