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Natural Human Hormone: A Promising New Antidepressant?

This new study reports findings that support the evaluation of a potential new antidepressant agent.According to the lead author on this study, Kamilla…

Physics & Astronomy

Hazy Red Sunset Detected on Extrasolar Planet’s Atmosphere

The team, led by Frédéric Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, used Hubble’s ACS to make the first detection of hazes in the atmosphere…

Health & Medicine

Global Initiative Launched to Study Viruses and Type 1 Diabetes

The new group was instigated by ten international experts who met at the Novartis Foundation in London last month to discuss recent evidence that a common…

Physics & Astronomy

World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Unveiled by DTU

The most powerful group of microscopes in the world was inaugurated friday by ship-owner Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. DTU’s Center for Electron Nanoscopy (DTU…

Awards Funding

Karen Beemon Awarded 2007 Retrovirology Prize

“I am very honored to receive the 2007 Retrovirology Prize. It is wonderful to be recognized by the Retrovirology community. It is gratifying that this prize…

Information Technology

Fractals Transform Mountbatten Building Inspired by Nanotech

These technologies are being applied to create new optoelectronic devices which could enhance optical communications or greatly reduce the cost of solar energy.

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Microbes Produce 18% of Global Nitrous Oxide Emissions

Dr Trimmer looked at nitrous oxide production in the Arabian Sea, which accounts for up to 18 % of global ocean emissions. He found that the gas is primarily…

Environmental Conservation

Stream Plant Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions in England

Dr Trimmer looked at a plant that covers up to three quarters of the surface of some streams and found that it helps methane generated in the sediment beneath…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

How Ocean Microbes’ DMS Gas May Impact Our Food Chain

Microbes in the ocean produce the gas dimethyl sulphide, or DMS. It causes clouds to form above the sea, which reflect the sun’s rays away from the earth….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exploring Ocean Bacteria’s DNA Response to Rising CO2 Levels

Dr Joint is sequencing the DNA of different ocean bacteria to find out how they will respond to an increase in carbon dioxide. “So far from one experiment we…

Environmental Conservation

Methane From Microbes: The Future of Sustainable Fuel

“Methanogens are microbes called archaea that are similar to bacteria. They are responsible for the vast majority of methane produced on earth by living…

Health & Medicine

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…

Health & Medicine

Morphine’s Role: Comfort for the Dying or Pain Relief for the Living?

In a study published online today (Tuesday 11 December) in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology [1], experts in palliative care also say “the belief that…

Medical Engineering

New MRI Technique Uncovers Lung Disease Insights

There are relatively few centres around the world which have access to this particular magnetic resonance technique, which is based in Nottingham University….

Environmental Conservation

Pioneering project helps to transform brownfield sites into the ‘Trees Valley’

The University of Teesside’s Clean Environment Management Centre (CLEMANCE) is using willow and grasses to clean up contaminated sites once used by industry, a…

Physics & Astronomy

Light sheds 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…

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