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EGNOS Helicopter Flight Trials: Eurocopter’s EC155 in Action

The Lausanne trials were performed by Eurocopter, using their EC155 experimental all-weather helicopter (Hélicoptère Tous Temps – HTT). The trial programme was…

Communications Media

Elsevier Boosts Impact Factors: 53 Journals Rank #1

In addition, 53 Elsevier titles ranked number one in their respective categories, including: Seminars in Radiation Oncology (#1 in Radiology); Landscape and…

Physics & Astronomy

Croatian Institute Unveils Unique Online Random Number Generator

The range of applications of this unique service, named 'QRBGS', spans fields as diverse as advanced scientific simulations, cryptographic data protection and…

Transportation and Logistics

Bird-Sized Airplane Mimics Swift’s Flight Mechanics

The micro airplane will have unprecedented wing characteristics; the wing geometry as well as the wing surface area can be adjusted continuously. This makes…

Health & Medicine

Long-Term Antiretroviral Therapy Restores CD4 Counts in HIV

However an accompanying Comment cautions the findings are only applicable to patients having periods of maximum virological suppression, and thus have limited…

Health & Medicine

Simvastatin: New Insights for Heart and Brain Health

Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs used by those with heart disease. The new findings suggest that simvastatin is associated with a lower incidence of…

Health & Medicine

Low Hospital Staff Levels Linked to Higher Infection Rates

Stéphane Hugonnet and colleagues from the University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland, investigated the number of patients admitted to the ICU who developed…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Supports Single Origin of Humans in Africa

Competing theories on the origins of anatomically modern humans claim that either humans originated from a single point in Africa and migrated across the…

Earth Sciences

New Study Reveals Impact of Flooding on British History

The study, led by Sanjeev Gupta and Jenny Collier from Imperial College London, has revealed spectacular images of a huge valley tens of kilometres wide and up…

Environmental Conservation

Empowering Rural Communities Through Local Energy Projects

Community energy projects generate energy renewably, at a local level. They involve anything from a community-owned wind turbine to a solar panel on a village…

Environmental Conservation

Species Detectives Uncover Hidden Evolutionary Changes

Research published in the online open access journal, BMC Evolutionary Biology, suggests that the phenomenon of different animal species not being visually…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Ray Satellites Uncover Massive Galaxy Collisions

When individual galaxies collide and spiral into one another, they discard trails of hot gas that stretch across space, providing signposts to the mayhem….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Understanding Food Cravings: Impact on Weight Management

“Cravings are really normal; almost everyone has them,” says corresponding author Susan Roberts, PhD, director of the USDA HNRCA’s Energy Metabolism…

Health & Medicine

New Research on Protecting HIV Patients from Hepatitis B

As it is not quite clear how patients that don’t respond to the HBV vaccine should be managed, new research from the University of Alberta has evaluated the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Vine Growth Surge Signals Change in Southern US Forests

Researchers charting the growth of vines in two forests in South Carolina found up to a 10-fold increase in the number of vines in just two decades. Vines…

Studies and Analyses

UIC Researchers Assess Lithium for Pediatric Bipolar Care

“Lithium is the prototype mood stabilizer for treating adult bipolar disorder, but it is not FDA-approved for use in kids younger than 13,” said Mani Pavuluri,…

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