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Environmental Conservation

Grey Water: Transforming Golf Courses for a Sustainable Future

Bruce Jefferson of the Centre for Water Sciences, at Cranfield University, England, and colleagues explain that water shortages due to low rainfall and…

Science Education

Irish Research Council Launches Open Access Policy for Research

The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) has taken moves today to ensure that research papers published by its funding…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Dark Matter: Insights from NASA’s GLAST Mission

It could even help us comprehend the origin and distribution of dark matter, write three scientists currently preparing for the GLAST mission from NASA’s…

Studies and Analyses

Cocaine Addicts Using Other Substances Face Mental Health Risks

The Grupo de Epidemiología de las Drogas de Abuso (The Epidemiology Group on Drug Abuse) at the Instituto Municipal de Investigación Médica (Municipal…

Physics & Astronomy

How Black Holes Disrupt Stars: A Cosmic Pancake Recipe

Scientists have long understood that massive black holes lurking in galactic nuclei and weighing millions of Suns can disrupt stars that come too close. Due to…

Information Technology

W3C Invites Developers to Test WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines

Today, W3C announces that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is ready for developers and designers to test in Web content and Web…

Life & Chemistry

Salmon Growth Boost: Cold Incubation Increases Size by 60%

With global salmon consumption having more than doubled in the last 15 years, optimizing the embryonic development of the fish will increase production yield…

Earth Sciences

Is the ocean losing oxygen? – Oxygen in tropical oceans is declining

A new study lead by Dr. Lothar Stramma from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, now published in „Science“, documents that…

Earth Sciences

Global Warming: A Brief Pause Ahead? Insights from IPCC Report

To date climate change projections, as published in the last IPCC report, only considered changes in future atmospheric composition. This strategy is…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Gadgets: The Future of Electro-Optical Devices

Writing in the American Chemical Society’s journal Nano Letters, Dr Kostya Novoselov and colleagues from The School of Physics and Astronomy and The School of Computer Science, report on the use of graphene as a transparent conductive coating for electro-optical devices – and show that its high transparency and low resistivity make it ideal for electrodes in liquid crystal devices….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Method Boosts Antioxidant Testing for Extra Virgin Olive Oil

With this work, researchers have found out a more effective method nowadays in order to establish the antioxidant capacity of extra virgin olive oil.Research…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Enhancing Health Through Innovative Land Use Strategies

Relu is a £24 million interdisciplinary research programme into the challenges facing rural areas today, funded by the UK research councils, with additional…

Studies and Analyses

Heart Mortality Trends Improve for Younger Women

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. It occurs when the arteries supplying blood to the…

Transportation and Logistics

New Study Evaluates £150M UK Travel Project Impact

The iConnect (Impact of COnstructing Non-motorised Networks and Evaluating Changes in Travel) study aims to measure and evaluate the changes in travel,…

Health & Medicine

One in Five Rooms Face Hidden Mould Contamination

Not according to a study by French scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Environmental Monitoring. They report that almost one in five…

Life & Chemistry

"Silent" fungus metabolism awakened for new natural products

Fungi produce a wide variety of natural products, including potent toxins – for example, the amanitins, primarily responsible for the toxicity of the death cap…

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