The Met Office and the University of Exeter will host scientists, policy makers and business leaders for vital talks assessing growing risks from climate change – and action to address it. Even as scientific evidence demonstrates increasing threats to lives and livelihoods across the world, the global impetus for action is becoming more fragile. In the run up to COP30 in Brazil, the Exeter Climate Forum will give a strong voice to the scientists whose work drives our understanding of…
The website has been created as part of the IMPALA4T project funded by the Higher Education Academy and GENIE, the University of Leicester’s Centre of…
Pleased to announce the International Symposiums on Electrohydrodynamics, jointly organised by the Faculty of Engineering (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak),…
On display at this year’s show is a three-car version of the electric multiple unit like that ordered by Angel Trains, one of Europe’s biggest leasing…
The Siemens Mobility Division has developed the contactless measuring and monitoring system Sicat CMS (Catenary Monitoring System) for mass transit and…
At InnoTrans 2008 in Berlin Siemens is presenting an multi-system electric locomotive from the new generation of Eurosprinters. The Belgian railway company –…
Russia’s first high speed train, Velaro RUS, has been presented at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin. The vehicle’s traveling speed of 250 km/h means that…
In the year of its anniversary, the world’s largest exhibition for optoelectronics attracted 15% more exhibitors and 10% more visitors and increased the…
On September 24th, 2008, the International Polar Year 2007-8 (IPY) will launch its sixth ‘International Polar Day' focusing on People in Polar Regions,…
A 3 gram reduction in a person’s dietary intake of salt would result in over a 20% drop in deaths from stroke and over a 15% fall in deaths from heart disease….
Together with ISAS (Institute of Analytical Sciences), BAM is organising LIBS 2008 – the 5th International Conference on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy…
Detecting ever lower amounts of ionising radiation with ever better methods – scientists have had this goal since the start of the nuclear age.In addition to…
Exasperated by the distractions and problems they create, many headteachers have ordered that pupils must keep their phones switched off at school. Others have…
Background to the Congress The BIT Life Sciences' Annual World Cancer Congress is a China-based, interactive conference providing practicing oncologists with…
The Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project at the Asian Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the Chiang Mai…
Their trial in 45 patients combined chemotherapy with fluorouracil and carboplatin given on weeks 1, 4 and 7 of treatment, with radiotherapy administered daily…
The team, led by Dirk Kok from the Institute of Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP), in partnership with the Centre for Process Innovation at…