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Ancient Raptors Feasted on Early Humans, Study Finds

Researchers drew this conclusion after studying more than 600 bones from modern-day monkeys. They had collected the bones from beneath the nests of African…

Environmental Conservation

Island Ferries Become Research Vessels in Nantucket Sound

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) biologist Scott Gallager and colleagues have installed a package of sensors on the 235-foot freight ferry Katama to…

Health & Medicine

New Device Enhances Vision and Mobility for Tunnel Vision

In the first study to evaluate this small high tech device, the research team saw a significant increase in the effectiveness and speed with which visually…

Environmental Conservation

NASA Satellites Reveal Climate Change Impact on Forests

Although predicting how future climate change will affect forests remains uncertain, new tools, including satellite data, are giving scientists the information…

Materials Sciences

New Polymer Coating to Combat Barnacles on Naval Ships

“Barnacles that attach to naval ships are a huge cost to the Navy. Imagine if you drove a car with a parachute attached; this extra drag force requires more…

Life & Chemistry

Chimpanzees Show Generational Learning Behavior Like Humans

For the first time, researchers have shown chimpanzees exhibit generational learning behavior similar to that in humans. Unlike previous findings that…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Variants Linked to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Their analyses, for the first time, combine this new variant with all previously reported variants to estimate individual risk of advanced AMD. They observed…

Social Sciences

How Post-War Britain Transformed Food Shopping Habits

Post war Britain saw a transformation in the way people shopped for food: the counter service shop with attendant was gradually replaced by the self service…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Stay Cool and Save Dollars: Innovative Solar Office System

The new system, designed by Simon Shun, working under the supervision of Associate Professor N.A. Ahmed at the University of New South Wales, relies on solar…

Environmental Conservation

Reinventing Nature: Cheaper Solar Power Inspired by Leaves

“A leaf is an amazingly cheap and efficient solar cell,” says Dr Deanna D’Alessandro, a postdoctoral researcher in the Molecular Electronics Group at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Explore Kasei Valles: Insights from HRSC Orbit 1429 Images

The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 1429 at a ground resolution of approximately 29 metres per pixel. The Kasei Valles region lies approximately…

Physics & Astronomy

AKARI Marks Milestone in Mapping Stars’ Life Cycles

AKARI was launched on February 21st 2006 from Uchinoura Space Centre, Japan, and is now about half way to completing its first map of the sky in infrared…

Information Technology

New Innovation Enhances Life in Animated Characters

The development, lead by Bournemouth researcher Prof Jian Zhang and his colleague Dr Xiaosong Yang, allows animators to ‘flesh out’ their characters from the…

Information Technology

UU Science Project Aims to Reduce Animal Testing

The university’s Systems Biology Research Group is partnering eight other universities, institutes and companies in a €2.8 million European Commission…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Enhances Search for Cancer Drugs and Antibiotics

The researchers found a new way of measuring the activity of a group of enzymes called DNA topoisomerases that help package DNA, the molecule that stores…

Health & Medicine

Swedish Study Shows Promising HIV Vaccine Results

Over 90 per cent of the subjects in the phase 1 trials developed an immune response to HIV. ”Never has such a good result been seen with a vaccine of this…

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