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Studies and Analyses

Teachers’ job satisfaction rises

The table, published in the Industrial Relations Journal, ranks 81 occupations defined by the UK Standard Occupational Classification (2000) by how satisfied…

Health & Medicine

Dynamic Brain Networks: Unlocking Object Recognition Insights

Fruit or vegetable, insect or bird, familiar or unfamiliar – humans are used to classify objects in the world around them and group them into categories that…

Physics & Astronomy

First light for world's largest 'thermometer camera'

“A large fraction of all the gas in the Universe has extremely cold temperatures of around minus 250 degrees Celsius, a mere 20 degrees above absolute zero,”…

Life & Chemistry

Endangered Sharks and Whales Discovered in Cornwall Survey

SeaWatch SW, which started in mid-July, is designed to monitor endangered marine animals. It is already highlighting the spectacular array of sharks, whales,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Royal Veterinary College research to tackle Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome

Professor Dirk Werling from the Royal Veterinary College is heading a £2.4m project, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council…

Automotive Engineering

See what you’re spewing as you speed along

In future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle’s exhausts.A team from The University of…

Physics & Astronomy

VLTI Captures Dusty Puff Around Variable Star R Coronae Borealis

R Coronae Borealis stars are supergiants exhibiting erratic variability. Named after the first star that showed such behaviour [1], they are more than 50 times…

Physics & Astronomy

Stunning Sky Images from Paranal: Explore the Milky Way

The amazing images bear witness to the unique quality of the sky, revealing not only the Milky Way in all its splendour but also the planet Jupiter and the…

Environmental Conservation

Space-Borne Sensors Address Africa’s Water Shortage Challenges

As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESA’s Data User Element, data from ESA’s multispectral MERIS…

Health & Medicine

A study relates the neural damage provoked by Ecstasy with the ambient temperature at which it is consumed

These results form part of her doctoral dissertation, entitled “A study of the neurotoxicity mechanism of 3.4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA or…

Environmental Conservation

Joint Committee Urges Aviation Inclusion in Climate Action

The cross-party Joint Scrutiny Committee is the third parliamentary committee to say aviation must be included in climate change planning, together with…

Studies and Analyses

Happier Hospitals: Improving Patient Health in the NHS

The National Inquiry into Management and Medicine looked at hospitals across the UK, focussing on the often troubled relationships between doctors and NHS…

Life & Chemistry

Why nectar-feeding bats need a “power drink” to fly

The findings, published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, illustrate that because they live life on an energetic knife…

Studies and Analyses

Pioneering Study Advances Custom Antidepressants for Depression

One of the environmental risk factors more often related to depression is exposure to threatening life events. On the other side, from a genetic point of view,…

Health & Medicine

Glycine Supplement May Help Prevent Degenerative Diseases

The study, carried out at the Cellular Metabolism Institute in Tenerife and at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Oxidation Methods Enhance Synthesis of Key Compounds

Chemists at the University of Illinois are helping to meet this challenge by developing a class of carbon-hydrogen catalysts that are highly selective,…

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