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Business and Finance

UK Universities Report: Degree Boosts Earnings by £160,000

The report shows that the gross additional lifetime earnings is now approximately £160,000 or between 20 and 25% more for individuals with a higher education…

Information Technology

Queen’s University Belfast to Create World’s Largest E-Resource for Irish Studies

The creation of the one-stop shop for Irish Studies has been made possible as a result of a £620,000 grant from the UK’s Joint Information Services Committee…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Sequence Boosts Breast Cancer Survival Rates

The new paper shows that switching to a drug called exemestane, two to three years after commencing standard therapy with the drug tamoxifen, can cut the risk…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Heart Failure Causes: Insights from MDC Berlin

Dr. Michael Gotthardt and his co-workers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, together with Professor Hendrikus…

Studies and Analyses

Psychologists show that 'money changes everything'

Now psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis have published a paper to support that claim. Studying delayed gratification and risk, the…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Question Wildlife Birth-Control Method’s Effectiveness

Writing in the latest issue of the journal, Reproduction, UNSW genetics expert Professor Des Cooper warns that the immuno-contraception method is not fully…

Studies and Analyses

Technology captures tumors' genetic profile, guides cancer treatment

The findings, published online today on the Nature Genetics Web site, may help relieve a bottleneck between scientists' expanding knowledge of the genetic…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering a New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake in Organisms

It is the first time scientists have found that the interaction of neighboring molecules is essential to this regulation. Since plants, animals, bacteria, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists set 'speed limit' for future superconducting magnet

The material currently used in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging machines in both hospitals and research laboratories — a low-temperature superconducting alloy…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Insights on Proteorhodopsin’s Energy Role

“Our research shows that proteorhodopsin contributes to a bacterial cell’s energy balance only under certain environmental conditions, namely when the cell’s…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovered by CSHL Prevents Multiple Cancer Types

A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). “We not only found a critical tumor suppressor gene, but…

Business and Finance

Outsourcing Customer Service: Why It Drives Customers Away

An increasing number of companies are contracting out their customer services (outsourcing) to firms that specialise in dealing with customer enquiries. When…

Physics & Astronomy

First Topographic Hiking Maps of Mars Unveiled

The maps are known as topographic maps because they use contour lines to show the heights of the landscape. The contour lines are superimposed upon…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Gold’s Unique Stability and Value Over Time

The uniqueness of gold and its appreciation as a valuable throughout history is closely related to its exceptional stability to chemical reactions and extreme…

Life & Chemistry

Green technology to boost production of malaria ‘wonder drug’

Since it was first extracted from the herb Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua) by Chinese scientists in the 1980s, artemisinin has proven to be a potent…

Communications Media

Multimedia Translation: The Future for Translators

According to Mayoral, shortly “even general translators will have to be able to use translation systems like subtitling, dubbing or voice-over and adjustment…

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