The Minister then visited the experimental station operated by the Cemagref (Research Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering) at…
The artificial cooling systems, which are being developed by the researchers, are based on the use of specially-constructed heat pipes. The authors suggest…
oksimovic developed a simulation model that can help policy makers to estimate the consequences of various toll charges. The model predicts, where, when and…
With this takeaway strategy the crabs maximise their food uptake and keep competing crabs at a distance, says Dutch researcher Isabel Smallegange. Food is not…
Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications…
Their findings add to the growing list of tasks carried out by an important molecule that is involved in the arrangement of everything from nerve cells to…
Although the Foton was only launched a week ago, the scientists are already very excited about the data they have received from their experiment, known as…
The knowledge of how the malaria parasite makes blood vessels become sticky paves the way for a future vaccine for the disease, which currently kills some 2…
The production of melanin is an important protective reaction that gives us a sunburn, for instance. In invertebrate animals it has long been observed that…
Despite their various backgrounds, cultures and religions Western European youth think the country in which they live is important. Especially native young…
The Special Advances in Fetal and Neonatal Evaluation (SAFE) Network of Excellence is holding a two-day workshop at the De Montfort Hotel in Kenilworth on the…
Dr Iain Brown, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, told the conference that he and his colleague, Dr Andrew Schofield, had identified two…
Now, for the first time, a group of scientists have shown that they can also detect CTCs before and after chemotherapy treatment and hence may be able to…
Professor Peter Boyle, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, said that a major challenge for low-to-medium resource…
A new study provides support for this idea by looking at lemurs in Madagaskar. Female fat-tailed dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleus medius) live in life-long pairs,…
The aging organism’s metabolism differs from the one in young days. Young bones are constantly renewed: old cells die off and they are replaced by new ones….