Last week, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that corporation tax for larger companies will be cut to 28% from April 2008. This followed an earlier pledge from…
The study, the biggest of its kind, was led by Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox in the University’s Division of Primary Care. It looked at prescribing patterns…
The subject of evo-devo, which became established almost a decade ago, is particularly dependent on the six main model organisms that have been inherited from…
In the study, funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust, researchers at the Africa Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, found that there was a 4% risk of postnatal…
These are the estimates made by Fredrik Robelius, whose doctoral dissertation estimates future oil production on the basis of the largest oil fields. The…
Identifying and quantifying specific alpha- and beta-emitting radionuclides in liquid solutions can be challenging and time consuming – typically taking from…
Microorganisms are essential to life on Earth, transforming key elements into energy, maintaining the chemical balance in the atmosphere, providing plants and…
Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the…
The validity of a leading theory that has held a glimmer of hope for unraveling the intricacies of the brain has just been called into question. Dr. Ilan Lampl…
Modern hearing aids, though quite sophisticated, still do not faithfully reproduce sound as hearing people perceive it. New findings at the Weizmann Institute…
“One common misconception is that individual humans may carry 'disease-causing' genes, such as a gene for cancer,” explains James Erickson, a biology professor…
“In previous work, people figured out that you can move individual particles with lasers,” said Robert Schroll, graduate student in physics at the University…
Specifically, they're looking for ways to use gold to prevent the destruction of platinum in the chemical reactions that take place in fuel cells. Brookhaven…
The study found that parents were the source of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, in 55 percent of infants. In all, household members including…
A new climate modeling study forecasts the complete disappearance of several existing climates in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, while large…
Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack. Children…
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