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Health & Medicine

UB Scientist Unveils Novel Iron-Copper Alliance Discovery

Iron is the workhorse of trace minerals. An essential component of red blood cells, disruption of iron levels in the body will result in a myriad of serious…

Physics & Astronomy

Name and designer logo revealed for Paolo Nespoli’s Shuttle mission to the ISS

The mission has been dubbed Esperia from the Ancient Greek name for the Italian peninsula.The choice of name reflects how Nespoli's Shuttle mission to the…

Transportation and Logistics

Rotary Engine Tech Soars in General Aviation

So, while designs are well proven, motors require some 70 or 80 moving parts and still use 100-octane low-leaded (100 LL) fuel that has long been displaced by…

Environmental Conservation

University Partners With EDF for £2M Research Funding

Under the initial four-year agreement, the University could receive as much as £2m funding from EDF for a variety of scientific and technological research…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Anthrax bacterium’s deadly secrets probed

This finding sheds light on why Bacillus anthracis does not grow in soil, even though in many ways it resembles a soil-growing bacterium. It has the ability to…

Health & Medicine

New Health Research Building Opens for Fungal Infection Studies

The new four storey, building, situated on the College Lane Campus, which will be officially opened on Thursday (26th) by Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for…

Business and Finance

UK’s First Survey on Multinational Companies’ HR Strategies

Some of the key findings of the UK survey:• On Human Resource (HR) issues: Having an international HR management structure makes a key difference to employment…

Business and Finance

Management Consultants Are Often ‘More Project Workers Than Ideas People’

The consultant’s image as an expert outsider bringing new knowledge or understanding to clients is firmly contradicted by findings from the three-year long…

Environmental Conservation

Renewable Energy: Analyzing Environmental Impact and Output

Ausubel has analysed the amount of energy that each so-called renewable source can produce in terms of Watts of power output per square metre of land…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking the Future: Building Mechanical Nano Computers

Long before silicon chips were to be found at the heart of the computer, even before transistors and thermionic valves, there was the concept of the mechanical…

Studies and Analyses

NSAIDs Linked to Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk, Study Finds

A study of Medicare patients with osteoarthritis provides additional evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin reduce the…

Life & Chemistry

Switchable Adhesive: A Breakthrough in Smart Bonding Technology

Two surfaces stick together, separate, and stick together again—on command. This discovery by a team of researchers from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and…

Materials Sciences

Polymer Opal Films Enhance Food Safety With Smart Packaging

Imagine cleaning out your refrigerator and being able to tell at a glance whether perishable food items have spoiled, because the packaging has changed its…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit fly gene from 'out of nowhere' may change ideas about how new genes are formed

The new gene, called hydra, exists in only a small number of species of Drosophila fruit flies, which suggests it was created about 13 million years ago, when…

Materials Sciences

New Joint Replacement Material Tested in First Clinical Use

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have performed the first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material invented at the…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Explores Why Humans Walk on Two Legs

“When our earliest ancestors started walking on two legs, they took the first steps toward becoming human,” said lead researcher Michael Sockol of UC Davis….

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