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Business and Finance

Standardized Contracts Boost Equal Pay and Performance

This important finding was uncovered by scientists from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, as they analysed results from an economic experiment. The…

Information Technology

BluScreen: Targeted Ads For Event Information Display

BluScreen, a 58 centimetre-wide screen displaying information about upcoming seminars, lectures and events has been installed in the reception area of the…

Health & Medicine

Ensuring Clean Drinking Water Quality Across Europe

Potable water is our most important nutrient. We drink it every day. That's why it is even more important to know what sort of microorganisms are in the water…

Life & Chemistry

Humans and Chimpanzees: Exploring Our Genetic Similarities

This means in some cases that humans can produce a protein that the chimpanzee lacks and vice versa. The study, being published in the November issue of the…

Environmental Conservation

Kent Student Wins UNESCO Award for Great Ape Conservation

Bila’s research is focused on a large and recently discovered population of pygmy chimpanzees or bonobos (Pan paniscus) – the least known of the six species of…

Environmental Conservation

EU’s New Marine Strategy to Clean Up Seas by 2021

The conference, held 13 to 15 November under the auspices of Finland's European Union (EU) Presidency, addressed the EU’s newly proposed marine strategy, which…

Health & Medicine

Diet Changes Linked to Rising Allergies and Asthma Rates

The work suggests that the significant changes in European diets over the past 20-40 years may have contributed to the increased incidence of allergic diseases…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Code Breaker Analyzes Jane Austen Text With New Algorithm

As reported in this week’s edition of the journal Nature (pg 259, Vol. 444, 16 November 2006) Professor Simon Shepherd has constructed an algorithm that can…

Studies and Analyses

Responsible Business Practices for Healthier Workplaces

A report by Dr Stavroula Leka and Johanna Churchill from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations at The University of Nottingham claims there is a lack…

Life & Chemistry

Wasps’ Chemical Signals Reveal Their Competitive Nature

For the first time scientists, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have recorded 'chemical exchanges' undetectable by…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Utah’s Quantum Leap in Computing Feasibility

A University of Utah physicist took a step toward developing a superfast computer based on the weird reality of quantum physics by showing it is feasible to…

Life & Chemistry

New Legislation Impacts Medicine Supply Chain at AstraZeneca

David Vosvenieks, REACH issue manager at AstraZeneca (AZ), told Chemistry & Industry that two companies supplying intermediates required for two AZ drugs – one…

Life & Chemistry

Critical Pairing – Origin of life: the search for the first genetic material

Until now, there have only been theories to answer this question. One of the fundamental steps leading to living organisms is the development of molecules that…

Environmental Conservation

Forest Fires May Cool Northern Climate, Study Finds

Countering hypotheses that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered that cooling may occur in areas…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Potatoes: Unlocking New Market Opportunities

Researchers at Oregon State University, working under the Pacific Northwest Tri-State Program, are evaluating thousands of potential selections in both…

Studies and Analyses

Video explains what science learns from avian stars of 'Happy Feet' and 'March of the Penguins'

Long before they lit up movie screens in animated feature films or enthralled documentary film audiences worldwide with the story of their endless struggle to…

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