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Scientists and the Guardia Civil publish a joint study about a ‘megacryometeor’

The results of the study, which are published in the latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Monitoring, indicate that this frozen entity, weighing…

Information Technology

Mars Express Team Prepares for NASA Phoenix Landing

The Mars Express mission control team have completed major preparations for supporting the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase of NASA's Phoenix mission to…

Physics & Astronomy

ESA and Argentina Renew Cooperation Agreement for Innovation

The Exchange of Letters to renew the Cooperation Agreement between the Argentine Republic and ESA was signed by René Oosterlinck, ESA’s Director of Legal…

Environmental Conservation

Europe’s First Maritime Day: Protecting Oceans and Coasts

With nearly 70 000 km of coastline, two oceans and four seas, Europe’s maritime policy is key to safeguarding ocean ecosystems and coastal regions while at the…

Environmental Conservation

Environmental Chemicals and Their Impact on Female Fertility

Researchers at The University of Nottingham are set to take part in one of the first studies of the effect of environmental chemicals on female mammals. Part…

Environmental Conservation

Forest Residues: Impact on Soil Carbon Stocks Explained

These changes in soil carbon stocks are remarkable compared to the other greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of forest residues for energy. On a…

Environmental Conservation

Biofuels and Food Crisis: Rethinking Climate Change Strategies

The EU wants biofuels to make up 10 percent of transport fuels by 2020, and whether or not this has caused the recent food crisis, it has already begun to…

Health & Medicine

A research on “craving” or the intense desire for tobacco establishes the bases for addiction control

Miguel Ángel Muñoz García, from the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada has carried out this study,…

Science Education

DFG Launches Seven New Research Training Groups for Doctoral Students

These will give doctoral students additional opportunities to work towards their doctorates in structured research programmes with a high level of subject…

Medical Engineering

Guided Bronchoscope Biopsies 75% of Pulmonary Nodules Effortlessly

This is the hospital in the whole of Spain which has the greatest experience in the use of this novel device and which enables access to pulmonary lesions…

Health & Medicine

Exploring Spelling Difficulties: Insights from Recent Research

In a paper to be published in Cortex , Eglinton and Annett show that this subgroup of poor spellers is more likely to be right handed than other poor spellers….

Health & Medicine

When Memories Fade: Trust and Reality in Today’s World

But people tell you that you are in hospital, that you have been in hospital for weeks, and that you didn’t go to a wedding yesterday at all. The experience of…

Life & Chemistry

Counting immune cells on a 'protein printboard'

The researchers have succeeded in neatly lining up proteins on a surface. The process also allows patterns of various types of proteins to be created. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Oregano Oil: Natural Alternative to Synthetic Insecticides

Not only does oregano oil work as well as synthetic versions but it has none of the associated side effects of synthetic insecticides on the environment. Growing resistance to synthetic insecticides combined with potential environmental damage and new government directives on changes to the way chemicals are registered means that scientists are increasingly looking at natural alternatives that can be produced in the large scale quantities needed for agricultural industry use….

Life & Chemistry

Plant Flavonoid Reduces Brain Inflammation, Study Reveals

The study appears this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Inflammation can be a blessing or a blight. It is a critical part of the body’s…

Life & Chemistry

How Enzymes Enhance Laundry Detergent Efficiency

The innovative use of an advanced microscopic technique that visualizes and quantifies how enzymes work in laundry detergents to better clean cotton fibers is…

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