“We found a three-to-four-fold higher overall prevalence of cerebral microbleeds compared to other studies,” according to study author Monique M.B. Breteler,…
Employing the right person for the job is often a difficult decision. This is compounded by the need to go through hundreds sometimes thousands of applications…
For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A team led by Günter…
Industrially applicable robot technologies have so far been available only to a small extent for teaching and educational purposes. Instead, toy-like robots…
The main drawback of using robots for frequently changing environments and tasks, something which is typical of production in small and medium-sized…
Until now, the durability of plastic components has been extremely difficult to assess, considering the variety of influencing factors. This is particularly…
The results from the Wide Area Search for Planets (SuperWASP) will be announced by team member Dr Don Pollacco of Queen’s University Belfast, in his talk at…
The bombardier beetle, found mainly in Africa and Asia, is remarkable in that it can fire a powerful jet of hot, toxic fluid to fight off predators such as…
To better understand substorms, scientists in Europe and North America are studying them from space using the Time History of Events and Macroscale…
Robot programming can be so easy:Technologies from the fields of control, sensors and visualization allow the fast and intuitive programming of a KUKA robot…
University of Nottingham PhD student Will Hartley, who led the study, will speak at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Tuesday 1 April.The…
In his talk at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast on Tuesday 1 April, team member Dr Scott Chapman from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge will…
They have identified for the first time that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one person to another and, in the process, the…
The EU project SMErobot presents a fundamentally new robot concept that allows the affordable robot automation of demanding industrial applications.The new…
Huntington’s disease affects up to one person in every 10 000, but clusters in families and certain populations. Affected people develop clusters of a…
This is the first time that a group of antioxidants known as flavonoids have been found to boost the immune system in studies on living animals, as opposed to…
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