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Global Experts Unite to Transform Dietary Practices

Leading international experts from health, agriculture, food, education, finance, management, environmental protection, politics and economics will meet at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Chang'e-1 – new mission to Moon lifts off

Chang’e-1 represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the Moon before 2020. Chang’e-1 has four mission goals to accomplish….

Medical Engineering

Home Sleep Diagnosis: New Multisensory System Unveiled

A multisenorial ambulatory sleep system for the diagnostics of neurological and respiratory disorders is currently developed within a research cooperation. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Strategies for Coexisting with Lions in Cameroon

Lions have now disappeared from most of their former range, but for livestock owners around the Waza National Park, Cameroon, living with lions is a daily…

Automotive Engineering

SolarFox Racing: UCL’s Innovative Solar Car Hits Milestone

An initial qualifying lap saw UCL’s ‘SolarFox’ placed 17th on a grid of 39 cars. The team maintained its position through the first day’s racing, clocking up…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Boosts Medicine Purity Using Electrokinetic Chromatography

He came up with a combination of two techniques that were previously considered to be incompatible: the separation technique electrokinetic chromatography…

Information Technology

Electricity Grid Evolution: Future Scenarios for 2050

Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwsen (Technical University Eindhoven) developed three scenarios for the Dutch electricity supply in the year 2050. The starting point…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoballs: Targeted Drug Delivery for Cancer Treatment

Anticancer drugs sometimes have very harmful side effects because they do not distinguish between tumours and healthy tissue. However by encapsulating these…

Environmental Conservation

Norwegian CO2 Innovators Collaborate on Efficient Scrubbing Solutions

A central aspect of the agreement to cooperate is a plan for SINTEF and NTNU to develop and test more efficient chemicals for scrubbing CO2 from flue gases or…

Earth Sciences

Texel Paleothermometer: Unlocking Climate History Insights

Real thermometers have been available since the 17th century. For all periods before this, researchers depend on signs from nature. For such determinations,…

Physics & Astronomy

Scandinavian Universities Unite to Advance Nanotech Development

The nano centres of the universities in the Øresund Region — University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Lund University — together with MC2…

Studies and Analyses

Life After Westminster: Insights from Former MPs’ Careers

In a major study, a team at the University of Leeds sought to find out whether this is true by asking more than 180 former MPs about aspects of their…

Health & Medicine

Public not so sure 'personalised medicine' will be good for their health

The event – ‘Genomics and Society: Today’s Answers, Tomorrow’s Questions’ – is taking place in London on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2007. This landmark…

Life & Chemistry

Bird flu finds children's lungs faster

John Nicholls and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong and Adelaide Women and Children's Hospital, in Australia, describe a modified technique to…

Studies and Analyses

Flaws in University Ranking Systems: A 2006 Study Analysis

The study focuses on the published 2006 rankings of The Times Higher Education Supplement “World University Rankings” and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers find signal that switches on eye development – Could lead to “eye in a dish”

The University of Warwick research team led by Professor Nick Dale and Professor Elizabeth Jones from the University of Warwick’s Biological Sciences…

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