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Health & Medicine

New Life-Sized Wound Model Called ‘George’

According to the Tissue Viability Team in the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, around 200,000 individuals in the UK will have a chronic wound at…

Physics & Astronomy

Ghosts of galaxies

The detection of these immense stellar fossils confirms the predictions of the cold dark matter model of cosmology, which proposes that present-day grand…

Business and Finance

Soon one in four of those working will be low paid

EU-countries, especially Germany and the UK – the Netherlands in their wake –, seem to follow in the footsteps of the US. Here the proportion working at low…

Health & Medicine

Incorporating health and safety concepts in building plans reduces accident rates and costs

Workplace accidents are currently a great human, social and economic problem. Within the industrial sector, the construction industry has one of the highest…

Physics & Astronomy

Electric sail invention approaches implementation

The electric solar wind sail developed by Dr. Pekka Janhunen at the Finnish Meteorological Institute might revolutionise travelling in deep space. The electric…

Information Technology

Linköping University researchers break "unbreakable" crypto

The risk of illegal accessing of information, for example in money transactions, is necessitating more and more advanced cryptographic techniques.When you send…

Machine Engineering

OFIENGINE: improvements in maintenance and reliability of marine engines

It is expected that this technology will be capable of not only generating the coatings technically necessary to combat mechanisms of identified wear, but also…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Life Sciences Innovation in North Germany’s NEU ² Consortium

To develop innovative drugs more efficiently is the goal of the consortium NEU ² (new-square) , which consists of the Kiel based Bionamics GmbH (Project…

Life & Chemistry

FISH Probing: Tackling Biofilm in the Paper Industry

A great majority of the paper factories, specially those producing recycled paper, suffer from biofouling in their installations. Such phenomena are caused by…

Studies and Analyses

Flu Vaccines Cut Respiratory Issues in COPD Patients by 75%

A study of 87 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – a major cause of ill health and death – found that having the annual flu vaccine…

Health & Medicine

Hereditary Breast Cancer: Mastectomy’s Cost and Benefits

The mastectomy option appears to give an excellent result in avoiding breast cancer, with a remaining risk of less than 1%, Dr. Reinie Kaas, from the Surgical…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Uncover Drifting Star’s Secrets with ESO Telescope

By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted…

Information Technology

Linköping University researchers break "unbreakable" crypto

The risk of illegal accessing of information, for example in money transactions, is necessitating more and more advanced cryptographic techniques.When you send…

Power and Electrical Engineering

iPhone Positioning System Breach: What You Need to Know

In January, Skyhook Wireless Inc. announced that Apple would use Skyhook's WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications. The WPS database…

Materials Sciences

DuPont™ Zytel® HTN can make rugged parts for potable hot water use

The resins, Zytel® HTN51G35HSLR BK420 and HTN51G45HSLR BK420, are now certified under NSF/ANSI Standard 61, Drinking Water System Components – Health Effects…

Physics & Astronomy

Contract signed for ESA’s Sentinel-3 earth observation satellite

The contract was signed today in Paris by Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation, and Pascale Sourisse, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, in…

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