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Information Technology

Computer Simulator Empowers Visually Impaired to Drive

This platform, called SERBA (in Spanish, Reconfigurable Electric-optical System for Low Vision), is the first visual aid unit which is very useful in all…

Transportation and Logistics

Ensuring Eco Flights: The Role of Jet Engine Wiring

If there’s a short circuit machines stop and systems break down. When the wiring is inside a jet engine, generating power for all the electrics in an aircraft,…

Studies and Analyses

Queens’s scientists reassess heart disease causes

The study is part of a survey of blood protein levels in 140,000 people across Europe. Queen’s Department of Epidemology scientists are working alongside…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights From Fungi Genome Analysis for Protein Production

VTT's Research Scientist Mikko Arvas presents his doctoral thesis on 19 October at 12 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He compared in his thesis the…

Life & Chemistry

Funding Boost for Tech Tackling Super-Bugs: £500K Secured

This is part of a funding round totalling £500,000, with the rest of the funding coming from existing Biocontrol shareholders. Established in 2002, The Capital…

Event News

Public Debate: Nanomedicine… hype? Or a real revolution in healthcare?

Alongside this is the need to eradicate malaria, tuberculosis and Aids, and other ‘plagues’ of the 21st century. Other crises revolve around the shortage of…

Social Sciences

Evaluating Our Response to Terrorism: A Critical Insight

These and many other questions about the now six-year-old ‘war on terror’ have been examined by Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent,…

Life & Chemistry

Medical Nanoimaging Reveals Cataract Causes in Eye Cells

By studying the membranes of cells in a patient’s eye cataract, Scheuring has discovered the molecular cause of this disease. This is the first time that…

Social Sciences

Exploring Black African Experiences in Britain: A New Study

This one-year study has been funded under the Understanding Population Trends and Processes programme, the aim of which is to promote the use of large-scale…

Environmental Conservation

UCL Launches Carbon Capture Legal Initiative for Sustainability

The Carbon Capture Legal Programme, pioneered by the UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, will provide an authoritative source of objective, up to date and…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Transform Carbon Monoxide Into Health Benefit

Despite its deadly reputation, the gas carbon monoxide (CO) could actually save lives and boost health in future as a result of leading-edge UK research.Chemists at the University of Sheffield have discovered an innovative way of using targeted small doses of CO which could benefit patients who have undergone heart surgery or organ transplants and people suffering from high blood pressure….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Satellites Enhance Pesticide Efficiency in the EU

Pesticides currently used within the European Union (EU) must be registered with the national members of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection…

Social Sciences

Exploring Immigrant Children: Insights from 10,000 Respondents

The tool is currently being used in 8 countries, 15 cities and with more than 10,000 respondents throughout Europe. Thanks to financing from the Austrian…

Health & Medicine

Neurobiological Links Between Depression and Heart Disease Revealed

Depression has long had a popular link to cardiovascular disease and death. However, only during the last 15 years scientific evidence supporting this common…

Health & Medicine

New Alzheimer’s Research Promises Innovative Treatment Options

Latest research by Professor Thomas Bayer from University Medicine Center Göttingen carries the promise of developing new treatments. Alzheimer’s disease (AD)…

Event News

Public Engagement With Science: Rethinking Perceptions

Speakers at the event will challenge the view that the British public is ‘anti-science’ and will suggest instead that people are selective about embracing or…

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