COST invites proposals for Actions contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal development of Europe. Proposals playing a…
A team led by a University of Michigan mechanical engineer has received a five-year, $6.8-million grant from the Air Force to examine this problem, which is a…
Its mission is “to create a European Observatory on Nanotechnologies to present reliable, complete and responsible science-based and economic expert analysis,…
When it comes to designing something, it’s hard to find a better source of inspiration than Mother Nature. Using that principle, a diverse, interdisciplinary…
That's the thinking behind a new institute set to be launched at The University of Nottingham that brings engineers, physicists, biologists and chemists…
In airplane engines or in some industrial combustion chambers, combustion reactions take place in extreme conditions of heat and pressure, making these…
Key participants in the Groningen initiative are the biochemist Prof. Bert Poolman (director of the new centre), molecular biologist Prof. Roel Bovenberg (also…
Reduction/oxidation (redox) systems research is reaching a stage where domains that traditionally belonged to the physical sciences, chemistry, and molecular…
Moreover, university teams outstanding in robotics research have also collaborated – from the Carlos III University in Madrid, the Polytechnic University of…
The Marine Functional Food Research Initiative (MFFRI) which is led by Teagasc under the direction of Dr. Declan Troy will identify novel marine food…
The 25 new networks approved by the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) at its meeting in Vilnius on 15 and 16 November 2007 were the result of the 2nd…
In the November 15 issue of Nature, one group of researchers shows that a part of ion channels called the paddle is uniquely transplantable between different…
One of the challenges facing the food industry is how to create tasty, convenient and experiential products made from health promoting ingredients. Various…
The discovery, which involved years of perfecting a technique for building a specific type of light-emitting device, is reported in the Sept. 30 online…
The tiny single-celled ‘diatom’, which first evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, has a hard silica shell which is iridescent – in other words, the shell…
The findings settle a controversy in earlier studies that failed to establish the auditory region, called the planum temporale, as responsible for perception…