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University of Kent Student Wins $25K National Geographic Award

Bila will receive his $25,000 Award at a ceremony at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC on 13 December. The award and prize, which was…

Environmental Conservation

Disguising Environmental Damage: Insights on Innovation Sustainability

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, he explains that we must stop…

Life & Chemistry

Violent sex acts lead to insect’s sophisticated adaptive 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…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Engineers Sculpt 3D Microparticles Using Light Technology

MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue…

Earth Sciences

New Study Reveals Key Ingredients for Stronger Atlantic Hurricanes

niversity of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have found that the Atlantic organizes the ingredients for a powerful hurricane season to create a situation where…

Information Technology

Scientists Uncover Dark Matter’s Role in Galaxy Formation

Researchers using supercomputer simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Stellar Cradle for Planet Formation

“We are seeing this object in the early stages of stellar birth,” said U. of I. astronomy professor Leslie Looney, the lead author of a paper accepted for…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Unveiled

With 8 million people at high risk for advanced age-related macular degeneration, researchers from Harvard and Japan discovered that the experimental drug,…

Earth Sciences

New research discredits $100B global warming 'fix'

Scientists have revealed an important discovery that raises doubts concerning the viability of plans to fertilize the ocean to solve global warming, a…

Physics & Astronomy

Youngest Solar Systems Discovered by U-M Astronomers

The systems are around the young stars UX Tau A and LkCa 15, located in the Taurus star formation region just 450 light years away. Using a telescope that…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Identify Enzyme FAK’s Role in Breast Cancer

McGill University researchers have uncovered the crucial role played by the enzyme focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in the onset of breast cancer. The research, led…

Environmental Conservation

Indigenous Water Frogs at Risk: Insights from a Franco-German Study

This is the finding of a Franco-German study. The scientists investigated water frog populations in France and Northern Spain and noticed that the marsh frog…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Chromosome Gene Swapping in Yeast

Crossovers and double-strand DNA breaks do not occur randomly on yeast chromosomes during meiosis, but are greatly influenced by the proximity of the…

Health & Medicine

Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Mechanisms of Proangiogenic Polarization

In vielen Tumoren findet man neben den eigentlichen Tumorzellen auch Makrophagen, die als natürlich vorkommende Abwehrzellen das Krebswachstum bremsen sollten….

Studies and Analyses

Stop smoking services are reducing the UK’s health gap

Of the 1.5 million smokers supported by NHS stop smoking services between 2003 and 2006, researchers found that smokers from poorer areas were using these…

Interdisciplinary Research

€5.2M Boost for Irish Seafood Innovation in Functional Foods

The Marine Functional Food Research Initiative (MFFRI) which is led by Teagasc under the direction of Dr. Declan Troy will identify novel marine food…

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