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Advancing European e-Infrastructures: e-IRGSP2 Initiative

The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2) aims to provide means and resources for the progression of the work performed by the…

Science Education

£12M Investment to Enhance Operational Research in LANCS

The LANCS initiative, supported with a Science and Innovation Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will bring about a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nuclear and Coal: Shaping the UK’s Energy Future

Muhammad Asif of the School of Built and Natural Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow and colleagues John Currie and T. Muneer at the School of…

Health & Medicine

30 Years of the Biopsychosocial Model in Healthcare

Medically unexplained symptoms appear to be the rule in primary care and disturbances such as depression, anxiety, hostility and illness behaviour may affect…

Health & Medicine

Duloxetine’s Limited Effect on Painful Depression Symptoms

Duloxetine inhibits both serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake and is marketed as a treatment for both the core emotional symptoms and painful physical…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing Bioavailability of Amidine-Based Pharmaceuticals

The amidine group is an essential component of many pharmacologically active agents. However, in general pharmaceutical compositions with one or more amidine…

Life & Chemistry

Weird water: Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties

Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance: Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UltraBattery: A Game-Changer for Hybrid Car Batteries

The UltraBattery combines a supercapacitor and a lead acid battery in a single unit, creating a hybrid car battery that lasts longer, costs less and is more…

Life & Chemistry

How Predators Shape Prey Evolution Beyond Just Killing

The direct effect predators have on their prey is to kill them. The evolutionary changes that can result from this direct effect include prey that are younger…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smart Contact Lenses: Enhancing Vision with Circuit Technology

Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes — visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control…

Environmental Conservation

California flood risks are 'disaster waiting to happen

While flooding in California's Central Valley is “the next big disaster waiting to happen,” water-related infrastructure issues confront almost every community…

Earth Sciences

Tsunami Zone Insights: Deep-Ocean Research Near Japan

Rice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the…

Life & Chemistry

Evidence found for genes that affect risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Studying 25 multigenerational families of individuals diagnosed with late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most common form of the disorder, as well as…

Physics & Astronomy

Materials' crystal properties illuminated by mathematical 'lighthouse'

The researchers' findings reveal a previously unknown mathematical relationship between the different arrangements that interacting particles can take while…

Social Sciences

Do Today’s Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary?

Now research is beginning to support this notion. An article appearing in the February issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for…

Studies and Analyses

Scottish Sheep Evolution: Key Gene Discovered by Researchers

Dr Jacob Gratten and Dr Jon Slate, from the University’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, led the team, which found that the gene responsible for dark…

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