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Environmental Conservation

Greener, Cheaper Refrigeration Solutions for Businesses

The research, sponsored by DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), aims to identify and develop more energy efficient refrigeration…

Life & Chemistry

New tumour markers: “Spot the differences”

Pancreatic cancer (PC), the subject of this thesis, has the poorest prognosis of all cancers: the survival rate after five years with the disease is less than…

Health & Medicine

STAMP System: Identifying Potentially Violent Individuals

Lauretta Luck, who carried out her research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, points out that the STAMP violence assessment framework could have…

Life & Chemistry

Zora Biosciences commercializes VTT's biotechnology expertise

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has launched a spin-off company, Zora Biosciences Oy. “Zora's speciality field of metabolomics is a major driver of…

Business and Finance

"EconomyDoctor" Internet Service provides figures for EU agriculture

The FADN database is a significant farm-level database. As an example, for accounting year 2004, it contains information from 74,000 farms across the European…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Magnetocaloric Materials: A Game Changer for the Environment

Scientists carrying out X-ray experimentation at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne — the nation's most powerful source of X-rays for research — are…

Life & Chemistry

UB Chemists Uncover Key Insights on Enzyme Catalysis

The UB research provides critical insight into why catalysis is so complex and may help pave the way for improving the design of synthetic catalysts.”The more…

Architecture & Construction

Home Shapes and Roofs That Withstand Hurricanes: NJIT Insights

Civil engineer Rima Taher, PhD, special lecturer in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT, spent two years examining the findings of research centers…

Health & Medicine

Obesity Linked to Enlarged Heart in Groundbreaking Study

In the largest study of its kind, cardiologist M. Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, and research specialist Adolfo A. Martinez, MD, discovered that excessive body weight…

Health & Medicine

FISH on a Chip: Faster, Cost-Effective Cancer Diagnosis

This new technology opens up the possibility of better, faster cancer treatment and greater accessibility to the test, thanks to quicker and more…

Life & Chemistry

Tracking Timber Rattlesnakes: Insights Into Snake Behavior

The researchers are studying timber rattlesnakes and copperheads in their Pitviper Research Project. They hope their efforts will educate the public and…

Environmental Conservation

New tools to forecast hurricane rainfall inland

Now, researchers are learning how to predict where tropical storms and hurricanes will dump the most rain — even days after — and hundreds of miles away from —…

Physics & Astronomy

New Computer Models Reveal Secrets of Planetary Atmospheres

The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years…

Physics & Astronomy

Plant Life Search on Extrasolar Earthlike Planets Insights

But scientists seeking clues to life on extrasolar planets are studying various biosignatures found in the light spectrum leaking out to Earth to speculate on…

Life & Chemistry

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity

Our bodies could not maintain their existence without thousands of proteins performing myriad vital tasks within cells. Since malfunctioning proteins can cause…

Health & Medicine

Combat Post-Holiday Syndrome By Splitting Vacations

– Psychologists estimate that 35 per cent of Spanish workers between 25 and 40 will have to face the syndrome this year- Tiredness, lack of appetite and…

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