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Physics & Astronomy

February's red Moon: lunar eclipse on 21 February

In a total lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon is full,…

Business and Finance

The human side of company boards’ work

Company boards in both the private and public sectors are in the firing line as never before. Whenever something goes drastically wrong, it is the board that…

Health & Medicine

New Centre to be at the heart of UK’s cardiovascular research

The Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC) will help researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Health and Biological Sciences to pool…

Life & Chemistry

Greener extraction of one of nature’s whitest minerals

Now researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields of one of this most useful and…

Social Sciences

Unravelling the North West’s Viking past

Focusing on the Wirral in Merseyside and West Lancashire the study of 100 men, whose surnames were in existence as far back as medieval times, has revealed…

Life & Chemistry

Iron banded worms drying out of blood could be linked to Parkinsons & Alzheimers

Human blood relies on a protein called transferrin to safely transport iron through the bloodstream to points were it can be usefully and safely used in the…

Information Technology

First Public Electronic Spanish Dictionary Launches Online

COES Spanish language tools are one of the Department of Computer Systems Architecture and Technology’s (DATSI) fields of research at the FIUPM. The key…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Star Distances: Astronomers Use Light Echoes

Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a…

Technology Offerings

New Multipole Resonance Probe Enhances Plasma Diagnostics

The invention refers to a new multipole resonance probe. The probe has a spherical symmetry which forces the resonance modes to correspond to the spatially…

Technology Offerings

Novel Rhodium and Iridium Compounds Target Cancer Cells

These novel rhodium complexes were tested on breast cancer (MCF-7) and colon cancer (HT-29) cell lines and exhibit cytotoxicities of up to 100 times higher…

Technology Offerings

Sintering Silicon Carbide RSiC: Enhancing Diesel Filters

According to this innovation SiO2-enriched additives are given to the binder containing compound. The carbon is then being oxidised inside of the sample, no…

Technology Offerings

Purin-Ago: New Non-Nucleotide Agonists for P2Y11 Receptor

Purinergic receptors have been in the focus of drug discovery for many years. This invention provides nonnucleotide

agonists of the P2Y11-receptor. The…

Studies and Analyses

Biofuel Crops: A Closer Look at Ecosystem Impacts

The work will be published in Science later this month and will be posted online Thursday, Feb. 7. The carbon lost by converting rainforests, peatlands,…

Life & Chemistry

Key Melanoma Gene Discovered in Genome-Wide Survey

In trying to tease out the answer to this simple question, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have uncovered a protein that stops the growth of…

Studies and Analyses

Study Examines Electronic Health Records’ Impact on Hypertension

The study, funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will give hundreds of patients with hypertension an electronic personal health…

Life & Chemistry

New Virus Identified in Transplant Patient Deaths in Australia

In the first application of high throughput DNA sequencing technology to investigate an infectious disease outbreak, scientists from Columbia University…

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