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Physics & Astronomy

APEX Reveals Secrets of Cold Clouds and Star Formation

This “cold universe” includes the cold clouds where young stars are presently forming, and in which the temperature is only -260°C. We believe our solar system…

Science Education

Science Foundation Ireland Provides €4.8 Million Boost for Female Science & Engineering Researchers

The bulk of the investment goes to The SFI Principal Investigator Career Advancement Award (PICA), which provides assistance to academics undertaking research…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grassroots Research Fuels Development of New Energy Crops

The genetic information from this project will be used as a template for analysing the much larger and more complex genomes of wheat and barley which will…

Materials Sciences

New Science & Tech Reports Highlight Sustainable Opportunities

The reports identify new opportunities for creating a sustainable future. The DTI has supported and encouraged a materials focus by establishing the Science &…

Physics & Astronomy

Clear Images of Venus’ South Pole: Venus Express Breakthrough

If taking the first ever clear images of the double-eye vortex at Venus’ south pole – imaged by Venus Express during its very first orbit – was already a first…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Crater Sulpicius Gallus Through SMART-1 Imagery

AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006, from a distance of 1200 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution ranging from 110 to 114 metres per…

Information Technology

Smart Learning: Enhancing Student Success with ITS Tools

“The aim of our simulation campaign is to train the flight control teams to react to any unexpected situation. We started in March with two simulations per…

Information Technology

Scientists Create Brain-Inspired Computer for Smarter Tech

The aim is to build a computer which mimics how nerve cells in the brain interact in a bid to engineer more ‘fault tolerant’ electronics.The computer will be…

Health & Medicine

FoxM1 and Oestrogen Receptors: New Insights in Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is still the most common malignancy among women with half a million deaths every year and one in nine of all females in the western world…

Life & Chemistry

Public Consultation on Genetic Testing Guidelines Unveiled

The Guidelines offer principles and best practices for human genetic testing by encouraging high quality laboratory practices in the collection and handling of…

Health & Medicine

A new diagnostic tool for prostate cancer and how a bigger chromosome 8 can predict poorer outcomes in prostate cancer patients

The problem is that the current methods of disease testing are still associated with too many misdiagnoses. Now however, research by Portuguese and Norwegian…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Aim to Combat Allergies with New Drugs by 2028

Researchers, working with colleagues at St George’s, University of London, are developing drugs designed to stop allergens from entering the body, so rendering…

Health & Medicine

Sleep Deprivation Doubles Obesity Risk in Kids and Adults

Early results of a study by Professor Francesco Cappuccio of the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School were presented to the International AC21…

Information Technology

Understanding Global Computing: Innovations & Insights

But what does 'global computing' actually mean? The term refers to abstractions such as overlay computers, which involves access to distributed mobile…

Health & Medicine

Routine ECGs for Newborns Could Save Lives in Europe

Italian heart specialists are calling on health care providers throughout Europe to give urgent consideration to introducing ECG screening for all babies at…

Environmental Conservation

Parachute Spiders: Innovative Strategies for Territory Expansion

The team at Rothamsted Research, a sponsored institute of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), realised that the existing 20…

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