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Orbit Capillaries: Impact of Training on Retention

Specialists of the pathologic laboratory of the Research Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences), who have…

Health & Medicine

Ghengis Khan Wonder Berry: New Method to Fight Heart Disease

Juice extracted using current methods is of poor quality, but scientists in India have developed a highly efficient technique to extract large quantities of…

Physics & Astronomy

Stellar Vampires Discovered in Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae

Astronomers have found possible proofs of stellar vampirism in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, they found that some hot,…

Environmental Conservation

New Tools for Forecasting Future Environmental Catastrophes

At the Department of Ecology of the University of Barcelona, Salvador Pueyo has developed some new instruments that may provide new insights into their…

Information Technology

Broadband’s high altitude ‘revolution’ to gather pace at York

A University of York-led consortium, drawn from Europe and Japan, has spent three-years demonstrating the use of balloons, airships or unmanned solar-powered…

Physics & Astronomy

Cosmic Rays and Climate: Unveiling the Connection

It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way, penetrate…

Materials Sciences

Enhancing Textile Hygiene with Antibacterial Additives

EUREKA project E! 2709 BASTEX has developed new antibacterial additives which can be incorporated into polypropylene material to produce high-performance…

Health & Medicine

Virulence of TB strain in Leicester outbreak caused by ‘unusual’ mechanism

In general, most people infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, will not show any symptoms. It is thought that one third of all…

Life & Chemistry

New Luminous Chemical Monitors Troop Movements Like Magic

Monitoring troop movements could be made much easier with the introduction of a luminous chemical which works like a gigantic magic marker. German chemical…

Earth Sciences

Strong Stratospheric Winds Boost Ozone-Destroying Gases

In March 2006, the winds allowed near-record amounts of ozone- destroying gases, collectively known as nitrogen oxides or NOx, to descend some 50 kilometers…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Aims to Combat Urinary Incontinence Effectively

The project is to recruit the sufferers over a six-month period and to carry out the project jointly between the Cellular Therapy Area and the Department of…

Health & Medicine

Cancer Prevention: Key to Healthier Lives for Aging UK Population

Cancer is predominantly a disease associated with ageing. Today, in the UK for the first time there are more people over 65 than under16 and are expected to…

Information Technology

Unique Search Engine for the Web by Swedish Researcher

Jan Erik Solem is part of a research team in applied mathematics that is working with image analysis and computer vision. In his dissertation he shows how…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment Offers Hope for Severe Malaria Patients

Severe anaemia, respiratory problems and encephalopathy are common and life-threatening consequences of serious malaria infection. The diseases are caused when…

Health & Medicine

Weight Gain Between Pregnancies Linked to Complications

Obesity is a growing problem worldwide. The World Health Organization considers it a major global health threat. In Sweden, during the years of the study…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists use an “ice lolly” to find polar bacteria in their own back yard

Professor Virginia Walker and her colleagues at Queen’s University, Canada, have developed a technique to isolate bacteria which have properties to interact…

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