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Life & Chemistry

European Scientists Praise Italy’s Stem Cell Research Shift

The letter, signed by Gordon Keller, President, International Society for Stem Cell Research and Austin Smith, Coordinator, European Consortium for Stem Cell…

Social Sciences

Supporting Care Leavers: Boosting Higher Education Access

It is widely recognised that care leavers are under represented at university due to the absence of financial and emotional support which is usually provided…

Information Technology

Innovative Solutions for a Unified European Electronic Market

The IST-funded SEEMseed initiative aims to “seed the development and implementation of the SEEM concept to create a virtual space where individuals and…

Life & Chemistry

Excess Sperm Can Be Fatal for Ant Queens During Mating

An ant queen only has sex once in her lifetime, and at this occasion she needs enough semen to last her lifetime. She mates with several males who all die from…

Environmental Conservation

Butterfly Farming: A New Approach to Rainforest Conservation

The University of Warwick team will work with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation in Guyana. The conservation reserve around that…

Information Technology

Students Ignite Math Fun for Young Learners Through Sum-Fun

Titled Sum-Fun, the project is the work of Bethan Hampson-Jones, Danielle Barnetche and Amelia Lew, all of whom are final-year Multimedia Technology and Design…

Information Technology

New Info Governance Gateway Boosts Higher Education Access

The new Information Governance Gateway has been commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) following a survey of higher education…

Information Technology

New Brain-Computer Interface Enables Thought Control

The results appear in the PhD thesis, Online Adaptive Classification for Brain-Computer Interfaces, defended recently at the Public University of Navarre. Cerebral interface…

Materials Sciences

MIT Innovates New Material Inspired by Namib Desert Beetle

When that fog rolls in, the Namib Desert beetle is ready with a moisture-collection system exquisitely adapted to its desert habitat. Inspired by this…

Life & Chemistry

NYU Researchers Enhance MRI with Decorated Virus Particles

The study was conducted jointly by NYU's Department of Chemistry and the Department of Radiology at the NYU School of Medicine. The study is part of a…

Life & Chemistry

Experimental Vaccine Shields Animals from H5N1 Strains

Elena Govorkova, MD, PhD, Robert G. Webster, PhD, and coworkers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., used reverse genetics to develop an…

Studies and Analyses

Cancer Survivors Face Higher Sepsis Risk, Study Finds

The study utilized data from 1979 to 2001 from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)…

Information Technology

New Techniques for Securely Erasing Magnetic Storage Media

After a U.S. intelligence-gathering aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision off the coast of China four years ago, the crew was unable to erase sensitive…

Health & Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Benefits Patients Over 80

Pancreatic cancer surgeon Charles J. Yeo, M.D., Samuel D. Gross Professor and chair of surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Expedition to Explore Alien-Like Glacier Secrets

A scientific expedition to a remote glacier field in Canada's High Arctic may help researchers unlock the secrets about the beginning of life and provide…

Materials Sciences

'Prettier world' of computer modeling provides key details, says Sandia researcher

The invited talk by Eliot Fang was delivered to members of the Materials Research Society at its recent semiannual general meeting. Sandia is a National…

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