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Life & Chemistry

Smoking turns on genes – permanently

A Canadian team led by Wan L Lam and Stephen Lam from the BC Cancer Agency, took samples from the lungs of 24 current and former smokers, as well as from…

Environmental Conservation

Greece’s 2007 Fires Exceed Last Decade’s Total, Satellite Data Shows

ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat satellites continuously survey fires burning across the Earth’s surface with onboard sensors – the Along Track Scanning Radiometer…

Health & Medicine

How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immune System Attacks

The ability to discriminate between friend and foe or between “self“ and “foreign” is vital for a functioning immune system. There are numerous protective…

Business and Finance

New research questions Scotland's growth rate

Over the post devolution period (1998-2006) the new research delves deep into the data at sub industry level and finds a number of difficult to explain trends,…

Information Technology

'Touching' new internet research at Queen's University Belfast

Researchers at the Belfast-based university are currently undertaking a new technology study which has the potential to add the sense of touch to virtual…

Studies and Analyses

Norway’s Rising Health Expenditure: A Shift Toward Self-Diagnosis

Demand for health services is growing and leading to a sharp rise in health expenditure in Norway, as in the rest of the world. Our health service is itself…

Earth Sciences

Rising CO2 Levels Delay Next Ice Age, Study Finds

According to New Scientist magazine, which features Dr Tyrrell's research this week, this work demonstrates the most far-reaching disruption of long-term…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Plant Extracts Win Major Animal Nutrition Prize in Dublin

The award is endowed with 50,000 euros and will be given at the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal production in Dublin from 26-29th…

Physics & Astronomy

‘There’s Gold In Them That Exhausts!’

A University of Leicester research team is working on a new technique for growing nanoparticles which could have extraordinary implications in electronics,…

Life & Chemistry

Ivermectin’s Impact on River Blindness Parasite Genetics

The study is being published as a “sneak preview” research article ahead of the official launch of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases later this year.Recent…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Solutions for Reducing Concrete Crack Formation

Concrete is an artificial rock produced from cement, aggrgates (sand and gravel or broken stone) and water. It cannot be considered as a material with…

Physics & Astronomy

New HiRISE Images Reveal Mars’ Mysterious Vertical Shaft

The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts…

Architecture & Construction

New ORNL Roof System Boosts Energy Savings for Homeowners

From an energy efficiency perspective, roof technology has not progressed substantially in hundreds of years, but that is changing with the use of active…

Business and Finance

Don’t Trust Experts’ Forecasts, O.R. Study Says

A study about predicting the outcome of actual conflicts found that the forecasts of experts who use their unaided judgment are little better than those of…

Studies and Analyses

Human-to-Human Avian Flu Spread Confirmed in Indonesia Study

In the first systematic, statistical analysis of its kind, infectious-disease-modeling experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center confirm that the avian…

Health & Medicine

High-Risk Behaviors Threaten HIV Control in Afghanistan

“Our findings suggest that interventions to reduce high-risk behaviors among injection drug users are urgently needed in Afghanistan,” said Catherine S. Todd,…

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