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ESA Advances Quantum Communications for Secure Satellite Links

The experiment allows ESA to take a step closer to exploiting entanglement as a way of communicating with satellites with total security. Quantum entanglement…

Earth Sciences

ESA Satellite Aids Polar Explorers in Disintegrating Sea Ice

Throughout the Arctic Arc expedition, which marks the International Polar Year, Alan Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been collecting snow-depth data for ESA's…

Business and Finance

'Real level' of unemployment still far higher than official figures

The report, by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University, finds that since 1997 real levels of unemployment have dropped by only 600,000, compared to a fall…

Studies and Analyses

One-Fifth of MEPs Back Cannabis Decriminalisation Efforts

The team from The Universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth and the London School of Economics also revealed controversial attitudes to abortion, crime, defence…

Health & Medicine

European Heart Health Charter Aims to Combat CVD Across Borders

Launched today at the European Parliament in Brussels in the presence of EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou and Dr Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director…

Life & Chemistry

Physicist cracks women’s random but always lucky choice of X chromosome

Human males have both a X and a Y chromosome but females have two X chromosomes. This means that in an early stage in the development of a woman’s fertilised…

Health & Medicine

Elsevier Introduces Artery Research Journal for Innovators

Artery Research (http://www.arteryresearch.com), is the official journal of the Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology (ARTERY)…

Health & Medicine

Memory Test Identifies Early Signs of Dementia Risk

The test is useful for analysing learning abilities and memory. The patients who pass the test run a very low risk of developing dementia in the forthcoming…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Researchers Use Force to Capture Cell Receptor Images

MIT researchers have found a way to glimpse interactions between molecules on the surface of a cell.By measuring the force generated by these cell surface…

Life & Chemistry

New Drugs Transform Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Landscape

RA is the most common of all chronic inflammatory joint diseases, affecting 0.5-1% of the population in the industrialised world. Its typical symptoms are…

Studies and Analyses

Daddies' girls choose men who look like their fathers

In contrast, the team of psychologists from Durham University and two Polish institutions revealed that women who have negative or less positive relationships…

Technology Offerings

CocoaHeal: Innovative Cocoa Compound Boosts Wound Healing

Invention

Scientists at the University of Münster, Germany, have isolated and characterized a novel substance class from Cocoa. CocoaHeal is capable of…

Technology Offerings

New Source of Functional Cardiomyocytes from Spermatogonial Stem Cells

Scientists of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen identified a new source of adult somatic stem cells, the spermatogonial stem cells (SSC). These cells…

Environmental Conservation

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Key to Combat Global Warming

Carbon capture and storage, also called carbon sequestration, traps carbon dioxide after it is produced and injects it underground. The gas never enters the…

Life & Chemistry

U-M Researchers Find Way to Activate Cancer-Related Gene

A gene implicated in the development of cancer cells can be switched on using drugs, report researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer…

Health & Medicine

Gabapentin Effective for Fibromyalgia Pain Relief

In the NIAMS-sponsored, randomized, double-blind clinical trial of 150 women (90 percent) and men with the condition, Lesley M. Arnold, M.D., director of the…

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