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Life & Chemistry

Neuronal circuits able to rewire on the fly to sharpen senses

This new, biologically inspired algorithm for analyzing the brain at work allows scientists to explain why when we notice a scent, the brain can quickly sort…

Life & Chemistry

Identification of new genes shows a complex path to cell death

Can a tiny winged insect’s salivary glands really tell us about processes relevant to human disease” Yes, according to a new study by researchers at the…

Health & Medicine

Herceptin Helps Women With Multiple Chromosomes Containing HER2 Gene

The analysis came from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group's clinical trial N9831 which tested the use of Herceptin in combination with chemotherapy in…

Environmental Conservation

Coral reefs unlikely to survive in acid oceans

Scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology have calculated that if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, by mid-century…

Life & Chemistry

Cholesterol fine tunes hearing

Dr. William Brownell, professor of otolaryngology at BCM and his colleagues, said that the amount of cholesterol in the outer hair cell membrane found in the…

Information Technology

Efficiency of satellite telecommunications for civil protection agencies

The 'Decision' (DEvelopment of CIvil protection Satellite communication services: enhancing Interoperability during deployments Outside Europe – also referred…

Transportation and Logistics

Technology lifts customs burden off business

The ITAIDE project is tackling customs, security and administration with a broad-front approach. It is just as well because it is an enormous problem, and an…

Information Technology

Proving identity across borders

People who come to work in the EU from America or Asia may find they have to rebuild their credit records before they can buy a car or a house. EU citizens…

Information Technology

Sounding out the future of sound and music computing (SMC)

It draws inspiration from hard sciences like physics and engineering, social sciences like psychology and musicology, and the creative arts. Digital musical…

Information Technology

Real e-services for real people

Effective on-line services need websites that are easy for users to navigate, and can cater for visitors with disabilities. Widespread internet access is…

Materials Sciences

Top ten advances in materials science selected by Materials Today

Elsevier’s Materials Today magazine has compiled a list of the top ten most significant advances in materials science over the last 50 years. The top ten…

Information Technology

The missing link in interoperability

Pilot trials show that the resulting e-services can reduce bureaucracy, identify fraud and deliver optimised services to citizens.A few years ago Norbert…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Robots to take over the job

“Well, now you have seen the individual sensors and special tools. Shall I put the robots into action?”SINTEF scientist Pål Liljebäck looks a question at me….

Transportation and Logistics

Joined up air and rail travel for Heathrow

According to Moshe Givoni of the Transport Studies Unit, at Oxford University Centre for the Environment, environmental pollution from aircraft operation and…

Science Education

Clean Fuels Catalyst Development Accelerates Innovation

The first, due to be delivered at the end of February 2008 will be used to speed up the development of Oxford Catalysts’ catalysts for hydrodesulphurisation…

Life & Chemistry

Mechanical Insights Transform Wound Healing and Scar Tissue

New research published today in the Journal of Cell Biology illuminates the mechanical factors that play a critical role in the differentiation and function of…

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