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Environmental Conservation

Winter Moths Adapt to Climate Change: A Genetic Insight

The temperature determines the day winter moths hatch out and that temperature sensitivity is hereditary. Through selection only the most adjusted eggs remain,…

Transportation and Logistics

First ATV leaves Europe to prepare for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will leave ESA's ESTEC establishment in the Netherlands in mid-July and be shipped to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Desertification’s Global Impact: Understanding Land Degradation

According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), desertification is a process of land degradation that is partly due to…

Health & Medicine

Probiotics: A New Approach to Combat Infectious Diseases

The APC, funded by Science Foundation Ireland, was set up investigate the beneficial roles of the bacteria found in the gastro-intestine of healthy humans. The…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s New Method Reveals Earth’s Center of Mass Location

Knowing the location of the centre of mass, determined using measurements from sites on Earth's surface, is important because it provides the reference frame…

Life & Chemistry

New Leishmania Genome Sequences Reveal Treatment Targets

In their report in Nature Genetics, published online on Sunday 17 June 2007, the researchers compared the genomes of L. infantum and L. braziliensis, which…

Life & Chemistry

Cytokine Resistance’s Role in Type 2 Diabetes Pathology

Type 2 diabetes is classified as a metabolic disorder, but a growing number of researchers are beginning to think of it also as a disease of the innate immune…

Life & Chemistry

New Molecular Net Technique Advances Scientific Research

Scientists at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (Canada), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), and Massachusetts…

Earth Sciences

Mediterranean Heat: How Emission Cuts Can Reduce Risks

Mitigating these grim projections, reductions of greenhouse gas emissions may lessen the intensification of dangerously hot days by as much as 50 percent, the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Wollemi Pine: A Living Fossil at Bergianska Garden

The background to this donation is the ongoing Linnaeus Tercentenary. The discovery of the Wollemi pine is a scientific sensation. The tree is living evidence…

Health & Medicine

Cellular Therapy for Tuberculosis: A New Hope in Treatment

The mode, on top of traditional complex therapy, includes stem cells intravenous injection to the patient, the stem cells being educed from his/her own marrow…

Life & Chemistry

New Saliva Test Identifies Drug Addiction Antibodies

The technique is based on identification of the antibody level in saliva and blood. For invention of this technique, Professor Marina Myagkova was recognized…

Studies and Analyses

Mobile PET/CT Staff Face Higher Radiation Exposure Risks

Static PET/CT facilities in the UK are limited – there are less than 20 scanners in England – which has resulted in unfavourable waiting lists. Mobile PET/CT…

Physics & Astronomy

Double Explosion Sheds Light on Stellar Life Cycles

A global collaboration of astronomers led by Queen's University Belfast, teamed up with Japanese supernova hunter, Koichi Itagaki, to report an amazing new…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Measure Speed of Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions

GRBs are the most powerful energy releases since the Big Bang and are so bright that they rival the whole Universe in luminosity. They last for a very short…

Architecture & Construction

Global Perspectives on Architecture: Insights from Christopher Nash

The lecture was given by Christopher Nash, Managing Director of Grimshaw, who spoke on the theme of ‘Perspectives on Architecture: Global Responses’.Christopher Nash is currently Director in charge of Stansted Airport Generation 2 Masterplan, Bournemouth Winter Gardens, and perhaps most interestingly the Cutty Sark conservation project. He has also been involved in the design and construction of many of the buildings on the University of Surrey campus. In addition to his active involvement in projects, he is also responsible for the strategic planning of Grimshaw business worldwide….

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