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Health & Medicine

Innovative Research on Healthier Aging at CECAD Cologne

Research on the treatment and prevention of these illnesses therefore belongs to one of the most important medical issues of the future. The Cologne Excellence…

Information Technology

Discover RapidiTTy: TTE Systems’ Latest Patented Innovation

The new patented technology invented by the researchers has led to the development of a new product family called “RapidiTTy”. A company – TTE Systems Ltd -…

Power and Electrical Engineering

AMI Semiconductor and IMEC Team Up for Smart Power Tech

Under the terms of the agreement, AMIS will develop critical and novel Smart Power processes and devices in IMEC's advanced 200mm facilities, and use IMEC’s…

Business and Finance

University of Kent’s Research on Sustainable Business Performance

The project, called Promoting Sustainable Performance, is the brainchild of the Centre for Regional Business Productivity (CRBP), one of the five key research…

Information Technology

Grids for Kids: Introducing Grid Computing to Young Minds

“Grids for Kids gives children a crash course in grid computing,” explains co-organiser Anna Cook of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project. “We introduce…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Boosting Health: Africa’s Urgent Need for More Fruits and Veggies

However, contrary to what one would expect, so-called “overweight” diseases (obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain cancers, etc) are no longer…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Coffee In Vitro Plantlets: Boosting Efficiency in Propagation

The techniques centre on two major innovations that have served to increase the efficiency and productivity of in vitro propagation by somatic embryogenesis*….

Social Sciences

Middle-Aged Misery: Global Insights on Well-Being Trends

Their paper entitled “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?” is to be published shortly in Social Science & Medicine, the world’s most-cited social…

Life & Chemistry

Chameleon Color Change: Social Signaling’s Evolutionary Role

What drove the evolution of color change in chameleons? Chameleons can use color change to camouflage and to signal to other chameleons, but a new paper…

Event News

Brussel Climate Change Conference: Key Innovations Unveiled

After a series of high profile events related to climate change throughout 2007 such as the G8 summit or the major economies meeting, the climate change…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring DNA: Decoding the Genetic Alphabet’s Secrets

The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Extends Life for Brain Tumor Patients

“Our findings show high-dose methotrexate alone or in combination with other chemotherapy drugs is the most effective treatment available for primary central…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanotube Radios: A Breakthrough in Transistor Technology

The nanotube radios, in which nanotube devices provide all of the active functionality in the devices, represent “important first steps toward the practical…

Event News

VoIPFuture Ltd. at the “IP QoS and Quality of Experience in Telecoms” conference in London

VoIPFuture Ltd. will be taking part in the “IP QoS and Quality of Experience in Telecoms” conference being held in London from 28th to 30th January and will be…

Studies and Analyses

Marijuana Withdrawal: Similarities to Cigarette Withdrawal

Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana use suggests that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is…

Earth Sciences

When accounting for the global nitrogen budget, don't forget fish

Recent research by the Université de Montréal (Canada) and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Millbrook, New York) has revealed an important, but seldom…

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