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Health & Medicine

Innovative All-Natural Sunscreen: The Future of Skin Protection

Project Title: Process and Production of Novel “All Natural” Sunscreen AgentsResearchers: O.M. Lai, C. Kong, C.T. Low, S.K. Lo, Rosfarizan Mohd., K. Long and…

Life & Chemistry

New Cataract Gene Discovered by ETH Zurich Researchers

Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University Zurich have identified the chromosomal location and exact molecular defect in the coding region of the gene…

Environmental Conservation

Shark Superhighways and Hotspots: New Research Uncovered

The world’s sharks are disappearing. These fearsome yet charismatic fish continue to fall victim to overfishing and many are now at risk of extinction as a…

Health & Medicine

University Researcher Unveils New Anti-Depressant Compounds

All told, the chemist of the School of Sciences synthesized 51 compounds whose biological characteristics were evaluated by two of the most prestigious groups…

Life & Chemistry

Bats Confirmed as SARS Virus Source in New Analysis

The analysis tracing the viruses’ paths through human and animal hosts counters assertions that SARS was eradicated in 2004 when thousands of palm civet cats…

Physics & Astronomy

Edinburgh Astronomers Launch Origins Camera for Submillimetre Detection

Rather than detecting visible light, SCUBA-2 will detect submillimetre radiation, which is sensitive to the heat emitted by extremely cold dust in the…

Health & Medicine

GPs' Databases could identify tens of thousands with undiagnosed diabetes

The research is published in the March issue of the British Journal of General Practice and was led by Dr Tim Holt of the University of Warwick with colleagues…

Physics & Astronomy

Edinburgh astronomers deliver 'origins' camera

Rather than detecting visible light, SCUBA-2 will detect submillimetre radiation, which is sensitive to the heat emitted by extremely cold dust in the…

Business and Finance

Stock exchange for ‘grid’ computing?

As you read this, millions of computers all over the world are sleeping peacefully after a busy day at work. Computing power is going to waste simply because…

Awards Funding

Bart De Strooper Wins $200K Alzheimer Prize for Research

Bart De Strooper (VIB, K.U.Leuven) has been playing a prominent role in researching the processes that underlie this degenerative disease. He has received…

Studies and Analyses

Watery Pools in Bone Marrow Linked to Psoriatic Arthritis Damage

Researchers have learned more about how a leading drug prevents certain types of arthritis from eating away at bone, according to a study published in the…

Medical Engineering

New System Enhances Hearing for Cochlear Implant Patients

The main aim of this work includes improving the acquisition of Compound Action Potential records, carrying out an application analysis in the cochlear implant…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals Dry Eye Syndrome Risk After LASIK Surgery

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that people with a certain low level of tear production are more likely to develop chronic dry eye…

Life & Chemistry

Einstein Researchers Uncover Gene Mutations for Longevity

The report is the latest finding in the Einstein researchers’ ongoing search for genetic clues to longevity through their study that by now has recruited more…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Life’s History: Insights from Transfer RNA Structure

The study, co-written by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, a professor of crop sciences, and postdoctoral researcher Feng-Jie Sun, appears March 7 in PLoS Computational…

Life & Chemistry

New Treatment Leads for Parasitic Worm Disease Discovered

A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has…

Life & Chemistry

Eco-Friendly Pyrotechnics: Chemistry Meets Sustainable Innovation

You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom—and entrances us. “No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the…

Earth Sciences

Satellites Aid Arctic Musk Oxen Amid Climate Challenges

Some 20,000 musk oxen died on Canada’s far-northern Banks Island because of such conditions during the winter several years ago. Yet, their deaths went…

Business and Finance

Time isn't money: Study finds that we spend the resources differently

Money is used to pay for things like furniture and plane tickets; time is spent assembling the do-it-yourself bookshelf or searching for cheap flights on the…

Earth Sciences

Satellites Aid Arctic Grazers During Harsh Winter Storms

That was the case in October 2003 on Canada’s Banks Island, at the edge of the Beaufort Sea inside the Arctic Circle. Rain fell for several days on top of a…

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