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Discover Viking Influence in Northwest England Place-Names

Many of the place-names in the Wirral and West Lancashire, such as Toxteth, Tranmere and Formby, are of Norse origin. This reflects the presence of Norse…

Health & Medicine

Spotting Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria: A New Hospital Method

A molecular method designed by the Health Protection Agency has been successfully implemented by medical researchers at the Royal Free Hospital, part of the…

Health & Medicine

Superbugs Spread: 61% Of Samples Test Positive In Nursing Homes

Doctors collected 732 samples from 22 Irish hospitals over the last ten years and found that 61% of them, 448 samples, tested positive for bacteria that can…

Life & Chemistry

Sweet Fuel Cell: Harnessing Sunlight and Glucose for Power

The experimental device works by using sunlight to convert the glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which produces several hundred millivolts.The use of…

Event News

MRSA in the community: a new threat to children’s health?

“The new community associated MRSA strains appear to be more virulent and more easily spread between people”, says Dr Marina Morgan from the Royal Devon &…

Life & Chemistry

New Challenges in Diagnosing Bacterial STIs Amid Outbreak

An outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum has been detected following reports of the disease in Europe. “From October 2004 to the end of April 2007, 492 cases of…

Life & Chemistry

Self-Healing Materials

A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Study Supports Single Migration Theory for Native Americans

Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Climate Change in the Southern Ocean’s Weddell Sea

A ten-week expedition to the Lazarev Sea and the eastern part of the Weddell Sea opens this year's Antarctic research season of the German research vessel…

Earth Sciences

Rising tides intensify non-volcanic tremor in Earth's crust

Now University of Washington researchers have found evidence that these slow-slip events are actually affected by the rise and fall of ocean tides.”There has…

Earth Sciences

New Research Reveals 7 California Areas Affected by Quake Tremors

New research has found evidence of tremors along non-subduction zone faults in seven California locations. The tremors immediately followed the magnitude 7.8…

Medical Engineering

World-Class Tech and Talent Unite Against Cancer at Centenary

The Centenary Institute, one of Australia’s leading medical research institutes, unveiled a powerful microscope unlike any other in Australia today….

Health & Medicine

Seasonal Dust Mite Levels in Sydney: Study Insights Revealed

A Sydney study involving over 500 children has found HDM allergen levels to be at their minimum in summer and increasing approximately 2-3 fold during late…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Train Heart Recovery After Heart Attack

Liesbeth Winter of the Leiden University Medical Center, however, was able to prove the concept of using the embryonic potential of adult human cells to train…

Information Technology

Galileo Signal Reflections: Monitoring Waves and Weather at Sea

The pioneering GPS Reflectometry Experiment was launched onboard SSTL’s UK-DMC satellite in 2003 to demonstrate the use of GPS reflections to determine the…

Transportation and Logistics

Global Award for Innovation: dtect’s Breakthrough Passenger Detection

The vehicle monitoring system, dtect, can be used in all weathers, day or night, to instantly to detect human skin behind all types of automotive glass at a…

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