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Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Zebrafish Heart Regeneration: Key Growth Factors Revealed

The scientists further discovered that key growth factors facilitate the interaction between the cell mass and the protective covering, encouraging the…

Health & Medicine

Sunscreens With Benzophenone-3: Safety Concerns for Kids

Benzophenone-3 provides effective protection against both UVA and UVB radiation. The substance has been available since the 1980s. “There has been a certain…

Physics & Astronomy

Open Access Publishing Transforms Physics Research Landscape

Open Access is a policy that could revolutionize the academic publishing world and have a great impact on research. By changing the traditional model of…

Health & Medicine

Kids Share Insights on Living Well with Ventilators

The six-year study – which asked children and parents for their views – discovered that most of the under 18s created their own ventilator-dependent lifestyles…

Information Technology

Safe Ascent Solutions: Combatting Decompression Sickness

Decompression sickness occurs in connection with rapid ascent from deep sea – from high pressure to low pressure – and is caused by formation of gas in the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Desert Locusts Threaten Mauritania: FAO Steps In With Aid

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has sent funds to help the Mauritanian teams involved and has loaned a helicopter to survey…

Environmental Conservation

UGR Researchers Create AI System to Combat Forest Fires

It applies Artificial Intelligence techniques, also used by the Pentagon of the USA, to the fight against fires in Andalusia. According to Luis Castillo, one…

Life & Chemistry

Granada Chemists Ensure Honey Quality and Origin Verification

Honeybee plays a central role in the honey-making process. Harmful antibiotics for the human being are used to prevent diseases which affect bees from damaging…

Physics & Astronomy

Calculi carried out in the UGR will check the existence of rays in Titan’s atmosphere

At the end of 2004 they reached their objective and set their division in motion: Cassini, constructed by the NASA, heavier (6 tons), will orbit around the…

Earth Sciences

Research on the seismic activity of the southeast of the Bética Mountain Range

UGR professor Jesús Galindo Zaldivar, together to the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute (IGME –Ministry of Education and Science) have carried out a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Skin-Like Membrane Offers Alternative to Animal Testing

The hide, recently developed by scientists in Switzerland, consists of a skin-like silicone membrane, complete with hair that rests over a layer of cow blood….

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Oestrogen Regulation in Men’s Prostate Health

Oestrogens are normally thought of as a female hormone, but recently scientists have found that oestrogens have vital roles to play in men’s health; without…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Fake Pesticides: A Growing Threat to Food Safety

These counterfeits range from sophisticated copies of patented products to low-quality fakes with little or no resemblance to the original. And it is a problem…

Health & Medicine

New Magnetic Stent Design Reduces Blood Clot Risk, Study Finds

The research report appears in the Nov. 7 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (http://content.onlinejacc.org/). The Mayo team describes…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Septic Shock Risk

Septic shock often follows a bacterial infection, and is characterized by the overwhelming release of pro-inflammatory cytokines by the body's immune system….

Environmental Conservation

Projected Seafood Collapse: What It Means for Our Oceans

“Species have been disappearing from ocean ecosystems and this trend has recently been accelerating,” said lead author Boris Worm. “Now we begin to see some of…

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