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Study Reveals Emotional Effects of Violent Video Games on Teens

“Our study suggests that playing a certain type of violent video game may have different short-term effects on brain function than playing a nonviolent—but…

Life & Chemistry

Pure Carbon Nanotubes Excel in First In Vivo Testing

In the first experiments of their kind, researchers at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that carbon…

Health & Medicine

One-Off Treatment to Stop Back Pain – Using Patients’ Own Stem Cells

Dr Stephen Richardson, of the University’s Division of Regenerative Medicine in the School of Medicine (FMHS), has developed the treatment; and in…

Social Sciences

Joint Custody Insights: Austria’s Research Findings Explored

Our third Policy Brief illustrates the main findings of a professions analysis carried out by Renate Kränzl-Nagl from the European Centre and Christa Pelikan…

Social Sciences

Social Factors Shape Technological Innovation in the Workplace

The adoption of the QWERTY-keyboard was not just a productivity enhancing invention, but was also introduced to increase control over the workers and lower…

Health & Medicine

New Discovery Paves Way for Alcohol Addiction Treatments

This has been demonstrated in a doctoral dissertation at the Sahgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in Sweden. The discovery may lead to new treatment for…

Medical Engineering

Harnessing grid computing to save women’s lives

Mammography examinations save thousands of women’s lives every year. However the rate of misdiagnosis can be high – in some instances up to 30%. This is due in…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta Prepares for Mars Swing-By: A Historic Journey

Since its launch in March 2004, Rosetta has been bouncing around the inner solar system on a trajectory that will eventually lead it to its final destination…

Transportation and Logistics

World's first in-flight demo of multiple unmanned aircraft autonomy system

The successful flight trial, part of a programme of work under contract to the UK Ministry of Defence, was conducted to support the concept of using a package…

Information Technology

IT Industry Turns to Behavioral Experts for Enhanced Security

By learning how other unrelated sectors and domains successfully build trust and communicate risk it is hoped that the IT industry can encourage computer users…

Life & Chemistry

Parental genes do what’s best for baby

Biologists at The University of Manchester say the prevailing view that maternal and paternal genes compete for supremacy in their unborn offspring fails to…

Health & Medicine

£6.7M European Network Launched for Muscle Disease Support

Researchers at Newcastle University are leading the 10m euros ‘network of excellence’, the first of its kind, which has been funded by the European Union…

Life & Chemistry

Global Cooperation in Neuroscience: Advancing Research Together

Those challenges can only be answered by investing in high-quality, international research in the field. NEURO, the Research Programme on Neuroscience…

Life & Chemistry

Improved Cell Therapy Enhances Cartilage Repair Success

Cell therapy may be successful, but the added tissue performs worse than the orginal. PhD student Jeanine Hendriks of UT’s Institute for Biomedical Technology…

Health & Medicine

Chemotherapy’s Hidden Risk: Brain Cell Damage Uncovered

A study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology shows that clinical doses of chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat many common cancers…

Earth Sciences

“GEOPHYS with a GEEP*” Revolutionary Geophysical Data Collection System

Rather like a sophisticated sledge, the data collection system will move on runners, towed by a small tractor. This gives the advantages over other survey…

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