About 2 million people die of malaria every year, of which more than a million are children in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite…
Professor Eamonn Ferguson and Dr Helen Cassaday, with colleague Dr Jane Ward of the University of Loughborough, described their findings to fellow academics…
This is one of several recommendations made in a report published today [13th September 2007] by the UK Space Exploration Working Group [SEWG], an advisory…
A recent report, focused on the implementation of the 2005 Action Plan for Nanotechnology, shows the strategic importance of nanotechnology, an area of…
50 scientists have been on board the Research ship- Polarstern for two and a half months, their main aim; to carry out research on the sea-ice areas in the…
Two new separate studies show that sorting school children into sets is neither an accurate way of assessing ability, nor is it beneficial to their learning.Research by Jo Boaler, Marie Curie Professor of Education at Sussex, revealed that children in mixed ability mathematics classes outperformed those grouped by ability. She reviewed a new way of grouping children that also resulted in unusually good behaviour and high levels of respect and responsibility among the young people ….
Sunday 16 September through Wednesday 19 September, over 1200 leading life scientists, biotechnology sector leaders, and officials from 65 countries will…
Earthquakes taking place “at different sides of the boundary” differ from each other not only by the depth. Shallow-focus earthquakes – they account for about…
For Americans, fatigue and depression are two different independent states, while for the Russians, they make up two indivisible parts of a single asthenic…
The Environment and Human Health Programme comprises 37 projects that cover a broad field of environmental concerns linked to human health, including…
The PIC, along with other computational centres located around the world, began to receive data on cosmic rays collected by ATLAS, one of the four detectors…
Members of these communities typically share an interest in online gaming and a great deal of the interaction between them is technologically mediated. Marko…
In work that could lead to new treatments for sensory disorders in which people experience the strange phenomena of seeing better with one eye covered, MIT…
Mindjet Corporation, the global leader of visualization software for accelerating work processes, increasing job effectiveness, and saving time, today…
Scientists at the University of Göttingen isolated and developed a new Hydratase Enzyme for a stereospecific hydroxilation of double bonds in fatty acids….
Steroid-related cancer types have the highest incidence among tumors. Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed new antagonists to a selected target…
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