The investigation into social networks by the University’s Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change found that men are more fickle and calculating about who…
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new way of manufacturing a more accurate and smaller-sized electronic compass, which also consumes…
Nutrients have to be removed by resource-intensive processes at wastewater treatment plants. In the absence of these processes, nutrient discharges pose a risk…
The formation of misshaped proteins – a process suggested to be behind neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – can affect an important…
The study was completed by researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Department of Cell Biology of the University of…
The centre is a result of a partnership between a group of academic and medical institutions committed to translating research into patient care. These are…
The project provides access to both expertise and resources at the University of Surrey in Financial Grid computing, allowing CDO2 to innovate in the analysis…
Experts from Coventry University have designed the first low cost education and activity area for children with autism that can be used in mainstream schools….
The grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to design a flexible and relevant programme for people in the workplace is in response…
NovaUCD-based Lightwave Technologies today announced the commercial launch of a new energy management and control system known as ICE (Intelligent Control of…
Some species of Rickettsia are known to cause harmful diseases in humans, such as epidemic typhus (R. prowazekii) and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (R….
Kirsten E. Nicholson, a Central Michigan University assistant biology professor, has just published a paper in PLoS ONE on her four-year study of Caribbean…
The study’s results call into question current understanding of the development of male and female foetuses of this species, and give scientists a new insight…
It was carried out by The Centre for Food, Physical Activity and Obesity Research at the University of Teesside with 33 healthcare professionals based in the…
Researchers in Denmark studied 47,835 Danish couples between 1996 and 2002 and found that if both partners were obese the chances of the couple having to wait…
Speaking at the British Endocrine Societies meeting in Birmingham, Dr Chantal Mathieu (University of Leuven, Belgium) said that research had shown that low…