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Environmental Conservation

New Global Network Aims to Track Arctic Changes Systematically

“This is basically a plan to better understand how the Arctic is changing, but doing it in a new systematic, international and ‘pan-Arctic' way,” explained…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Study Reveals Genetic Link to Schizophrenia Insights

The work, by scientists from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Japan's RIKEN Brain Science Institute, will be reported in the early online…

Environmental Conservation

Pollution Control Tech Wins Royal Society Award for Innovation

The technology traps carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants so they can be removed and, where possible, recycled back into the production process. Although…

Physics & Astronomy

Surprises from the Sun’s South Pole

In keeping with the first and second south polar passes (in 1994 and 2000), the latest high-latitude excursion of the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has…

Physics & Astronomy

International Heliophysical Year: Exploring Solar Connections

The Sun connects with all the planets via the solar wind, a flow of electrically charged particles that constantly 'blows' off the Sun and creates 'space…

Life & Chemistry

How Epigenetics Will Transform Stem Cell Research

The hype over epigenetic research is because it opens up the possibility of reprograming cells. By manipulating epigenetic marks, cells can be transformed into…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Discovery Could Transform Cancer Stem Cell Treatment

A team in the Netherlands has uncovered a key protein that could stop these stem cells from becoming malignant. “This is a hot topic in the cancer field,”…

Health & Medicine

Boosting brain power — with chocolate

A study led by Professor Ian Macdonald found that consumption of a cocoa drink rich in flavanols — a key ingredient of dark chocolate — boosts blood flow to…

Information Technology

Genedata Collaborates with Chugai on Screening Analysis

During the past twelve months Genedata Screener has provided computational support throughout a complete screening cycle at Chugai. Beginning with assay…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Threatens Marine Turtles’ Future Survival

An increase in temperatures of just one degree Celsius could completely eliminate the birth of male turtles from some beaches. A rise of three degrees Celsius…

Life & Chemistry

Largest Genome Scan for Autism Reveals New Insights

The research was performed by more than 120 scientists from more than 50 institutions representing 19 countries. In the UK, work was carried out at The…

Information Technology

Top Software Systems: Innovations in Grid and Web Technologies

As enabling technologies such as Grid, Web Services, Semantic Web, and Peer-to-peer computing etc. are rapidly becoming mature, the Internet and the Web have…

Social Sciences

Germany & Portugal come near bottom of new blood pressure based happiness league

The research by economists Professor Andrew Oswald of the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and Professor David Blanchflower of Dartmouth…

Health & Medicine

Lightweight Formula Enhances Ski Jumping Performance

The new index was developed as part of a project by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, which had already provided the basis for resolving the problem of…

Earth Sciences

Afghanistan’s Copper Potential: A Key to Economic Growth

Afghanistan is well endowed with mineral resources such as copper, gold, iron ore and gemstones. During the late 1970’s and 1980’s, Russian geologists carried…

Health & Medicine

Spearmint Tea: A Natural Approach to Mild Hirsutism Treatment

Data just published in Phytotherapy Research shows that drinking two cups of spearmint tea a day for five days could reduce the level of androgens in women…

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