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Physics & Astronomy

Cosmologists Predict Static Universe in 3 Trillion Years

Now, physicists Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and Robert J. Scherrer from Vanderbilt University predict that trillions of years into the…

Studies and Analyses

Study Examines Aprotinin Safety During Heart Surgery

“Our study is important because it shows that if aprotinin is used selectively and a drug/lab test interaction is avoided, the drug does not hurt patients'…

Business and Finance

Economists Value Loss of Loved Ones Higher Than Courts

Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick said: “Many of the valuable things in life — love, friendship, health — come without price-tags…

Business and Finance

Flexible Workplaces Cut Sickness Absence Rates: Study Insights

Gun Johansson, a postgraduate at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, presents in her thesis the illness flexibility model in order to elucidate…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Captures Stunning Spiral Galaxy Messier 81

The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favourable view provides a better picture of the typical architecture of spiral galaxies. Though the galaxy is…

Studies and Analyses

A study shows that infants can visually distinguish between two languages without hearing sound

This ability is maintained only in children that grow up in a bilingual environment, which indicates that bilingualism favours the retention of certain innate…

Medical Engineering

New Technique to Keep Blood Vessels Open Developed in NI

The team involving Professors Jim McLaughlin, John Anderson and Paul Maguire are based at the Northern Ireland Bio-Engineering Centre (NIBEC) on the…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Brain Function: New Insights on Glutamate’s Role

Glutamate is one of the most common neurotransmitters in the human brain and is involved in virtually all brain functions. But even though researchers' PET…

Communications Media

Innovative System Empowers Autistic Children to Communicate

SC@UT, which stands for Augmentative and Adaptive Communication System, has been created by the following researchers: 13 lecturers from the UGR Computer…

Life & Chemistry

Mild Infection Linked to Hypoxic Apnoea in New Study

Scientists at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now exposed a mechanism for how mild infection can cause apnoea and death due to hypoxia in…

Environmental Conservation

World Environment Day: Addressing Poverty and Environmental Links

Traditionally large sections of the Labour party were suspicious of the environment movement and that suspicion still exists, states Jon Fairburn, Senior…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling Evolution: Why Are There No Unicorns?

The problem highlights a general issue in evolutionary biology of what determines the range of plants and animals we see compared to those that might have…

Information Technology

Abertay Computer Arts Showcases Unique Student Innovations

Final-year honours students on the BA Computer Arts degree are displaying their achievements in the University’s Hannah Maclure Exhibition Centre from this…

Social Sciences

Inactive Kids: Survey Reveals Health Risks in Leicester

They surveyed over 3500 pupils from five inner city secondary schools in Leicester. They identified low levels of physical activity in both South Asian and…

Earth Sciences

UK Chemists Aid Afghanistan in Unlocking Mineral Resources

Afghanistan's natural resources include significant deposits of metals such as gold, silver, copper and zinc; precious and semi-precious stones including…

Life & Chemistry

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world’s deadliest toxin

The genome sequence shows that C. botulinum doesn’t have subtle tools to evade our human defences or tricky methods of acquiring resistance to antibiotics. It…

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