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Physics & Astronomy

New technique for ‘weighing’ black holes

Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), have used the technique to determine the mass of the black hole, Cygnus…

Health & Medicine

Blood Transfusions From Precancerous Donors Safe, Study Finds

Professor Olof Nyrén and Gustaf Edgren, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden together with Professor Mads Melbye and Dr Henrik Hjalgrim from Statens Serum…

Health & Medicine

Alternative Hormone Treatment Shows Promise for Breast Cancer

Luteinising hormone is produced in the pituitary gland and stimulates ovulation and the production of oestrogen. LHRH agonists are molecules which mimic the…

Health & Medicine

Papillomavirus Vaccine May Lower Vulval, Vaginal Cancer Risk

Professor Jorma Paavonen, Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues carried out their analysis of…

Life & Chemistry

New Discovery in Gene Silencing Offers Hope for Anti-Cancer Strategies

Only about 10 percent of human genes, for example, are actively producing proteins in a given cell at a given time. The remaining 90 percent are silenced by a…

Environmental Conservation

Norwegian Team Advances Arctic Climate Research During IPY

International Polar Year is an excellent time to collect new data about climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. The University of Tromsø is contributing to…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring the Genetic Link Between Nutrition and Heredity

A challenging goal in biology is to understand how the principal cellular functions are integrated so that cells achieve viability and optimal fitness under a…

Health & Medicine

Implanting dopamine generators in brain cells obtains improvement in Parkinson’s in monkeys

The results have been published in the latest issue of the British scientific journal specialising in Neurology, Brain, and have corroborated the conclusions…

Earth Sciences

Tracking Huge Waves from Space: Reunion Island’s Coastal Impact

The waves that thrashed the southern port of Saint Pierre, leaving two fishermen missing, causing several piers to collapse and flooding several homes and…

Environmental Conservation

Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Impacted by Climate Change

A four-year study by scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Folds Study Reveals Insights Into Metabolic Evolution

Their approach offers a new window on the evolutionary history of metabolism.The study appears this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the…

Earth Sciences

Colorado River Streamflow: Insights from Pre-1490 Megadrought

The six-decade-long drought was remarkable for the absence of very wet years. At the core of the drought was a period of 25 years in which Colorado River flow…

Life & Chemistry

British Scientists Use Fingerprints for Medical Testing Innovation

To this day, fingerprints are just the thing when a perpetrator needs to be arrested or a person needs to be identified. British scientists working with David…

Transportation and Logistics

EU Project Launches Innovative Traffic Information Service

The EU-funded Highway project has climbed into the driving seat and developed a pioneering traffic information service which it hopes will reduce the number of…

Environmental Conservation

Belize: A Hidden Gem for Whale Watching Adventures

To help understand the marine environment around Belize and the jewels to be found in its waters, Marinelife, a UK based national marine conservation research…

Environmental Conservation

Rare Bottlenose Dolphins Spotted Off Isle of Wight

The dolphins, which are threatened in UK waters, were recorded 4 miles off of St. Catherine’s point on the Isle of Wight – a truly rare occurrence. Clive…

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