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Environmental Conservation

Guide to Protecting Whales During Seismic Surveys

A step-by-step guide to reducing impacts on whales and other marine species during seismic sea floor surveys has been developed by experts with IUCN’s Western…

Awards Funding

Fraunhofer ISE Wins 2014 Zayed Future Energy Prize

This dedication to renewables over many years has now been recognized in the form of the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2014. Awarded to Fraunhofer ISE on January…

Earth Sciences

World's first magma-enhanced geothermal system created in Iceland

In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten…

Health & Medicine

Cellular Transport Cracks: Key to Next-Gen Cancer Therapies

The study, published today in Nature Communications, explains how this tiny ‘railway’ system is a key target for cancer drugs and, as such, how this new…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacteria Discovery Offers Promising Medical Potential

Many medications that are used to treat cancer or infectious diseases, for example, contain substances derived from bacteria and other microorganisms. Marine…

Life & Chemistry

Screening Human MSCs for Tumorigenic Potential in Trials

Currently, MSCs are being widely investigated as a potential treatment for various diseases. According to ClinicalTrials.gov, over 350 clinical trials using…

Life & Chemistry

Targeting Tumor Suppression: Harnessing Natural Proteins

One of the hopes for victory against cancer hinges on naturally-occurring proteins whose job is to make their host cell die.Since their natural role is to stop…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Secrets: Flounder Genome Reveals Independent Sex Mechanism

They have both developed the same mechanism for determining sex over the course of evolution, and have done so completely independently of one another. This is…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Identifies Drug Candidates from Genome Sequences

In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a…

Physics & Astronomy

A global map of Jupiter’s biggest moon

Scientists, including Brown University geologists and students, have completed the first global geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon and the…

Health & Medicine

Immunologists Challenge Macrophage Dogma at University of Bonn

To date, immunologists have assumed that the macrophages functioning as “scavenger cells” can be classified into two different forms. In an extensive search,…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Oxford signs RFEL for initial signal processing study contract for …

The University of Oxford, a member of the Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) consortium, working together with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation…

Health & Medicine

Finding ways to detect and treat Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s disease has long been marked by progress — but not the kind of progress the medical community seeks. It is the most common form of dementia among…

Hannover Messe

Siemens Unveils 3VA MCCBs for Enhanced Line Protection

The 3VA series by Siemens will renew the Sentron portfolio of molded case circuit breakers for low voltage power distribution. The new, more compact circuit…

Information Technology

PolyU and Sino Parking Launch Innovative Smartphone Parking App

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) of PolyU and Sino Parking are jointly undertaking a project, entitled “Development and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Supernova Discovery Sparks Questions About Exploding Stars

A bright supernova discovered only six weeks ago in a nearby galaxy is provoking new questions about the exploding stars that scientists use as their main…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Optical Nano-Tweezers: Mastering Control of Nano-Objects

As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the “building blocks” of matter at the nanometer scale….

Life & Chemistry

Researchers find protein 'switch' central to heart cell division

In a study that began in a pair of infant siblings with a rare heart defect, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a key molecular switch that…

Earth Sciences

Cultural Heritage at Risk: Climate Change’s Ocean Threat

“The physical processes behind the global rise of the oceans are gradual, but they will continue for a very long time,” says climate scientist Ben Marzeion.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

3D Scans Reveal Fish Disease Spread Through Gills

“The new scans show us that the fish are infected through their ultra-thin gills,” explains postdoc Maki Otani, the Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences….

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