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Environmental Conservation

Exploring Paleoecology: Insights from Fossils and Sediments

The November 2007 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment focuses on paleoecology, which uses fossilized remains and soil and sediment cores…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists get first look at how water 'lubricates' proteins

For the first time, scientists have directly observed how water lubricates the movements of protein molecules to enable different functions to happen.In a…

Health & Medicine

Exploring Food Systems Innovation in Europe’s Conference

The conference, supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST),…

Health & Medicine

New Antiemetic Option: Subcutaneous Granisetron for Chemotherapy

Granisetrón is a pharmaceutical drug the efficacy of which against vomiting (antiemetic), when administered orally or intravenously, has already been shown,…

Studies and Analyses

Cockroaches and Robots: A Unique Research Collaboration

Coordinated by the Service d’écologie sociale of the Université libre de Bruxelles in the frame of the European project « Leurre », the research has…

Environmental Conservation

Molecular Micro-Porous Materials: A New Hydrogen Storage Option

This research work, carried out by Dr of Chemical Sciences Edilso Reguera Ruiz and a research team of the Institute of Materials and Reagents (IMRE) of the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Device Aims to Cut Power Use by Reducing Waste

The two scientists, of the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, have been awarded £90,000 by Carbon Connections to create a device indistinguishable…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Mystery Comet’s Heart

The Hubble image at right, taken on 4 Nov., shows the heart of the comet. The central portion of the image has been specially processed to highlight variations…

Earth Sciences

Rosetta: OSIRIS’ view of Earth by night

The images were acquired with the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera (WAC) during Rosetta’s second Earth swing-by on 13 November.This image showing islands of light…

Physics & Astronomy

Young’s experiment in a hydrogen molecule

An international investigation involving the participation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has reproduced the experiment of…

Environmental Conservation

New Project Measures Atmospheric Particles’ Impact on Climate

The Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, Finland, will host the first annual meeting of the European Integrated Project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and…

Communications Media

Apple links with the University of York for world’s first laptop orchestra

The Worldscape Laptop Orchestra (WLO) will perform new music written with laptops supplied by Apple Computer Inc.The multimedia performance has been created by…

Social Sciences

North-South Divide: Exploring Regional Naming Trends

Names ending in ‘son’ or ‘by’ are indicative of northern origins and in some areas of the north, over 50 per cent of a local society might once have had such…

Information Technology

PS3GRID Live: Run Biomedical Calculations on PS3 with USB

Researchers at the Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) at the Instituto Municipal de Investigación Médica (IMIM) and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra…

Physics & Astronomy

Momentum builds for manufacturer of breakthrough 'repeatable carbon nanotube growth' tool

Two aspects of the company's unique intellectual property are driving market interest: the very high degree of precision and repeatability built into the tool,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Funding Boosts Liquid-Based Detection Innovations

The award will fund an initial six month collaboration with the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute, a centre renowned for its expertise in…

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