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Physics & Astronomy

Is NGC 1132 a Cosmic Fossil? Discover its Hidden Secrets

In visible light NGC 1132 appears as a single, isolated, giant elliptical galaxy, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists have found that NGC 1132…

Business and Finance

University of Hertfordshire Joins Cambridge Network for EKTN

It is to join forces with Cambridge Network to become the regional hub for the Eastern Region of the Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network (EKTN).The EKTN is…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Folding Modifies the Water in the Environment: RUB Chemistry Observes “THz Dance“ Changes

The water molecules, which generally move around like disco dancers in their collective network motions behave more like in a neat minuet under protein…

Environmental Conservation

Sustainable Future: The Fashion Industry’s New Challenges

Climate change, workers rights and pollution effects have been propelled into the boardroom, design studio and high street and as a result, over 20 major…

Physics & Astronomy

Optical Atomic Clock: Boosting Accuracy in Timekeeping

As its frequency is higher than that of the microwave oscillations of the cesium atomic clocks, physicists expect another increase in the accuracy, stability…

Earth Sciences

First Active Fault Map for Gibraltar Arc Aims to Prevent Quakes

A group of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth Sciences (CSIC) and the Department of Geodynamics of the University of Granada described for the…

Environmental Conservation

WMO’s Global Initiative to Enhance Climate Prediction Efforts

WMO opened on 4 February the first meeting of the International Organizing Committee of the World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) in Geneva in 2009. More than 20…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Supplementary Approach to Malaria Prevention

Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and colleagues explain that vitamin A and…

Health & Medicine

Bug guts map brings scientists closer to understanding different bugs’ role in the body

Bugs in the gut are known as gut microbes and trillions live symbiotically inside the human body. Different people can have very different populations of gut…

Studies and Analyses

Discovery of Chemical Signature in Manic Depression

Manic depression, which is also known as bipolar disorder, is a debilitating psychiatric condition characterised by alternating mania and depression, affecting…

Physics & Astronomy

'T-ray' breakthrough signals next generation of security sensors

The research shows that these T-rays, electromagnetic waves in the far infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum that have a wavelength 500 times longer…

Life & Chemistry

DNA 'barcode' identified for plants

This gene, which can be used to identify plants using a small sample, could lead to new ways of easily cataloguing different types of plants in species-rich…

Science Education

Strengthening Medical Research in Europe: Key Collaboration Insights

These are some of the main recommendations of the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) White Paper, ‘Present Status and Future Strategy for Medical…

Studies and Analyses

Welfare Study Highlights Broiler Chicken Management Changes

The study, funded by DEFRA and published in PLoS ONE on February 6, identifies a range of management factors that could be altered to reduce leg health…

Studies and Analyses

Changing Patterns of Stroke and Heart Disease Deaths in Europe

Published in Europe’s leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] today (Wednesday 6 February), the study looked at deaths from ischaemic heart…

Life & Chemistry

Don't Blame The Trees: Social Factors, Not Forests, Dictate Disease Patterns

“The classical idea has been that people working or living close to the forest were at risk for the disease, but that view failed to consider such factors as…

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