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Physics & Astronomy

Caught in the act: forming galaxies captured in the young universe by HST, VLT & SPITZER

This discovery allows the astronomers to study the first important stages in the formation of the kind of galaxies we see in the Universe today. One of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Charting Dark Matter: Insights from Five Billion Light Years

Like a tenuous gas, dark matter is all around us – it goes through us all the time without us noticing – but tends to collect in large quantities around…

Physics & Astronomy

Stereo Offers Astronomers Insights into Space Between Earth and Sun

On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Richard Harrison and Dr Chris Davis of the Rutherford Appleton…

Physics & Astronomy

Skeleton Of Sun's Atmosphere Reveals Its True Nature

Scientists have now made a major breakthrough in understanding this complexity by studying the ‘skeleton’ of the magnetic field. A team of scientists from St…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Solar Explosions: Insights from Stereo and Hinode

In a plenary talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr James Klimchuk of the Naval Research…

Physics & Astronomy

Earth's Magnetic Field – A Hazard For Lunar Astronauts?

Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will present a model at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston,…

Physics & Astronomy

William Herschel and the 18th Century Discovery of Uranus’ Rings

Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then King's Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781),…

Physics & Astronomy

Schoolchildren name newly discovered asteroid ‘Snowdonia’

The asteroid was officially recognised as part of a Near-Earth Object observing programme with German astronomers Lothar Kurtze and Felix Harmouth. UK…

Physics & Astronomy

Red Supergiant Cauldrons: New Insights from RAS Meeting

Dr Anita Richards, who is presenting results at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston on 17th April, said, “Red supergiants lose more than half their…

Physics & Astronomy

Dying Stars Create Whirlpools in Interstellar Gas Simulations

Dr Wareing and his colleagues used the COBRA supercomputer to simulate in three-dimensions the movement of a dying star through surrounding interstellar gas….

Health & Medicine

Self-Treatment Tools: Lower Costs and Better Quality Care

Harold DeMonaco and Eric von Hippel say that there is now a body of research to support their assertion. “Such studies found that self-management produced…

Health & Medicine

Global Fund Urged to Fund Health Workers’ Salaries for HIV, TB, Malaria

“Recent comments from the inside of the Global Fund,” say Gorik Ooms (Médecins Sans Frontières, Belgium) and colleagues, “suggest an intention to focus more on…

Health & Medicine

New Insights: Rotavirus Spreads Beyond the Intestine

Margaret Conner and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, tested samples obtained from hospitalized children with gastroenteritis and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Collagen-Injected Meatballs: Boosting Nutrient Retention

Injecting meatballs with collagen can help the meat to retain the important nutrients iodine and thiamine, a new study by researchers from the Agricultural…

Life & Chemistry

No Solution to Cancer – Have Our Genes Evolved to Turn Against Us?

Doing research at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Breivik explores the connection between cancer development and Darwinian evolution. In a recent…

Information Technology

Wireless Communication Trials Launch in Dublin

The world’s first trials of advanced new wireless communication technologies have started in Dublin. The globally unique trials are being conducted by an…

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