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Health & Medicine

The EU Childhood Obesity Programme – First results support hypotheses

The first results of the EU Childhood Obesity programme indicate that low protein content infant formulae bring metabolic and endocrine benefits, as well as…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Study projects effects of forest management in Oregon's Coast Range

Since 1995, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station scientists and their colleagues from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry have…

Earth Sciences

Undersea Vent Discovery Sparks Snake-Headed Mythology Insights

Expedition leaders from Duke University; the Universities of New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Airborne Nanomaterials: New Methods & Tools Needed

The article, “Assessing Exposure to Airborne Nanomaterials: Current Abilities and Future Requirements,” written by Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor at the…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique for Bacteria Crowd Control Using Electric Currents

The technique is based on the transmission of tiny electric current in a very thin film sample cell containing a colony of bacteria. The current produces…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Post Oak Grasshoppers: Insights Into Their Life Cycle and Behavior

They're post oak grasshoppers, and Behmer, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist, wants to research their life cycle and behavior. If you…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Renewable hydrogen energy – an answer to the energy crisis?

The College’s Energy Futures Lab receives the funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).The programme will develop both…

Physics & Astronomy

STS-116 Crew Wraps Up European Tour with ESA Astronaut

With crewmember and Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang as their host, the crew passed through Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, as well as the Danish…

Health & Medicine

Exploring Health Benefits of Your Favorite Red Wine

Dr Richard Hoffman and his Erasmus student, Conny Johansson are using the University’s new chemistry laboratories to test a random selection of red wines to…

Earth Sciences

Scientists and Explorers Support CryoSat-2 Mission Launch

The CryoSat-2 mission, due for launch in 2009, will provide highly accurate information on changing marine and land ice thicknesses over the entire north and…

Environmental Conservation

Finland Leads New Baltic Sea Research Collaboration Initiative

The BONUS programme is a means to implement a completely new form of cooperation between the Baltic Seas States. It will provide a framework within which the…

Life & Chemistry

New Economic System for Expanding Stem Cells into Cartilage

Professor Mohamed Al-Rubeai, currently a UCD Professor of Biochemical Engineering and principal investigator with the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Examines Empty Calories and Added Sugars

Some studies in the past had suggested that foods containing added sugars were consumed at the expense of foods containing greater amounts of micronutrients;…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking the Secrets of Multi-Layer Carbon Nanotubes

The contribution of inner layers is crucial, and this has serious implications when it particularly comes to fabricating electronic devices such as transistors…

Studies and Analyses

Norwich Scientists Study RNA Silencing for Disease Treatment

The European Commission has committed 11.8 million euros to this four-year Integrated Project funded under the Sixth Framework Programme.“RNA silencing, also…

Life & Chemistry

UK’s New Network Boosts Stem Cell Science Innovation

Malcolm Wicks, Minister for Science, will say at a launch event in London later today: “Stem cell research is an area which offers the potential to provide…

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