Whatever the position of the patient, even sitting upright, operations can be performed without arm, back or neck strain. The microscope allows hours of…
The engineering polymer facilitates the particularly cost-efficient production of the thick-walled parts, and, due to its high impact strength, even at…
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But…
The researchers, from Arizona State University and Washington University, St. Louis, report in the current online edition (Feb. 4) of the Proceedings of the…
Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.)…
The groups, which met for four days in Madagascar’s capital city Antananarivo, said there is still hope to save these ancient animals, but time is running out…
Dr Haston’s study is pointing at genetics as contributing to this bone frailty, a finding which may have some implications in changing therapeutic practices….
Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more…
A report on the device is published in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science. Authors include researchers from Simon Fraser University in Canada and the…
If you are reading this, chances are that you live in a city – one, perhaps, on its way to becoming a megacity with a population that exceeds 10 million or…
Their research is in a study published today (Feb.8, 2008) in the journal Science. “This finding was unexpected — especially since it entails a broad…
In human children, sensitivity to touch is one of a number of characteristics of the approximately 5 percent of children who over-respond to sensory…
The physicists performing the study used a small nuclear reactor used exclusively for research purposes at the University of Pavia, applying techniques that…
The funding which is part of Science Foundation Ireland’s Engineering Professorship and Lectureship Programme will support three Engineering Professorships and…
Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to produce serious illness in farmed and aquarium fish. In farmed salmon, these parasites create…
In four sub-research projects, Dam investigated the economics of corporate social responsibility, with the emphasis on the role of financial markets and…