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Environmental Conservation

New Ferry Survey to Protect Whales and Dolphins in English Channel

Marinelife, has been monitoring whales and dolphins in the English Channel continuously for the last 12 years. The surveys, which have chiefly been conducted…

Health & Medicine

Inadequate Hand Hygiene Linked to MRSA Spread in Hospitals

Evidence to support this claim was found during a research project which Dr Elizabeth Jenner, Principal Lecturer in Infection Control in the University’s…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Pharmacogenetics: How Your Genes Affect Drug Response

Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetic variation and its influence on people's different responses to drugs. Each individual has a unique genetic makeup, and…

Physics & Astronomy

British Astronomers Unveil First Infrared Survey Data

Today, British astronomers are releasing the first data from the largest and most sensitive survey of the heavens in infrared light to the ESO user community….

Physics & Astronomy

First Superconductive Cyclotron Approved for Hadrontherapy

Hadrontherapy is one of the most refined radiotherapic technique for tumours treatment. It uses hadrons, that is to say charged particles made up from quarks,…

Environmental Conservation

Tagging Northern Bald Ibis Sparks Hope in Syria

Satellite tags have been attached to three of the remaining seven, adult, northern bald ibis in Syria, a species thought extinct in the region until four years…

Information Technology

University of Granada Develops Multilingual Oncology Database

The result is a database with hierarchical data consisting of 1896 concepts related to cancer and 4033 words in Spanish, English, and German. According to the…

Information Technology

Watson voted one of AI’s ‘10 to watch’

Dr Richard Watson at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), has been awarded one of the first ever IEEE Intelligent Systems’ ‘10 to…

Life & Chemistry

Prescription Painkillers Lead U.S. Overdose Deaths Over Heroin

Trends analysis of drug poisoning deaths has helped explain a national epidemic of overdose deaths in the USA that began in the 1990s, concludes Leonard…

Studies and Analyses

Fuel Cells: Rediscovering a Clean Energy Source

“Fuel cells are a genuine ‘clean’ technology,” says one of the study’s investigators, Professor Chris Hendry of the Cass Business School, London. “But…

Life & Chemistry

How Primates Use Vision to Enhance Grasping Skills

Primates have good vision, enlarged brains, and grasping hands and feet, and use their vision to guide reaching and grasping. Scientists have thought that…

Information Technology

New Cornell Method Creates Natural-Looking CG Blonde Hair

Reproducing this effect in computer graphics has always been a challenge. Computers can create three-dimensional structures resembling hair, but the process of…

Environmental Conservation

Cornell Discovers Fish Virus Spreading in Northeast Waters

Paul Bowser, Cornell professor of aquatic animal medicine, holds a muskellunge found dead in the northeastern waters. The fish is one of many undergoing tests…

Environmental Conservation

Tiger Habitat Decreases by 40% in Recent Study Findings

The most comprehensive scientific study of tiger habitats ever done finds that the big cats reside in 40 percent less habitat than they were thought to a…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Age the Same: Key Gene Discoveries in Recent Study

In a study to be published in the July 21 issue of Public Library of Science-Genetics, Kim and colleagues report finding a group of genes that are consistently…

Life & Chemistry

Atomic-Resolution Ribozyme Structure Reveals RNA Catalysis Insights

The solution came with the discovery 20 years ago that certain types of RNA can act as enzymes, catalyzing reactions just as enzymes made of protein do. This…

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