Every year, the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and its associates, the…
On 8 May 2004, one of the two Double Star satellites (TC-1) and all four Cluster spacecraft found themselves in the firing line. For about 6 hours, the Cluster…
GIOVE-A, developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UK), was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 28 December 2005 and placed into a medium Earth orbit with…
The discovery is significant, because the protein, called myosin 5, is part of a large family of motor proteins involved in a wide range of important bodily…
The forests of Kilimanjaro are unusual for two reasons. One is that there is no bamboo zone, unlike the other East African mountains which have extensive…
The magazine looks at diet and metabolism, with David writing on the paradox of antioxidants, Susan Ozanne on “Are we what our mothers ate?”, Allan Sniderman…
This new laser-based technique images the fabric of the deeper layers of the skin, combining methods for imaging collagen and elastin, whose degeneration…
Its researchers are asking all long-term dieters and everyone who is overly weight-fixated to use the time to concentrate on their personal issues and to…
This unique B2B internet portal in English simplifies contacts between French exporters and professionals worldwide who are seeking reliable suppliers and…
Their detailed maps show the ‘local’ cosmos out to a distance of 600 million light years, identifying all the major superclusters of galaxies and voids. They…
The collaboration, led by Professor Hugh Gurling at UCL and Professor Ole Mors at the University of Aarhus, first looked at bipolar cases in families living in…
In Britain, farming interests and badger protectionists have battled for 30 years over the merits of culling badgers to fight cattle tuberculosis, a disease…
Dr Adele Murrell has been awarded a grant from AICR (the Association for International Cancer Research) to study the strange behaviour of a gene called IGF2.She explains: “We know that if this gene is over-active in the embryo, it results in overgrowth and can cause a rare but distressing syndrome that can lead to certain childhood cancers. Over-activity of the gene has also been reported in many adult cancers, including breast and bowel cancer….
Studies show that many children are not meeting current dietary guidelines, for example, children’s average daily intake of fruit and vegetables is less than…
Ozone loss is derived by measuring the area and the depth of the ozone hole. The size of this year’s ozone hole is 28 million square km, nearly as large as the…
This conclusion was made by specialists of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the N.N. Blokhin Russian Oncological Research Center, Russian Academy of…
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