Workshop on trends in translational cancer research, Bergen, Norway 01/07/2009
The European Commission is organising a workshop on trends in translational cancer research on 28 and 29 September in Bergen, Norway. With an estimated 2.9 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths each year, cancer remains an important pub...
Tags to help solve puffin decline 01/07/2009
Scientists hope hi-tech tags will help reveal why puffin numbers at one of the UK's key colonies has fallen by a third....
Dinosaur mummy yields its secrets 01/07/2009
A beautifully preserved dinosaur found in the US retains remarkable detail of skin cells....
Wind 'can revolutionise UK power' 01/07/2009
Britain can massively expand wind power by 2030 without suffering power cuts, a report says....
UK 'yet to embrace space tourism' 01/07/2009
Virgin Galactic boss Will Whitehorn says the UK needs a proper regulatory framework to expand private spaceflight activity in the country....
Whirling maple seeds create vortex to fly high and far 01/07/2009
People have always been fascinated by the whirling talent of maple tree seeds. Now a team of Dutch and US researchers sheds light on this truly aerodynamic enigma: how the seed's whirling, called auto-rotation, gives it extra lift allowing ...
Axel Ullrich Named Winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research 01/07/2009
Johnson & Johnson today announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel cancer therapies including Herceptin® (t...
University of Surrey experts part of research team awarded £430k grant for pioneering nanotechnology research 01/07/2009
ESPRC and National Science Foundation of China fund three-year 'spintronics' study. A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 to develop ultra-small-scale sil...
200 water experts from Germany, France and Singapore discussed joint research projects at the ?Singapore International Water Week? 01/07/2009
On 22 June 2009 world leading water experts met on the fringes of the ?Singapore International Water Week? for the one-day workshop on Industrial Water Management ?Germany, France and Singapore: Together for Green Innovation? at the Centre ...
SPACE: New class of black hole identified 01/07/2009
Astronomers have identified an intermediate class of black hole on the fringe of the galaxy ESO 243-249 with a mass 500 times greater than the sun. The discovery could help illuminate the existence of supermassive black holes. ...
