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Environmental Conservation

Ceramic Tubes: A New Way to Cut Power Station Emissions

The material, known as LSCF, has the remarkable property of being able to filter oxygen out of the air. By burning fuel in pure oxygen, it is possible to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

University of Leicester Innovates Biodiesel Purification Process

The team, led by Professor Andrew Abbott is able to remove glycerol, the main by-product of vegetable oil-based biodiesel, using ionic liquids made in part by…

Information Technology

Chemical Imaging: A New Tool for Crime Investigation

The team, led by Professor Sergei Kazarian from Imperial College London’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has devised a technique which collects…

Information Technology

Engineering Information's Compendex Database Adds 10 Millionth Record

Since its creation in 1969, Compendex has offered the broadest coverage of significant engineering literature available. Over the past 38 years, the database…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding Random Fluctuations in Theoretical Physics

The dream of theoretical physics is to unite behind a common theory that explains everything, but that goal has remained highly elusive. String theory emerged…

Health & Medicine

Simple Screening Reduces Cervical Cancer Risk in Poor Nations

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in many developing countries, where 85% of the estimated 493,000 new cases and 273000 deaths worldwide…

Health & Medicine

Interferon Beta-1b: Early Treatment Delays Multiple Sclerosis Progression

Professor Ludwig Kappos University Hospital Petersgraben, Basle, Switzerland, and colleagues, as part of the BENEFIT study, did a study of 468 patients who had…

Health & Medicine

Immune System’s Role in Post-Stroke Brain Recovery Revealed

The study by Dr Barry McColl, Dr Stuart Allan and Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell at The University of Manchester suggests a way in which an immune system that…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Discovered in Malaria Parasite Adaptation

Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe forms of human malaria. Invasion of host red blood cells is an essential step of the complex life…

Technology Offerings

Leonurus Cardiaca Extract: A New Approach to Antiarrhythmic Therapy

Therapy with antiarrhythmic drugs is often limited by the adverse effects of these compounds, including the possibility of increased mortality and inadequate…

Life & Chemistry

Active Genes Uncovered: New Insights into ALS Research

A University of California, Irvine neurologist is part of a national group of scientists who have identified the active genes in sporadic amyotrophic lateral…

Health & Medicine

Colon Cancer Linked to Hormone Deficiency: New Insights

Reporting August 1, 2007 in the journal Gastroenterology, clinical pharmacologist Scott Waldman, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of pharmacology and…

Earth Sciences

2002 Alaskan Earthquake Triggered Tremors on Vancouver Island

Tremor episodes have long been observed near volcanoes and more recently around subduction zones, regions where the Earth's tectonic plates are shifting so…

Life & Chemistry

Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'

Captive orangutans intentionally modify or repeat hand or other signals selectively based on the success or failure of their first attempt, according to a…

Life & Chemistry

Low MX2 Gene Expression Found in Narcoleptic White Blood Cells

Susumu Tanaka, PhD, of the Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry in Japan, conducted the study from a pool of total ribonucleic acid (RNA) – a nucleic acid polymer…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Adult Stem Cell Regulation by Forsyth Scientists

Forsyth Institute scientists have discovered an important mechanism for controlling the behavior of adult stem cells.Research with the flatworm, planaria,…

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