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Environmental Conservation

Yale Journal Reveals Key Products Harming the Environment

Seventy percent to 80 percent of the total environmental impact is from automobiles, air transport, food (meat and dairy, chief among them), home and related…

Environmental Conservation

Studying Rangeland Impact on Water Quality in Texas

Dr. John Sij, Experiment Station agronomist in Vernon, and his team are working on what might possibly be a showcase study for Texas. He and his team are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Intelligent Oil Wells: Innovations from ResMan’s Research

The equipment is supplied by a small SINTEF start-up company in Trondheim called ResMan as, whose work is based on many years of research at SINTEF and the…

Environmental Conservation

CO2-Free Power Stations: A Key Focus for Germany’s EU Presidency

So-called CO2-free power stations will be an important topic for the German EU presidency starting in January 2007. The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and…

Health & Medicine

Umeå researchers find ulcer bacteria in blood

It was shown conclusively in the 1980s that ulcers are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, a discovery that earned two Australian scientists the Nobel…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Captures Stunning Light Echo of V838 Monocerotis

Light from this sudden eruption is illuminating the interstellar dust surrounding the star, producing the most spectacular “light echo” in the history of…

Medical Engineering

First 3 Tesla MRI Innovates Research Imaging Techniques

The 3 Teslas is the magnetic resonance imaging unit with the highest strength currently permitted by international medical bodies for the morphological study…

Information Technology

Galileo’s Success: The Role of Receivers in Satellite Innovation

With the launch on 28 December 2005 of GIOVE-A, the first Galileo satellite, Galileo, a joint programme of the European Space Agency and the European…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists’ cell discovery unearths evolutionary clues

Researchers, headed by biochemist Professor Pauline Schaap, of the University of Dundee, and evolutionary biologist Professor Sandie Baldauf, of the University…

Environmental Conservation

Import Ban Protects Thousands of Wild Birds From Extinction

Parrots, owls, exotic starlings and even the Toco toucan, made famous by Guinness adverts, are amongst birds still alive in the wild because of the ban….

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Cancer Drug Targets Aurora B Enzyme for Hope

A new class of drugs – being developed by a major pharmaceutical company – targets an enzyme that helps cells divide; in cancer, this enzyme, called Aurora B,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Develop New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

The research team has used a family of long chain sugars called Heparan Sulphates (HS), found on nearly every cell of the body, to produce a new compound that…

Earth Sciences

Analyzing Historical Earthquakes to Enhance Risk Maps

The lack of prevention measures and the ignorance of the real risks in an area with such seismic activity were some of the factors that increased the effects…

Architecture & Construction

Acoustic Emission Method Enhances Building Maintenance at UGR

A research team of the University School of Technical Architecture of the University of Granada [http://www.ugr.es], supervised by professor Antolino Gallego…

Information Technology

Discover Innovative Digital Map Technology from Southampton Team

Dr Jonathan Hare and Professor Paul Lewis at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) worked with Layla Gordon and Glen…

Physics & Astronomy

Five years of bright light for top research

The Swiss Light Source (SLS) started operating five years ago in Villigen, Switzerland. Since then, the facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has been…

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