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High Bar Density Linked to Increased Assault Rates

Results indicate the greater the density of alcohol outlets, especially bars, the higher the rates of assault. The authors speculate that failure to regulate…

Life & Chemistry

ISU Researchers Shift Focus in Biopharmaceutical Corn Study

ISU researchers have had promising results using the biopharmaceutical corn to treat bacterial diarrhea in pigs. Now they are shifting their focus. They are…

Science Education

Improving Quality of Life After Cancer: New Research Insights

The ‘Cancer Experiences Collaborative’ will investigate ways in which patients and their families can cope more effectively and maximise the benefits of…

Physics & Astronomy

Double Vortex Discovered at Venus South Pole

On 11 April this year, Venus Express was captured into a first elongated orbit around Venus, which lasted 9 days, and ranged between 350 000 and 400 kilometres…

Physics & Astronomy

Vega's second stage motor roars to life

The static firing was performed today, 26 June, at the Italian Ministry of Defence test centre in Salto di Quirra, Sardinia. The 7.5m tall, 2m diameter motor,…

Environmental Conservation

Aviation Carbon Emissions Expected to Quadruple by 2050

In 2000, air traffic contributed 2% of global carbon emissions, but that figure will grow to 5% by 2050, according to climate modellers at Manchester…

Physics & Astronomy

GEO600 Launches Ongoing Search for Gravitational Waves

“If there is a supernova in our vicinity during the next couple of months, our chances of detecting and measuring the resulting gravitational waves are good….

Social Sciences

Surprising Study Reveals Alcohol’s Impact on Risk Attraction

This unexpected discovery is the outcome of a study into how group processes combine with alcohol consumption to affect risk attraction among young people. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Self-Induced Transparency: Exploring Short Light Pulses

The passage of very bright, very short light pulses through an optical material shows many interesting and useful effects. Normally, the pulse would spread out…

Information Technology

Putting services at the heart of tomorrow’s software

It's the crucial last link in the SOA chain and it's fraught with risks and challenges. “Improving service description, then announcing that those services are…

Science Education

ESO and Chile Mark 10 Years of Scientific Collaboration

ESO and the Government of Chile launched today the book “10 Years xploring the Universe”, written by the beneficiaries of the ESO-Chile Joint Committee. This…

Health & Medicine

Fetal Research Breakthroughs Unveiled at University of Leicester

Professor Justin Konje, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Leicester, will discuss the fetal origins of adult diseases in his…

Physics & Astronomy

Lunar West Side Story – the SMART-1 Movie

AMIE obtained these images on 29 December 2004, flying over the west edge of the Moon around 70º West longitude. SMART-1 was on an orbit ranging between 1000…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding the Science Behind Shaking the Saltcellar

Salt, as with rice, cement, sand, are finely divided solids which we call granular media. They are groups of similar particles that can behave as a liquid,…

Science Education

Genedata’s €12.6M Partnership for Cancer Research Innovation

An estimated 17% of human cancers are caused by chronic infection. Cancer results from the progressive accumulation of genetic changes to the body’s healthy…

Life & Chemistry

Gene-Regulating Enzyme Emerges as Target for Antidepressants

In 2005, professor Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute and his colleagues reported details about an enzyme involved in appropriately repressing…

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