Oil recycled from discarded tires gives a cleaner diesel blend
QUT's Professor Richard Brown and PhD student Farhad Hossain tested the oil's emissions and output at QUT's Biofuel Engine Research Facility. Professor Brown said that...
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DFG to fund 14 new Collaborative Research Centres
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish 14 new Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs). This was decided by the responsible Grants Committee during its...
New research could help replace petrochemicals with biodegradable microbial products
Researchers are actively studying polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a family of natural polyesters produced by microorganisms that may represent biodegradable and biocompatible substitutes for petroleum-b..
Omnipath sends strong signal
Combining the power of 27 data resources, Omnipath helps researchers see biological signalling pathways with unprecedented accuracy. Developed by researchers in the UK and Germany...
Ready for takeoff
Credit: Inderscience Publishers Nervous flyers and crew alike would prefer jet airliners not to vibrate so much at take off. Research published in the International...
New clinical trial reveals specific milk protein may boost bodys defenses against degenerative diseases
(Pollock Communications) Milk containing only the A2 type protein is shown to increase a key health-promoting antioxidant in adult men and women.
Digital microbes for munching yourself healthy
Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only...
Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University An international group of plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally...
Programmable disorder
Credit: Caltech / Grigory Tikhomirov, Philip Petersen and Lulu Qian. Many self-organized systems in nature exploit a sophisticated blend of deterministic and random processes. No...
Youth fitness program, BORN TO MOVE from Les Mills, increases positive exercise outcomes
Credit: Les Mills CHICAGO - Nov. 29, 2016 - A recent study completed at Edge Hill University has found that participants in BORN TO MOVETM,...
Groundwater helium level could signal potential risk of earthquake
Credit: 2016 Yuji Sano Japanese researchers have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress exerted on inner rock layers...
Mysteries of enzyme mechanism revealed
Credit: Institut Laue-Langevin/ University of Leicester An international research team led by the University of Leicester has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate...
Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
Credit: Adria C. LeBoeuf Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins and small molecules that can influence the development and organisation of their colonies,...
Immune system mechanisms — the work of Dr. Jean-Sébastien Delisle recognized
(University of Montreal) A new research has identified the unexpected role of Neuropilin-1, a membrane receptor, and the phenomenon of dendritic cell maturation, which is...
UTSA professor receives grant for therapeutic underwater virtual reality game
Credit: John Quarles/UTSA John Quarles, an associate professor of computer science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $240,000 grant...