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MEDEA+ Noblanc Award Spotlights Microelectronics Security Innovations

ONOM@TOPIC+ developed a European smartcard platform for citizenship and mobile multimedia applications that makes life easier and more secure for users while…

Information Technology

Teach Robots New Skills: Insights from Professor Dautenhahn

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn and her team at the university’s School of Computer Science, who are developing robots as personal companions, will present KASPAR…

Event News

Arctic Sea Ice Declines: Insights from International Polar Year

A record minimum of Arctic sea ice, new species in the Antarctic deep sea and unexpected insights into past climate – these are only some of the results of the…

Social Sciences

Western Countries See Decline in Crime Epidemic Trends

That is one of the key findings of the recently published report Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective. The book reports on a victim survey…

Transportation and Logistics

Custom-Made Helmets: The Future of Personalized Safety

Mass production cannot solve this issue and only partial personalization can be done by playing with different padding thicknesses. A new manufacturing…

Environmental Conservation

CITES Maintains Steady Caviar Quotas for Beluga Sturgeon

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) on Friday announced trade quotas governing the export of wild sturgeon and their prized…

Physics & Astronomy

140-Year-Old Math Problem Solved by Researcher

Professor Darren Crowdy, Chair in Applied Mathematics, has made the breakthrough in an area of mathematics known as conformal mapping, a key theoretical tool…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Cancer Patient Autonomy: Key Research Insights

Autonomy is the capacity to take decisions and undertake activities when armed with knowledge about the causes of the illness, sufficient information thereof…

Event News

Jules Verne ATV Launch Rescheduled for March 9 Due to Issues

During the last validation step for the device which separates the 20-tonne European spacecraft from its launcher, a potential problem was identified with the…

Health & Medicine

New Approach to Tighter Tummies: Combat Weight Gain Effectively

In a paper published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Dr Brian King and Dr Andrea Townsend-Nicholson…

Business and Finance

Understanding Income Inequality in Latin America: New Insights

Contrary to what is usually assumed, income inequality according to Frankema is absolutely not persistent and there are definitely ways to close the gap…

Awards Funding

EMBO’s Annual Award Spotlights Life Science Communicators

The EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences is presented annually to a life scientist in Europe for outstanding contributions to the public…

Physics & Astronomy

Real-Time Capture of Biological Electron Transfer Innovation

This achievement required developing and building of a special device by which the enzyme-catalysed electron transfer could be captured at different time…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding Traffic Patterns: Insights from New Research

The research, published today, Tuesday, 4 March, in the New Journal of Physics, shows how model patterns, normally used to understand the movement of…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Ocean Secrets: MIT Team Explores Bacterial Mysteries

A team of MIT researchers led by Professors Edward DeLong and Penny Chisholm is trying to change that.Borrowing gene sequencing tools developed for sequencing…

Life & Chemistry

Double-Protected Tuberculosis Bacterium: Key Insights Unveiled

Robert Koch who detected the tuberculosis causative agent in March 1882 described the contemporary situation: “Statistics tells us that one in seven of all…

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