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Social Sciences

Women Excel in Building Lasting Friendships, Study Finds

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…

Process Engineering

New Manufacturing Method for Compact, Accurate Electronic Compass

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new way of manufacturing a more accurate and smaller-sized electronic compass, which also consumes…

Environmental Conservation

Urine Source Separation: A Smart Solution for Wastewater Management

Nutrients have to be removed by resource-intensive processes at wastewater treatment plants. In the absence of these processes, nutrient discharges pose a risk…

Life & Chemistry

Research suggests that the production of misshaped proteins …

The formation of misshaped proteins – a process suggested to be behind neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s – can affect an important…

Life & Chemistry

Essential Gene Discovered for Cerebellum Development

The study was completed by researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Department of Cell Biology of the University of…

Health & Medicine

New centre could ‘lead the world’ in neuromuscular research

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…

Business and Finance

CDO2 Partners With University of Surrey on Financial Grid Innovation

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…

Information Technology

Innovative Classroom Design Engages Autistic Children in Schools

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….

Business and Finance

Coventry University Secures £3.5M for Employer Engagement Program

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…

Environmental Conservation

NovaUCD-based Lightwave Technologies launches its ICE system which can reduce energy consumption …

NovaUCD-based Lightwave Technologies today announced the commercial launch of a new energy management and control system known as ICE (Intelligent Control of…

Life & Chemistry

Rickettsia Felis: Insights Into Rickettsial Evolution Uncovered

Some species of Rickettsia are known to cause harmful diseases in humans, such as epidemic typhus (R. prowazekii) and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (R….

Environmental Conservation

CMU Researcher Unveils Anole Lizard Study Findings

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…

Environmental Conservation

Sibling Sex Dynamics in Male Saiga Antelopes Explored

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…

Studies and Analyses

Maternal Obesity’s Impact on NHS: New Study Insights

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…

Health & Medicine

Too much weight spells double trouble for couples trying to conceive

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…

Health & Medicine

Pregnant women ‘should supplement vitamin D’

Speaking at the British Endocrine Societies meeting in Birmingham, Dr Chantal Mathieu (University of Leuven, Belgium) said that research had shown that low…

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