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Walking Alone: Why You Need More for Health Benefits

“Generally, low-intensity activity such as walking alone is not likely going to give anybody marked health benefits compared to programs that occasionally…

Environmental Conservation

NASA's TRMM Satellite Tracks 2006 Hurricane Rainfall

This is a question that greatly interests meteorologists and hydrologists. On their behalf, and on behalf of the public which ultimately benefits from better…

Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Loss Accelerates Over Two Years

The study indicates that from April 2004 to April 2006, Greenland was shedding ice at about two and one-half times the rate of the previous two-year period,…

Life & Chemistry

Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified an emotional control circuit in the human brain which keeps emotionally intense stimuli from…

Health & Medicine

New Insights Into Skin Tanning May Help Prevent Skin Cancer

The study, to be published by the journal Nature in its Sept. 21 issue, involved giving tans to specially engineered mice, not by exposing them to ultraviolet…

Social Sciences

Eating Challenges Among Older Hospital Patients: Study Insights

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, spent two weeks studying 48 hospital patients and 50 nurses during mealtimes on two medical wards. They…

Communications Media

Further European success for Multimedia Technology & Design students

This is the second time Kent has celebrated success in the EUROPRIX TTA, with former student Liz Valentine winning the EUROPRIX Multimedia Top Talent Thesis…

Social Sciences

Russian Students Emigrate: Economic and Social Influences

This new wave of emigration of the country citizens is conditioned not by political factors as it was formerly, but by economic, social and psychological…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cyanobacteria Benefits: Fish Digestive Innovations Explored

The point is that some cyanobacteriae and algae species go through the fish’s intestines without being damaged. Moreover, it happens so that cyanobacteriae,…

Earth Sciences

Advanced Earthquake Prediction: A Comprehensive Approach

By its capabilities, the observatory has no equal either in Russia or abroad. Being actually “stuffed” with state of the art equipment including custom…

Environmental Conservation

ESA’s microsatellite playing major role in scientific studies

Launched on 22 October 2001, Proba orbits 600 kilometres above the Earth and acquires around 450 scientific image datasets of more than 100 separate sites each…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Advances Protein Production Methods

All proteins are made out of twenty amino acids. These natural building blocks determine the structure and function of the protein. Bengt Mannervik’s research…

Physics & Astronomy

The cool way to build the world's fastest computer

Quantum technology is set to revolutionise our lives. Extremely fast computers that are based on this technology could solve mysteries in the understanding of…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Reef Conservation Through Global Marine Protected Areas

Nonetheless, a world-scale assessment remains necessary in order to check if the conservation objectives laid down by the international bodies, which require…

Environmental Conservation

Siberia’s Climate Change: Insights from Global Symposium

The Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre at the University of Leicester hosted an international scientific Symposium on “Environmental change in…

Social Sciences

You can't scare people into getting fit or going green

Recent years have seen increasing efforts to encourage people to do more for their health and for the environment, for example by recycling more, using cars…

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