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Life & Chemistry

NYU Researchers Discover New Photoreceptors Regulating Senses

The findings, they write, may also have implications for the regulating of olfactory receptors, which are responsible for the detection of smells, because both…

Studies and Analyses

Positive Thinking & Financial Risks: The Gambling Connection

In a series of studies, Elizabeth Cowley (University of Sydney) examines repeat gambling in the face of loss. She finds that people often engage in too much…

Social Sciences

Exploring Cultural Innovation in Troubled Regions

Mirroring human cohabitation, they offer a valuable contribution to the understanding of a new world order, which is particularly sensitive to troubled regions…

Seminars Workshops

Best Practices for Engineering Science Faculties in Germany

How can the engineering science faculties of German universities meet the increasing demand for engineers in Germany, the world champion in exports? How must…

Communications Media

Science TV: Discover Research Through Scientists’ Eyes

What makes Science TV special: The material for the films is recorded by the participating scientists themselves. The original raw material is then compressed…

Studies and Analyses

First comprehensive study into the health of Europe’s teens reveals concerning trends

The importance of understanding teenage healthThe Helena Study was conceived to understand and effectively enhance nutritional and lifestyle habits of 13 to 17…

Earth Sciences

Unlocking Gondwana: Insights Into Ancient Supercontinent

Gondwana was a ‘supercontinent’ that existed between 500 and 180 million years ago. For the past four decades, geologists have debated how Gondwana eventually…

Health & Medicine

Ground-breaking new insight into the development of Alzheimer’s disease

Unfortunately it is still unclear precisely which ageing process forms the basis of this spectacular rise in the occurrence of the disease. VIB scientists…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Sexist Violence in Universities: A Groundbreaking Study

Published last year, Mediaciones y Traslaciones (Mediations and Movement) is the first scientific-educational study providing a critical survey of how the…

Health & Medicine

Impact of Tobacco Control on Smoking Inequalities

Reducing social inequalities in smoking and its health consequences is a public health and political priority. However, little is known about the actual…

Process Engineering

BRIGHTER lasers for tomorrow's technologies

The €16.25m (with €9.7m of European Commission funding) project called WWW.BRIGHTER.EU, which runs until September 2009, has brought 22 of Europe's top…

Environmental Conservation

1930s Semi Truck Goes Green: A Sustainable Transformation

The 1930s semi is an icon of its age but 80 years on it is about to undergo a green revolution. Experts at The University of Nottingham together with the…

Health & Medicine

Early Diagnosis Key to Oesophageal Cancer Detection Insights

The report, entitled Monitoring Care of Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal cancers: 2005, compares care for patients diagnosed with cancers of the oesophagus…

Health & Medicine

Baby-Friendly Bacteria May Prevent Eczema in Infants

At worst, it can mean having to wet wrap wriggly toddlers each day with bandages soaked in moisturisers. It usually starts in the first year of life and…

Health & Medicine

An infant's future mental abilities and susceptibility to mental illness can be permanently altered by …

Remarkable new research into the way environmental factors affect the development of the brain has opened up the possibility that an infant’s future mental…

Corporate News

Optimizing Wind Power: Carl Zeiss’ Precision Measuring Tech

Carl Zeiss supports the rising quality requirements for components for wind turbines with highly precise MMZ 3D coordinate measuring machines. Carl Zeiss…

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