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Science Education

UK Opens New Centre for Zoonosis Research in Liverpool

Zoonoses are diseases that originate in animals but can jump species and infect humans. The new centre – which will be opened by Lord David Owen, the…

Communications Media

Scholars argue that TV is not merely an instrument of war but part of today’s terror

“Media coverage of war and terrorism continues to raise ethical dilemmas for journalists and news producers. From the risk to journalists of reporting from…

Studies and Analyses

Parents blind to children’s risk taking & skilled risk management

The researchers found children indulge in a great deal of thoughtful and considered risk taking that is invisible to adults. On average the researchers found…

Science Education

Korea Research Foundation eyes entry into ESF’s EUROCORES, Research Networking Programmes

At a recent workshop meeting in Seoul, Dr. Sang-Man Huh, the President of the KRF met with the Chief Executive of the ESF Dr. John Marks to discuss the…

Environmental Conservation

New Study Unveils Complex Carbon Cycle Insights for Climate

A new study looks at a poorly understood process with potentially critical consequences for climate change. Emma Sayer, postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian…

Life & Chemistry

Pacific Salmon: Aging Gracefully Through Stored Energy

Pacific salmon are noted for not feeding during their breeding period, relying instead on stored energy reserves and for their rapid senescence – the…

Life & Chemistry

New Bio-Exploration Model Emerges in Central Asia

The Global Institute for Bio-Exploration, a joint initiative of the University of Illinois and Rutgers University, has become a model of sustainable,…

Earth Sciences

Gorilla Diversification Influenced by Ice Ages and Rivers

The collaborative School of Biosciences study shows that the genetic composition of gorilla populations varies across different parts of their current…

Life & Chemistry

Growth Factor Receptor’s Role in Prostate Cancer Progression

A report on the work by BCM researchers with fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 appears today in the journal Cancer Cell.“Since we are manipulating the target…

Earth Sciences

Smaller Storms Bring More Rainfall to Southeastern US Droughts

A new study that provides insight into what kind of storms are best at tackling drought in the southeastern United States. The study focuses on a decade of…

Earth Sciences

Antarctica’s Clues Uncover Water Trails on Mars

In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of…

Earth Sciences

Current melting of Greenland's ice mimicks 1920s-1940s event

They found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades…

Event News

8th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion Insights

This has led to the organization of IMT1 (Toulouse, 1994), IMT2 (Pau, 1996), IMT3 (Mons, 1998), IMT4 (Bayreuth, 2000), IMT5 (Lyngby, 2002), IMT6 (Varenna,…

Seminars Workshops

39th IFF Spring School: Exploring Soft Matter Innovations

Introductory lectures provide the basis of important experimental and theoretical tools. More advanced lectures will explain practical aspects of various…

Seminars Workshops

International Workshop on Computational Physics Advances

This workshop will highlight recent advances in the calculation of electronic structure of real materials and catalyze the exchange of ideas between the…

Materials Sciences

Getting the accurate hue – Well-defined colour reproduction from the scanning to the output on screens and printers

However, in reality it is often completely different: red becomes magenta or grey changes to yellow-grey. A properly defined colour reproduction may be often…

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