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Agricultural & Forestry Science

‘Iron in a jacket’ helps combat anaemia in Africa

In developing countries, half of all young children suffer from anaemia, often as a result of iron-deficiency. The cause is a one-sided diet based mainly on…

Physics & Astronomy

Medical and High-Energy Physicists Enhance PET Scans

“The electronics needs in medical imaging look very closely related to the needs we have in high-energy physics,” said Henry Frisch, Professor in Physics at…

Life & Chemistry

No sex please, we’re female sharks!

An international team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and the…

Life & Chemistry

A first: Hebrew University scientist observes brain cell development in ‘real time’

Dr. Adi Mizrahi of the Department of Neurobiology at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University, used mouse models to study…

Earth Sciences

Iron Paves Path for Copper and Gold Innovations in Kirunavaara

Kirunavaara is also the site that has given the ore its name, the Kiruna types of apatite iron ore, a name that is used internationally. In many places around…

Earth Sciences

New Evidence Reveals Swimming Dinosaur Footprints in La Rioja

A team led by Rubén Ezquerra, Fundación Patrimonio Paleontológico de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain, discovered the prints in an area long known for its abundance…

Earth Sciences

Russian basement hides the riddle of the Earth’s oxygen

“This is a geological dream coming true,” says Victor Melezhik. For many years, this Norwegian-Russian geologist has been seeking a chance to study the depths…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

BIOSYNERGY Project: Advancing Biorefinery Building Blocks

The BIOSYNERGY project, sponsored by the European Commission, aims to make biomass derived products cost competitive with fossil fuels by developing and…

Physics & Astronomy

Ground – based observatories join forces with Venus Express

This campaign will contribute to the growing body of information on the nature of Venus’s atmosphere and will help put the spacecraft’s observations into a…

Health & Medicine

Fighting Food Poisoning: New Methods to Control Campylobacter

They are engaging in a major research project to develop methods for the control of Campylobacter — the commonest cause of infectious bacterial intestinal…

Health & Medicine

Vaccine Breakthrough Offers Hope Against Malaria Infection

Malaria infects around 400 million people every year and kills between one and three million, mostly children.Dr Richard Pleass, from the Institute of…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Rosiglitazone: Easing Patient Concerns

The Editorial discusses the sudden anxiety caused by the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of a systematic review of trials using…

Environmental Conservation

Security Perspectives: Voices from the High North

“It is important to ask the people who live in the High North how they experience their own security,” says Gunhild Hoogensen, an Associate Professor in…

Environmental Conservation

Arctic Predators at Risk: Climate Change Threatens Survival

One of these project concerns the reduction in the population of several Arctic predators, including the Arctic fox, which is now classified as an endangered…

Environmental Conservation

Pioneering Research in Northern Circumpolar Archaeology

Archaeology and geology researchers from the University of Tromsø will contribute to the project together with a national team of researchers from around the…

Physics & Astronomy

Brown Dwarf Jets: New Insights Into Failed Stars

Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these 'brown dwarfs' form…

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