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Physics & Astronomy

Cost-Effective Satellites: UK Innovations in Space Design

UK industry and academia has developed a unique partnership in designing and building compact and extremely cost effective satellites packed with innovative…

Information Technology

Personal Digital Assistants Enhance Space Missions Today

Current applicationsUp until late 2006, PDAs had been used on board the International Space Station (ISS) mainly as personal computing or entertainment…

Physics & Astronomy

Lutetia asteroid in Rosetta’s spotlight

During its long trek to final destination (comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko), Rosetta is planned to study two asteroids – 2867-Steins and 21-Lutetia, both lying…

Health & Medicine

Health Risks of Nighttime Light: Key Research Findings

The researchers summarized findings of their own investigations and extensive foreign experience, medical statistics and data of experiments carried out on…

Life & Chemistry

Advancements in Gene Therapy for HIV/AIDS Treatment

At present, the virus is fought against by chemical agents. The drugs subscribed to the patients act predominantly on key HIV-1 enzymes – reverse…

Earth Sciences

Discover Northern Eurasia’s Volcanic Regions and Mountain Systems

Volcanic regions are connected with young mountain systems that are located at the periphery of Eurasian platform. The major part of these regions lies in the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Source of Ultrafast Electron Pulses for Nanotechnology

The electron source is based on an ultra-sharp metallic needle illuminated with short light pulses from a laser. “With these electron pulses, it is possible to…

Life & Chemistry

Tailoring Cancer Therapy: Insights from HER2/neu Study

The study compared the functionality of the HER2/neu receptor in the cancer cells of breast and ovarian cancer tissue. Supported by the Austrian Science Fund…

Physics & Astronomy

New Crystal Phase Transition Paves Way for Structure Control

A Finnish-Japanese joint research project has produced first-rate results by discovering a phase transition in the structure of crystalline materials in…

Social Sciences

Voluntary Organisations For Refugees Resist Pressure To Operate As ‘Shadow State’ Agencies

According to Professor Nick Fyfe at Dundee University who led the project voluntary groups feel they are under considerable pressure because what is in the…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacteriophage Approach Reduces Antibiotic Needs by 50x

Steven Hagens, previously at the University of Vienna, told Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI, that certain bacteriophages, a type of virus that…

Life & Chemistry

Vanderbilt Unveils SPARTAN for Chemical Weapon Detection

Real-time control of the function of single proteins by detecting and changing their shapes is the object of the new research project, called SPARTAN, which…

Health & Medicine

MRI Contrast Agent Linked to Rare Disease Risks

“We recommend avoiding the use of gadodiamide in patients with any degree of renal disease,” said Phillip H. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Genetically Modified Crops Impacting Developing Countries

In 2003 to 2005, market share of “Bt cotton” seeds rose from 12 percent to 62 percent in Warangal. Bt cotton is genetically modified to produce its own…

Automotive Engineering

Boosting Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research: New Catalysis Breakthrough

The slow rate of oxygen-reduction catalysis on the cathode – a fuel cell’s positively charged electrode – has been a primary factor hindering development of…

Life & Chemistry

Gene knockouts reveal FoxOs' vital functions in cancer defense, health of stem cells

The discoveries reveal potential new targets for cancer drugs and could further research on stem-cell based therapies for degenerative diseases, said the…

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