The analysis of survey data from up to 107 countries goes against previous research which argues that countries with a British colonial past inherited systems…
Researchers who asked entrepreneurs and small business leaders about their motivations for achieving business success found that only 6.9% were driven by…
The discovery suggests that the tiny motor protein is much more important than previously thought – and for humans it may even hold a key to understanding…
Industrial activity is one of the principal causes of contamination in water, given that industry dumps large amounts of chemical compounds into rivers that…
Dr Nigel Bannister’s calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme “The Mobile Phone Rip-Off”.He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of…
The new research, published today (13 May 2008) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, shows that humans have approximately 10 times…
Dr Mark Hampton, the University’s Director of CENTICA – the Centre for Tourism in Islands in Coastal Areas, part of Kent Business School – will lead a team of…
The research furthers the development of more intelligent robots, which can then be used by industry, and by emergency and security services, among others….
Yet, less and less young people are taking up places on degree courses in Mathematics and Science based subjects that will be vital to them if they want to…
Or is it as much about what your background is and the social and cultural groups that you belong to? Researchers, funded by the Economic and Social Research…
“We must act now to stop people with dementia from suffering from protracted, potentially uncomfortable and undignified deaths” says Jan Draper, Professor of…
A universally applicable service concept based on M2M (Machine-to-Machine) communication is currently being developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of…
This meta-analysis, published in the latest issue of Nature Genetics, is based on data from more than 26,000 study participants. It verifies two already known…
Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost…
The scientists, mainly from Denmark, UK, Germany and Canada, are currently in the middle of CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) 2008, an extensive…
It also looks at barriers to access, and the possibilities of future take-up among today’s non users. The BBVA Foundation completed a first round of the study…
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