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Business and Finance

Economic Freedom’s Impact on Reducing Unemployment

The new research, published in the July issue of the Southern Economic Journal, is the first to analyse how economic freedom affects unemployment.Based on data…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Oxygen Trick Could Slash Organic Product Prices in the UK

Currently UK shoppers have to pay twice as much for some organic products. Organic apples, for example, are around double the price of conventionally grown…

Health & Medicine

Impotence and Heart Disease: Understanding the Connection

In some cases, impotence can have neurological, psychiatric, and other causes. But the most common cause, accounting for up to four cases of five, is that the…

Life & Chemistry

Caribbean Frogs Started with a Single, Ancient Voyage on a Raft from South America

“This discovery is surprising because no previous theories of how the frogs arrived had predicted a single origin for Caribbean terrestrial frogs and because…

Business and Finance

Online shoppers will pay extra to protect privacy

Findings from the study, the first to suggest that people will pay a premium to protect their privacy when shopping online, will be presented Friday, June 8,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

The original nanoworkout — Helping carbon nanotubes get into shape

Theoretical studies show that carbon nanotubes, if packed closely enough together, should be able to outperform copper as an electrical conductor. But because…

Life & Chemistry

Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors

The study, published in the European Respiratory Journal in April, reveals that talc stimulates healthy cells to produce endostatin, a hormone considered the…

Studies and Analyses

Organic Food Miles take toll on environment

The study, conducted by a team of student researchers in the Department of Rural Economy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, showed that the…

Environmental Conservation

Dirty Snow’s Impact on Arctic Warming: A Surprising Study

The global warming debate has focused on carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists at UC Irvine have determined that a lesser-known mechanism – dirty snow – can…

Life & Chemistry

New Discoveries in Integrin α7 Linked to Aggressive Cancers

Integrin á7 belongs to a major class of cell membrane proteins that play a role in the attachment of a cell to the extracellular matrix (ECM), which is the…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Capture Single Electron Motion on Video

To observe the motion of an electron – an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram – has been considered…

Environmental Conservation

Using Virtual Reality to Prevent Wildfires: A New Approach

In a year when many Americans have experienced first-hand the dangers of raging wildfires, University of Central Florida researchers are preparing to study…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding Superconductivity: CNRS Research Breakthrough

Today, researchers at CNRS have taken another step forward on the road leading to this ultimate goal. They have revealed the metallic nature of a class of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Gene Boosts Plant Growth in Salty, Low Nutrient Soils

Scientists have discovered a gene that allows plants to grow better in low nutrient conditions and even enhance their growth through sodium uptake, according…

Studies and Analyses

A recent IMIM-Hospital del Mar study shows the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet

The work entitled “Effect of a Traditional Mediterranean Diet on Lipoprotein Oxidation” which has been published in the Archives for International Medicine on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Polarisation Technology Enhances Tripwire Detection Systems

The project aims to identify the best means of optical detection and ultimately to help develop a reliable, portable system which can rapidly detect tripwires…

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