Every four months the Access Committee, formed by 44 well-know external scientists, evaluate individually each received project to be executed in the following…
Writing in a recent issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire…
Dr Robert Smith, Emeritus Reader in Astronomy, said his team previously calculated that the Earth would escape ultimate destruction, although be battered and…
A study carried out at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Granada and led by lecturer Rafael Briones Gómez, shows that Spanish…
By means of a microelectrode that measures the impedance and temperature of the tissues, the system enables the state of any organ to be monitored from the…
Three out of four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Increasing agricultural…
Professor Howard Atkinson and Dr Peter Urwin from the University of Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences have been awarded £500,000 through the £7 million…
Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal, from Trinidad, was awarded the accolade for her article ‘Ants: Who is Using Whom?’ which explains how a variety of plants and animals…
Many animals possess protective markings to avoid predation, including patterns to reduce the risk of detection (camouflage), to indicate that the animal is…
A new study published in the February 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry set out to compare two popular classes of antidepressants, the newer serotonin and…
Previous studies had suggested that vitamin E might improve the immune system. In animal studies vitamin E seemed to protect against various infections.Harri…
Ketamine, a drug used in general medicine as an anesthetic, has recently been shown to produce improvements in depressed patients within hours of…
Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below the other into the rocky mantle could potentially improve their ability to…
Rather than detecting visible light, SCUBA-2 will detect submillimetre radiation, which is sensitive to the heat emitted by extremely cold dust in the…
Modern computing is digital, a series of 1s and 0s that, once combined, create powerful information processing systems. The system is so simple – on or off,…
Fibromyalgia is a common, painful syndrome, with no known cause and no accepted cure. Symptoms usually involve chronic and severe pain and tenderness in…