Nicolas Peter, a research fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), told the meeting in Vienna that the era of launching space missions to bolster…
Medical technology has become an established high-profile discipline in the University of Bern's Strategy 2012. The importance and excellent international…
The University of Sunderland will welcome VIPs and renowned Irish experts from the UK, Ireland the USA, Japan, Australia, Latvia, Malawi, Canada, Italy and…
It poses great problems to our society, making it the subject of investigation for many research groups, which dedicate great efforts to find means to prevent…
Organised by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA), Running the Gauntlet is an investment competition and education programme for entrepreneurs and…
The term Emotional Intelligence could be defined as the capacity to perceive, comprehend and regulate one's own emotions and those of others so as to be able…
These extra-solar planets were seen to pass in front of, or transit, their host star. Studying such planets outside of our Solar System allows scientists to…
Presently more than 16 million people are living with diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. A staggering number which is expected to rise to almost 43…
This month’s issue focuses on thin films, and includes:•Functional films – A deposition technique developed by the Department of Materials at Imperial College…
Hundreds of water and sediment samples collected at the end of 2006 have now been analysed by Eawag. The results are remarkable: although pollutant loads are…
The research, published online in the journal Thorax, suggests that all patients with abnormal blood vessels in their lungs known as pulmonary arteriovenous…
'The Future of European Polar Research – Towards an enhanced coordination framework of programmes and infrastructures in the European Research Area'The…
An international team of scientists, supported in part by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),…
Mindjet, a leading supplier of software solutions for information visualisation and management, and Spirit Education, a supplier of workplace and task-based IT…
Danish researchers have now developed a method, which can help expose a complicated but crucial part of the immune system's defence mechanisms. This method can…
An article in the November 2007 issue of BioScience describes the history and summarizes the benefits and challenges of green roofs—roofs with a vegetated…