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New vaccine strategy shows promise to protect chickens against serious respiratory disease

A new vaccine strategy could offer protection to millions of chickens threatened by a serious respiratory disease, research shows.

23 Oct 2018

Cleaning up PFAS-contaminated wastewater with diamond technology

More than 1.5 million Michigan residents and potentially more than hundreds of sites nationwide ¬- and counting - have PFAS-tainted water. Michigan State University-Fraunhofer USA, Inc. Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies (MSU-Fraunhofer) is developing a scalable treatment option for PFAS-contaminated wastewater.

10 Oct 2018

Aethon is expanding its line of autonomous mobile robots

Aethon is expanding its line of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and will unveil the newest TUG robot, the T4, at MOTEK 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany. Aethon can be found in Hall 7 at booth 7420.

5 Oct 2018

Notes and coins harbor life threatening bacteria, including MRSA and VRE

A new study has found that the cash and the coins that are in circulation are covered in over 19 types of bacteria that can be potentially deadly.

4 Oct 2018

New Prosperity Partnerships projects that link research with industry unveiled

Seven new Prosperity Partnerships projects that will build links between the UK's research base and leading industry partners such as AkzoNobel , AstraZeneca, Google, Rolls-Royce, Tata Steel, and Weir Group, plus small-to-medium enterprise, Oxford PV will be unveiled today by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) at Prince Philip House, Carlton Terrace, London.

27 Sep 2018

Planting trees may have significant impact in math achievement even in high-poverty schools

What if improving academic performance in some of the nation's most disadvantaged and lowest-achieving schools was as easy as planting trees in the schoolyard? It's not that simple, of course, but a new study from the University of Illinois suggests school greening could be part of the solution.

25 Sep 2018

QUT research blows the whistle on referee decisions

It's one of the hardest jobs in sport that every armchair fan thinks they can do better.

25 Sep 2018

Study reevaluates evidence of widespread violence in pre-Columbian Panama

Buried alive. Butchered. Decapitated. Hacked. Mutilated. Killed. Archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop did not obfuscate when describing what he thought had happened to the 220 bodies his expedition excavated from Panama's Playa Venado site in 1951.

25 Sep 2018

Citation indices may indicate journal quality but its contribution to visibility remains uncertain

Citation indices, such as those developed by Clarivate Analytics for the Web of Science, aim to include high-quality global and regional journals across a wide range of scholarly fields, while expressly arguing that this significantly contributes to the visibility of both scholarly articles and the journals in which they appear.

24 Sep 2018

King's commemorates opening of new NMR facility with one-day symposium

On Tuesday 4 September the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility celebrated the refurbishment of their suite of spectrometers by hosting a one-day symposium.

24 Sep 2018

New study provides basis for Air Canada to change its facial hair policy for aircrew

A study conducted in Simon Fraser University's hypobaric chamber has sealed Air Canada's decision to allow pilots to sport facial hair.

24 Sep 2018

New study shows how Ethiopia has managed to achieve extraordinary progress

Ethiopia is one of the world's least developed states. Yet for the past two decades the country has been making extraordinary progress.

21 Sep 2018

Study findings may advance discussion of how to effectively curb human-wildlife conflict

A new Biotropica study examines mountain gorillas in Rwanda and their foraging for sodium-rich food in both national park areas and lands managed by local communities.

20 Sep 2018

Demographers create detailed color map of population aging in Europe

Demographers from the Higher School of Economics and the University of Southern Denmark have created a detailed color map of population aging in European countries; a collection of demographic stories, it uses color coding to indicate the varying stages of population aging across Europe.

20 Sep 2018

$Interaction of chemical slurry and ancient shale in fracking wastewater causes radioactivity$

Interaction of chemical slurry and ancient shale in fracking wastewater causes radioactivity

Radioactivity in fracking wastewater comes from the interaction between a chemical slurry and ancient shale during the hydraulic fracturing process, according to Dartmouth College research.

19 Sep 2018

Researchers may be overlooking complexities in social relations of primates

Anyone who peruses relationship settings on social media knows that our interactions with other humans can be intricate, but a new study in Nature: Scientific Reports suggests that researchers may be overlooking some of these same complexities in the social relations of our closest primate relatives, such as chimpanzees and macaques.

18 Sep 2018

Study highlights key role of migrating shoals of fish in sustaining deep-ocean microorganisms

The first in-depth analyses of dissolved organic carbon cycling in the Red Sea highlights the important role of migrating shoals of fish in sustaining deep-ocean microorganisms and potentially the global carbon cycle.

18 Sep 2018

Researchers identify issues in methodology used to analyze species abundance and population density

Inspired by the negative results in the recently published largest-scale analysis of the relation between population density and positions in geographic ranges and environmental niches, Drs Jorge Soberon and Andrew Townsend Peterson of the University of Kansas, USA, teamed up with Luis Osorio-Olvera, National University of Mexico, and identified several issues in the methodology used, able to turn the tables in the ongoing debate.

18 Sep 2018

Study reveals impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on oysters

Oysters likely suffered toxic effects from the oil dispersant Corexit® 9500 when it was used to clean up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, said Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Connecticut.

14 Sep 2018

Annual survey highlights poor awareness of sepsis in the US

A new survey has revealed that, although awareness of sepsis is increasing in the US, there are still very few people who are able to recognize the symptoms.

13 Sep 2018

Miscellaneous News

New vaccine strategy shows promise to protect chickens against serious respiratory disease

Cleaning up PFAS-contaminated wastewater with diamond technology

Aethon is expanding its line of autonomous mobile robots

Notes and coins harbor life threatening bacteria, including MRSA and VRE

New Prosperity Partnerships projects that link research with industry unveiled

Planting trees may have significant impact in math achievement even in high-poverty schools

QUT research blows the whistle on referee decisions

Study reevaluates evidence of widespread violence in pre-Columbian Panama

Citation indices may indicate journal quality but its contribution to visibility remains uncertain

King's commemorates opening of new NMR facility with one-day symposium

New study provides basis for Air Canada to change its facial hair policy for aircrew

New study shows how Ethiopia has managed to achieve extraordinary progress

Study findings may advance discussion of how to effectively curb human-wildlife conflict

Demographers create detailed color map of population aging in Europe

Interaction of chemical slurry and ancient shale in fracking wastewater causes radioactivity

Researchers may be overlooking complexities in social relations of primates

Study highlights key role of migrating shoals of fish in sustaining deep-ocean microorganisms

Researchers identify issues in methodology used to analyze species abundance and population density

Study reveals impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on oysters

Annual survey highlights poor awareness of sepsis in the US

How microRNA is transforming science: From discovery to diagnostics

Advancing benzodiazepine detection

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