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Physics & Astronomy

Nanoscale Imaging Breakthrough with X-Ray Laser Speed Record

At the same time, the team also established a speed record of 25 femtoseconds for flash imaging. The new method will be applicable to atomic-resolution imaging…

Studies and Analyses

MRI Reveals Early Heart Damage in Sarcoidosis Patients

By using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to discover minute areas of heart damage before they grow larger, physicians may be able to take action to prevent…

Studies and Analyses

Racial Disparities in Coronary Artery Disease Deaths Revealed

Among patients diagnosed with serious coronary disease who were followed for an average nine years, the researchers found that blacks have had a 36 percent…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Public Awareness of HPV and Its Impact

Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States, and certain “high risk” types have been shown to cause…

Health & Medicine

Hertfordshire Academic Wins Award for Ambulance Training Excellence

The award was for runner up in the category of Excellence in learning, teaching, development or mentorship in the Allied Health Professionals & Health…

Information Technology

Scientists use pixels to ease amputees’ pain

Academics from the School of Computer Science and School of Psychological Sciences have developed a virtual reality system, which gives the illusion that a…

Life & Chemistry

Please Exhale – Quick and easy breath analysis

However, our breath does not only betray what we have consumed; some diseases also produce telltale breath odors. Breath analysis has some interesting…

Life & Chemistry

PSB and Farminerva Team Up for Peptide Biopharmaceuticals

The collaboration will involve the permanent presence of a Farminerva S.r.l. section on the science park, and will join two other biotechnology companies…

Life & Chemistry

PSB Leads New Industrial-Academic Partnership in Biomedical Innovation

Through the secondment of Business Development Managers in the participating centres Transvac aims to find an effective way to manage biomedical research…

Information Technology

Bringing SimCity to Life: New Urban Modeling at SC06

Dr Mark Birkin and colleagues, who are developing the model at the University of Leeds, will be demonstrating its potential at the UK e-Science stand at SC06,…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Why Opposites Don’t Attract in Nature

Biologists Marin Moravec, Professor Nancy Burley and Professor Georg Striedter conducted the study, which was published in Ethology in early November. The…

Life & Chemistry

Immune System Boosts Defense Through DNA Repair Mechanism

How does the immune system manage to keep pace with this diversity? For the first time scientists from the GSF – Research Centre for Environment and Health and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Uses of Sugar-Cane Bagasse in Paper Biotechnology

Seeking to overcome these drawbacks, IRD researchers (UMR 180) and INRA (UMR 1163) (1), working jointly within IFR-BAIM (Biotechnologies Agro-Industrielles de…

Environmental Conservation

Wild Gorillas Carry SIVgor Virus Similar to HIV-1 Group O

This new simian immunodeficiency virus, called SIVgor, has the special feature of being genetically close to an HIV-1 variant called group O. Although rarely…

Physics & Astronomy

Three-Dimensional Polymer Exhibits Unique Magnetic Properties

The structure which consists in particular of hydrogen, fluorine, carbon and copper, has been realized in an entirely novel, three-dimensional and very stable…

Transportation and Logistics

Manage Produce Transport Fleets with Innovative Software Solution

An innovative software system that allows transport managers to track the status of their haulage fleet at all times has recently been implemented by three…

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