Networks of mobile sensors and other small electronic devices have huge potential. Applications include emergency management, security, helping vulnerable…
Ants have always been thought to work together for the benefit of the colony rather than for individual gain. But Dr Bill Hughes from Leeds’ Faculty of…
The initial image, showing a dimly illuminated cloud-covered region was successfully downloaded on 6 March. A second picture – the first to be produced on…
After several exposures to malaria, humans develop clinical immunity to the disease. In this state, they no longer have symptoms of malaria, but are…
Simatic RF-Manager 2008 of the Siemens Industry Automation Division now links RFID with automation data from Simatic S7 controllers and also collects data from…
Worldwide Streptococcus pneumoniae causes 5 million fatal pneumonia infections a year in children. In the US it causes 1 million cases a year of pneumococcal…
The findings offer new hope for sufferers of SLI, which affects seven per cent of children and is a major cause of many not reaching their educational…
The F25 permits the determination of the size, form and position of parts created through micro-machining. The F25 can measure geometries that are only a few…
Dirac’s theory, which successfully married the principles of Einstein’s relativity to the quantum property of electrons known as spin, famously predicted that…
When space shuttle Endeavor blasts off on March 11, some tiny ‘astronauts’ will piggyback onboard an experimental payload from Arizona State University’s…
The findings that in the future may aid the body’s defense system are published in the March 7 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The research is…
One commonly used program has the patient watch his virtual image on a screen. For example, tennis balls are virtually thrown at the patient from all…
Such is the hope of scientists and clinicians at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research who have shown conclusively that people who produce low levels…
Based on a study of 10 donkey skeletons from three graves dedicated to donkeys in the funerary complex of one of the first Pharaoh's at Abydos, Egypt, the…
The snakes have evolved resistance to the blowfish poison, tetrodotoxin (TTX), by preying on rough-skinned newts, which also secrete the toxin. Some newts are…
This information helped them to determine the preferred intervention strategy to contain a potential flu pandemic, including what people should do to decrease…
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