It has been an established fact for several years now that water exists on Mars. However, the big question is how much of it – if any – is in liquid form. The…
The work is reported in the paper Risks of the oil transition, published in the new Institute of Physics open-access electronic-only journal, Environmental…
A small study published today in the journal Critical Care, reveals that most Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients who gave their informed consent to take part…
The new method analyzes publicly available histories of transactions posted by online auction sites such as eBay and identifies suspicious online behaviors and…
The increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the air are leading us to expect climate change with higher temperatures in the future. The principal cause is the…
Biotechnologist Dr Doug Lester and PhD student Hemanth Tummala were searching for the genetic mutation that causes blindness in certain chickens, but their…
In her dissertation, Ingegerd Landström has studied efforts on the part of the Sri Lankan government to bring about such collaboration regarding the use of…
In the past five years, GreenFacts has reached out to millions of Internet users across the world, attracting nearly two million visitors in 2006 alone. The…
The initiative involves the establishment of a national research network to undertake important clinical studies into the safety and effectiveness of medicines…
Researchers from the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queen’s University Belfast have just published the results of a clinical trial looking at the effects of high…
The magnetic field generated inside the Earth protects the planet from the electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. However, it is only a partially…
Using VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of French and Italian astronomers have shown the strong influence the environment exerts on the way galaxies…
The study funded by the UK’s largest independent medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, will explore the marketing of commercial ‘nutrigenomic’ tests, which…
The research, published in October’s issue of the prestigious journal Social Science and Medicine, could lead the medical profession to rethink the way it…
Researchers from the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences aim to find out exactly how the virus infects animals and spreads – a first step in developing…
Spring floods carry 40 to more than 80% of the annual amounts of river water, suspended sediment and dissolved solids from Alaska to the coastal Beaufort Sea. In this study, river water and suspended sediment were collected from the Sagavanirktok and Kuparuk rivers during the spring Floods of 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006. Concentrations of dissolved Cu, Fe, Pb and some other trace metals, along with DOC, generally increased by 3-to-25-fold within 3 to 7 days of onset of the melt water event due to thawing of ponds and upper soil layers….
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