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Power and Electrical Engineering

Wind power explored off California's coast

A team of Stanford researchers set out to find answers in a recent study of the California coast and will present their research during a Dec. 13 poster…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Disease-Resistant Wheat Developed by CSIRO Team

Pioneered by CSIRO researchers, in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Sydney University, the research…

Life & Chemistry

Turning Crude Oil Into Gas: New Insights from Calgary Scientists

An international team that includes University of Calgary scientists has shown how crude oil in oil deposits around the world – including in Alberta’s oil…

Architecture & Construction

Bamboo Bridge for Trucks Opens in China: A New Innovation

In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.Yan Xiao, a professor at the…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Fish Bones Uncover Global Warming’s Sea Impact

Scientists studying ancient fish bones in Scandinavia have discovered that warm-water species like anchovies and black sea bream that once thrived in Danish…

Physics & Astronomy

Space Telescope Discovers Hidden Cosmic Giant in X-rays

Being fooled by a cosmic giant is no laughing matter for an astronomer. For years astronomers racked their brains over the relation between two in X-rays…

Studies and Analyses

Cell Differentiation Patterns: Impact on Cancer and Aging

The failure of normal cell differentiation patterns may explain cancer and senescent decline with aging, say researchers at the University of Arizona, the…

Medical Engineering

Improved Laser-Doppler Tech Enhances Burn Injury Assessment

Using the perfusion image made by a laser and an ultra fast camera, doctors will be able to determine whether a burn needs surgery. The new measuring device,…

Life & Chemistry

Sperm’s immune-protection properties could provide link to how cancers spread

The new research, currently available online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, analysed these markers which are believed to tell the female immune system…

Physics & Astronomy

Gliese 581: New Insights on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago,…

Information Technology

Leicester Explores 3D Learning’s Educational Impact

Researchers want to take a radical look at how learning and teaching in 3D worlds can be best achieved. The Virtual Island will be launched by the University…

Science Education

SFI Attracts Global Researchers to Ireland with €44.55M Funding

Mr. Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, today announced details of a €44.55 million funding award that will create 67 new…

Earth Sciences

WUN Expedition Launches Arctic Research Collaborative Initiative

The expedition, by the Worldwide Universities Network-sponsored Palaeo-Arctic Climates and Environments (pACE) group, is the first step in developing a major…

Business and Finance

Strategies for Service Providers in International Markets

What is the market strategy? But for service companies it usually is much more difficult: “Because they sell immaterial and therefore intangible products”,…

Social Sciences

Study Reveals UK Social Mobility Stagnation Over 30 Years

The study, from the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey and funded by the Sutton Trust, reviews evidence related to children born between…

Health & Medicine

Green Tea May Protect Brain Cells Against Parkinson’s Disease

Authors of a new study being published in the December 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry share new data that indicates this may be the case. The authors…

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