In addition, the scientist highlighted the strong parallels existing between the apoptotic microenvironment in cardiovascular disease and those present in the…
The hydrocarbons ethane, propane and butane – as well as the main component, methane – are the major constituents of natural gas. Biological processes may lead…
Dr David Colling, e-Science Team Leader of the High Energy Physics Group at Imperial College London said “Imperial has been active in the UK Grid community…
Dr Daniel Brotman, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA and colleagues studied relevant literature published between 1990 and 2006 to prepare the Review….
Well-Being Therapy is a novel psychotherapeutic strategy recently developed by a group of Italian investigators headed by Giovanni Fava at the University of…
In the sumptuous main hall of the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University, almost 500 people – mostly laypersons with a percentage of international…
The increase in world agriculture prices caused by the global boom in biofuels could benefit many of the world’s rural poor, according to the Worldwatch…
With one in four children in the UK already overweight or obese1, finding new ways of encouraging children to get fitter has never been so important. The…
he award was announced today by the Secretary of State for Science and Innovation, Ian Pearson, at a press conference in London as part of a package of funding…
Dr Garry Gelade studied national differences in organisational commitment in a sample of 49 countries, and looked at whether the economy, national personality,…
However, before CO2 can be stored, it must be separated from the waste gases. The current methods used for this type of filtration are expensive and require…
During the conference, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties (COP 8) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) met to agree upon…
The study revealed that whilst financial crime is now recognised as a global concern, there are serious dangers in dictating so-called ‘international…
The £1.1 billion (Euro 1.5bn) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will be around 200 times bigger and 100,000 times more powerful than the famous…
The symptoms from this bug, which is called Clostridium Difficile, range from mild illness to life-threatening colitis. In severely affected patients the inner…
These strategies are often based on a single objective (e.g. species richness conservation or species abundance conservation), a constant site protection cost…