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Study Reveals Hidden Struggles of Children with Language Difficulties

The study is the first scientific examination of quality of life for children with speech and language difficulties (SaLD). It was carried out by the…

Environmental Conservation

Harrier Flights Increase Airport Risks in Kent’s Dungeness

Three birds of about six weeks old have made their maiden flights from the Society’s Dungeness reserve in south-east Kent where staff are hoping a second nest…

Life & Chemistry

DNA sequences and fossils show that the Proteaceae, a major group of Gondwanaland’s plants, spread by …

Using DNA sequence data, botanists have shown that the large southern hemisphere plant family Proteaceae lived on the super-continent Gondwanaland almost 120…

Transportation and Logistics

Belfast Hosts Key Events for Global Aviation Innovators

The world’s leading aviation researchers, designers, analysts, manufacturers, integrators and operators will be attending a series of key events under the…

Health & Medicine

Edible Fish Feast: Nile Tilapia Tackles Malaria Risks

Annabel Howard and Francois Omlin from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya, introduced Nile tilapia (Oreochromis…

Health & Medicine

Not all 'drug-related deaths' are 'drug-related'

DRDs are currently used to help evaluate the success of Drug and Alcohol Action Teams in England and Wales, but the term's exact meaning varies according to…

Environmental Conservation

Net Energy: Misleading Metric Sparks Controversy in Science

So far many scientists have used a measure called ‘net energy’. However, Professor Bruce Dale from Michigan State University claims, “Net energy analysis is…

Business and Finance

Biofuel Economics: Advanced Biofuels Cost-Competitive with Ethanol

However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels, according to a paper…

Environmental Conservation

New Wastewater Treatment System Cuts Plant Size by 50%

José Manuel Poyatos Capilla, researcher from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Granada [http://www.ugr.es], is the main responsible for…

Environmental Conservation

Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'

These results from the decade-long Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a Duke University forest suggest that proposals to bank extra CO2 from human…

Earth Sciences

Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Decline Faster Than Anticipated

The reefs are disappearing at a rate of one percent per year, a decline that began decades earlier than expected, the researchers discovered. Historically,…

Environmental Conservation

Explore How Aerial Insights Enhance Resource Management

“New technology and global observations have improved resource-management decision making from disaster detection and mitigation of fires, insect outbreaks,…

Studies and Analyses

World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase

The TAHS (formerly the Tasmanian Asthma Survey) is a collaboration between the Menzies Research Institute in Tasmania, University of Melbourne and Monash…

Environmental Conservation

Iowa State Researchers Track Climate Change Across North America

“There is no question now that the climate is changing on a global scale,” says Takle, an Iowa State University professor of geological and atmospheric…

Environmental Conservation

Hemp’s Role in Protecting the Everglades Ecosystem

Within Southern Florida, soil and water conditions indicate potential for leaching from the use of atrazine-based herbicides in corn crops. Scientists from…

Physics & Astronomy

Clashing Galaxies Spotted: A Cosmic Collision Unfolds

The clashing galaxies, spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the WIYN Telescope, will eventually merge into a single, behemoth galaxy up to 10 times as…

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