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Health & Medicine

Exercise Boosts Life Quality for Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension

Appropriate amounts of exercise offer psychological and physical benefits for patients with severe pulmonary hypertension (PH), according to research reported…

Life & Chemistry

Brain's action center is all talk

Neuroscience is tackling a problem that obsessed Hamlet: What is the difference in our minds between talk and action?Less than you would expect, an…

Studies and Analyses

Thin Models: Women Prefer Elegance in Advertising, Study Finds

Researchers from the University of Bath found that two-thirds of women they interviewed reacted favourably to print advertisements featuring thinner female…

Health & Medicine

Coronary surgery – keeping the way clear

This medical device keeps the coronary artery open while controlling the dose of medication and preventing blockage and excessive scaring. Coating the stent in…

Studies and Analyses

Low Birth Weight Impacts Preschool Quality of Life: Study Insights

Researchers assessed 118 children who had birth weights of 1500g or less and compared them with a control group of 170 born at normal weights to compare their…

Health & Medicine

Fatty Fish Linked to Lower Cancer Risk in Swedish Study

At the end of the 1980s, 90,000 Swedish women were sent a questionnaire on their dietary habits in connection with their mammography scan. Now, with the help…

Environmental Conservation

New Tech Transforms Plymouth’s Earth and Ocean Studies

The ground-breaking project has been made possible thanks to new state-of-the-art technology installed at Plymouth’s School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental…

Earth Sciences

Scientists React to Shocking Arctic Summer Ice Anomaly

Observing data from Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument and the AMSR-E instrument aboard the EOS Aqua satellite, scientists were able…

Information Technology

Discover Wireless Super Gadgets at IADAT Conference 2023

The technology is Software Defined Radio (SDR). It promises to deliver wireless gadgets capable of doing everything from watching high-definition television to…

Information Technology

Discover Wireless Super Gadgets at IADAT Conference 2023

The technology is Software Defined Radio (SDR). It promises to deliver wireless gadgets capable of doing everything from watching high-definition television to…

Health & Medicine

Preventing Heart Disease: Insights from Clinton Global Initiative

The event, taking place in New York between 20 – 22 September will bring together over 1,000 global leaders from business, politics, academia, science,…

Physics & Astronomy

MetOp Launch Resumes: New Soyuz/ST Campaign at Baikonur

MetOp's planned launch from Baikonur on a Soyuz/ST launcher, originally planned for 17 July, had to be called off after three consecutive attempts because of…

Social Sciences

Musical Training Boosts Brain Development in Young Children

The findings, published today (20 September 2006) in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], show that not only do the brains of musically-trained…

Social Sciences

You don't need a big lottery win for long term happiness… but a few thousand helps

In work to be published in the Journal of Health Economics, researchers Professor Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Dr Jonathan Gardner from…

Health & Medicine

Gastrointestinal Ulcers: Aspirin Risks May Outweigh Heart Benefits

A study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine reveals that low-dose aspirin treatment may be responsible for one extra case of…

Environmental Conservation

Common Garden Plants at Risk Due to Climate Change

In a study published today in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, researchers show, using mathematical modelling, that the ideal climate for…

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