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Studies and Analyses

Global Consortium Launches Study on Open Source Development

Dubbed FLOSSInclude and funded under the EU's 7th Framework Programme, the two year project will be carried out by a project team of research institutes,…

Information Technology

Safeguard Your Online Identity: Practical Management Tips

Strangers can build a fairly complete picture of our movements, transactions and relationships from the cyber-trail we leave behind. This has major…

Communications Media

iPak: Explore 10,000 Songs and Images in Unique Project

The project has been commissioned by Turbulence and funded by the National Endowment of the Arts (USA), and will be viewable until 28 February 2010.‘iPak –…

Life & Chemistry

New Laser Technique Enhances Pharmaceutical Process Control

In close collaboration with teams from Pfizer Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company, the researchers in STFC’s Lasers for Science Facility succeeded in…

Health & Medicine

Imitating monkey’s ‘jumping genes’ could lead to new treatments for HIV

The international team of researchers, coordinated by Professor Greg Towers, UCL Infection and Immunity, and funded by the Wellcome Trust, have identified a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Nitrous Oxide Focus Group: Key Insights for Sustainable Solutions

Launched on February 22, the Nitrous Oxide Focus Group will engage with many influential organisations including the National Farmers Union, Marks & Spencer,…

Environmental Conservation

Narrow Forest Corridors Threaten Wildlife, Scientists Warn

This is the first wildlife study in remnant riparian tropical forest corridors and it will be published in the journal Conservation Biology on March 21.Brazilian forestry legislation currently requires that all forest strips alongside rivers and streams on private land be maintained as permanent reserves and it sets a minimum legal width of 60m….

Awards Funding

ERCIM Cor Baayen Award: Honoring Young Research Talent

Each year, ERCIM awards a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics with the Cor Baayen Award. The winner of the award receives…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New method for measuring biodiversity – How individual species help structure the biodiversity of tropical rainforests

The new method extends a procedure familiar to biologists that involves investigating species numbers in relation to area (the species-area relationship, or…

Information Technology

Wizkid Debuts at MoMA: Explore Design and the Elastic Mind

Wizkid is part of MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit, running from February 24 to May 12, 2008. This unusual device is the result of a collaboration…

Environmental Conservation

Carbon Study Reveals New Insights for Emission Reduction

NERC funded researchers at the University of Manchester found that carbon dioxide (CO2) has been naturally stored for up to 40 million years in CO2 gas fields…

Studies and Analyses

Land Degradation and Poverty: Insights from Recent Research

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the papers in this special issue were presented at a workshop as part of a study tour of the same theme. The ten-day study tour…

Science Education

How ICTs Are Shaping Classroom Teaching Methods Today

The school institution hardly changed duringthe last century, despite television, radio and other information and communication technologies (ICTs)…

Earth Sciences

Giant Frog Mimics Horned Toads With Unique Features

The new frog resembles living Horned toads (ceratophryines or 'pac-man frogs') in having a squat body, huge head and wide mouth. With a body length (not…

Life & Chemistry

Mammalian-Like Neurogenesis in Fruit Flies: New Insights

In the widely accepted model of neurogenesis in Drosophila, neuroblasts divide asymmetrically both to self renew and to produce a smaller progenitor cell. This…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring DNA Repair Enzymes: Insights from Researchers

Enzymes called helicases play a key role in human health, according to Maria Spies, a University of Illinois biochemistry professor.“DNA helicases act as…

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