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Health & Medicine

Americans Prefer Healthful Foods Over Pills, Survey Reveals

If you thought Americans would rather pop a pill to treat illness than make major diet changes, think again. A new survey shows the vast majority would rather…

Life & Chemistry

New Marker Identifies Energy Centers in Nerve Cells

A protein that causes coral to glow is helping researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to light up brain cells that are critical for the…

Transportation and Logistics

CESAR Project: Cheaper, Greener Small Aircraft Innovations

A team from the Power Conversion Group at the University will use the money to investigate how current mechanical and hydraulic systems on small aircraft -…

Health & Medicine

Celecoxib: A Promising Painkiller for Child Cancer Treatment

The results apply to celecoxib, an analgesic, anti-inflammatory substance that works by inhibiting the effect of the inflammatory enzyme, Cox-2. In a study…

Physics & Astronomy

Nano-Microscopy Unveils Real-Time Gold Atom Transport Insights

In this research project, which was conducted by Delft University of Technology's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, a small group of gold atoms were placed on a…

Information Technology

Advancements in Automatic Facial Expression Recognition

Dr Guoying Zhao and Prof. Matti Pietikäinen from the Machine Vision Group of the University of Oulu have produced significant results in their research…

Business and Finance

Research Identifies a New Style of Managing and Measuring Employee Performance, …

Good performance management is key to employee motivation and organisational success. Now, new research from Henley Management College and Hay Group identifies…

Studies and Analyses

Advancing Dosimetry in Radiotherapy with Monte Carlo Techniques

It allows to carry out calculations taking into account all the physical magnitudes that come into play when the particle beam making up the radiation acts on…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farmers’ Early Retirement Aid Secures the Future of Family Farming

According to Minna Väre, Research Scientist at Agrifood Research Finland, who is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on the determinants of farmer…

Environmental Conservation

Princess Royal Unveils New Research Ship RRS James Cook

The RRS James Cook is the latest addition to the Natural Environment Research Council’s fleet of oceanographic research ships.Professor Alan Thorpe, NERC’s…

Life & Chemistry

Self-assembling nanostructures of DNA — a biotechnologist's dream

Building structures as tiny as a few nanometers is a major problem with today's technology. This is an important hurdle, because really tiny things can be…

Studies and Analyses

Two-thirds of nursing students believe it’s wrong to lie to patients – twice as many as in 1983

UK researchers recreated a 1983 survey of 176 nursing students by posing the same questions to 618 students at a School of Nursing in Greater Manchester.As…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Discovery in Blood Pressure Gene Structure

Research by scientists at UCL (University College London) has clearly demonstrated for the first time the structure and function of a gene crucial to the…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Modular Structures in Early Metazoa Evolution

The first Metazoa animals possessed a modular structure, consisting of several identical individuals combined into a colony. The colony appeared due to…

Life & Chemistry

Can Lightning Spark the Origins of Life?

So far, it has been assumed that specific geological bodies are formed at the strike of lightning only if the lightning hits sedimentary rock or a cliff….

Physics & Astronomy

£20M Funding Boost for Northwest Nuclear Research Centre

The University and the NDA have signed an initial collaboration agreement, which will see each organisation invest £10million over a seven-year period.The…

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