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Vaccine Progress: New Hope Against Mononucleosis

EBV is a member of the herpes virus family and one of the most common viruses in humans, with nearly all adults in developed countries such as the United…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Uses Carbon Nanotubes to Target Anthrax Toxin

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way to seek out specific proteins, including dangerous proteins such as anthrax toxin, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Voyager 2 Confirms Squashed Shape of Solar System

However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath, on August 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists find how bacteria in cows milk may cause Crohn's disease

Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea.The team…

Physics & Astronomy

Light is shed on new fibre's potential to change technology

The fibre can change a pulse of light with a narrow range of wavelengths into a spectrum hundreds of times broader and ranging from visible light to the…

Environmental Conservation

New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change

Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the…

Environmental Conservation

Two Degrees is Too High – Our Many Strong Voices Must be Heard

The world’s indigenous peoples do not accept the much advocated target of limiting the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. For indigenous peoples…

Life & Chemistry

Loss of Long-Established Genes Drives Human Evolution Insights

A group of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz led by Dr. David Haussler has investigated this less-studied idea, carrying out the first…

Environmental Conservation

Africa Advances GMES Under Lisbon Declaration Framework

The Lisbon Declaration falls under the wider framework of the Africa-European Union (EU) Partnership on Science, Information Society and Space of the Africa-EU…

Information Technology

UWE Develops Disguise-Seeing Cameras to Combat Crime

UWE and its partners have received £672,000 in funding for the three-year project from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Fighting Crime…

Environmental Conservation

Envisat captures South Korea’s crude oil leak

More than 10 000 tons of oil from the tanker is reported to have leaked into the sea since colliding with another vessel on Friday 7 December. The South Korean…

Physics & Astronomy

Geminid Meteor Shower: December’s Stunning Night Sky Event

At its peak and in a clear, dark sky between 50 and 100 ‘shooting stars’ or meteors may be visible each hour. Meteors are the result of small particles…

Studies and Analyses

Scrooge or Samaritan: Personality Types Influence Donations

In a sample of almost 1000 participants the researchers found that people with a pro-social personality gave more money to charities and other noble causes….

Physics & Astronomy

Explore the Largest Digital Survey of the Milky Way

Conducted by looking at light emitted by hydrogen ions, using the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma, the survey contains stunning red images of nebulae and…

Science Education

Innovative Strategies for Boosting Student Success in Schools

The author, Professor Pam Sammons, from The University of Nottingham, will be presenting the findings at a launch event at the New Connaught Rooms in London at…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Casts Doubts on Climate Model Reliability

This research, published on-line Wednesday in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology*, raises new concerns about the…

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