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Environmental Conservation

Hope for European Sea Sturgeon: Innovation in Conservation Efforts

The Minister then visited the experimental station operated by the Cemagref (Research Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering) at…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Heat Pipes Enhance Comfort for Mountain Skiers

The artificial cooling systems, which are being developed by the researchers, are based on the use of specially-constructed heat pipes. The authors suggest…

Transportation and Logistics

New Simulation Model Optimizes Toll Charges to Cut Travel Time

oksimovic developed a simulation model that can help policy makers to estimate the consequences of various toll charges. The model predicts, where, when and…

Environmental Conservation

Crabs’ Takeaway Strategy in Wadden Sea Revealed by Research

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…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Clever Plants Communicate Through Their Own Network

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…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Stripe Formation: Key Molecule Unveiled in Study

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Foton Confirms Fluid Theory: Exciting New Data Released

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…

Life & Chemistry

Adhesive Protein in Malaria: Key to Future Vaccine Insights

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…

Life & Chemistry

Melanin’s Dual Role: Sunburn Protection and Crayfish Defense

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…

Social Sciences

Young Europeans’ Pride in National History Explored

Despite their various backgrounds, cultures and religions Western European youth think the country in which they live is important. Especially native young…

Health & Medicine

Future of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Explored at Workshop

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…

Health & Medicine

Molecular Fingerprint Predicts Breast Cancer Treatment Response

Dr Iain Brown, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, told the conference that he and his colleague, Dr Andrew Schofield, had identified two…

Health & Medicine

Detecting Cancer Cells in Blood to Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence

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…

Health & Medicine

Extending Cancer Control: Innovations for Low-Resource Countries

Professor Peter Boyle, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, said that a major challenge for low-to-medium resource…

Life & Chemistry

Genes Influence Mate Choice in Lemurs: New Study Insights

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,…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Approaches to Healing Aging Bones

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….

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