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Faster Rescue Innovations for Avalanche Victims This Ski Season

It’s the start of the skiing season: Attracted by bright sunshine and fresh snow, winter sports enthusiasts flock to the snow-covered slopes. But for some, the…

Environmental Conservation

Smart Solutions for Tracking Water Leaks Efficiently

The statistics are alarming: Up to 40 percent of fresh water flowing through supply pipes today never reaches the end consumer, but seeps out unused through…

Studies and Analyses

Emergency Departments Must Provide Translation for Immigrants

This research, which was conducted by Francisco Manuel Parrilla Ruiz, from the Department of Medicine at the University of Granada, and directed by lecturer…

Environmental Conservation

Bluewater’s Insights: Brits Misjudge Christmas Wrapping Needs

Bluewater, the UKs leading shopping centre, discovered that Brits continually overestimate the amount of paper they need to wrap their Christmas presents….

Information Technology

Connecting Burundi: University of Ngozi Gains Satellite Internet

The University of Ngozi, which is now training a total of 1,500 students, was founded in 1995 in an attempt by the leaders of several religious communities to…

Environmental Conservation

Cosmopolitan Microbes – Hitch-hikers on Darwin’s Dust

In a paper published in Environmental Microbiology, Dr. Anna Gorbushina (Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany), Professor William Broughton…

Awards Funding

UK-Japan Research Collaboration Celebrates Innovation Achievements

Professor Liz Sockett and colleagues at Nottingham, together with Professor Shin-Ichi Aizawa at the Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan, have jointly…

Life & Chemistry

HATS Off: £1.24M Grants to Tackle Respiratory Diseases

The Division of Respiratory Medicine at the University has been awarded a total of £1.24m in grants to study respiratory disease. The Wellcome Trust has…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Compound Boosts Research in Hydrogen Storage Solutions

Its drawback is that it only releases hydrogen at quite high temperatures (above 300C). The team at the ESRF has found a new form of the compound that could…

Health & Medicine

Finland and Singapore Innovate Remote Healthcare Services

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research from Singapore have developed remote healthcare services that…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Mimetism: A Smart Strategy for Enzyme Inhibition

These strategies could be considered intelligent, calculated actions, since viruses can either take over some of the cell’s components and use them for their…

Social Sciences

Time Poverty vs. Time Welfare in Austrian Families Explained

This Policy Brief illustrates main findings of two European Centre’s studies on whether today’s parents have enough time for their children and/or provide…

Life & Chemistry

Thiocoraline-A: New Insights into Targeting Tumor Cell DNA

Researchers from the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) managed by Professor Federico Gago from the pharmacology department, have published an article in the Journal…

Environmental Conservation

Student-Developed Biosensor Detects Chemical Leaks Early

The self-powered biosensor acts just like a canary down a mine shaft and could be used to warn of chemical leaks before they become too damaging to humans and…

Life & Chemistry

Violent sex acts boost insect's immunity system

It turns out that many insects also have a form of immune memory that protects them against reinvasion by a pathogen they have previously encountered. This was…

Environmental Conservation

Green Products Thrive On Quality And Functionality

And yet it is not that hint of green that will determine the success of a product; consumers still place the highest priority on quality and function. In his…

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