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Earth Sciences

Exploring Earth’s Stability: Factors Affecting Our Planet’s Future

Life has thrived on the Earth’s surface for nearly four billion years. This is despite a steadily brightening Sun, volcanic outbursts and occasional asteroid…

Materials Sciences

Materials Technology Boosts Sporting Performance at BA Festival

“There are always new improvements being introduced into sport,” says Dr Claire Davis, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. “While most changes are…

Information Technology

Unlocking Innovation: Voice and Signature ID for Personal Verification

Identification of physiological traits is based on the measurement of certain parts of the body; amongst other that are used as working tools are fingerprints,…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Splicing Challenges DNA Colinearity Paradigm

In fact, colinearity of DNA and protein sequences is thought to be a fundamental feature of the universal genetic code. However, a paper published today in…

Information Technology

New Lab Aims to Enhance Pedestrian-Friendly Pavements

Research undertaken using PAMELA (Pedestrian Accessibility & Movement Environment Laboratory) is expected to have a positive impact on the lives of all users –…

Environmental Conservation

Enhancing Flood Prediction Through Advanced Water Flow Visualization

By improving the prediction and visualisation of the speed, direction and extent of water flow during potential flooding events, this research will help inform…

Social Sciences

Promoting Worker Health: New Strategies for Well-Being in the UK

How should the UK’s occupational health challenges best be addressed? The booklet ‘Public Policy Seminar on Health and Well-being of Working Age People’,…

Medical Engineering

Enhancing Hearing: Innovations in Indoor Acoustics

The potential impact of the technique, which could also assist in the development of more effective hearing aids, will be described at this year’s BA Festival…

Environmental Conservation

‘Environmental Forensics’ could cut the cost of brownfield development

In particular, it could play a key role in facilitating development of contaminated brownfield sites by cutting the cost of associated legal proceedings and…

Environmental Conservation

How Climate Change Shaped Early Civilizations Worldwide

The early civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia, China and northern South America were founded between 6000 and 4000 years ago when global climate…

Life & Chemistry

Teen Brain Changes: Understanding Emotion’s Decline During Adolescence

Many areas of the brain alter dramatically during adolescence. One area in development well beyond the teenage years is the medial prefrontal cortex, a large…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT Explores Sound Technology for Oil and Gas Discovery

With the help of a new $580,000 US Department of Energy (DOE) grant, the earth scientists will use their skills at interpreting underground sound to seek out…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Create Mouse Without Key Inflammation Gene

In a paper published yesterday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), researchers from Boston University School of Dental Medicine…

Physics & Astronomy

Harvard Engineers Unveil Breakthrough Laser Nanoantenna

Engineers and applied scientists from Harvard University have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of potential commercial applications,…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights Into Cellular Aging: Key Gene Uncovered

Three separate studies confirm a gene that suppresses tumor cell growth also plays a key role in aging. The researchers found increasing concentration, or…

Life & Chemistry

Molecules in Blood Predict Preeclampsia Development

The findings appear in the September 7 New England Journal of Medicine.”This finding appears to be an important step in developing a cure for preeclampsia,”…

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