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Earth Sciences

Enhanced Earthquake Warnings Through New Stress Analysis Method

A new method of stress analysis in earthquake research has been developed by FOI, the Swedish Defense Research Agency. The method is a breakthrough for better…

Physics & Astronomy

SOHO Readies for Comet McNaught’s Solar Encounter

As Comet McNaught heads towards its closest approach to the Sun on 12 January 2007, it will disappear from view for earthbound observers, becoming lost in the…

Social Sciences

Teddy Bear Business Empowers Blind Women in Chennai

The student-run company will sell a variety of products made from cotton cloth hand-spun by blind women at a Convent in Chennai, India. The fabric was…

Physics & Astronomy

European Gravity Mission Gains Precision With Ion Thrusters

QinetiQ's T5 ion thrusters will provide high precision drag compensation for the European Space Agency (ESA) GOCE spacecraft, due for launch later this year….

Information Technology

Web-Based Database System Enhances Baltic Museum Access

The key to simple use is well-structured information, data access and site architecture. The EUREKA E! 2918 ONLINE CATALOGUE project has developed a…

Medical Engineering

European Experts Advance Magnetic Resonance for Animal Imaging

The devices are a Bruker BIOSPEC 70/30 spectrometer with a horizontal magnet, making it possible to carry out magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging in vivo…

Life & Chemistry

Euro Notes Found 100% Contaminated With Cocaine: Study Insights

The research was carried out by PhD student, Jonathan Bones, working under the supervision of Professor Brett Paull at DCU's National Centre for Sensor…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Techniques for Preparing Cardiac Glycosides

For example, to prepare the highly active cardiovascular medication digoxin effective methods have to be developed to extract medicinal substances –…

Studies and Analyses

Hospital Death Rates Vary: Role of Registered Nurses Revealed

A research team from the University of Toronto and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Canada, studied 46,993 patients admitted to…

Studies and Analyses

Soil Nutrients Influence Tropical Forest Species Diversity

A key question is whether all tree species are equivalent in their use of resources – water, light and nutrients – or whether each species has its own niche. …

Earth Sciences

Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Found in Eastern Europe

The Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and including Vance T. Holliday, a UA professor of anthropology and geosciences,…

Life & Chemistry

Invasive Plants: Insights on Their Successful Adaptation

University of California, Riverside genetics Professor Norman Ellstrand led a team of researchers whose findings suggest that harnessing the sexual…

Health & Medicine

Eye Implants in Cats: Pioneering Vision Solutions for Humans

Kristina Narfstrom, a University of Missouri-Columbia veterinary ophthalmologist, has been working with a microchip implant to help blind animals “see.”…

Environmental Conservation

Fires Increase Mercury Emissions: Study Insights on Forest Management

The study, which has implications for forest management and global mercury pollution, was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Global Biogeochemical…

Physics & Astronomy

Rethinking last century's closest, brightest supernova

Ongoing observations of the exploded star, called supernova 1987A, provided important tests for theories of how stars die, but it also raised some new…

Physics & Astronomy

A star's death comes to light

This new view of the debris of an exploded star helps astronomers solve a long-standing mystery, with implications for understanding how a star's life can end…

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