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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Enhancing Public Health Surveillance for Food-Borne Infections

Currently, collection of data on human infections such as Campylobacter and Salmonella, is not sensitive enough to give an accurate picture of the magnitude of…

Environmental Conservation

Using Recycled Paper and Compost to Combat Plant Disease

A University of Warwick research team under Professor Ralph Noble has recently shown that the use of composts can reduce the incidence of some important plant…

Information Technology

Kent IT Clinic Nominated for Prestigious IT Industry Award

The awards are given to those whose challenges and achievements deserve recognition and whose thinking has set them apart from the crowd. KITC’s nomination is…

Health & Medicine

Chinese Medicine Integrates with Finnish Health Tech Innovations

Lifestyle diseases have become more common in China with the westernisation of diet and increased prevalence of sit-down work. “The idea behind the Healthy…

Life & Chemistry

UGR Patents Natural Protein Colorant Process for Food Industry

They are natural or synthetic additives authorised by food security regulations and used to colour food and drinks in an artificial way. A research team of the…

Health & Medicine

New Eye Study Explores Spinach Benefits for Vision and Strength

With the aid of a new eye instrument, they have launched a study to see if the vegetable that endows Popeye with his super-human strength could also explain…

Information Technology

Computer-Aided Detection Enhances Breast Cancer Screening

Scientists at The Universities of Manchester and Aberdeen and Cancer Research UK have found that the workload of radiologists could potentially be halved by…

Studies and Analyses

Unveiling Prison Life: Insights Beyond the Statistics

This research, based on interviews with male prisoners and published in the latest issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, provides analysis of prison…

Information Technology

World’s largest scientific Grid sustains a million jobs per month

These computing tasks were submitted by scientists from diverse fields of research, and range from simulations of molecular drug docking for neglected diseases…

Physics & Astronomy

Haute Couture Meets Innovation in Experimental Physics Lab

The breakthrough came with the arrival of technology for building up a sufficiently large electrical field in polymer foams. This enabled thin-film transistors…

Environmental Conservation

Academy allocates 7.5 million euros for research on sustainable production

The main aim of the Research Programme on Sustainable Production and Products is to strengthen basic research in process engineering and chemistry with a view…

Physics & Astronomy

First SuperWASP Planets Discovered by UK-Led Initiative

These planets are the first to be found during the UK-led SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) programme. Using wide-angle camera lenses, backed by…

Life & Chemistry

Predicting Species Abundance Amid Habitat Loss Challenges

Any hope of recovering such critically endangered species depends on understanding what drives changes in population size following habitat contraction. In a…

Life & Chemistry

How butterflies got their spots: a “supergene” controls wing pattern diversity

In a new study published online today in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Mathieu Joron, Chris Jiggins, and colleagues investigate the underlying genetic…

Business and Finance

MIT Tool Enhances Cost Estimates for Complex Projects

The bid must bring the project in on time, on budget and meet all the government's requirements. If the bid is too low, the project will miss these markers;…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT Engineers Enhance Nuclear Power Generation Efficiency

With U.S. electricity demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent over the next 25 years, the Bush administration and others see nuclear power as an…

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