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£1.75 million five-year project under way to uncover new ‘sound worlds’
(University of Huddersfield) A £1.7 million, five-year research project at the University of Huddersfield will push the limits of new...
Mobile phone and satellite data to map poverty
Credit: WorldPop, University of Southampton An international team has, for the first time, developed a way of combining anonymised data...
Novel LED street lights reduce costs
Credit: Photo: KIT Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a novel type of LED street light of...
The Potential of automatic word comparison for historical linguistics
Credit: Johann-Mattis List The comparison of different languages is a core task of historical linguistics. Language comparison allows linguists to...
Powerful change: A profile of today’s solar consumer
People with higher incomes and better education no longer dominate demand for the domestic solar market in Queensland with a...
Building a better model of human-automation interaction
People generally make decisions using two ways of thinking: They think consciously, deliberate for a while, and try to use...
What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago?
Credit: A.J.T.Jull Nagoya, Japan - An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues,...
Fiscal incentives may help reduce carbon emissions in developing countries
A study has found that fiscal policies introduced by governments in developing countries can have a significant effect on lowering...
Researchers find chemical switch that may decrease symptoms of schizophrenia
A new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers has found that in mice, adjusting levels of a...
Bacterial survival strategy: Splitting into virulent and non-virulent subtypes
Credit: (Photo credit: Irine Ronin) Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a survival strategy that harmful bacteria...
New assay shows promise to advance personalized therapy for cancer patients
Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7, 2017 - One of the most promising areas of cancer research is personalized therapy using precision...
Exposure of the half-century old misconception removes limits on life extension
Strehler-Mildvan (SM) correlation was reported in 1960 in a now-famous and very well cited Science paper. It relates to the...
HPV vs. Pap test for cervical cancer screening: Strong evidence calls for new protocols, say experts
Credit: Reproduced with permission from Tota et al., Prev Med 53: S12-S21, 2011. Amsterdam, NL, February 7, 2017 -- For...
E-cigarettes safer than smoking says long-term study
E-cigarettes are less toxic and safer to use compared to conventional cigarettes, according to research* published in Annals of Internal...
Size matters for marine protected areas designed to aid coral
Credit: Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech For marine protected areas established to help coral reefs recover from overfishing, size really...
Ecological Society of America announces 2017 Fellows
WASHINGTON, DC - The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2017 Fellows. The Society's fellowship program...
Clinical trial informed consent quality similar in developed, developing countries
Credit: blakespot, Flickr Making sure that participants of a clinical trial provide informed consent--understanding their role, along with any risks...
UNH researcher discovers a black hole feeding frenzy that breaks records
Credit: CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D. Lin et al, Optical: CFHT DURHAM, N.H. - A giant black hole ripped apart a...
When data’s deep, dark places need to be illuminated
Credit: TACC Much of the data of the World Wide Web hides like an iceberg below the surface. The so-called...
Low-dose chemotherapy protocol relies on normalization of tumor blood supply
The effects of a promising new approach to chemotherapy that involves frequent administration of dosage levels much lower than traditionally...
