Stereotypical notions of gender differences have an adverse effect on women's capacity to negotiate. This is shown in a dissertation in psychology by Una…
It is hard work to lift and heave a coffee sack, to carry it, to place it on a pallet and then to return for the next one. Overseas containers are packed up to…
Being a nocturnal animal, it hunts predominantly with its sense of touch. Professor Michael Brecht (Bernstein Center for Computional Neuroscience, Berlin) now…
As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers…
The research, entitled Better Housing for the Ageing Population in Northern Ireland, was conducted by Dr Karim Hadjri a senior lecturer from the School of…
The 2008 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) was inaugurated on 1 May. Now in its fifth year, the competition is again seeking quick-to-market…
To chart the genes that are involved in the development of leukemia – cancer of white blood cells- researchers Jaap Kool, Anthony Uren and colleagues…
Hydroxyl, an important but difficult-to-detect molecule, is made up of a hydrogen and oxygen atom each. It has been found in the upper reaches of the Venusian…
Reunion, in administrative terms now both a département of France and an Overseas region, had at the end of 2006 over 780 000 inhabitants over a 2500 km²…
Dr Jyoti Choudrie and Dr Susan Grey from the University's Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Institute are conducting a widespread, international…
According to the Boston Area Community Health Survey (BACH), other health issues that increase the risk of multiple lower urinary tract symptoms include…
The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, which is unusual in conventional chemistry because of its reactivity. Using the VIRTIS instrument…
The atlas is the result of over 50 years of work by former World War Two fighter pilot and science teacher, Bob George from Bournemouth, UK. The new…
The study found just over 10,000 mutations in total, which together implicate almost 350 regions in the mouse genome in cancer formation. 50 of these regions…
This has significant implications for global climate change because the nitrogen causes increased marine biological activity and CO2 uptake, which in turn…
MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly…
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