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Environmental Conservation

Great Barrier Reef at Risk: CSIRO Imagery Reveals Concerns

The remotely sensed images, taken from February 9 to 13 this year, challenge conventional thought that sediment travelling from our river systems into the GBR…

Life & Chemistry

Genes Linked to Intelligence: Key Findings from Researchers

A team of scientists, led by psychiatric geneticists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has gathered the most extensive evidence to date…

Environmental Conservation

Virtual Duck Bills Showcasing Species Coexistence Insights

The classical explanation is that each species has evolved morphological or physiological traits that allow it to exploit some resources more efficiently than…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Chronic Limb Pain Relief

In a Phase I clinical trial, almost half the patients receiving gene therapy reported complete resolution of chronic pain one year after treatment and more…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Tracks White Blood Cell Traffic Patterns

Microdomains are restricted areas on the surface of the cells in which receptors and signaling molecules accumulate during cell activation. Using digital…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies Unlock New Insights for Heart Disease Treatments

The tiny Drosophila fruit fly may pave the way to new methods for studying and finding treatments for heart disease, the leading cause of death in…

Transportation and Logistics

Students Compete to Create Zero-Emissions Snowmobile

Snowmobiles long ago replaced dogsleds for hauling people and cargo in the polar regions, particularly in remote research stations and field camps such as…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Kidney Disease: Insights and Innovations Ahead

The message of World Kidney Day 2007 is that kidney disease is common, harmful and treatable. Until recently, decision makers in public health and biomedical…

Physics & Astronomy

Leicester Engineers Develop Next-Gen Space Shuttle Technology

Space age engineers at the University of Leicester have been called-upon to develop cutting-edge technology for the next generation of space shuttles.A team…

Life & Chemistry

EuroBioFund’s Second Call for Life Sciences Innovations

This new Call marks an important step in a process which will result in the selection of six Expressions of Interest addressing future life sciences challenges…

Health & Medicine

Fetal Development’s Role in Adult Stress-Related Diseases

According to a review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, evidence is mounting that lifelong stress-related conditions such as depression and…

Physics & Astronomy

Envisat: Five Years of Environmental Insights in Orbit

Having orbited Earth more than 26 000 times, the world’s largest and most complex environmental satellite ever launched has travelled a distance of more than 1…

Social Sciences

Evidence-Based Happiness Insights from Journal of Happiness Studies

Philosophers, psychologists and spiritual thinkers offer happiness counsel, but their widely differing views have never been empirically scrutinized. The…

Automotive Engineering

New Software Patch Boosts Car Fuel Efficiency

Accelerating a little less or a little bit more can cause considerable loss of energy. John Kessels has designed a way to save energy by enabling the car to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Dutch Universities Invest €300M in Electrical Engineering Research

In the years 1999-2004 the three universities spent an estimated 300 million euros on research in Electrical Engineering. In addition to 339 doctoral…

Environmental Conservation

Passengers Willing to Pay Climate Surcharge, Study Finds

This has emerged from recent research carried out by VU University Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies. The study in question focused on more than…

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