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Life & Chemistry

New Bat Viruses Discovered: Insights into Herpes Evolution

The beta herpes virus appeared to be a distant relative of human cytomegalovirus. These novel viruses are the first herpes viruses to be described in bats. IZW…

Studies and Analyses

New Approach to Treat Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is considered one of the most devastating of the major psychiatric disorders, which has three distinct facets, often referred to as “positive”…

Health & Medicine

Researchers say lack of sleep doubles risk of death… but so can too much sleep

In research to be presented today, Monday 24th September 2007, to the British Sleep Society, Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwick’s…

Health & Medicine

Elderly Cancer Care: Meeting Growing Challenges in 2020

Chief amongst these will be ensuring that healthcare professionals have the skills and knowledge to treat a greater number of elderly people with cancer, that…

Life & Chemistry

Widespread Tumor Growth Gene Offers Hope for Anti-Cancer Treatments

Professor Saverio Alberti, from the CESI, University of Chieti Foundation, Chieti, will tell the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) that he and his team have…

Studies and Analyses

Young Carers in the UK and Tanzania: A Shared Challenge

But if you are a young person looking after a parent or relative with HIV or AIDS, you might find that the differences are far less pronounced. A new study,…

Life & Chemistry

World Experts Open New UK Stem Cell Research Centre

STEM is a new multidisciplinary research centre based within The University of Nottingham’s £25m flagship Centre for Biomolecular Sciences (CBS) which opened…

Physics & Astronomy

Imaging Quantum Entanglement with Neutron Beams in Science

The importance of the work lies in establishing how a conventional tool of material science – neutron beams produced at particle accelerators and nuclear…

Business and Finance

Northern Rock crisis underlines need for greater disclosure to plug ‘information gap’

Changes are needed to plug an ‘information gap’ that currently makes it difficult to judge the relative risk exposure of different banks before problems become…

Earth Sciences

Svalbard’s glaciers thinning at an accelerated rate say researchers

The findings from the Natural Environment Research Council-funded project were published this week (September 21) in the well-respected US journal Geophysical…

Environmental Conservation

Greece’s Forest Fires: Space Technology Aids Recovery Efforts

More than 60 people were killed and thousands left homeless in the worst forest fires to hit Greece in decades. According to data from ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Midlands Consortium Hosts £1 Billion Energy Institute

The Midlands Consortium is comprised of the universities of Birmingham, Loughborough and Nottingham – three world-class partners, all with extensive and…

Environmental Conservation

Biofuels and Laughing Gas: A Surprising Climate Impact

He and his colleagues have calculated that growing some of the most commonly used biofuel crops releases around twice the amount of the potent greenhouse gas…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights in Mathematical Modeling of Brain Functions

Developing such models requires detailed information about the dynamics of components responsible for the spike generation in the cell. The main barrier…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exploring Biodiversity Innovations in the New Forest

This fact has led experts from the British Ecological Society, Bournemouth University, the Forestry Commission and the National Park Authority to convene a…

Business and Finance

Danish Expert Examines Cost Overruns in Dutch Mega Projects

In his inaugural speech on Wednesday September 26th, he explains why the costs of large-scale projects, such as High Speed Rail projects, new motorways, and…

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