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Physics & Astronomy

Giant CERN Magnet Moves Underground with Precision Engineering

Using a huge gantry crane, custom-built by VSL group, the pre-assembled central piece of the detector, weighing as much as five Jumbo jets (1920 tonnes) is…

Information Technology

New Research Lowers Language Barriers with SMART Project

The Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation (SMART) project funded by the European Union (EU) and led by Xerox’s European Research…

Business and Finance

£200K Sales Boost for Owner-Managers in LEAD Programme

Ninety per cent of the 67 owner-managers who have completed the Leading Enterprise and Development (LEAD) programme between October 2004 and March 2006 also…

Physics & Astronomy

New Graphene Transistor: The Future Beyond Silicon Chips

Professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, reveal details of transistors that are…

Physics & Astronomy

Milky Way Black Hole: A Colossal Particle Accelerator?

Now astrophysicists at The University of Arizona, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have discovered a mechanism that…

Environmental Conservation

Lost Cuckoo Calls: Rare Sumatran Bird’s Voice Recorded

A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran…

Life & Chemistry

Weizmann Institute Identifies Genes That Slow Cell Division

Cancer cells differ from normal cells in, among other things, the way they divide. When a normal cell complies with a signal telling it to divide, it also…

Business and Finance

Size Really Matters – New Insights for Tech Start-Ups’ Survival in February Management Insights

Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a digest of important research in business, management, operations research, and management science….

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Atomic Movement to Innovate Pharmaceutical Design

The research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will further understanding of how to control chemical reactions and…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Ocean Circulation’s Role in Climate Change

With the help of paleoclimatic and paleooceanographic indicators, scientists at CEREGE1 have highlighted a feedback mechanism of ocean circulation on the…

Physics & Astronomy

Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, and may promote infection

“Escherichia coli (E. coli) and some other pathogenic bacteria with flagella interact with the flow of liquid when they are near a surface,” said Hür Köser,…

Life & Chemistry

New Chemical Profiles Could Transform Diarrhea Diagnosis

It is hoped the discovery of these chemical profiles will lead to the development of a device capable of rapid diagnosis at the bedside, saving both time and…

Studies and Analyses

How Open Windows Help Prevent TB in Public Spaces

The spread of airborne infections in institutional settings such as hospitals, waiting rooms, prisons and homeless shelters is an important public health…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Mellow Reed Canarygrass: A Contrast Between Europe and America

Reed canarygrass is a bit like some people on vacation. At home, they stay on their side of the fence, and speak nicely with the neighbors. But jet them into…

Health & Medicine

Smoking and TB Infection: Study Reveals Increased Risk

The authors of the study, published in the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, analyzed 24 studies that included details about smoking…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Misidentified Marlins: The True Story Behind Angler’s Catch

For years, anglers thinking they were catching the prized white marlin may have caught something quite different, raising concerns about the true remaining…

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