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Environmental Conservation

Oceans 2025 – harnessing marine research for the future

We live on a rapidly changing planet. By 2025 – just one generation away – our activities are expected to have a major impact on our oceans, which could cause…

Environmental Conservation

New Method Detects Heavy Metal Accumulation in Soils

This last point is what we would call pollution and it is easy to detect now thanks to the advances by the doctoral thesis recently presented in the Department…

Communications Media

All-Student Run FM Radio Station Launches January 15

An initiative of Canterbury Youth and Student Media Ltd, a company established by the four funding bodies – University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church…

Information Technology

Silicon wafers which can be aligned ‘like Lego’

According to Dr Michael Kraft at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), the major challenge when stacking silicon wafers is to align…

Studies and Analyses

UK and US Arabs: Semi-detached 'foreigners' or committed citizens

Researchers led by Dr Caroline Nagel, of Loughborough University, asked Arab community activists in Britain and the United States to share their views on…

Communications Media

New Guidelines for Scientists on Media Communication

As part of a European Commission FP6 project (MESSENGER), new guidelines for scientists on how to communicate most effectively with the media have been…

Environmental Conservation

Marine Bacteria: A New Eco-Friendly Energy Source Unveiled

This discovery was made by researchers at University of Kalmar in Sweden, in collaboration with researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Spain. The findings are…

Environmental Conservation

Guidelines for Sustainable Marine Aquaculture in the U.S.

Congress should enact legislation to ensure that strong environmental standards are in place to regulate the siting and conduct of offshore marine aquaculture,…

Life & Chemistry

New Antibody Therapy Prevents Type 1 Diabetes in Mice

More than 700,000 Americans have type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder in which the body errantly attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas,…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic variation may reduce Alzheimer's risk

A study of 209 families with at least two siblings with Alzheimer's and one unaffected sibling showed that those with this genetic variation are less likely to…

Health & Medicine

Arsenic Triggers Unique Mechanism in Rare Leukemia Study

Their study is published in the Jan. 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.”We knew that arsenite was particularly effective against this…

Physics & Astronomy

Hybrid Structures: Merging Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires

A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created hybrid structures that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal…

Environmental Conservation

Annual Plants Thrive in Global Warming: A Surprising Discovery

This finding suggests that quick-growing plants such as weeds may cope better with global warming than slower-growing plants such as Redwood trees — a…

Physics & Astronomy

Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus

No one has observed such a phenomenon so far, but University of Washington researchers believe it is possible to detect such waves coming from strange wispy…

Health & Medicine

Hypertension in Youth Linked to Enlarged Heart Risks

Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart, researchers report…

Physics & Astronomy

Arecibo Telescope Uncovers New Pulsar Blasts in Crab Nebula

Astronomers and physicists using the Cornell-managed Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have discovered radio interpulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar that…

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