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Power and Electrical Engineering

UC Engineering Research Expands Horizons for Electronic Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today’s — and tomorrow’s — sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control…

Physics & Astronomy

NAU Researchers Discover Potential Caves on Mars

NAU researchers Glen Cushing and Jut Wynne, working at the U.S. Geological Survey, propose that photos from the Mars Odyssey mission reveal football-field size…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Cosmic Microwave Background Transform Theories

By focusing on the absorption of the cosmic microwave background by atoms of neutral hydrogen, the researchers say, they could measure the fine-structure…

Environmental Conservation

IPCC 2007 Report: Climate Change Impacts on Protected Areas

On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a report entitled Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability…

Life & Chemistry

EMPRO Launches Phase One Clinical Trials in the UK

The clinical trials to test the safety of the formulation will be conducted in the UK on a group of 46 women (one-third treated with a high-dose of antibodies,…

Life & Chemistry

Elsevier Launches Phytochemistry Letters With PSE Collaboration

Articles, of 3-4 pages in length, will be reviewed within two weeks of submission, with accepted papers published online within one week. Dr Simon Gibbons from…

Architecture & Construction

New Homes Built from Waste: Dr. Forth’s Innovative Blocks

That’s exactly what civil engineer Dr John Forth from the University of Leeds wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made almost entirely of…

Social Sciences

Germany Joins EU Scientific Visa Law: Fourth Country to Adopt

Germany has become only the fourth country to transpose the EU law on scientific visas into national law, following Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. Greece and…

Architecture & Construction

‘Self-healing’ house in Greece will dare to defy nature

The University of Leeds’ NanoManufacturing Institute (NMI) will play a crucial role in the £9.5 million European Union-funded project by developing special…

Studies and Analyses

Exeter Researchers Awarded Grant for Ethnopolitics Study

Gareth Stansfield, Associate Professor in Middle East Politics, will lead a team of researchers dedicated to the study of ‘ethnopolitics’ for the next 5 years.

Health & Medicine

York Mathematician Explores Geometry to Combat Viruses

Dr Reidun Twarock, an Anniversary Reader in the Departments of Biology and Mathematics, will study the structure and assembly of viruses, which will help to…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Thioethers Synthesis Reduces Waste and Contaminants

In these processes, moreover, contaminant waste is produced This is why coming up with a procedure that avoids these drawbacks is a good thing all round. As…

Life & Chemistry

Durable Paper Innovations: A Collaborative European Project

Taking part in the consortium carrying out the project, besides laboratories from Italy, France, Portugal, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt, is the University of the…

Materials Sciences

Scientists track remarkable “breathing” in nanoporous materials

A team of scientists from France, UK and the ESRF have recently discovered an unprecedented giant and reversible swelling of nanoporous materials with…

Physics & Astronomy

ESA and NASA Strengthen Collaboration with New Support Agreement

The agencies' new “Network and Operations Cross-support” agreement covers the ongoing provision to each other of services for missions where no specific…

Information Technology

Oracle Rewards Young Talent in JA-YE’s European Challenge

The competition for the best business website is part of JA-YE’s European Challenge; a series of technology-based learning activities to teach students…

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