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Medical Engineering

Innovative Device Simplifies Intestinal Examinations

The intestines are an extremely difficult area to navigate through with a medical device. Yet, many people need to have intestinal examinations done to…

Physics & Astronomy

Cydonia – the face on Mars

After multiple attempts to image the Cydonia region from April 2004 until July 2006 were frustrated by altitude and atmospheric dust and haze, the High…

Physics & Astronomy

CERN Activates Neutrino Beam to Gran Sasso Labs Today

The start of the project was marked today by a ceremony at the Gran Sasso Laboratories attended by Italian Minister for Universities and Research, Fabio Mussi,…

Information Technology

CERN Grid Leadership Honored by GRIDtoday Awards

The awards were presented by the publishers of GRIDtoday, a leading source of news on Grid technology for the business world. These awards signal the growing…

Physics & Astronomy

Mammoth CMS Magnet Achieves Full Field at CERN

The world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet has reached full field. Weighing in at over 10,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment’s magnet is built around a…

Information Technology

Boosting software developers' productivity

European software designers, often working in university laboratories, create some of the world's most sophisticated and reliable software systems. However, it…

Earth Sciences

New research puts ‘killer La Palma tsunami’ at distant future

The TU Delft research findings should be a relief for people living at or near the Atlantic coasts of the US, Africa and Europe. Six years ago, geologists…

Information Technology

ForumOxford Hits 1000: Exploring 457 New Discussion Topics

So what of discussions? There are a total of 457 topics. Over the last 4 months, which includes the quiet month of August, 171 new topics have been added, an…

Physics & Astronomy

Unraveling Celestial Mysteries With ESO’s VLTI Innovations

Thanks to the unique possibilities offered by ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have solved a 140-year-old mystery concerning…

Life & Chemistry

MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit Secures £14.9 Million Funding

The MRC Council has approved a recommendation from its Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board to provide an increased budget of £14.9 million over…

Life & Chemistry

Eczema Gene Link Supported by New Global Findings

'It is tremendously gratifying that our discovery is being upheld by so many other groups around the world. This firmly establishes that a skin barrier defect…

Health & Medicine

Air Pollutant May Benefit Pregnant Women with Hypertension

Pre-eclampsia affects 7-10% of all pregnancies. It causes high blood pressure and protein in the urine in its initial stages but can lead to fits and…

Physics & Astronomy

Solar-B Mission: Exploring the Dynamic Sun’s Impact on Earth

This will lead to a better understanding of the complex connection between the Sun and Earth. Solar-B will be launched on 23 September 2006 at 00:00 CEST from…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Discovers Most Complex Protein Knot to Date

“In proteins, the three-dimensional structure is very important to the function, and this is just one example,” said Peter Virnau, a postdoctoral fellow in…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights Into Human Morning Lark Behavior

In an upcoming G&D paper, a team of German scientists presents a genetic basis for understanding human morning lark behavior. Dr. Achim Kramer (Charité…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough in Solar Cells: Boosting Power Efficiency

“We have a lot of sunlight,” said Vikram Dalal as sunshine lit up a late-summer morning and the south-facing windows of his office at Iowa State University's…

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