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Physics & Astronomy

New Exploring Space Gallery Opens at Science Museum

The updated gallery – open on 26 April and to be called Exploring Space – will celebrate our exploration of space so far and investigate the benefits it brings…

Business and Finance

Understanding Electricity Prices: Key Factors Explored

The non-storability of electricity, absence of substitutes, inelastic supply and patterns in electricity consumption, make that power prices are subject to…

Health & Medicine

Folic Acid Boost in Flour: A Step Towards Safer Nutrition

The research has implications for the UK and Republic of Ireland, which plan to follow the US by adding folic acid to flour to help prevent neural tube defects…

Life & Chemistry

Flush Away Tumors: New Breakthrough in Cancer Therapy

Dr Klaus Pors, a Medicinal Chemist based at the University’s Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, has been awarded £96,474 by Yorkshire Cancer Research to develop…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Biologists Unlock Secrets of Complex Vitamin B12

B12, the most chemically complex of all vitamins, is essential for human health. Four Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to B12, but one…

Studies and Analyses

Car Indicator Light Position Impacts Safety, Study Finds

The indicators on cars are critical safety features that enable pedestrians and other road users to predict where a car is likely to go in the next few…

Life & Chemistry

Parasites and Gene Pool Health: New Insights from Research

Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have developed a mathematical model to examine how organisms can…

Social Sciences

Key Science Websites Struggle Amid Information Overload

New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) clearly shows that anyone using the Web to make their information available must now pay…

Environmental Conservation

Addressing Water Scarcity: Urgent Actions for Agriculture

Only if we act to improve water use in agriculture now will we meet the acute water-environment-poverty challenges facing humankind over the next 50 years….

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Unique Bird Sex Chromosomes and Their Impacts

Species with differentiated sex chromosomes (X and Y in humans, for example) get around the fact that males and females get different-sized portions of sex…

Health & Medicine

Human Uterus Transplantation: Latest Research Insights

At this first international symposium they will present their most recent research findings and discuss an agenda for what needs to be done in research before…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Radiation-Resistant Bacterium’s Mechanism

Recent discoveries by researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) could lead to new avenues of exploration for…

Life & Chemistry

Small Molecule from Rb2/p130 Shows Promise as Cancer Therapy

The researchers reported their findings, “A small molecule based on the pRb2/p130 spacer domain leads to inhibition of cdk2 activity, cell cycle arrest and…

Studies and Analyses

LSU Professor Reveals Insights on Prehistoric Hurricanes

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita focused the international spotlight on the vulnerability of the U.S. coastline. Fears that a “super-hurricane” could make a direct…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Use Curry Spice to Combat Rare Neuromuscular Disease

The compound, a distant chemical relative of a component of the spice curry, dramatically slowed the progression of the disease in mice that carried the mutant…

Communications Media

Educational Video Boosts Knowledge in Low Vision Patients

An educational and motivational video, designed to increase emotional well-being and use of adaptive devices in low vision patients increased knowledge but did…

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