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Physics & Astronomy

£7.1M Funding Boost for Gravitational Wave Detection Research

The Institute for Gravitational Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy will use the grant to:• continue its research into the detection of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

EUROFOREST Portal Launch: Streamline Your Resource Discovery

Metadata allows information users to find and evaluate the resources: the user will get an overview of how far a particular information resource will be of use…

Studies and Analyses

Animal study identifies potential treatment for Huntington's disease

Their report, which will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes how a small molecule called C2-8 appears to delay the loss of…

Life & Chemistry

Herding aphids – how ‘farmer’ ants keep control of their food

Scientists had previously established that certain types of aphids live in colonies where they are used as a food source by a neighbouring colony of ants. The…

Life & Chemistry

New Retinal Cell Type Found After 40-Year Quest

The cell type has very similar properties to so-called Y retinal ganglion cells, which were first described in cats in 1966. Upon the Y-cell’s discovery,…

Studies and Analyses

Herding aphids — how 'farmer' ants keep control of their food

Scientists had previously established that certain types of aphids live in colonies where they are used as a food source by a neighbouring colony of ants. The…

Physics & Astronomy

HiRISE Unveils 143 Color Images of Mars Landing Sites

The University of Arizona-based HiRISE team today released 143 color images valuable to researchers studying possible landing sites for NASA’s Mars Science…

Health & Medicine

New Injectable Biomaterial Tackles Bone Diseases Effectively

According to Amisel Almirall, researcher of the BIOMAT and in charge of this project, “one of the main difficulties of medicine at present is the considerable…

Life & Chemistry

Plant Molecules Control Cell Movement and Division Processes

These molecules bind to the protein actin which is implicated in cell movement and cell division. According to experimental results published recently in…

Life & Chemistry

New Doping Detection System Developed at Vienna University

Chemists at Vienna University of Technology (TU) working jointly with ARC Seibersdorf, are developing a new analytical method, based on MALDI mass…

Life & Chemistry

New DNA Selection Method Accelerates Genetic Discovery

A new technology developed by scientists at Emory University will allow researchers to more easily discover subtle and overlooked genetic variations that may…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Insights Into Brain Structure and Intelligence

Evidence is accumulating that brain structure is under considerable genetic influence [Peper et al., 2007]. Puberty, the transitional phase from childhood into…

Life & Chemistry

Second Phase of HapMap Project Completes Global Genetic Mapping

Investigators from six countries have completed the second phase of the International HapMap Project, an effort to identify and catalog genetic similarities…

Transportation and Logistics

RoboScan'07 study: A large demand for robot-systems in logistics with limited solutions on the market

There is a large demand for the development and integration of robot-systems within logistics with the aim being to make the processes of logistics more…

Physics & Astronomy

Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter

With the conventional theory of gravitation, based on Newton’s ideas and refined by Einstein 92 years ago, dark matter helps to explain the motion of galaxies,…

Physics & Astronomy

Home Computers Power Cosmology Research for Universe Insights

The project is called Cosmology@Home, and is similar to SETI@Home, a popular program that searches radio telescope data for evidence of extraterrestrial…

Physics & Astronomy

Bonn Astronomers Simulate Life and Death of Star Clusters

The scientists have solved – at least at a theoretical level – one of the oldest astronomical puzzles, namely the question of whether star clusters differ in…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Hairpin Design Targets HIV Infections Effectively

When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses…

Life & Chemistry

Hacking Immune System PIN Codes: New Method Revealed

Danish researchers have now developed a method, which can help expose a complicated but crucial part of the immune system’s defence mechanisms. This method can…

Materials Sciences

Thin films – November issue of Materials World magazine

This month’s issue focuses on thin films, and includes:•Functional films – A deposition technique developed by the Department of Materials at Imperial College…

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