In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA’s Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future,…

But internet searches are often fruitless – even Google’s eight billion indexed web pages and vast store of data and documents. Text-based searches do what…

In the blockbuster movie, a lonely little robot named WALL-E develops a deep curiosity that eventually inspires it to set off on a fantastic voyage across the…

Metcalf set out to understand how this compound, one of a group known as phosphonates, is made in nature by bacteria. He was interested in that process partly…

Depressive disorders are common and associated risks include the onset of secondary disorders, substance use disorders, impairment in social and occupational…

At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, is expected to produce more than 15 million Gigabytes of data each…

Searching and querying large volumes of networked data using a new technology patented by the UPC is now a reality with DEX. The system offers high-speed…

At its autumn meeting in Bonn the Grants Committee responsible for Research Training agreed to the establishment of 13 additional Research Training Groups, 7…

Our immune system plays an essential role in protecting us from diseases, but how does it do this exactly? Dutch biologist Suzanne van Helden discovered that…

With millions of illegally copied songs and videos winging their way across file-sharing networks, artists and producers have been sent scrambling for ways to…

It is by no means a simple matter to say anything with confidence about how the value of a share will develop over time. There is a varied menu of key figures…

Funded with £2.75 million from the European Commission, this research and technology network will focus on the search for rocky planets around cool stars and…

Jon Chamberlain, from Essex’s School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, explains: ‘Human language is not an unconnected series of words, phrases…

This is revealed by Anders Boman, a researcher at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in his thesis “Geographic…

Speaking at a symposium titled “The Origin and Evolution of Planets” held at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, two…

Information technology makes it possible for children to learn in a more active and engaged way than conventional teaching methods. But good digital teaching…

It is easy to overlook this fact because they have become discretely embedded into our everyday lives. Plants provide us with food, medicines, and raw…

The program — a set of computer rules known as the algorithm “K*” (pronounced K Star)– is able to sort through all the possible shapes and changes of a key…

Now research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Frontiers in Zoology shows that Desert Ants input both local smells and visual cues into their…

“We found more support for the idea that biological molecules, like amino acids, created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts help explain why…